mrdependable

This guy knows he is full of shit.

I wish I could be excited about Waymos, but knowing how these things go, I have a strong feeling this will turn into something dystopian. My guess is a future where cars are much more expensive and you never get to actually own them. Couldn’t we just invest in better public transit and make it harder to get and keep a drivers license?

My computer in the 90s used to take 30 minutes to boot. Now we complain about 10 second load times. What a world.

Imagine you use Claude to write a paper for school and you turn it in. The teacher asks, “You wrote this?” You reply, “Yes, I used Claude to generate it for me.” The teacher replies, “So, Claude wrote it.”

“No, teacher. Claude is just a tool. I wrote that.”

Many people in these comments will apparently agree with the student.

There is unspoken context that people assume when conversing with each other. AI has made assuming that context dangerous. People who want to play semantics to mislead others are obviously lying. Those who acknowledge that extra context is needed now are not.

By that logic, Elon Musk built a rocket and his tools were all the employees. It really depends what the person is taking credit for exactly.

Is that meant to say you are willing to ignore what Amazon is doing because their shipping is convenient?

I am about to try using it as the last step in an email spam filter.

Good way to keep metrics and prove work is happening would be my guess.

My guess is we will be streaming everything in the future with whatever crap hardware they let us buy.

Reading that section and the linked essay was kind of depressing. It reads like the most important part about the AI apocalypse is who called it first.

There are many more narratives about the future of AI than that. I just saw a talk stipulating that AI is a reaction to populism by the class of capital holders. They say it is going to be used as a way for them to hold onto their wealth; hence the mass surveillance we see now.

I personally think it is still too early to tell. We are basically sitting on the edge of a pool dipping our toes in the water, waiting to jump in. Whatever predictions people make about it now, they are ignoring all the inevitable twists and turns that are bound to happen in the coming years.

Will take years to make productive if anyone is even willing to invest in it.

That is not binding, hence the NYT trial.

That is not what the text you quoted is saying. It says that the output may be transformative, which is one criteria, but the other criteria depends on how it is used and what the source is.

That is one of the ways they determine fair use, whether it will affect the market for the work.

Training has not, in fact, been decided on yet. Of the four criteria deciding whether something is fair use, training only maybe passes two.

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...

This has nothing to do with programming or productivity. I am addressing the fact that people like DHH and his fans are in the habit of framing the future as written and that you can either embrace it or get crushed. Embracing it is giving OpenAI, Anthropic, et. al your approval to keep on going. I'm not denying that AI can do the job a lot faster.

Nothing that he said is just him espousing the truth. It is the world as he and all the other AI-pilled people wish it to be. It is a world they want to convince everyone is inevitable. There are still a lot of people outside of tech bubbles that don't like the direction AI is going and don't want to embrace what these companies are doing or how the government is handling it.

And honestly, do people really think everyone is just going to become an "energized creator"?

Really interesting link, thanks!

This is really looking at the problem from the wrong angle. It’s not that we don’t need all those degrees. The problem is that tech companies are making so much money that it makes other industries practically irrelevant when it comes to return on investment. It has thrown the economy completely off balance.

Wouldn't that mean the cost of metering it is more than they make from metering it? I don't think that is the case.

Hacker News doesn't like to ruffle any feathers.

The problem with this is that the author has explained capitalism in a way that sounds harrowing to the wider public, but sensible to everyone holding any sort of power. These outcomes aren’t a side effect of the system; they are the system working as intended. Governments and corporations don’t want people that are comfortable and happy, they want people strapped to the yoke. The constant stress is them cracking the whip.

You are both using a different definition of sharing I believe. When people have an expectation of privacy, use by others should be forbidden. Tech has gone completely off the rails with the use of private data.

This kind of thing is one of the reasons I really hate how AI is coming to fruition. These companies get a whiff of something valuable and they use their vast resources to take it for themselves. For everyone else, the only recourse is extreme secrecy.

They did use “AI” but not an LLM. If they had, I am sure OpenAI and friends would be shouting it from the rooftops.

More than that I hope considering what it costs to make the thing.

I came in first place by a mile just holding the gas button. Not much if a “game” but I guess the elements are there.

If it were me, I would make an exit plan. Run all the numbers, how much you would need to survive a certain length of time, what the numbers would look like depending on how much risk you're willing to take, what you would do if things didn't work out. Plan it meticulously, and work toward it. This will give you something to look forward to and having options would become a reality. Then when the moment is right, pull the trigger if you'd like.

Why are the SVGs getting more detailed rather than just more correct than previous models?

Native app vs what? A web app?