GMoromisato

I don't quite get it. Can Pixar copyright its GPU-rendered films or can it only copyright the human-created models?

How will the USPTO draw a legal distinction between AI-generated and GPU-generated?

My sense, from working in the biotech industry, is that this is going to take much longer than people think. I have two clients using ML/AI for drug discovery and their results have been mixed. There are cases where a drug was identified by ML but then failed during animal testing.

Unfortunately, the feedback cycle in drug development is measured in years (and millions of dollars). I've seen cases where a drug works better than competitors but has a worse safety profile. The solution was to alter the drug to remove the side-effects, but that required a new trial (meaning, two more years plus ten million dollars more).

That said, I do think there is some low-hanging fruit. There are lots of datasets from past trials and it's likely that there are some patterns there that AI could mine. I don't think it will be like software engineering ("we build a Photoshop-clone in 2 hours") or math, but we might see announcements about a new drug candidate being found. Verifying it, however, will take a long time.

I was born in Peru and I absolutely abhor the word "LatinX". I assume people meant well, but ironically, it exhibits the "we Americans known better than you" attitude that liberals usually avoid.

The fact that ETH is false when many people expected it to be true is the amazing thing. This isn't AI finishing the last 10% of a proof and stealing the credit--this is AI exceeding human thinking. If nothing else, this buries the "stochastic parrot" position.

That said, AI is spiky, and I fully expect there to be a class of problems that AI is really good at solving and a (maybe larger) class where AI is worse than human mathematicians.

I don't think the next generation of Democrats is as corrupt as Trump. Jeffries seems like a pretty standard politician, and even progressives like AOC, Mamdani, Sanders, etc. do not seem venally corrupt.

And even Trump's corruption is not the problem. If that were his only sin the US would be fine.

Our political disfunction is caused not by personal failings (although those abound) but by genuine disagreement on which direction the US should take.

I believe countries and civilizations die when they stop believing this.

It is also possible, maybe even likely, that we are the ones who are odd.

Agreed! I only wish I understood anything after page 3.

Microsoft has (and had) some amazing designers. They came up with Metro, which was the forerunner of the flat design that everyone loves/hates now.

Recreational programming is great! I'm always reinventing the wheel because it's more fun for me to (e.g.,) write my own XML parser than to learn some library.

But, IMHO, the difference between writing programs for fun and writing programs that other people find valuable is like the difference between masturbating and making babies. The former is fun, the latter is fulfilling.

There is nothing wrong with having fun. But if you ever find yourself unsatisfied with all your half-built projects, maybe consider writing software that other people value or even love.

Yes, it can be frustrating to try (and often fail) to satisfy others. But seeing someone enjoying your software is an amazing feeling. It makes you feel proud, useful, and talented all at once.

I agree with this take. The complexity is that math professionals are currently being paid based on the theories they prove. Until they come up with a different goal for being paid, this will be disruptive.

My trick for X is to use Lists. I create a separate list for each topic I'm interested in and populate it with the relevant accounts. Keeping the list up to date is relatively easy because I can grow it as people re-post relevant content.

You're right--my level knowledge is 15 years out of date.

For Google I meant L8, which I guess is Principal Engineer now?

You're right about that! Remember that in 2011, Microsoft was considered a zombie-company. No one expected it to grow in value.

Yup! Depends on the company and the person, of course.

Another thing: People at FAANGs usually ride the stock up and get way more than 7% per year. I'm embarrassed to say that I sold a lot of MSFT stock at $30 in 2011. Today (~15 years later) it is trading at $530.