Scubabear68

"Contrast that with a knowledge worker that's more of an artisan in this analogy. For them they aren't running a factory but instead watching a robot do the work they used to do while they sit idle and watch it".

I think your general thesis about how AI is used of agents vs. the general chat interface is true, but not the rest.

Your knowledge worker example is where people fail when using AI, and it is usually very obvious.

Knowledge workers who know what they're doing recognized very quickly that AI often goes down very bad rabbit holes, often cites incorrect sources, makes up sources, or will use a random Facebook source or Reddit post as an authority on some topic. In legal circles you have to fight it to understand what venue(s) apply and to get it to stick to the right ones, in medical research it will sometimes pull in crackpot papers from left field and intermix them with well defined research.

People in the knowledge realm caught on very quickly that you have to use AI iteratively and constantly back check what you get and correct it. Let it run on its own and it will give you a legal theory based on some weird case in Kentucky that has no bearing to your issue with a court in Vermont.

Sensors and crumple zones are part of it. But for the Telluride, some of the issue as well is that the OEM parts are often available only for gross assemblies. So where as historically you could get discrete parts for other manufacturers, for KIA they often only have big pre-assembled assemblies available. That was the case for the alternator which played a few different roles and could only be replaced en-masse. Headlights are another area where any damage requires an entirely new assembly.

The approach makes repairability really, really expensive.

I was able to talk my dad into getting the U.S. equivalent, the Timex-Sinclair 1000, which had double the RAM - 2K! It was only possible because it was only about $100, compared to every other computer at the time which was way out of our lower-middle class reach.

I spent a lot of time doing stupid animations using the character set and it set me on my path of software for life.

I learned this lesson with my Kia Telluride. Rave reviews, but it was a new model without years of data behind it.

At 70,000 miles very expensive parts began to break down like clockwork, like the very complicated alternator, and even small accidents racked up $10,000-$20,000 repair bills. Insurance paid for it, but the car was out of commission for a month each time.

I can’t fault the reviewers exactly, but I learned a lesson that there may be something to longer, proven designs that have been battle tested over millions of collective miles.

My local school board fought an OPRA request in NJ for a followup on something they had responded to a few weeks before.

It cost them over $31,000 to fight over a few minor emails because the district business adminstrator was mildly embarrassed by them.

This is correct.

The nuance here, though, was that the CDOs and similar instruments were sold in a tranched fashion, and the super-senior tranche was made to look as if it was very low risk, as normal for tranches instruments.

But when your entire series of tranches all consists of trash, then which tranche you were in didn't really matter.

CDO and CDO2 instruments hid this distinction really well, and unfortunately the ratings agencies bought into it and sold crap as AAA securities.

$299, ouch. And a heavy emphasis on voice capabilities, which my kids love but I generally hate. I don't want to have a conversation with my media.

I have had many Apple TV generations and want to love it, but I really don't get where Apple is trying to go with it. The whole "Apple TV" app really confused the hell out of me, and I wonder if this is continuing that trend. Or maybe it won't matter because this is just ridiculously expensive.

From the article, "WRITING HTML AND CSS IN C ISN'T TOO BAD".

Um, any and all string handling in C is pretty miserable.

The author doesn't come out and say it, but I don't think there's anything inside that lightbulb in the pictures and videos.

The actual webcam and projector and Mac are not shown.

If you look at the map example, the shadows from the hands go almost straight down. The projector is not in the lightbulb, it is above the table out of frame. Probably the webcam is up there too.

Which of course greatly diminishes the "cool" factor.

This is a very cool demo, but I think it really needs to be made much clearer that the "lightbulb" shown is seemingly a total prop.

From what I can tell the actual projector and webcam and computer are not shown.

In the comments below, the author seems to be going of his way to be clever and disingenuous about this.

I read it as 15 million tunnels too, was very confused. Thank you!

Do you really think the engineering teams pour over those contracts when implementing new features?

Every single time? I sincerely doubt it.

Whatever logical business firewalls Google has between orgs for this kind of purpose seems pretty frail and thin from what I have seen reported.

From memory when I worked there 10 years ago, all the Javascript based stuff was pretty slow in a very noticeable way. They've likely gotten better as they are using a well known Javascript and rendering engine, so they're getting many optimizations for free.

This is my fear on the car side, as smart features start leaking from isolated areas in automobiles into the larger CAN bus....

Completely off topic, but for some reason it irks me seeing all these articles on MartinFowler.com which aren’t by Martin.

It rubs me like “Tom Clancy” novels not written by Tom.

Like we would likley never see them or care if it weren’t for the name.