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I just don't find particularly impressive that a probabilistic machine designed to write code, wrote code, based on the likely distillation of whatever input it got from math researchers blindly trusting OpenAI.

If the only way to power a "technology" would be to kill an elephant every time you use it, then it's a flawed technology even if it solved fundamental problems of humanity. This is currently how GenAI sprawling data centers operate AND without solving any fundamental problem of humanity.

Also I don't care about A specific template, I just find it ridiculous that some trillion dollar company cannot put a line like "please keep papers' structure consistent" in whatever markdown file controls these things. It's sloppy, like everything OpenAI does.

> If such people were capable of being impressed by anything that happens in the empirical world, of updating on anything, they would’ve already been impressed and already updated several years ago, long before things had reached the point of an actual Mathocalypse.

I am honestly impressed by how many arguably highly intelligent humans are happy to throw out millennia of scientific methodology just because the world-burning probabilistic machine produced an output that tickles their dopamine brain.

Also glancing at the repo. Such an advanced machine, yet failing to output results with a common template. Every pdf is entirely different from the one before, making the work of the poor humans trying to find a sense in it even more difficult.

Weekly public service announcement: "If you are still using Google search after May 2019 (when ads started to be shown as organic results) you are the cause of your own problems."

> I appreciate when white hats inform companies, governments, and the public about their successful exploits.

Except it took 3 months for OpenAI to notice they did! OpenAI is not a white hat doing pentesting, but someone that is putting random materials on fire to see if they smell. Reckless, stupid, and criminal.

It smells of CCC (Command and Control Center). I would not be surprised if they are testing logistic managements of medium-large groups of people and re-use ideas to get a taste of the Palantir/Anduril/whatever defence contracts pie.

The complaint is totally understandable, BUT the examples do not make sense. Arduino did not start as some dude selling less than 10 boards a year, but as an educational tool, which THEN ramped up to 100s of boards produced every day.

If your perspective is "I may sell 10 boards this year, maybe", your target is some local/national maker-faire, not a EU marketplace.

I think makers with such limited productions will just fly under the radar (if you sell so little, it's likely you probably won't need to incorporate or declare taxes in a lot of EU countries). If they sell 100s of products across EU, they probably have at least one over-worked accountant taking care of existing compliance stuff.

Exactly, my vaccine against GenAI chatbots is to not use them, which is the equivalent of masking when covid vaccines were not available.

I am just waiting for the GenAI vaccines (ideally regulations, practically people rioting in municipal councils against gigantic data centers opening at their door).

Indeed. It's a step forward and two backwards, personally I don't have payment cards on the phone wallet because one company surveilling my purchases is enough. Hopefully there will be some Wero-powered card option. From a UX point of view, both payers and merchants, it's still the most practical and fast.

How many devs would be able to keep working if GitHub disappeared tomorrow? You can do inference on SOME laptops, but the current shape of GenAI need massive data centers to be used at scale.

Also the existence of various big tech companies rely on these data centers being place, without them they are useless.

You don't need to have a "good knowledge" of a misused technology to hate it when it's used by malevolent people. In the same way I don't need to be a virologist to know that is better to avoid the flu, I don't need to be a ML/AI expert to see its direct detrimental effects on people, communities, and the internet as a whole.

The idea is that merchants will ditch the card-pos in the long run. You scan a QR-code or send money through some app. Satispay does that in Italy and got massive rollout from stores because fees were pretty low also for smaller transfers, so no more "sorry, at least 5 euros to pay with card"

Google started to crap on search six years ago. At this point anyone choosing to use google search (I am excluding here all the people that are not aware other search engines exist because Google pays to be the default search engine) are masochists.

Samsung is making heaps of money thanks to AI-induced RAM shortages, workers rightfully want a piece of that cake too.