The ENG button on the bottom left only seems to translate basic boilerplate, not any description or other content. Browsers do a decent job of translation.
But the only thing you can do is search for stuff, there is no way to browse at all that is obvious to me. I prefer looking at Google Arts & Culture which is often well designed and photographed.
I am sure some poorly paid contractor built this site.
Right, and how will LLMs determine what data they are "collecting" was written by themselves or other AI's. Eventually all AI content will be AI content derived from AI content. Is that a good answer?
That assumes you understand or realize what the system actually does. Sometimes the what is not obvious to the outsider observer. I once worked at a place that developed a new software development process designed to streamline internal development by making it more explicit. Most of us saw that the real intent was to force internal IT customers to stop asking for anything and demand we buy stuff externally instead, since the process was an enormous obstacle to even starting something new. The what took time to realize.
I wonder if Booking is mostly third-party contractors or if they have employees. If the latter, then this is likely known inside, but executives don't care. If the former, it's possible executives don't know or also don't care. In my career, I've seen both scenarios. Given Priceline's size (Bookings' parent), it could be both. Executives want frictionless processes for customers; security is rarely important. The competitor to Priceline/Booking I worked at about a decade ago emailed forgotten passwords to customers, despite getting training at work where the first rule was don't remember passwords, and we couldn't get leadership to get rid of that because it was "convenient."
I used Affinity Photo in my generative art; I also own Photoshop and use it for a few things, but it's rare. AP is faster at many things that matter to me, the UI is much cleaner, and it suits me just fine despite occasional issues (mostly memory related, their memory management sucks). Many of Photoshop's AI "features" are useless to me since they can only do tiny images (basically the usual 1MP that AI can manage). PS is a giant pile of features, but the UI is often a giant pile of complexity because of it.
Back in my early days doing iOS, I worked for a travel company. The web team at one point used IBM TeaLeaf (I'm not sure what it does today), which took screenshots of the web app's web pages and sent them to the company so they could see what appeared on them (with some obfuscation of sensitive fields). It seemed rather sketchy to me, but they did discover that for years, people with odd letters in their names had never been able to book a hotel. Of course, it appeared as an exception in the log file, but no one ever looked...
I went to an Italian restaurant while visiting London and sat for 30 minutes before asking why no one was taking my order; they said, oh, you have to order online. But there were no signs or anything. So, the next two nights, I went to the other Italian place next door, which was old school, and took orders from a server. Food was better, too. Technology is usually a good thing, but not when I'm hungry.
The charm of old-world cities, with hundreds or even thousands of years of history, becomes their worst enemy as tourists overrun everything trying to get that historical viewpoint. Then, businesses take advantage of the desire for "old" to create new "old" as the existing "old" is not good enough. In the end, tourists will abandon the now-fake charm, and everyone will lose.
I searched for how to use a massage ball (my back hurts) last week and got a giant page full of ads and ad-like sections for buying one with barely any articles at all. That is not a search engine; it's an ads engine.
At least you can replace it quickly if you find it broken. Back then, we could only afford to make an update once. When you mailed out the update disk, you had to charge for it ($10 or so, disk, mailing container, printed instructions, postage, and label); if you sent out 100k bad disks, you had to eat $1M. If it was version 1.0, it went into a box and was shipped to distributors, retailers, and mail-order, and you might never even know who the end user was.
Between 1987 and 1993, I prepared around nine master disks for two Mac apps. I always used a fresh floppy and had a long list of checks to ensure the disk was correct. Thankfully, all came out right, especially when some were used to make 100k disks. It's a good thing no one has to do this anymore!
I am a generative artist, but I write my tools in Swift, and the algorithms and math differ from those of other generative artists. In addition to the generative elements, I also include manual image manipulation and digital painting. I wrote an article on my art blog, https://artasartist.com/what-is-generative-art/, that has a different focus than this article and includes what I do.
Not if you live in an HOA. When I had a house, you couldn't change your lawn to anything but grass or let it die or go wild, and where I lived, during the summer two weeks of not mowing was almost beyond what a riding mower could tackle, the grass would be 6 inches high or more. At least my lawn was watered from an aquifer well that was still close to the surface after nearly 40 years.
Sold the house and now live in an apartment with barely any grass (but trees and plants).
I could not imagine a life where my brain was so full of tiny details, even if some were put there deliberately. I find programming so fills my brain sometimes that I forget simple things like "did I take my pills earlier" or bill deadlines, unless I use an app to remind me. Somtimes, I make an elaborate effort to watch myself take a pill, so I can recall it later. The brain is fascinating device we still don' complete understand.
Doesn't an AI search engine cost more in terms of energy? I would also wonder how it avoids being tainted by a web of other AI results of various qualities that it is indexing. It would appear to become more expensive to operate, thus requiring more ad revenue to support it but providing less useful results over time.
In the end, some movies get great press and reviews, and no one cares; some get shitty press and horrible reviews, and it wins the box office. An artist creates art, and everyone else then gets to decide whether they like it or not. You never know until it comes out.
I spent 40 years as a programmer, but I always looked for ways to use creativity and imagination and never be a rote coder. Despite having success in my last job leading a small team building a strategically important piece of code (if it didn't work all the time, there would be 100,000 angry people every day, not to mention a whole cast of angry executives), I finally got tired of working so hard and decided to retire. You must find a new way or place to be a programmer if your job is not motivating (like starting your own company or trying something new) or finding another line of work. Reinventing yourself isn't easy and is much harder today, but you can do it if you want it enough.
Go to China and violate a serious law. Do you think they will ignore it? Or someone from Mainland China who comes to the US who violates a serious law here. Will they be arrested and possibly convicted? Every country has laws that others find terrible. Every multinational business has to deal with laws in multiple countries that may be incompatible with others. Take, for example, all the issues between the US and the EU regarding privacy and control of personal information. It had to be negotiated for each side to agree. China may not be interested in negotiation, but that is their business. If you want to do business in such a country, you must find a way to deal with it. If you abandon every country where you might have issues, you have a US-only business (and you might not like some of our laws either). Imagine a foreign business wanting slavery instead of employees in the US; they might be fine with it, but we aren't. Should they do it anyway?
I bought a copy of Turbo Pascal 1.0 for DOS at the West Coast Computer Faire, where Borland had a little booth. Still is the most productive IDE I have ever used; that sucker was insanely fast. Of course, programming is a lot more complex today, but in 1984, that was magic.
I experienced a 3.8 (I think) in Dallas some years ago, 30 stories up. It was likely caused by oil drilling action in the area, as Texas is not an earthquake zone if I remember correctly. It was not fun, no dampers in that building.
I wish I had kept my Fortran 78 code from 1981/82 to see if I could get it to run on this. It was a Jovial programming language source code formatter. Not exactly what you should use Fortran for, but that's the only choice I had.
It seems to have issues for me (Safari), at least this morning, complaining about being unable to get a user. Maybe too many people are trying it. Looks like a 500 error.
It's not a terrible language; it just requires a little different thinking. In 1988/89, I learned to write a postscript generator with no dev environment, just reams of paper. Debugging was hard since you had to add debugging print statements in the same document you were printing, which was hard if no printing occurred! I read Adobe Illustrator files, which were the precursor to PDF, so at least I had something to look at.