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Or he just wanted to test if it works for clicks and engagements, and he got a result he didn't anticipate.

It will be chaos if people let AI agents run amok with their accounts.

Many more such cases are to come.

Does archive.is have problems? I tried this article with it and it didn't work:

https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/burned-out-and...

Error: Invalid InterceptionId.

It's different by location. E. g. in Europe many people uses Facebook, many under 40s too.

In the US: 25–34 years: Around 25.7% to 25.9% (the largest single demographic group).

Maybe the robot won't take all the jobs, but they may take many jobs. Those masses won't be happy if some of the people will still have jobs.

And BTW, 75 year olds doing physical labor is not an ideal state of things unless that plumber really wants to work at 75.

In the future the product itself will be implemented by the end of the meeting.

Judging from the rate of improvement in AIs it will happen gradually over the next few years.

Comparing AIs of a few years ago to the ones today there is a good chance they will improve enormously.

Some humans will always be needed for handholding, but not as many as employed today to churn out run of the mill code.

> Software Engineering as science will be largely dedicated to AI development

Which will require fewer people.

Simple software engineers who work on CRUDs and are not PhD-s and stuff will go away. Most of software is like this. The few percent who work on kernels, AI models, etc. will still have work. The rest won't, or rather much less people will be needed to simply use AI to do that work.

Isn't it expensive, though? If you let it perform gui or web tasks for you using vision, I'd think it consumes lots of tokens.

Do you actually get any signifcant AI traffic today?

Nothing, but the article is about American AI, so using Chinese models by American companies can be risky. And it's risky for the Chinese to use American models.

So every country or block needs to run their own models to avoid opening a security hole for other countries.

Are open weights models secure? E.g. if a Chinese model is run by an American provider then can it still do bad things, like inserting backdoors into generated code or accessing external URLs (if browsing is enabled) to send info to them?

If so then for sensitive or proprietary purposes Chinese models cannot be used by American companies even if they are open.

There should be at least some correlation. When building the model they give more weight to some pages (e.g. Wikipedia) which have bigger trust (pagerank?). And when they provide links in answers, those matches are listed first which have better pagerank for the query.

So if it sources something in Wikipedia, it is more likely to provide Wikipedia as a trusted source for it.

The problem is when an answer is hallucinated, false, it may provide a source for it which contains the invalid info.

Secifically in Google AI Overview I always see links to sites where the information is sourced from.

Or at least some of the sites, if the same info is sourced from 100 pages then it only shows 2 or 3, maybe the ones with the biggest PageRanks.

Is his code maintainable, though? Or is it just a pile of code which happens to work? What if he wants to change something? Does he generate again the whole thing from scratch? Or does he tell Claude to make the changes and doesn't even know when something breaks when a new thing is added? (Assuming the software is complex, having multiple non trivial features.)

That's exactly what PageRank is about, invented by Google.

The strength of the sources are not a question of quantity. A hundred obscure blog post have not the same strength as one wikipedia link, because the latter is more trustworthy. There could be some indication beside the info showing the strength of the sources (how many major trustworthy sources support it, etc.).

There should be some warning if some "fact" is only supported by one or very few obscure sources.

The strength of the sources should be clearly indicated in the answers to help users gauge how trustworthy the info is.

Was it inability or simply calculation? He made a livelihood out of making up stories about ancient aliens. He was financially motivated to keep telling his stories.

What bothers me is that even some tech forums use Facebook groups and stuff, hiding the information in non-searchable silos.

Why can't at least tech people use only traditional forums which are easily searchable, readable without login, etc?

> Content can’t be free if you want it to be of any quality.

There are lots smaller local websites which can produce useful local content because of ad support. Those may not have enough subscribers to continue behind a paywall.

> Luckily, there's tons of information on the web provided not by commercial entities but by volunteers

The question is: is there content which is useful, but not provided by volunteers? We see more and more content behind paywalls, and it is a loss for many people who can't pay, because they won't be able to access the same content for free supported by ads.

So the result is poor people are going to lose access to certain contents, while well to do people will still have access.

" it will be interesting to see what the business model for Anthropic will be if I can run a solid code generation model on my local machine "

Most people won't bother with buying powerful hardware for this, they will keep using SAAS solutions, so Anthropic can be in trouble if cheaper SAAS solutions come out.

> but unless you're deeply, deeply into repetitive religious tracts of 600 years ago, most of the collection is more of a curiosity than a valuable resource to modern scholars.

It's an abbey, so they are probably into religious tracts and it has cultural and sentimental value to them. E.g. if it has a Bible from the 13th century then it's worth preserving even if it's just the usual stuff.

Unless that typo was inserted intentionally to make it look like it was written by a fallible human.

Keybindings are the least interesting part of emacs. I modify the default keybindings heavily, because I find them uncomfortable.

Emacs's strength is being a portable programming platform which once you learned it allows you to very quickly create mini applications which help with everyday tasks.

Programming a VS Code extension is pretty cumbersome compared to creating a quick Emacs extension.

> I just want write some scripts and SSH to a Unix box I don't want to maintain kernels, web servers, or SSL certificates.

That's my use case too. I don't want to maintain a VPS, just have some server available. Something fast and cheap which is maintained by someone else.

> I don't trust Google reviews anymore, Maps or otherwise.

What do you use as alternative?

> I saw some shady third-party tool that scrapes the data, but it's against the Terms of Service and I don't want to worry about being banned from my entire Google ecosystem.

I'm pretty sure Google Terms prohibits using data from its Maps API otherwise than in connection with displaying/using a Google Maps service, but maybe they won't go after this, because it's not much data.

How does he have time for that beside CEO-ing several companies and hacking the government?