The LLM isn’t trained to be reliable, it’s trained to be confident.

And it’s promoted by business people with the exact same skill set who have been rewarded for it. I would argue though that there’s nothing wrong with what LLMs are doing: they’re doing what they were trained to do. The con is in how the confidently unreliable techbros sell it to us as a source of knowledge and understanding akin to a search engine, when it’s nothing of the sort.

I watched Don’t Look Up for the first time the other day, and it’s an unfortunately very plausible illustration of what you describe.

https://archive.is/7UQne

The song and the post are funny, but the thread full of redditors taking it seriously is a bit depressing.

Stadia was actually a good product

That’s how Google decides which ones to kill off.

I wouldn’t trust mine. They haven’t been doing such a great job for the last few decades.

They’re easy to win. All you do is, whatever happens, say you won.

Because someone told them the Bible told them so.

The new Pebble watches look interesting. Relatively basic, but long battery life (they promise) and open-source operating system.

So is the end of your rope a nope to the co-co-dope cope pope hope?

I hope to be co-Pope to help the Pope cope.

Doctors cost money and the money goes to doctors. LLMs cost less and the money goes to billionaire fascist techbros. The fact that they’re not fit for purpose is insignificant compared to the potential for techbro enrichment.

Also, doctors have an annoying habit of helping people to live regardless of whether techbro eugenics says they deserve to.

Imagine lacking the curiosity to want to take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn interesting new things with all the resources at your fingertips. I think the root of the problem is that capitalist society sends students the message that learning is valuable only as a means to make more money. If that’s your view then it makes sense to skip the difficult stuff and just pay for the piece of paper that gives you access to better-paying jobs. Capitalism absolutely doesn’t value having a wiser and more knowledgeable populace, and students pick up on this.

It’s the Google way. They frequently shut down even good and popular products of their own when they don’t align with some obscure corporate plan. The lesson is that you should never depend on a Google product or service.

Ah yes, I misread. Thanks for the correction.

The attack – quickly concluded to be caused by a drone flying below at a level where it could not be detected by radar – punctured a 15-sq-metre hole in the outer roof. It also caused a particularly damaging, complex smouldering fire to the inner cladding of the structure that took over a fortnight to put out.

When you know that the little hole is 15 metres across, I’m an idiot, but it gives a sense of how huge that structure is.

I found Google Assistant on the Sense useful for reminders. That was about all I used it for, and it was a bit annoying that Google took it away. It’s odd that these Google-made smartwatches now only support Amazon’s voice assistant.

I can’t imagine many people would find this a pleasant device to do any actual work on. Maybe writers on the go, as the author says, though with a dubious keyboard layout even that is questionable.

The poster seems to be real:

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/afd-accused-nazi-symbolism-election-germany-hm8dv7nql

Archive link: https://archive.is/dtG2v

The focus on Microsoft is odd. I remember most people using WordPerfect for DOS and other non-WYSIWYG word processors up until around 1993. These were much better for focusing on writing. MS Word came from behind and started to take over as Windows 3.1 and then Windows 95 became standard. Word wasn’t the best word processor back then and was very buggy, but Microsoft succeeded in marketing it as a natural companion for Windows and bundling it with Excel and PowerPoint, and WordPerfect was slower to move to WYSIWYG.

The rise of the web was also happening at that time, and this article doesn’t give it enough attention as a major influence on document format and a motivation behind markdown.

thought she may have been dead,

If Israel had its way she would be.