It's funny you say this because when I read the solution my first thought was that's such an Apple thing.

Or maybe it's more than that: maybe I'm off-put by people who have no need to be in the immediate AI race spending a lot of money to get ahead without asking what near-term problem they are trying to solve. It's depressing and makes the whole field more depressing. My advice for them (if they cared) would be that soon all this will be even more batteries-included, to where any dunce can dial up a production-ready app with a sentence. There's no need to rush; when it happens you'll be better off not having wasted millions trying to be on the bleeding edge.

> As someone who makes use of AI quite a bit in my own learning, I can say that it’s still relatively weak at having a good model of an individual’s skill gaps and conceptual weaknesses

Why not spec out the curriculum and spec out the approach (regular quizzes, etc.), then use that to guide the AI? Make the skill gap an objective thing.

I find his take on open source software interesting; that pushing for free and open software is inevitably serving the interests of those who will collect and profit from it. And that by attempting to make everything free we are making it more difficult for young people to make money. Lots more to say about that I'm sure.

On social media I agree with him that the current economic rules are creating the undesirable effects we see now. My solution for this was to ban the sale and purchase of user data. His perspective was that policing the data was more difficult, and that a better solution would be to police the software; that we should outlaw software that attempts to predict human behavior. There might be unintended consequences there, but it's not a bad idea.

For the GitHub discussion, I don't know how you asked the question, but it would be wise to include in your question what sources you have already consulted, so that they don't also consult the same sources. This is true whether we're talking about AI or Encyclopedia Britannica or microfilm.

Asking questions well is a useful skill that is not at all new.

I don't know if all companies should be run like Japanese companies, but there's something very heartwarming about this. Some companies exist for the purpose of employment, and that's okay. In fact it's admirable and makes me want to cheer.

I think we're already there with Waymo as the example. We may later choose to diverge from this now-accepted path, but for the moment we have a blueprint, and fixing edge cases with a software update is apparently acceptable, if you just look at all the Waymos operating legally right now.

Because the models hosted in China are not trusted. This is 100% a part of what makes up commercialization.

I'm see a lot of "worse" in your comment and not seeing any "better". Can you give some examples of that?

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This sounds like personal experience. Can you elaborate?

Edit: OHH perhaps you are saying this is one of the benefits of Steam; that it shields you from all this.

You don't have to get rid of genuine progress just because your utopian vision has something better. The USA is on the path to autonomous vehicles. They are not on the path to public transportation excellence.

Well then forget autonomous vehicles altogether and allow the human joyride to continue, because no CEO is stupid enough to risk that.