That said, I'll happily take "we discovered a key weakness in 20% of cancers," please and thank you.

You have a funny way of spelling "sad" my friend.

This is me daily.

That said, assessments of poor critical thinking skills jump out at me more than the rest. That sort of thing seems likely to matter until machines can replace us completely.

Reminds me of a year where a teacher of mine (high school) gave everyone in class an A. He got called on it, and fought back. He literally called out the weakest kids in the class and had them do the work in front of the admins complaining and said, "tell me that's not A work, I ["fucking" strongly implied] dare you."

His grades stuck.

Telling models to "think hard" or "go step by step" has at times had an impact on the quality of the output. To deny that is silly. But that is treating it like it's conscious, and to deny that "consciousness" even if correct, does nothing but place an unnecessary burden on the person interacting with it.

I understand that LLMs are "just next word machines" but to constantly maintain that concept in my head while I'm typing "act as a financial expert and think carefully" is a waste of my mental energy.

That was less than 30 years ago. Cell service is more reliable today than then, but it's not perfect, and not only don't we think twice about making calls on a cell phone, many/most of us don't even have land lines anymore.

Sending the prompt is the difference between showing up with flowers, and saying, "I feel strongly enough about you to bring flowers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Finale_(Seinfeld)

My point isn't so much about how many jobs will be replaced by AI, but how quickly. In my mind the doomsayers are predicting 30-70% job loss in the next 3-5 years. I'm not saying the job loss won't be that high; I'm saying it won't be that soon. If I had to guess, I'd predict 5-15 years, which won't be a party for anyone, but it's not immediate devastation.

And of course previous job loss situations were supported by other jobs people could migrate to. If this situation doesn't -- if AI swallows a substantial portion of the entire job market -- then eventually it will come down to whether we have an acceptable way to share the abundance that results.

Make your web sites obvious, people!

   1. They desperately want to end all immigration.
   2. They are too stupid to enact reasonable policies to achieve that end.
   3. Therefore they resort to the blunt force tool of cruelty.

Hope? Wishful thinking?

I call BS.

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