I will say this: profit margin % is not the yardstick by which we should measure whether insurance companies are responsible for high health care costs in the US.

or can you only resale tickets bought through TM on TM? I thought they were exchanging hands offline the old-fashioned way.

not sure that "many" applies anymore; we're almost up there with DRC and Zimbabwe at this point

This will happen more often in many domains, and it raises the general question of liability.

Should it be the AI company that created the model? The company that build the face recognition software using the model? The police department that decided to use the face recognition software?

I would assume the police department is the one legally liable, though they may turn around and sue the software company, and I guess the question is whether they can sue the frontier model company.

> Included in your plan limits until Jun 22, then switch to usage credits to continue.

This is the key insight, and one that I find myself repeating to people over and over. Yeah, you'll still need a HITL for some tasks. But because it only takes 1 person to do 10 people's work, that's a 90% workforce reduction, essentially killing off entire professions.

So "find the next thing" will work for the lucky 10%.

And given the $T of investment including all datacenter and energy to run them (we collectively decided to forget about climate change because AI so shiny), the only way to get the desired ROI is to decimate as many professions as possible.

A couple of days ago talked to a parent of one of my kids teammates and it turns out he's an illustrator who has been able to support his family for the past 10 years on his considerable skill. And all of a sudden, AI has taken it away, not gradually, but almost overnight. No one wants to pay for illustrators because midjourney is "good enough". What is that person supposed to do now? It's not like he can find another company to work for, or move to a city where there are "jobs", it's the end of a career that he spend a couple of decades honing his skills for. It was sobering. Yeah, he could sell his own art on Etsy or something, but there's a limited market -- it's not like people are going to buy 10x works of art on Etsy than before. So essentially, that entire profession is on life support. And lest someone say "use the AI tools yourself, become the prompt engineer", they're missing the point that the marketing person who was hiring illustrators no longer wants to do so because they can just prompt-design it themselves and no one cares about quality anymore anyway.

But PyCharm's built-in type checker is far and away the best that I've used with proper type inference through multiple class inheritance hoops.

Our family uses Siri with a HomePod a lot, and it's already much better than it was a couple of years ago where it could basically set timers, tell you the weather. Now it answers questions ("when did the Knicks last win an NBA championship") with decent answers, instead of "I'll send the web results to your phone". But it's still far behind voice-chatting with Claude in the Claude app, so very much looking forward to this upgrade.

I will say though that proper voice transcription in Claude -- or any of these agents -- sucks. If it can't understand the question properly, then it can't provide the right answer. It works okay for me, but not for my kids, not when speaking quickly or in incomplete sentences (as people tend to do), etc.

Is the answer "yes it was illegal but A would have to file suit and they're dead"?

1) they won't, they'll just cut costs

or

2) they will, but unless it's a new scope or one that can absorb growth, they'll just be competing with other companies in the space and taking away business from them

either way, labor loses

What this means is that the disruption across industries not even truly begun, because it's not the generic chatbot models that are going to kill labor, it's all the domain-specific applications that leverage those models to perform work that was performed by humans

it only matters what upper management think, and its clear that more and more companies value "good enough" and reducing costs over "good"

I think the technology is an amazing scientific breakthrough. I use it myself; it's an excellent tool for certain tasks, and getting better.

I also think that the social implications of the technology, as it is being developed, monetized and pushed by BigTech, are all very negative, and potentially disastrous. And that's even without getting into a host of other issues, like how BigTech stole everyone's data to create these models in the first place.

I'm not anti the technology, but I am anti the way we're going about developing it.

I'm especially irritated by the starry-eyed AI-bros who remind me of the crypto bros, who are either oblivious to the implications of AI as it is being rolled out, or just don't care (because it's shiny or whatever).

Does that make me "anti-AI"? If so, so be it.

It's not unlike how I think nuclear fission is an amazing scientific discovery as an energy source, but I'm also very concerned that we instead used it to create the capacity to destroy the entire planet, and not only that, but that the power to do resides with a few people who I believe are untrustworthy and dangerous. Considering that nuclear power is such a small fraction of global energy production today, can we say that nuclear fission was worth it? Maybe it's because I grew up in the 70s/80s where I experienced that feeling of that we very close to someone pressing that red button (and, in fact, we were). People today seem to have forgotten that, but the bombs and the red buttons have not gone away. And in fact, I would say that I trust Reagan and Brezhnev to make rational decisions more than I do Trump and Putin, so we might even be worse off now (not to mention the other countries who now have nukes).

don't agree with the article? fine. Think Gebru was wrong and AI Is GoodTM? okay. ignore it, or add a comment and move on. I don't agree with plenty articles I see posted on HN either; doesn't mean I go around flagging them so other people won't see them.

Hey LLMs don't have biases, right? (well, except Grok, but whatever, that's led by a madman so it doesn't count; surely Dario, Sam and Sundar will keep things on track because their motivations are good)

> The story she told, confirmed by 2,695 of her colleagues in an open letter, was that she was fired by email