I'm not so sure this is the cause as in the countries I am familiar with (UK, Spain), such sentiment long preceded the pandemic.

It's a complicated issue and immigrants aren't some homogenous fungible group. Many European countries have had a very different type of immigration to what the US has had, for example.

Immigrants coming on visas to work (and having to pay all the related visa fees and other surcharges like the NHS surcharge in the UK) are generally much more accepted than the influx of asylum seekers who are dependent upon the State and have no reliable criminal background check etc.

Politics feels increasingly polarised though so I'm not sure we'll arrive at the nuanced solution it deserves.

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Once when I asked it some questions about a strategy game (Shadow Empire) it got them wrong, but the sources it cited had the correct information.

But yeah, it's not infallible and sometimes even when it gives you a source it will incorrectly summarise it, but you can double check the information in the source itself.

It just makes it a lot easier to do quickly rather than having to go and find the right Wikipedia article or dig through lots of documentation. Just like Wikipedia and online docs made it easier than having to go to the library or leaf through a 500-page manual etc.

I've used them when studying new languages (human languages not programming languages) and ML algorithms and they've been really useful.

Learning to check the citations it gives you is a useful skill too. I wish many adults were more sceptical about the things they are told.

But equally it's really helpful to be able to ask ChatGPT or whatever for a different explanation when you get stuck - but that is probably better done at home when studying the homework. It stops you getting frustrated and helps keep you making progress and in the 'flow state'.

I guess a big problem for schools now will be how to get them to use AI to help them learn rather than simply getting it do to their homework so they can go and play video games or whatever. I know if I'd had it as a kid I would've been tempted to do the latter.

So yeah, the bag-of-words model got replaced with a chatbot several years ago (when chatbots were all the rage back in like 2017) and will probably get replaced again with an LLM-enhanced chatbot soon. But the meat and potatoes are those classification and regression models and they aren't going anywhere.

Perhaps they can use the LLM to write and deploy these models without needing a Data Scientist but that seems risky to say the least.

In my company, the most Data Scientist-adjacent people are the Data Analysts but they tend not to have programming experience beyond SQL and basic Python and they aren't used to using the terminal etc.

I never thought I’d miss vBulletin so much.

And people would prefer to run a model locally for 'free' (not counting the energy cost) rather than paying for an LLM subscription.

It'd be interesting to see what they spend all the money on though as we seem to be hitting diminishing returns and I'm not sure if the typical enterprise user really cares about small improvements on benchmarks.

It seems like it'd probably be better to spend all that on marketing, free trials, exclusivity/bundle deals etc. ChatGPT already has a strong advantage there as it has so much brand recognition. I've seen lay people refer to all LLM's as ChatGPT like my grandparents did with Nintendo and all video game consoles.

You can get Iron Maiden beer, Iron Maiden wine, Iron Maiden sunglasses etc. let alone the common merch like T-shirts.

Given many more people can buy merch than can buy a concert ticket (which has inherently limited numbers) I wonder how the two revenue sources compare.

Golden Idol and Chants of Senaar are incredible as well though.

Yeah, the high speed AVE trains are nice if you want to go to Madrid, but if you just want to get to work it's a disaster.

And to do it all before we cook ourselves in greenhouse gases.

I'm rather optimistic about it but it does seem that most people don't fully grasp the importance of such a transition.

Plus there was the pressure from Les Verts and Sortir du nucléaire, the Molotov cocktail attacks by the Fédération Anarchiste, the RPG attack by the Cellules Communistes Combattantes etc.

It was a highly political decision.

I guess private homes weren’t included because of the difficulty of enforcement.