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... and I suppose the solution for these particular conditions is.... drumrolls... stablecoins? They are allowed? Available everywhere? Accepted everywhere? Totaly safe from disappearing overnight?
The global poor already had ways to store value in dollars. They could simply exchange whatever meager savings they had into... real dollars! And they have been doing that for decades. I don't know whether anyone in the west really believes in this bullshit of cryptocurrencies that give the global poor options.
... and by the year 50, they will be a trillion times more productive?
It depends. What if Aldi bled a trillion dollars for this revenue of $120B? Would it be a desirable purchase?
Yes it is, because as soon as programmers step out of the most basic language level (which is kinda similar in most mainstream languages) there's a bunch of wildly different concepts, with wildly different ways of writing them. Writing them in isolation might be manageable, but it's combining them effectively that gets hairy very quickly, unless one is very experienced in said language. But then, translating that to OTHER languages becomes a bar that is too high!
What happens when Anthropic decides that the free hay time is over, and it's milking time?
LLMs can and will provide inaccurate answers to questions where data is included in their training sets too, that's in the nature of neural networks. It's just less likely that when the data is not in the training set...
I forgot to put /s in my comment :)
None of the numerous existing human-coded X11 tray icons showing battery charge level is good for you? Why? What are they missing?
FWIW Back in 2015 OpenCL 2.0 performance was quite good on then-current AMD GPUs (IMO), but the problem was that 1. You had to implement everything yourself, from scratch, since AMD's GPU BLAS was barely compilable, and 2. They abandoned OpenCL that year, and switched to HIP (or whatever their copy of CUDA was called) which didn't even compile (in practice) for quite some time, and 3. Even with HIP, you were on your own when it comes for any BLAS and other standard library implementations because AMD provided nothing of the sorts for a long time.
All in all, it's not that the drivers performance was poor per se, but AMD did nothing about providing a software ecosystem, which amount to its hardware wasn't realistically usable unless your pockets were so big that you can do AMD's job and fund the re-development of the whole ecosystem from scratch.
In other words, it made MUCH better ROI to just use Nvidia, pay a little bit more for the hardware, and save millions on software :)
Who's gonna pay $20,000 for labor that can be done by anyone with a $200/mo subscription?
Now let's think about how much money it costs Anthropic to make that $60k. :)
I find it works even better with "/effort ultra".
And when it doesn't, it politely apologizes, at least :)
If the main problem is programming languages incompatibility with QWERTY, that problem has been solved many decades ago. The programmers can switch to Colemak, and save many trillions of dollars of AI expenses.
An app is often much more than a CRUD interface. "I could have written Facebook over a weekend" syndrome :)
Perhaps music that at least the author would listen to? To this day I haven't heard an AI song that made me wish I press the rewind/play to listen it again. Granted, most human-generated songs are crap, too, but at least they are not crap to their authors.
IMHO, it would be solved by just making AI "art" un-copyrightable. Fine, make "AI art" as much as you wish. Sell and buy it as much as you please if you find it to your taste. BUT, you can NOT participate in organizations that take royalties from radio stations, TVs, movies, records, etc. for publishing, performance, etc.
As an avid reader of BDs, I would agree with you, but for the purpose of this discussion, and for the general public, these two are indistinguishable. Even to the actual translation, which is (pardon my rusty French) somewhere in the ballpark of "cartoon strips".
OTOH, 1% of a large group is still quite a lot. How many programmers are there in the world? Google says estimated 47 million. 1% of that is almost half a million people. If there are half a million Clojure programmers, Clojure is quite a successful technology! (Sadly, I doubt there are that many)...
I was pointing out that when we talk about reinventing the wheel, it wasn't the Emacs who was doing that, but the other guys. Whether they reinvented better or worse wheels is up to debate.
Emacs was there way before GTK and Qt appeared, though.
Software business is a business because it has customers, not users. In this case, you're left with the users, while OpenAI takes them as customers.
Everywhere I look around myself I see the same thing: people move very little (compared to our ancestors) and they eat often, and they eat a LOT (compared to our ancestors, of course). Sure, eating processed crap influences this in a negative way, but I think parent poster is on the point: eating in moderation and exercising more is the way...
If these kids could read, they would be very upset.
Yeah, right. Capping a resource, such a wild idea. Of course they won't implement it for the same reason bar owners don't put a cap on drinks.
Or a false manual, with wrong or far from optimal examples...
There are many more scenarios, though. One of them is that AI slop is impressive looking to outsiders, but can't produce anything great on itself, and, after the first wave of increased use based on faith, it just gets tossed in the pile of tools somewhere above UML and Web Services. Something that many people use because "it's the standard" but generally despise because it's crap.
In other words, AI is just a replacement for google search and Stack Overflow, automated and served as an IDE plugin...
Sure, but if you have a strong copyright infringement case, couldn't you team up with a litigating company and take on Amazon? I am not sure that in any industry any tiny mom and pup shop can take on the largest corporate player without any cooperation from complementary interests...