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An expert on crisps maybe XD? i'm not really sure about your last point on investing in frauds, i guess they only care if and when the fraud gets exposed, they might purposely choose to do exactly that given the right conditions though, it is a completely perverted and deranged system at this point.
How have i never heard about this, will definitely give a try. What about a DAW integrated transcription tool, as a VST maybe, is it too niche? This is something i always wanted and never really found in the capacity i needed, essentially doing what soundslice does both track per track and also having the full score, most tools available try to convert to midi via usual methods or do some mumbo-jumbo AI to write the score. Since 90% of recording musicians time is spent on a DAW and sometimes having everything in the box streamlines the work a lot.
Make it 7, there's also the Sentinel datalake or whatever now!
Rent, university taxes and all the other taxes are still due, i'm from the EU too and education is definitely not "free", freer than somewhere else for sure.
Usability, UI, that's not the point, my question is just how is it possible that an esteemed academic professional doesn't understand that touching anything that deals with "data" on a service like ChatGPT could possibly result in consequences? And how is it possible that we have started to justify every careless and sloppy behaviour ever? Better not justify sloppiness.
First rule of the world: "if you don't understand the implications, don't do it".
How much are we willing to justify every wrong behaviour possible?
It seems you are desperately trying to make a strawman without any sensible argument, i don't personally think it is "snarky" to call things as they are, plain and simple, you, as supposed expert and professional academic, post a blog on Nature crying that "ai stole my homework", it's only natural you get the ridicule you deserve, it's the bare minimum, he should be investigated by the institution he works for.
A reasonable amount of AI use is certainly acceptable, where "reasonable" depends on the situation, for any academic related job this amount should be close to zero, and no material produced by any student/grad/researcher/professor should be fed to third party LLM models without explicit consent, otherwise what even is the point? Regurgitating slop is not academic work.
The issue is not backup, the issue is that he is publicly and nonchalantly admitting that most of his work for the past years was ai-based, which might or might not constitute fraud given his professional position. Imagine being a student paying thousands over thousands expecting an expert human led instruction just to get this, imagine being a fellow researcher and suddenly being in a situation of not being able to trust this guy's current and past work.
The worst thing is all the people looking at this behaviour as normal and totally acceptable, this is where ai-sloppiness is taking us guys. I hope it's just the ai bros talking in the comments, otherwise we are screwed.
The shame is not that he was so imbecile to not have appropriate backups, it is that he is basically defrauding his students, his colleagues, and the academic community by nonchalantly admitting that a big portion of his work was ai-based. Did his students consent to have their homework and exams fed to ai? Are his colleagues happy to know that probably most of the data in their co-authored studies where probably spat out by ai? Do you people understand the situation?
The author is an absolute and utter embarrassment for all the good academic professionals out there, and he is also literally admitting to defrauding his students of their precious money, which they thought was going to human-led instruction, he's also put all of his colleagues in an very dodgy position right now. It is preposterous that we are even arguing about it, it is the sign of how much AI-sloppiness is permeating our lives, it is crazy to think that you can be entitled to give years of work to a chatbot without even caring and then write an article like this "uh oh, ai eat my homework".
They've run out of terrestrial snake oil to sell so they now need interstellar snake oil.
It's really not obvious to calculate the output of any employee even with years of data, way harder for a software engineer or any other job with that many facets. If you've found a proven and reliable way evaluate someone in the first 2 weeks you just solved one of the biggest HR problems ever.
Rent should not be more than 1/3 of your income but to get an income you usually need to be in a place where rents are more than 1/3 of such income.
The Brits don't produce anything anymore except money laundering in the City of London (where i work btw) and some cattle, so you should expect that kind of biased narrative from them. We in Italy are among the best and most profitable in the high-tech mechanical manufacturing industry, but we also have the worst paid engineers and technicians of the western world. The Italian Miracle.
easily top 10 best HN comment ever.
salutes from a WestLondonCoder
The first is Android.
I'll explain you how it works: upper management needs urgent spend cuts in the next 3-6-12 months to get bonus -> upper management lays off N thousands people in order to reach goal and get bonus.
Every year is the YOLD!
Not thanks to Java or OOP, but despite it. You can thank my colleagues fighting Java in the bank each day.
That happened not by choice, but by chance and due to "OOP consultants" running rampant in the 2000s. Source: i have to maintain Java slop in a bank, and used to maintain Java slop in manufacturing.
Maybe cause he's like top 5 most influential computer programmers of all time and knew to be a super human workaholic?
98% of regular personal computer users still don't know what "a Linux" is, unfortunately.
Not sure who supports OnlyOffice, but i know it's on the north-east of the world. Apparently they have quite a bit of bots/shills in this page right now XD.
Man, you are making too much sense, somebody is going to have his feelings hurt by your words. Management is now trying to have even more control on the people that actually do things, and AI is being used as scapegoat to entrench their position. The reason is fear, because most managers couldn't do even 1/10 of the work people under them can do.
The issue for me is that even if you have strong computer science fundamentals and lots of experience most of the time you won't be able to come up with an advanced optimized algorithm (that took years of research) on the spot, which is what is often required in these kind of interviews. Even if you manage the average kid that grinded leetcode for years will appear a better candidate than you, maybe he really is, but that's unlikely on the day-to-day job. In the end it's just about who grinds more, obviously if somebody is really weak on the basics it shows immediately without having to go through the hops, fizzbuzz is enough.
I think that us europeans got spoiled too much in the last 20-30 years and are totally disconnected from the harsh reality of life outside our pretty little garden. Nothing satisfies us anymore, and social media plays a big part on making us think that the grass is always greener on the other side, it is not.
But if you want some more thrill in your life i suggest picking anywhere from the list of less developed countries by the UN, since they have the biggest potential by definition: https://unctad.org/topic/least-developed-countries/list
Maybe it's just that everyone is too fixated on "creating value for customers", might it be that customers don't really want value, but they just want to buy stuff? This might explain this big divergence in our real world experiences. It's either this or that most businesses actually do bring some value and have a degree of understanding of what they're doing, otherwise no customer would be buying anything and unemployment rate would be closer to 99% everywhere.
That's probably only true for most coffee bean subscription SaaS startups, but the world is full of pretty normal business, in which pretty standard engineers and other professionals work, that make money in a streamlined and predictable way but who's story doesn't make it to HN unfortunately.
we can spin the semantics how much we want, but if you ask 100 managers what they mean with "agile" is "do things faster".