Doesn’t know the lyrics. Just goes meow meow meow.
The JavaScript Number type is implemented as an IEEE 754 double and as such any integer between -253 and 253 are represented without loss of precision. I can’t say I’ve ever missed explicitly declaring a value as an integer in JS. It’s dynamically typed anyways. There’s the languages people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Floating-point arithmetic is important to understand at least vaguely since it’s a pretty leaky abstraction. Fortunately, we don’t need a “✨Member-only story” on Medium to get acquainted with the underlying concepts.
Ah, late stage capitalism at its finest.
So as a programmer I was a little offended but then I remembered I’m not good so I’ll let it slide.
Oh wow. The article says basically that but without the /s and then it gets even better. This is according to Mister AI Professor Ethan Mollick From The University Of Warthon and the link goes to a tweet (the highest form of academia) saying:
The problem with calling “prompt engineering” a form of programming is that it isn’t like what we call coding
In fact, coders are often bad at prompting because AI doesn’t do things consistently or work like code. The best prompters I know can’t code at all. They “teach” the AI.
Which is just great considering the next excuse in the text is:
this is due to insufficient reviews, either because the company has not implemented robust code quality and code-review practices, or because developers are scrutinising AI-written code less than they would scrutinise their own code
So who the fuck even reviews the prompt engineers’ code sludge, Mister AI Professor Of Twitter?
Whole text is such a sad cope.
First off I’ll be clear: I wouldn’t like that either. This is a good moment to take a step back emotionally and clearly word out why slopbot birthday wishes suck.
Still I urge you to come from a place of care when you voice your opinion to your friend. LLMs going mainstream is a new thing so social codes relative to them haven’t had time to solidify. Moreover there are plenty of people feeling the pressure to adopt the chatbots lest they become irrelevant, or so they are led to fear. If you appreciate when friends’ imperfections show, they’re still right there.
Your friend has included things she likes about you in her prompt. For decades, people have gone through a similar process picking a birthday card. (I’m personally partial to dorky e-cards.) If I were you I wouldn’t sweat it too much.
I’d be very wary about the first use case. I’ve read some days ago that automation bias will seriously fuck with a radiologist’s ability to make the correct decision. Relevant bit:
When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.
Yeah sorry about that, a toonie is 2 Canadian dollars.
I refuse to lend any credibility at all to some anonymous controversial reddit post made from a throwaway. There are way too many of that nowadays and I’d bet a toonie a large proportion of those are either faked to drive engagement or for shits and giggles.
Besides, this is the internet… Didn’t anybody get the lesson with the bonsai kittens?!
Oh wait there’s a link! I thought this was a self post. Sorry for that 😅
I think the second point is quite important, but I do suggest to OP to clarify. My take is that if all you’ve got about a social issue is some gut reaction, and that you’re neither concerned nor learned on the subject, you could do worse than to shut up and listen. (And reading titles off some feed is not learning.)
Does the fediverse have a problem with too much posting? 🤔
There is more to a community than volume.
Logitech be jealous of HP inkjet printers.
Everybody knows LLMs aren’t intended for use cases where a correct answer is expected. /s maybe idk
Using ChatGPT as a search engine is a thing despite the hallucinations mainly because Google broke their search with adwords. Now OpenAI wants to break its own search by selling ranking apparently.
Oh that’s beautiful. This is at the crux of generative AI’s disruptive potential: you can never tell for sure if it’s AI. At least theoretically. For most meaningful tasks its output is often dubious. But for the mind rotting stuff done to train the models, there’s no way they can tell. Unless they monitor their microtaskers. But proctoring is no trivial task. Considering the pittance they’re paying microtaskers, I doubt any form of effective proctoring is justifiable.
In the end Saltman will be the main victim of the disruption it hoped to unleash at large.
The big men educated in Finance would probably scoff at my ignorant remark, but anyways here goes: isn’t this the modus operandi of these massively swollen tech “startups”? Spotify for example has been operating at a loss for what, 15 years?
Something like:
That is a lot of bile even for a rant. Agreed that it’s nonsensical to blame the dev though. This is software, human error should not be enough to cause such massive damage. Real question is: what’s wrong with the test suites? Did someone consciously decided the team would skimp on them?
As for blame, if we take the word of Crowdstrike’s CEO then there is no individual negligence nor malice involved. Therefore this it is the company’s responsibility as a whole, plain and simple.
Switch off your air conditioner, we need the power to make pictures of pretty ladies with several fingers on each hand and the wrong number of arms.
This right there makes me angry every time I think about it. My local government keeps promoting energetic sobriety: wash your clothes in the middle of the night, freeze your peasant ass off all winter, etc. My local government also sells power for dirt cheap to fucking global corporations. Furthermore AI is pushing data center power consumption through the roof. To think the techbros are trying to frame AI as the solution for sucking every little drop of inefficiency out of households. Maybe start by producing less green house gas then fucking aviation before pretending you’re not part of the problem.
Yeah in retrospect I see what you mean.
I hope you work in a field where worrying about your integers hitting larger values than 9 quadrillion is justified.