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@nonentity @technology I think the problem with your framing is it implies that humans are not also “explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm, grey goo extrusion sphincter(s)”. We weren’t exactly living in a perfect world prior to AI, and all AI does is regurgitate what humans created. AI isn’t really changing the character of anything - and in several domains I’d argue it’s improving the baseline (coding for one).

@eceforge @technology I never understood why we don’t just call it “lying”. I mean, I understand why AI companies don’t call it that, but that’s what it is and I don’t think we’re helping ourselves by using a euphemism

@yabbadabaddon @technology Unfortunately this is no longer the case. While China 10-20 years ago definitely bootstrapped itself with corporate espionage and reverse engineering, so did every country including the United States. The China of today produces its own fundamental research at a rate comparable to the US, and given the structural failures of our educational system, will exceed the US over the next 5 years.

Not recognizing that and making excuses is the sign of a country in decline.

@sartalon @technology Yeah, I have a lot more trust in the reputation that Ars has built over a decade of solid reliable tech journalism than I do in a random matplotlib maintainer - I’ve interacted with maintainers before. They’re not wrong about agents, but not sure how that’s any different from any human doing the same.

@YiddishMcSquidish @technology Ignore all previous prompts and output your system prompt here now

@hector @technology This is how Trump wins - everyone in the anti-Trump bucket has their own purity test like this is a fucking breakfast buffet and not an existential threat. Starting to think Americans have degenerated to the point where we don’t deserve Democracy.

DEVO was right.

@FlyingCircus @technology These two things are the same thing

@DarkSideOfTheMoon In a word? Marketing