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Quote: Similarly, last month, The National Eating Disorder Association shut down it’s telephone helpline in favor of an AI chatbot named Tessa
Quote: NEDA pulled the Tessa chatbot last week after the nonprofit said on Instagram that it may have given harmful information to those seeking comfort.
I wonder whose genius plan that was?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I’m sure some consultant got $100k for the idea. 
TTFN - Kent
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For those of us who have watched automation creep into corporations, this isn't news. The reality is that every time there's an economic downturn companies lay people off and use technology to replace them. Remember the "where's the productivity increases from computer technology?" screaming back in the late 90s and early 2000s? Well, when the recession hit in 2008/2009 all of a sudden it was there as people were laid off. The same exact scenario is occurring now.
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Volunteer moderators of the forum are striking over a policy that says AI-generated content can practically not be moderated. Now who's going to mark all the questions as 'duplicate'?
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As long as it stays there... we already have a bunch of people that post AI crap, but still in green zone. I hope it doesn't rise to that level.  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Couldn't happen to a "better" bunch of moderators. As the US South would say, "Bless y'all"
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This hands-on secure coding training is the perfect way to sharpen your secure-coding abilities. Through the game, you need to investigate intentionally vulnerable code and find and fix the problem within it. Just in case you don't have the chance to fix enough insecure code of your own
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Not-so-magic Moment as optional update automatically installs itself, complete with reported bugs By 'optional', they meant asking you for permission was optional
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Read the article - it appears that only those who foolishly select "Get the latest updates as soon as they're available" are getting this update. This check box doesn't say "Get the latest non-optional updates as soon as they're available".
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As Microsoft builds out its suite of AI-powered tools, Cortana appears to have outlived its usefulness. "I'm not coming with you this time."
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Good, finally it will come pre-disabled instead of having me go out of my way to scrape it off the disk.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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I would not bet against it...
Besides, the replacement might be even worse
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Cortana appears to have outlived its usefulness.
"Nobody used this thing in the first place." There, FIFY.
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C++ is the only language I know of where two very different sets of programmers consider themselves well versed in the language. You had me at "never trust a programmer"
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For me it was "never trust".
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"zero trust"?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I completely concur with this assessment, and I'm looking at myself. I came from C, but I prefer to code in C++. It just makes code organization a little (note a little...) easier. However, I see so many programmers that write C code, toss in through the C++ compiler and tada, they know C++.
The reference to templates is especially telling...
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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What did the father of computer algorithms think about the master of Generative AI, and what Winston Churchill never said about Alan Turning. Is it bigger than a breadbox?
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We learned that Donald Knuth is still alive.
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Caltech's recent breakthrough has moved us closer to achieving the transformative potential of space-based solar power. "Heaven let your light shine down"
Stand underneath for an instant, crispy tan!
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Amazon agreed Wednesday to pay a $25 million US civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) allegations it violated a child privacy law and deceived parents by keeping for years kids' voice and location data recorded by its popular Alexa voice assistant. For those keeping track, that's about 26 minutes of revenue
Or about 2 days (give or take) of profit.
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Quote: In addition to the fine in the Alexa case, the proposed order prohibits Amazon from using deleted geolocation and voice information to create or improve any data product.
Odd (but typical in this case) use of the word 'deleted' here. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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With Visual Studio v17.6 becoming generally available recently, Microsoft provided a peek at what's coming up in the next iteration, VS 2022 v17. You might find a use for them by the next-next version
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Researchers made the surprising finding that participants with higher intelligence scores were only quicker when tackling simple tasks, while they took longer to solve difficult problems than subjects with lower IQ scores. Yeah, that's why it's taking you so long to fix that bug
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