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I went from the software side to the IT side. It's made a lot of stuff that many IT folks complain about rather obvious to me.
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Included in these developer betas is a new macOS Sonoma that could be a gamechanger in porting Windows games to Mac. So people can test it wrong?
I lost faith in trying OS Betas a long, long time ago. But you do you.
(OK, this post is probably just for Chris)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I lost faith in trying OS Betas a long, long time ago. But you do you.
Heck. I try to avoid the first official releases as far as I can...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of a rising trend of malicious actors creating deepfake content to perform sextortion attacks. Who knew everyone posting all their images online would come back and bite us?
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People would pay them to not post nudes of me.
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Mmmm... new business case here... interesting   
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In our paper published today in Nature, we introduce AlphaDev, an artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses reinforcement learning to discover enhanced computer science algorithms – surpassing those honed by scientists and engineers over decades. Alas, poor quicksort, I knew you well.
1.7% faster bayBEE! Now we're sorting with gas!! [/sarcasm]
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 1.7% faster bayBEE! Now we're sorting with gas!! [/sarcasm]
I don't know how often will those sorting algorithms be used in real world applications, but in the PLC - Robotics world, 1.7% faster cycle can be a really huge accomplishment. I have been congratulated for improvements of some .1 seconds in a cycle of 35 to 40 seconds (around 0.25%) for robots cycles. That makes around 500 executions more per day.
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The Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and NASA are among some of Azure Government’s customers. DON'T ASK IT TO PLAY A GAME!
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O.M.F.G. 
So much impediments for good professionals while working for them (look up JSOPs messages if you don't know about the stories) and then they allow chatGPT to get in their system?
We do definiticelly need to find a cure for natural stupidity before using the artificial "half or even quarter" intelligence
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One of my textbooks in college had the title: Artificial Intelligence vs. Natural Stupidity. Seems more and more appropriate.
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We are thrilled to announce the preview release of C# Dev Kit, a new Visual Studio Code extension that brings an improved editor-first C# development experience to Linux, macOS, and Windows. So...we can finally program in C# using Visual Studio (Code)?
I could have sworn I had done it sooner.
Sure, better-better. Yadda yadda.
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Eager gamers already have Cyberpunk, Diablo IV running on Apple Silicon Macs. Maybe they can finally play DOOM on it
Sure, they probably could before. I'm too lazy to look.
Apparently it's just Wine in new (shiny) bottles.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Apparently it's just Wine in new (shiny) bottles.
Microsoft says: Resistance is futile, you will be re-iconized Mwa-ha-ha-ha
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"Why"? Or "how"? (Not about to read it.)
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Don't bother reading it. It's polyanish nonsense clearly intended to boost the value of the author's [vc] investments.
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From Bloomberg ... accessin requires registration, but not paid sub.[^]Quote: OpenAI Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said he’s not interested in taking the artificial intelligence startup public because he wants to maintain full control over the technology as it becomes more powerful.
“When we develop superintelligence, we’re likely to make some decisions that public market investors would view very strangely,” Altman said at an event in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. “I like being non-conflicted,” he added when asked about his own lack of equity in the company, “and I think the chance that we have to make a very strange decision someday is non-trivial.”
imho, CEO Altman's decision to have no equity in the company is more than strange.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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BillWoodruff wrote: When we develop superintelligence
From what I've seen, parrots* have more actual intelligence than these web-scraping autocomplete language models. The chances that this will lead to some form of "superintelligence" seems to be pure wishful thinking / hype / marketing BS.
* When they're not busy pining for the fjords, that is.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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hi,
imho, there is, at present, a blurry semantic cloud, expanding as some strange attractor oscillates, surrounding the meaning and uses of the words "intelligence, sentience, consciousness."
is the cloud analogy nutritious, or, is it merely made of particles of hype ?
i see the shadow of a tipping-point, moving closer, faster, here.
cheers bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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A new report uncovers a worrying 25 percent increase in the total number of new vulnerabilities published in 2022. Good job everyone on the new record!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 25 percent increase in the total number of new vulnerabilities
Seems to correspond to the rise of "AI", coincidence?
"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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Coinbase promises to continue operating, as Congress mulls new crypto rules. If you outlaw crypto, only outlaws will use crypto. Oh, wait.
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Quote: Protections denied to Coinbase investors include "inspection by the SEC, recordkeeping requirements, and safeguards against conflicts of interest, among others," the press release said. SEC Chair Gary Gensler specified that "Coinbase’s alleged failures deprive investors of critical protections, including rulebooks that prevent fraud and manipulation, proper disclosure, safeguards against conflicts of interest, and routine inspection by the SEC."
"It is a feature, not a bug" according to those a**hats.
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Most distant smoke and smog discovery could help explain star formation in the early universe Who's bringing the potato salad?
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