Just wait…

It is, as far as I can tell, a neverending learning exercise for parent and child both.

My boss works from home and has a baby who hates his work voice (by which I mean his normal voice), so lately our morning calls have involved 15 minutes of normal work followed by some baby screaming, followed by the next 10 or 15 minutes of him using a silly song-song voice to talk about tech metrics and whatnot. I like to reply with my patronizing voice.

How else would you even do it?

Ooh will we get to bail out AIG for a second time?!

Given those pedals down below I assume he likes to check his side-view mirror a lot.

Urban Dictionary says: Fetch Stop trying to make it happen. It’s not going to happen. “That’s so fetch!” “Shut up, Gretchen. Stop trying to make fetch happen. It’s not going to happen.” Fetch by KamIsTotallyFuckingAwesome May 17, 2011 Word of the Day on March 30, 2019

and also

fetch slang for cool or awsome. Used in mean girls by Grechen Weener. Omg Kadi you love him. That is so fetch. Grechen stop trying to make “fetch” happen! It’s not going to happen! fetch by Kayla February 8, 2005

But from context I can tell you mean the first one :)

No, I get it, but I’m a firm believer in “never attribute to malice what can instead be explained by stupidity”

@ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca you think it takes a concerted effort to make Trump sound like an idiot?

And they’re probably built just fine for 95C summers, since everyone would be dead anyway.

I’ve been taking my chances with refurb 6TB SAS drives since at about $120 they cost what my new 6TB drives cost 4 years ago. Im just trusting in the ZFS gods to never let me be more than 2 drives down at once.

I dunno, they did manage to get the antichrist elected. Twice.

To put it into context, it’s doing about one full-time support engineer’s job currently, which is the maximum we’ve permitted it to do so far.

I guess the difference is that it I have actually seen it do legitimate work now. We have implemented outbound SDR and inbound tech support agents that do the right things. Our SDRs generate new leads for our (currently all-human) sales team to go after. They are boosting the numbers of closed deals. Our inbound tech support agents are closing a significant fraction of tickets. My last metrics call was yesterday, it was 12% of inbound tech support chats that never got escalated to a human. These are both first-draft tools, they’ll improve. They cost pennies per session to run. And client NPS scores show that they’re happy with the results. I don’t think we’ll see either of these tasks become 100% automated, but at even 25% or 50% that’s a lot of formerly-human work not being done by humans anymore. And we’re deploying more agents to handle more of the sales pipeline, development pipeline, HR and accounting. I don’t work for a huge company, there are a few hundred people total. This isn’t something that’s coming, it’s here already.

I’m not pro-AI by any stretch for a huge number of reasons, but in my day job as a technical product manager I have to use a number of AI-powered tools and workflows. Whereas 18 months ago they were a novelty that the bosses were enamored of, today they get real work done and speed up a number of key areas, mainly like fancy automation workflows (which have been around forever). The rate of improvement and capability for certain use cases has been very, very rapid. We do seem to be reaching a plateau though. The tools and models from 6 months ago are just about as good as the ones from today. And China’s models from today are better than the US’s models from 6 months ago, but at a fraction of the cost.

So when I hear people talking about the “end of the world”, I think a realistic case for that is that the AI tools that come out in the next few years will be good enough to do a fair amount of white-collar work, and we won’t have a plan in place to deal with all of the now out-of-work people that leads to. Whole classes of jobs in areas like data entry, telemarketing, and customer support will be almost entirely automated out of existence. New classes of jobs will be created, of course, but it’s hard to imagine them existing in sufficient numbers to make up for the losses. And this is just for LLM-workloads.

In other areas, other types of AI are already enabling robotic automation of factories and in the near-ish future might make self-driving truck fleets practical. This would be devastating because factory workers and truck drivers make up like 30% of the US workforce – and again, there are no signs of new classes of jobs that could absorb the out-of-work workers, and no plans for a social safety net or wealth distribution.

So I’m not worried about a rogue AI unleashing some bioweapon or launching a nuclear attack. I’m worried about a bunch of CEOs deploying barely-acceptable AI to displace millions of workers as soon as it is safe(ish) to do so.

I think the 70s just looked like that…

This is the kind of hard-hitting news I expect from the NY Post.

He’s also the kind of person who doesn’t feel like he’s winning unless he’s making someone else feel like they’re losing – there’s no such thing as win-win. So a “rising tide lifts all boats” scenario does nothing for him.

I need a Canada for scale.

If that CRT has a Trinitron tube it’d probably be pretty easy to find an arcade/retro gaming enthusiast in your area who’d want it (and probably even if not…)