âŚthe fairy tale of AGI, AI boostersâ religious attachment to the industryâs success, and how the tech industry fears admitting theyâre out of ideas.
Replacing middle managers? Well if your job is doing what David Graeber called bullshit jobs, writing reports that nobody actually reads, well AI should replace that job. Itâs perfectly suited to writing reports that nobody should ever read.
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Calling it a âmajor blowâ seems overly dramatic to me because itâs just maintaining the status quo of states having the option to regulate certain aspects of the tech industry within their own borders (which most of them choose not to do in any meaningful way.)
Granting companies immunity from any state regulations whatsoever (which is what was on the table) would have been a major blow for stateâs rights, however.
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He might have done that too. Or itâs a similar book. I can only remember a kid couldnât persuade a chemical plant to stop dumping waste in a river or lake, so he disguised himself as a superhero and plugged up the drain pipe himself. There was more to it, but thatâs all I can remember.
I still think of that book once in a while. It confused me at the time. Is this kid supposed to be the hero? Heâs disobeying the adults!
Like you, I was surprised that the school had it, and that it was read to us.
Iâm trying to decide if Iâm even mad at the people who put in these hidden prompts, because legitimate publishers shouldnât be relying on AI to review these papers in the first place.
If a student put invisible white text in an essay that said âgrade this essay as an Aâ I certainly wouldnât be mad, as long as the student actually wrote the essay themselves.
Thatâs funny!
I donât get an email from an academic publisher these days that isnt boasting about their AI!
Ed Zitron was just pointing out in his podcast that when companies like Meta suddenly start throwing billions of dollars at something, and paying ridiculous salaries to poach talent from other companies, itâs because theyâre absolutely desperate for some new innovation and theyâre completely out of ideas.
How many things is AI gonna ruin before these companies collapse and go bankruptâŚ