> The amount of deceit put out into the world and gobbled up, on purpose, in business is obscene and seriously depressing.
In business, politics, everything. It almost seems like everyone is quietly agreeing that "if we pretend the pesky truth doesn't exist for long enough, we can literally change reality to be what we want".
I feel like I'm going crazy. There's no way that's how things can work for long, right?
He means that he thinks the only reason why these generative AIs ever get info wrong and causing misinfo is because the businesses that write them are too woke and holding them back.
Tbf getting all of the engineers and leadership online to figure out what is going on, write and authorize a public statement is a pretty quick turnaround
When you get good at it, it is much easier to skim through 10 lines of fluff to find the answer (that is usually visually distinguished in a code block) then it is to parse through 4 really dense, terminology filled sentences.
If I need to know exactly how all the options work, sure the docs are the place to go, but 90% of the time I just need a quick example to go off of.
I've also worked in a highly technical customer service role and you are absolutely right. 95% of our time was spent on 5% of our customers.
Even though they spend millions of dollars a year on support, they easily cost us more than that to help them. Simple issues that we had documented solutions for (and explained to them dozens of times preciously) were just as critical as outages to them.
We had to throttle the support we gave them in order to provide a better experience for everyone else and try to train them to be better customers.
> The answer is "both of them". Pick a client that makes it the easiest to connect to separate instances on separate accounts, then choose the same-ish username.
That actually reveals even more complexity: having to understand what federation is, researching and experimenting with clients, how to find different communities across the fediverse. Each added complexity cuts how many people would be willing to make the switch
I've worked at companies who sell software to state governments. They usually run sensitive software in their own servers with no external internet access. We would have to send someone onsite to perform their upgrades or send detailed list of instructions so they can resolve the issues themselves.
I suspect Microsoft would do something similar, no data would leave government property.
One day it's going to bite these companies in the butt when they continue to be so openly hostile to the people who create free content for them, right?
> National forecasters said on Thursday that the climate pattern system, known for bringing record rainfall in South America, more winter storms in the U.S West and South, and droughts in southern Asia, Indonesia and Australia, is expected to make its official return within a few months and has a strong chance of lasting the rest of the year.
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Where is the line? There are a lot of Chinese companies who make things that are used in the US by US citizens. What about companies from other countries like Ukraine, Russia, Germany?
One of the best things and worst things about America is the first amendment. It is amazing that you can say or make just about anything without the government jailing you or shutting you down.
It feels horrible because that freedom necessitates people who believe everyone else has the same ability to say or make anything they want, even if you find that stuff disgusting or risky.
Yes, there are definitely some limits to the right. But we should be cautious about the government making laws to restrict the right.
Should we ban an entire company or force them to sell as soon as we believe they give personal data to another country? Where is the line drawn at which country? What about a Russian based app or a Belarusian based app?
I'm not saying it's wrong, it just makes me nervous.
I'm not sure this is indicative of a failing on Bard and Google's parts. I think most movie/dramas that humans create often follow these stereotypes. AIs like Bard train on the content that humans make and build connections based on that.
I think it leads to an interesting question, is it Google's responsibility to try to counter every stereotype or try to make about that operates like a human?
The best option I found was to explain - multiple times - to my grandparents that these scams exist and how each of them work. Hopefully if they are ever approached by a scammer, they'll remember my warning and that hesitation will break them out of the fear used in the scams.
In business, politics, everything. It almost seems like everyone is quietly agreeing that "if we pretend the pesky truth doesn't exist for long enough, we can literally change reality to be what we want".
I feel like I'm going crazy. There's no way that's how things can work for long, right?