This is so obviously true. Most people that had sudden wfh transitions after or during COVID that I know even with well established networks and families, have really grieved the loss of daily contact with coworkers.
I’d hardly consider this a side effect. Decreasing traffic in one path within a network of exchange has the direct effect of increasing traffic/demand on alternate paths. Increased demand == increased prices.
1. LLM/transformer technology is legitimately amazing and revolutionary.
2. In the end, they function as an enormous, effective database for most human knowledge.
Point 1 obscures the fact that if someone just created an SQL database with every digital artifact in existence and provided it for free upon request, there would be no ambiguity whether that was legal or not.
But distillation, etc obscures this relationship and it looks like something other than straight lookup, at least in part because it is obviously more than that.
I don’t think the fact that the robot was instructed to lie to a human and was able to do so successfully makes the story much less scary for most people.
Framing & launching LLMs as a "chat" interface is the source of many ills. I don't have a simple solution, but leaning away from conversational interfaces would lead to less anthropomorphizing.
I used to work for the Air Resources Board of California, and while there is a warm-up period, modern ice cars are so profoundly cleaner than cars even from the early 2000s. It’s pretty stunning.
Regardless, there’s nothing cleaner than no combustion, and I can’t wait until EV‘s have replaced them all
1. Dropping levels of elemental lead in folks born 20 years earlier, so lower impulsivity.
2. “The internet”, leading to higher levels of homogenization of culture
In app purchases from (crappy) games is top revenue source in App Store. Anecdotally, I’d be shocked if the majority of that wasn’t from kids using their parents’ phones.
I wouldn’t expect that either given the little that I know about the rigorous software requirements for aviation.
But I assume that neither of us has anywhere near enough expertise to “refuse” to believe that any computer/software system could be used in dangerously absurd ways even accidentally.