[–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (8 children)

I don't think the smart people saying it's too smart are using the right adjective, but they're also not wrong.

Let's say AI makes a hallucination, which it's prone to do, and decides that it's absolutely necessary to gain access to the power grid, for whatever reason which isn't important. It then uses advanced, sophisticated techniques to gain access to their network, and in doing so accidentally takes out power to a large area. The agen was absolutely being intelligent, it managed to get into a protected network, but it wasn't exactly being smart, as it was clumsy and unrelated to the task. Now extend that to an agent who's been instructed to find a solution at all costs, and the hallucinations and pervasiveness get far more serious.

I too initially thought that yeah AI is too stupid to cause actual disasters, but thinking about it properly, i don't think it is.

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yikes... Where is that, so I can avoid the area?

    I've been around the ones in West Denver mainly and the impression I get is that people can wear largely whatever as long as they're doing their jobs, I could be wrong though

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Sure but as I said, that's a knowledge question and not an engineering problem to solve. They're very different and unless you work in software consulting, you're not gonna get a problem that looks remotely like that from a client.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    The amount of personal expression allowed is honestly impressive, and I love it. I saw an androgynous person wearing mild BDSM accessories working there and my thoughts were "go you, I'm so glad you're allowed to be yourself in the workplace."

    Hopefully that kind of stuff can spread and we can get rid of treating workers as soulless drones elsewhere too.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I mean I'd probably go super generic and say something like "it's a deterministic function which turns a block of data into a usually smaller block of data, usually for comparing equality to the original block of data" which covers most of the uses?

    If you ask a generic question, you're gonna get a broad answer, and if you want to draw clarifying questions, you need to ask a more complex question and provide insufficient information to answer it. Even then, making that question something you can easily look up online, and you either know or you don't, doesn't achieve as much as making the question something that you objectively won't know, and have to learn on the spot, as that shows your ability to learn new things including things you can look up on the Internet.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I mean at the same time, if it's possible that regular people who actually shop around are shown lower fares and business travelers paid for by the company are shown higher fares, I'm all for that sort of subsidization, as unlikely as it is to be the reality

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I used to live 6 hours drive from my parents and drive to theirs after work on Friday for a weekend roughly every month or so.

    If there's somewhere around halfway I can get fed, go to the bathroom, and take a short break which also doesn't push my midnight arrival time much later, then of course I'm going to do that instead of going out to a full service restaurant, or cooking myself and having to clean up from it, again pushing my arrival later? I'd be shocked if most people wouldn't agree with this?

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • view more: next ›