It’s like the best version of balderdash.

I’m not sure it was ever not like this. I think just less publicized. I’m going to need proof here.

Also considering congress sets the rules and our political climate isn’t anything individuals have control over - only their local gerrymandered representatives - I’m going to go with we don’t control this either.

It probably was always like this and we have no ability to change it.

Can we have someone with technical knowledge ask questions.

An tech illiterate 70 year olds questions can be easily ignored.

And that’s even if they take it seriously and just don’t use their time slot for a campaign ad.

I’ve had prime forever and never knew they offered free games.

What games did you get?

Wow this is a fucked up way of advertising.

I would be pissed if I got an e receipt and ended up getting spam. I just want a receipt. I wouldn’t be shocked but I would be disappointed to find out they used that email internally to track me within Home Depot. I mean they already have my credit information which has my address associated with it so we are already being tracked. But asking for an e receipt and having it immediately sold and tied to meta is something not even I would imagine.

This seems like a basic public offering to businesses by meta and probably other companies.

It’s probably extremely wide spread and the US needs some serious privacy laws in place to end this shit.

Would you like a receipt should be nothing but that.

Easy coding has been obsolete since forever.

Every language updates makes coding “complex” things easier.

C to c++. Classes make things easier.

C++ to Java - managed code makes things easier

Python - simpler syntax makes things easier.

Can’t code at all? Use widgets in an if this than that visual workflow.

Want to create a website for your business… a non tech mom/dad can do it.

Want to deploy a new webservice all over the world with infinite scale. Push a button - and have a lot of money.

Backups, offline storage, server upgrades, geo redundancy- one button press away.

It’s not about coding. Its always been problem solving. Let me know when an AI can problem solve.

There has always been a wizard or template to create awesome websites. If an AI can save me from copy pasting a change or perform a refactoring pattern with a push of a button that’s an awesome time saver. But that value is over exaggerated. Because it’s a known problem.

When AIs can solve unknown problems and create business solutions that’s when it gets really valuable

It’s not really though. Schools have high cap programs, High schools have running start. There are tons of clubs you can join. You get what you put into it.

Sure there are some hoops to jump through which have a lot of boring homework and some garbage mandatory classes but people are kidding themselves if they think this doesn’t continue into college where your paying to take learn useless skills with double the homework. And of course when you get a job and your paid poorly to do busy work or often just pretend to be busy until you can build up a resume where you can put some real thinking skills to the job.

Everyone has to go through the boring hoops to prepare you for life that is full of boring hoops.

It’s not like I don’t get it. I had writing teachers demand 10 page essays and then grade without reading them. Everyone has these stories. However these situations teach kids how to prioritize and how to deal with varieties of situations and varying degrees of bs.

Realizing bullshit and doing it anyways is actually a strong life lesson. Real life is full of bullshit tasks and the ability to do it anyway will actually help you get and maintain a job.

Homework drills lessons into you.

It’s repetitive and boring especially if you know the material but even still it makes you faster at it and memorize it.

It really depends on your personality and how fast you pick things up. You claim you got Bs in everything, you probably would have got As doing homework.

The fact that you think Bs are good enough and didn’t do homework says more about what you think of schooling and learning in general than homework.

Also yes I think the emphasis on homework is pretty dumb but I also think US schools agree with you as my daughter’s elementary schools ( moved ) had a no tears official policy for parents which mean don’t force your kid to do homework if they cry and then just a straight up no homework at all policy.

Honestly, I’m not a fan because my daughter will go to middleschool without a foundation where she has to just suck it up and do the work mindset which is needed to do well in school and honestly in life too if you work for anyone else. In the real life you get assigned stupid things and while there is often some room for constructive criticism in the end you have to do it anyway.

This is why I always hated the Turing test. Data from Star Trek would fail that test.

The Turing test tests how well an AI can fake being a human. And as such it was passed by having a good understanding of human non answers pretending to be foreigners and children.

Basically any current event, political or human experience question is unfair because a bot won’t have human and real world experiences even if it was sentient. It could be trained on those answers though and provide a believable answer for something like “what’s your favorite sports team”, but it would never have watched sports.

An AI can be sentient without acting like a humans with fake human experiences.

Not saying chat bot is sentient but I think the line of what is sentient is going to get blurrier and blurrier in our lifetimes. While that google guy who claimed their bot was sentient was definitely wrong he may go down in history anyway as one of the defining moments of when what defines sentient and where we need to start redefining our definitions.

This is actually very useful for generating believable email spam I think.

This tool might be more useful for spam generation than professional work.

It’s got just the right level of believability.

From what I read this no one doing this is a script kitty.

It’s very specific and they have to have deep technical knowledge already.

Looks like it more likely saved time.

they reflect

Fines need to come with jail time. Fines can’t be too large or companies layoff unrelated staff. Too small and they don’t discourage anything.

Fines need to be micro targeted and come out of the pockets of those responsible, not the companies as well as criminal charges where appropriate.

It’s never targeted at the people who causes the issues, it’s the general public that suffers.

Like tarrifs on countries. The rich government leaders are minority inconvenienced while the citizens are fucked.