Is that Oracle’s Larry Ellison on the right?

Oracle needs a good dose of adversarial interoperability.

Low to average reliability is fine if the service is cheap, and if that avoid the need for backup diesel generators in datacenters.

I doubt this applied to Github:

Microsoft to use diesel-fired generators as backup power for data centers

That’s a good way to represent LLMs. Very bad and very prolific consultants.

It shows LLMs can do significant harm without the capabilities of an AGI.

Overhyping LLMs and overinflating their capabilities makes things worse, as people are less skeptical of LLM output.

According to Clayton, the AI agent involved didn’t take any technical action itself, beyond posting inaccurate technical advice, something a human could have also done.

Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale.

If that LLM were an employee it would get a formal blame, and then demoted or fired as it continues.

We’ve basically discovered an appetite suppressant that works in mice without some of the side-effects that GLP-1 drugs have

The article mention nothing on safety or efficacy in humans, nor in other primates.

They are probably trying to get attention from companies to get funding for clinical trials. But it seems early for the general public to pay attention given trials low success rates

There’s still someone at Microsoft with common sense. That’s probably too little too late.

Source?

The article focuses on techniques that help bots spoof browsers, to make them impersonate a typical human visitor.

It’s not obvious how this helps people protect themselves against surveillance while being online. Using python scripting is not a practical way to browse. But it’s handy to write scrappers.

It’s certainly useful to misbehaving bots that try to evade anti-bots protection.

That’s true. The reason is there’s lots of bot traffic spoofing real users, sometimes even going through residential proxies.

When bots spoof users well, the last option for projects is use these PoW captcha that annoy everyone. Enshitification continues.

By spoofing the fingerprint, developers can make their automated tools impersonate real users more convincingly, thereby bypassing bot detections.

Many OSS projects and personal web servers have bot detection because they would otherwise drown under (AI) scrappers and other bots traffic. Hosting or bandwidth cost is often unsustainable without bot protection.

If you don’t want to kill these projects, honor robots.txt by default, use throttling, don’t try to circumvent bot blocks. Look if there’s a purpose built API available to bots. If they don’t want to offert such API, go find something else to do.

Using an ultrasonic dog trainer in public may piss off dogs, and other domesticated or wild animals in the vicinity. I woudln’t recommend this, except maybe as a last resort on rare occasions.

Politely asking the person to use a headphone or earpiece may be more effective in many case.

The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.…

Quick, undermine democratic values and rule of law before someone else does!

Vendor support. Some hardware and software vendors still only care about Windows.

You can bet bad actors with resources are (working on) getting all that data too.

ie drug cartels, Iran, Russia, China, North Korea may use businesses as a front to buy access and track people for extorsion, revenge, espionnage, …

Stop collecting that data, it’s not worth the risk.

Clickbait headlines often have dull content behind them it seems.

I’m tired of articles turning into guessing game, those headlines are basically saying “hey guess what’s this article is about!”. No thank you, I’ll pass.

Switching difficulty during the game in handy.

While playing Hades I stopped making visible progress at some point, then switched to a super easy mode to see through the end of the story. Without this I would have stopped playing and would have missed the end.

It’s faily easy to tweak a few parameters, ie health, armor, xp, damage, so any player can finish the game. Making and running an AI that plays for your require much more resources, and it’s less enjoyable to watch than actually playing. Might as well watch someone else speedrun the game on YouTube.

The title is editorialized, doesn’t reflect the article actual headline.

I’m not saying it’s innacurate. I’m saying it’s better to provide commentary in a comment, rather than altering the title.

The USA produces lots of fossiel fuel, enough for its own consumption and then some for export.

It’s not obvious, at least to me, that high oil prices would negatively affect (US) oil companies.