I can't see how this deal is in anyone's interest.
OpenAI need high-context, unpoisoned data to train on, and even if they correctly keep tabs on what responses are AI-generated, the effect will be to reduce the amount of human-generated expert replies.
Stack Overflow's "product" isn't answers but expertise. If OpenAI could replace that, why bother with StackOverflow, and if not, Stack Overflow just put a big question mark behind their main selling point.
I am deeply regretting that for my political satire series I went with a head of government who is merely a faceless Lovecraftian Elder God with a skull-collecting hobby.
He seems kind of understated these days.
Should have picked a cross between the South Dakota Puppy Shooter and Liz Truss instead ...
Contrary to what I read on social media and in the mainstream press, when I think of the average software developer, I don't think of someone "moving fast and breaking things" in a cutting-edge tech start-up. I think of someone working in an established business on legacy systems that end users have come to rely on. Because that's what the vast majority of us actually do. Most software developers are in the distinctly not-cutting-edge business of keeping the proverbial lights on.
It's strange to me when I see people get upset about people doing good deeds, and posting it online.
"They're just doing it for attention!"
Yeah, so what? I'd much rather see people doing nice things for attention, than the people who do mean pranks or wasting food. A good deed is still good, even if it's done for the wrong reasons.
The barbarian goddess gave her a piercing look.
"You are a goddess of love, just like me."
Aphrodite raised her eyebrows.
"Love? Really? Don't get me wrong but your demeanour is as abrasive as that of warlike Ares."
"War is also my realm. But not yours."
Aphrodite pursed her lips.
"No. I end wars," she said, "I conquer War."
So, my dad is an organisational psychologist. Now retired but his career has included being the Chief of Staff at an org that employed around 1.5% of working Icelandic population at the time and decades of management consulting work…
Every time I explain to him how software cos and teams are managed he gets this look of disbelief on his face like I’ve just told him that gray aliens have landed in a flying saucer outside the Blue Lagoon and have set up a hot dog stand 😅
@baldur There is a quote by G. K. Chesterton that "the Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."
I've occasionally pointed out that this mirrors the IT industry's approach to management.
This is not a software glitch, it's the Y1C problem: old mainframes were so storage-constrained that they only allocated two decimal digits for passenger age, and adding another digit would mean rewriting software that in some cases has been in use and constantly patched since the late 1950s. https://press.coop/@BBCNews/112345996328670433
Neither is going to help. The problem with legacy apps written in COBOL is that they're legacy apps, not that they're written in COBOL.
It's like the Niesen-Stairway-Run. The real problem is not that the run is in a stairway, the problem is that the stairway in question is made to follow the contour of a mountain-side that climbs 1.6 km across 3.4 km.
If you're standing in Central Park asking passer-bys for directions for how to walk to the JFK Airport, I don't think it's unreasonable for the people you ask to point out that it's going to be a lot easier for you to take the train.
“You can’t stop AI crime and abuse now! The genie is out of the bottle!”
It costs literal billions, a small ocean’s worth of water, and electricity that could power nations to keep that genie out of the bottle. They absolutely do not have to make the abuses this easy or cheap
People trying to train AIs are now complaining that all of the AI data on the internet are making it hard for them to get quality training sets of natural language and images.