What's wrong with these people? The rabbi had time to sink to the floor, the priest is clearly passed out on the floor, why is the pastor still walking into the bar? Are they all blind and deaf?
The deeper message must be that just out of shot an imam and a Buddhist monk are looking at each other puzzled exchanging remarks like "They really cannot learn from each other, can they."
(I do get the bar joke, internet. No need to well actually me. This was very much tongue in cheek.)
I feel like the Atari 2600 is quickly becoming for so-called AI what the "how much is a gallon of milk?" gotcha question had become for politicians who run for office. A rather pointless bit of news.
As Scotty said: the right tool for the right job. An LLM is maybe not a chess engine and that's fine too. Why would we expect these models to be Magnus effing Carlson if they cannot reliably summarize an email or recommend eating pebbles?
Maybe 10 years ago I tried designing a font in Inkscape. It was possible but more of a gimmick. I then installed Fontforge and very quickly decided I wasn't going to learn how to use it, didn't have the bandwidth. But the tools are there. Both methods have a learning curve but I think have enough instruction resources online.
It's one study. It's pretty sturdy in terms of methodology but it hasn't been peer reviewed as far as I can tell. They also only looked at established software projects, not anything new. So this is a narrow scope and it doesn't prove that so-called AI cannot enhance productivity at all. It just indicates that pro devs can be fooled into thinking they are better off with it when they are not. But I feel like that's hardly news in these mad times.
Are you beginning to feel a narrowing of your throat?
Das war Englisch.
I think this has been true since the start. They have never not been in hot water financially.
The rise of progressivism has nothing to do with corporations decorating themselves with the relevant messages where it suits them. That's just marketing. You see that in companies who championed the marginalized during the previous administration and dropped it near instantly when 47 came in. That's corporate opportunism.
We have seen the rise of representative democracy, of fascism, the rise of communism in the past. I don't think we have seen anything that deserves a similar label with regard to progressivism. There is a general sine curve thru the ages of left-leaning and right-leaning politics. And thru the swings from one side to another we have still abolished slavery, enfranchised women, built social security nets, decriminalized abortion (or at least permitted it in some cases) and same sex relationships, etc. A lot of it was built on political movements but I dare say none that rose to the top and stayed there. So a rise of progressivism is as non-sensical to me as a rise of conservatism. They are just opposite ends on the political scale and we dance from one side to the other and back again.
It's difficult 2 transpose what u can do in English just 2 other languages written in the Latin alphabet for centuries. English has a remarkable and quite confusing amount of homophones that is absent from other indoeuropean languages. The apostrophe as a letter skipped marker is fairly universal. But beyond that it's already a different ball game in other more similar languages. 2 to too, 4 for, r u - that's very English only.
Simplified Chinese characters are a hint at what they did on the Chinese mainland to cut down on writing time. Beyond that (and I don't speak the language so 🧂) there are single character abbreviations for countries. 美国 is America and 美 suffices as shorthand, which means beauty otherwise. Your example phrase is "R u coming 2nite?" In English we use the present progressive tense here, which doesn't exist like that in Mandarin. It would be phrased as "Come tonight?" The question mark could be replaced with the character that functions as a question marker by itself. And I think you can do this in 3-4 characters and I think they might just beat you to it in a bilingual texting competition in terms of speed.
The mainland population may also be more adept to obfuscate their speech especially online. So similarly pronounced character combinations take over the meaning of a term the censors are actively looking for.
The Japanese like shortening stuff, mostly loanwords, to unrecognizable words. The word for part time work is アルバイト (arubaito) taken from the German for work (Arbeit). Cool kids have whittled it down to baito. A remote control has become a リモコン (rimokon) in normal parlance. Overly long Chinese character combos like 自動販売機 for a vending machine get shortened to 自販機 dropping characters that can be inferred (if you speak it).
I also want to add that text speak is heavily influenced by restrictions on text length and charges for each text. Non Latin script characters take up more than one Latin character per Chinese character for instance. It's probably 5+ in decoding per character. So you reach 160 letters quite quickly and that's why SMS in China was very cheap and quickly adopted a system where message threads would be sent and put back together on the recipient's phone. In Japan they used email from the start, even in dumb phone T9 texting days. They had no Twitter-like restrictions on text length so they didn't need to be shorter than what their thumbs could successfully fumble together.
Let's not call it psy op then. We need a new term. BS op maybe?
I don't have the foggiest idea where I could've gotten the idea from.
Florida Man strikes again.