[mousepad]

I tried AI copilot for the first time in Visual Studio Code. I was trying to design a small CPU in a hardware description language (systemverilog). I was impressed on how easy it was to get results. First I thought this will all be a breeze and I have my design complete in a few hours. But the AI kept making small ridiculous detail choices. And telling the AI to correct those nit picks got very tedious to a point where I just did the work myself.

So all in all, I was very impressed what the AI can do, but in the end it was a wash. The time saved doing design work was offset with cleaning up the mess the AI left behind, just like cleaning up after a junior designer.

And from what I read, AI training has exhausted available training material by scraping the internet clean. So I'm not quite sure if we can expect great improvements going forward.

[AgentR11]

That may be from lack of experience, I think it learns from all of us using it over time and gets better over thousands of iterations; but mistakes happen with entry level engineers, and they happen with AI's. Its really good with web apps, c#, angular, that sort of thing, I think because it gets a huge amount of practice.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mousepad', '
')So all in all, I was very impressed what the AI can do, but in the end it was a wash.

[Tanada]

I tried to use AI to generate a picture of a plaque with text on it so I could send the picture to people and they could read the text. After seven tries I gave up, the software kept "interpreting" the text in some cases merging words in the middle, like "Construction Device" might come out "Constravice" which is not even a real word. On other words it kept inserting non-English alphabet characters like from the Cherokee syllabary or Greek alphabet. In some attempts it would prominently display the title but none of the body, in others it would copy one or two of the six paragraphs and skip the rest. I mean, I know the tech is relatively new, but how do you change an instruction like Paste this text block into random junk text?

[theluckycountry]

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Maybe AI Isn't Going to Replace You at Work After All
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')i]AI fails at tasks where accuracy must be absolute to create value.

In reviewing the on-going discussions about how many people will be replaced by AI, I find a severe lack of real-world examples. I'm remedying this deficiency with an example of AI's failure in the kind of high-value work that many anticipate will soon be performed by AI.

Few things in life are more pervasively screechy than hype, which brings us to the current feeding-frenzy of AI hype. Since we all read the same breathless claims and have seen the videos of robots dancing, I'll cut to the chase: Nobody posts videos of their robot falling off a ladder and crushing the roses because, well, the optics aren't very warm and fuzzy.

For the same reason, nobody's sharing the AI tool's error that forfeited the lawsuit. The only way to really grasp the limits of these tools is to deploy them in the kinds of high-level, high-value work that they're supposed to be able to do with ease, speed and accuracy, because nobody's paying real money to watch robots dance or read a copycat AI-generated essay on Yeats that's tossed moments after being submitted to the professor.

In the real world of value creation, optics don't count, accuracy counts. Nobody cares if the AI chatbot that churned out the Yeats homework hallucinated mid-stream because nobody's paying for AI output that has zero scarcity value: an AI-generated class paper, song or video joins 10 million similar copycat papers / songs / videos that nobody pays attention to because they can create their own in 30 seconds.

So let's examine an actual example of AI being deployed to do the sort of high-level, high-value work that it's going to need to nail perfectly to replace us all at work. My friend Ian Lind, whom I've known for 50 years, is an investigative reporter with an enviably lengthy record of the kind of journalism few have the experience or..

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'P')entagon Awards Contracts To 4 Artificial Intelligence Developers

[theluckycountry]

Getting back on topic:

Has anyone spent any time in a modern house? Don't lean on the walls, and don't spill any water on the kitchen surfaces. Be careful closing doors and windows too because it's all made of cheap junk material, nothing like the hardwoods and steel, brass and copper of homes built in the past. Even the fanciest looking homes now invariable have pine frames and plastic surfaces inside. Plumbing made for plastic. The death of suburbia, it won't be hard for people to walk away from this rubbish. Give it 30 years and they will be a living maintenance nightmare.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'G')etting back on topic:

[theluckycountry]

This is the rubbish I'm talking about. Plywood stapled onto pine, glue in critical places too no doubt. Put a nice bluboard exterior on it and give that a render and it's a woman's dream home.

This house is roughly the same quality the homeless were erecting in Hoovervills during the Great Depression. A little larger though.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'T')his is the rubbish I'm talking about. Plywood stapled onto pine, glue in critical places too no doubt. Put a nice bluboard exterior on it and give that a render and it's a woman's dream home.

[theluckycountry]

That modern house I pictured above is actually an American new-build. We do it a bit more substantially down here. The cheap ones are clad in Blueboard, a fiber cement sheeting system with V-grove joints to prevent water and wind ingress. We'd never clad a home with plywood. that's just... Stupid.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'T')hat modern house I pictured above is actually an American new-build.

[theluckycountry]

Why didn't the long running TV show Happy Day have any black actors? The show was filmed from 1974 onward but depicts the city of Milwaukee during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the Cunningham family and their teenage son, Richie.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')In 1955, Milwaukee had a growing but still relatively small Black population. By 1950, the Black population was around 3.5% of the total population, or roughly 22,000 people. This number grew rapidly in the following decades due to the Second Great Migration, with the Black population exceeding 200,000 by the year 2000, around 40–45% of the city's population

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'W')hy didn't the long running TV show Happy Day have any black actors?

[theluckycountry]

For those who claim the nation is doing just fine, go and watch a few re-runs of Happy Days to see what it was like when America really was great. It's a madhouse squared. It's quickly becoming Juarez, although I don't think they shit in the streets in Mexican cities

Confirmed!

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')oes open defecation exist in Mexico?
Quora
5 answers · 3 years ago
There isn't any open defecation in cities, towns & villages. Even in the “wild” parks like the famous Manuel Antonio, there are nice toilets

[theluckycountry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')yson Foods Confirms Protein Switching Underway
"Chicken continues to provide support to the business as the company continues to face beef headwinds," analysts at brokerage Stephens wrote in a note to clients.

Making sense of all this is simple: rising chicken demand alongside sliding beef demand is known as "protein switching." This trend is driven by excessively high supermarket beef prices, prompting low- and middle-income consumers to seek cheaper alternatives like chicken and pork.

[theluckycountry]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/da6FNOYD ... ture=share

[theluckycountry]

Observe, an African slum. Here in front of the small child is a concrete lined trench, no doubt built by a colonial power, it's function to carry rainwater off no doubt. Several observations can be make here. One, the simple fact that concrete doesn't last forever, it's crumbling at the edges and a chunk is missing. Perhaps by a deliberate act of vandalism by the child? Everything ever built with portland cement in the last 100 years will be gone in the next 100 years. Secondly, certain ethnic groups are incapable of self-rule. You can't take people out of mud huts and put them into modern urban environments then expect them to maintain them. It never happens. They have no concept of waste management for one, as is obvious here.

Observing the dress code, or lack of it, exhibited by the people in the photo suggests that all the cloths were charity shop rejects, imported, the detritus of the wealthy nations. Bright colors in evidence, like on parakeets or chameleons, things admired by simple people with no particular purpose in life but to eat and procreate.

Look around your own town for evidence of such, it's a sign of regression, of a people tired of chasing the "dream" and looking now to simply Exist. There is a lot of existing going on today.

[theluckycountry]

Wild Brawl Breaks Out On Carnival Cruise 'Over Chicken Tenders'

What kind of people would do that?



Seems pretty clear to me from the picture lol. Are we now seeing the wisdom behind segregation?
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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')erra joked about the Carnival cruise line’s reputation, writing on Instagram; “I always hear Carnival is ghetto/ratchet … I been cruising for years but this my 1st time seeing some action on a ship I was on,” he wrote, adding: “YNs was tripping.”