I mean, I guess the way people use the term “AI” these days, sure, but we’re really beating all specificity out of the term.

Software developer, here.

It’s not actually AI. A large language model is essentially autocomplete on steroids. Very useful in some contexts, but it doesn’t “learn” the way a neutral network can. When you’re feeding corrections into, say, ChatGPT, you’re making small, temporary, cached adjustments to its data model, but you’re not actually teaching it anything, because by its nature, it can’t learn.

I’m not trying to diss LLMs, by the way. Like I said, they can be very useful in some contexts. I use Copilot to assist with coding, for example. Don’t want to write a bunch of boilerplate code? Copilot is excellent for speeding that process up.

Arch Linux user here to say… Ubuntu’s fine, man. Love all the derivatives that can take advantage of the core Ubuntu system (e.g., Mint, which I’ve installed for family members).

I love Arch. I use it all the time. I will not inflict it on any family members.

If you count light outside of the human visible spectrum, it’s bright pretty much everywhere. Like, getting away from light requires specially constructed facilities.

Your right.

I’ll be able to. But I most certainly won’t do it. No thanks.

From now on, when I’ve got a cold and I’m working on fixing bugs in our code while living off coffee and cough syrup, I’m calling it a dungeon crawl.

I’m not [INSERT_BIGOTRY_TYPE], but [INSERT_TEXTBOOK_BIGOTRY_EXAMPLE].