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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

When I started working in the late 90s early 00s, every company had their own It-department. These days it's just some consultant or subscription to another company offering their consultants to do specific tasks.

This thread reminds me of why having an IT department makes good sense financially - today.

You can add up all the salaries, equipment and training costs and it'll still be cheaper than wasting time and money in meetings with consultants trying to either explain the task or moan about pricing.

Shit doesn't work, because they aren't paid to make shit work.

I can make code that works for me and I can make code that works for you. The price is different, but you also need to know what you actually want it to do, and I don't know how much money you are willing to sacrifice for us both fumbling around in that equation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How do deaf people talk in their sleep?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The challenge is to not do whatever the optimal algorithm says. If they simply did what an algorithm says, it would be very easy for competitors to predict.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

You need to set the seed number.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It wasn't the same as a handyman. The title "useful man" was for a servant who'd never actually serve the master.

Today it'd be a "runner" or some kind of "assistant to the assistant"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd probably start much simpler. "Why do you think the earth is flat?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Unfortunately arguments also don't work very well. People only change their mind when their mind changes. They basically have to figure it out themselves. No amount of external arguments can ever do that.

The way to encourage people to change their minds is simply to question them until they start thinking about the topic, and then give them access to information.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

... in go-carts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Eventually we will be too dumb to tell if it is smarter than us regardless of the tests that we invent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Great.. now it reads like Apu from Simpsons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Sure, tests are bad, but another option is that AI is simply better.

It'd better be. Why'd anyone want to create unintelligent artificial intelligence?

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