If the models are so good why should anybody buy the products of those companies instead of creating their own with the model?

That the crux of AI, if it’s so good it devalues the products it creates

Less waste of resources is still waste of resources.

How much of the AI generated content is actually useful, how much useless, how much harmful?

Some of it is useful, and from an environmental perspective, if it eliminates some other activity (e.g. team of workers driving to/from work and their office heating/cooling) then it can even be a net positive.

I would agree that there should be some tariffed token usage based on CO2, efficient datacentres pay little, polluting ones pay a lot - would help even the field and export good practice.

Except you don't actually ban it, you just move it to texas.

That content is coming either way.

And if you require them to over offset their load to the grid, it's literally fossil fuels burned over all.

Except they wouldn't move to Texas but would also build in Texas. So you don't get a less polluting datacenter but you get one less polluting and one more polluting datacenter. A Swedish datacenter doesn't simply replace one in Texas, it's an additional one.

Datacenter wouldn't stop, and there would be some country or area which allows it. Unless they regulate the entire world, we should focus on lowering CO2 globally, and that means allowing datacenter in your neighour if your energy is better.

It’s not either Texas or Sweden, it’s either Texas or Texas and Sweden. You just get more datacenters and more CO2 output.

> live by the sword, die by the sword

We all know how you backed out of the cage fight with Zuckerberg. You only fight if you have an unfair advantage.

I wonder how many if these AI projects have malware?

That's exactly what I was analyzing. They go viral very quickly, and there's no way to verify if they contain viruses or steal information.

Like viral that everyone browse quickly at the project page, put their most inspired comment on hn, the go to the next news and forget about it.

I don't think there is a lot of people who actually clone the repos and try the stuff.

The Nintendo cartridges contain the full playable version of the game.

Third party publishers often just put the key on it. So blame them for that

Seems like there isn’t even a reputable source code for the exploit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188948

In Germany Frankfurter are pork only and Wiener are pork and beef

oh well there you go, that's something i wasn't aware of. to me, all of them are 'Wienerli', no matter the type of meat. i even call the vegetarian ones 'Wienerli'.

For further explanation Wiener means Wiener sausage and is a kind of Frankfurter sausage.

In Austria a Wiener is a different kind of sausage and the German Wiener is called Frankfurter

> if you are still writing code “by hand” without AI assistance, then either you haven’t tried using AI, or you are just coding for fun

Writing code by hand is writing code, with AI assistance you don’t write code, you order code. You became a manager

I'd define a manager as someone who doesn't, in principle, need to understand the fundamental details of the work, just those that affect the managing.

If you make this stand, you're committed to calling many other professions managers, which you don't. You probably haven't fully cashed out your own position yet.

A manager who understands the details is just a manager.

Where is the difference between telling an AI what to do and telling a human programmer?

Lets make an experiment. I give you a slow AI which you can prompt once a day and you get the answer the next day.

Are you still a programmer?

What if I randomly replace the AI with human programmer who delivers your code.

Still a programmer if a human wrote it?

I can ask AI to create an illustration but I would call myself an illustrator.

I wouldn’t even claim I calculated the root of 1,234,567 when I used a calculator to do it.

I think everyone just forgot about pair programming.

Like the group projects in school where one did all the writing and the other said we did it.

it doesn't matter who does the writing, it matters who does the thinking, that the whole deal of pair programming.

Completely agree with this. I see that people who don't follow this mindset are mostly falling behind.

Thank you for reminding us! The previous reminder was already 5 min ago and I almost slipped and started "coding by hand". I'm back on track!

Glad to be of service. Here is your next reminder to stop yourself from "coding by hand" :D

You don’t realize the difference between joy at work and joy on the weekend vs. only joy on the weekend?

I wish I could upvote this more than once.