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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Eat Cereal for Dinner

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Cincy according to the latest and "greatest", ChatGPT 5. Love how the Ohio River just ends and makes Indiana and Kentucky one state (other than the mountains, they might as well be).

You'd want to live upwind of Fart Thomas, too. :ROFLMAO:
 
Some of that started prior to the Trump tariffs. Apparently you can price out the Hipsters. Maybe decent bourbon wont be overpriced soon.
 
Handyman said:
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Seriously we got to stop pretending this is any sort of intelligence. When this thing busts billions of dollars will disappear overnight and a lot of sick people will wonder why their air sucks so badly and where all the water went.
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The thing about AI is that it’s a tool. It’s not anything more than that.

It’s an EXCEPTIONALLY good search tool, for example. The tests where it solves recursive riddles (where answers to each question rely on answers to previous questions) that would take hours for a human to find and traditional google searches could never find. It can parse information and present it quite well, so long as the sources are verified.

It’s quite good at generating code itself and evaluating code written by humans for bugs. Almost all large projects are utilizing at least one layer of AI validation for checking. If not more.

They’re also finding amazing uses for it in the medical fields. It has shown tons of promise in detection of cancers before traditional tests can pick it up.

But like any tool, it’s only as good as its user. So put it in the hands of a chud like Big Balls and you probably are going to get the equivalent of GPS driving someone off a cliff.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
They also make a very large fraction of our pharmaceuticals.
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Yes. Although they combat a lot of that by completely selling out to corporate interests in both tech and pharma. Galway sold out to Pharma and Dublin to Tech. The River Liffy is littered with the European headquarters of Meta and other Tech companies. All because Ireland lowered the corporate tax rate.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
The thing about AI is that it’s a tool. It’s not anything more than that.

It’s an EXCEPTIONALLY good search tool, for example. The tests where it solves recursive riddles (where answers to each question rely on answers to previous questions) that would take hours for a human to find and traditional google searches could never find. It can parse information and present it quite well, so long as the sources are verified.

It’s quite good at generating code itself and evaluating code written by humans for bugs. Almost all large projects are utilizing at least one layer of AI validation for checking. If not more.

They’re also finding amazing uses for it in the medical fields. It has shown tons of promise in detection of cancers before traditional tests can pick it up.

But like any tool, it’s only as good as its user. So put it in the hands of a chud like Big Balls and you probably are going to get the equivalent of GPS driving someone off a cliff.
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Meh I think you are giving it way too much credit. It is not just who is using the tool, but who programmed the tool as well. And make no mistake, its mostly tools that did that. That is why it needs to be double checked when used on anything of real value...it often makes pretty basic dumb mistakes even when it can use basic Google searches to find its answers. Plus it can't parse out the difference between fact and fiction which is why Onion Articles will trip it up.

For all of the advances people put on it, the mistakes are much more important and it makes a lot of them...they just get ignored or protected by adding a human element making sure it is correct. Basically offsets any efficiency. This reminds me of when everyone was touting Must and Tesla as the big genius breakthrough in EVs while ignoring that there was tons of issues with the cars, the tech was often unruly and easily corrupted and many of the innovations were lies.

I have to use AI for my teaching job because it makes some aspects much easier (mostly formatting and organization) but it also forces me to double check every piece of information and how it presented because it makes just glaring mistakes that even the students would notice. Reminds me of the "Spell and Grammar Check" in Word though a bit higher functioning. Yeah it can make me a decent presentation for a lesson and make the level of language work better but that is about it. The syntax is usually off, it screws up basic facts or contradicts itself on a point by point basis, it gets facts wrong as well. So it basically makes me a nice template and then I change up the overabundance of stupidity. Cool "Clippy" was able to do that in 1998. ;) Whats worse is my students use AI and it is so easy to figure out it is mindboggling.

Put it this way, there is a reason that everyone gets caught using it when they try (like judges, lawyers, politicians, journalists...etc) and they aren't all morons like Big Balls.
 
Handyman said:
Some of that started prior to the Trump tariffs. Apparently you can price out the Hipsters. Maybe decent bourbon wont be overpriced soon.
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I dried out around the time Maker's was up to $32-35/fifth. After a few years off, I had a little sip of an old fashioned that I was handed, and I think all whiskey just smells and tastes like my old hangovers now. I have no more interest at all.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
The thing about AI is that it’s a tool. It’s not anything more than that.

It’s an EXCEPTIONALLY good search tool, for example. The tests where it solves recursive riddles (where answers to each question rely on answers to previous questions) that would take hours for a human to find and traditional google searches could never find. It can parse information and present it quite well, so long as the sources are verified.

It’s quite good at generating code itself and evaluating code written by humans for bugs. Almost all large projects are utilizing at least one layer of AI validation for checking. If not more.

They’re also finding amazing uses for it in the medical fields. It has shown tons of promise in detection of cancers before traditional tests can pick it up.

But like any tool, it’s only as good as its user. So put it in the hands of a chud like Big Balls and you probably are going to get the equivalent of GPS driving someone off a cliff.
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As I’ve said at different points in the past here, our coders have to review all AI-generated code. They only accept about 30% without edits, and up to another 40% with small edits. The remainder is garbage-in-garbage-out.
 
St. Clown said:
As I’ve said at different points in the past here, our coders have to review all AI-generated code. They only accept about 30% without edits, and up to another 40% with small edits. The remainder is garbage-in-garbage-out.
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This is exactly what I see AI as currently.


It really chaps my ass that one co-worker is so blindly all in on ChatGPT that it's all they use to "research" things.
 
aparch said:
And I *still* can't find Blantons to collect the damn horse stoppers.


Hopefully this means the secondary market also tanks hard.
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My wife bought the set. But we also found an entire set of fresh bottles on a cruise ship right around the time Blantons became so controlled.

I think the original issue was that ships caused a brief shortage, Buffalo Trace noticed that people would pay even more because the rarity issue, and all of a sudden, it became super controlled, Which then doubled the actual price in liquor stores. By the seller, not the legally controlled stores.

We actually found a bottle at a KOA in eastern Wyoming that was being sold for the old amount. And bought it. In 2023. Haven't seen it in a store since.
 
aparch said:
And I *still* can't find Blantons to collect the damn horse stoppers.


Hopefully this means the secondary market also tanks hard.
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I should have collected them back when my buddies and I drank that stuff for free. It aint worth paying for ;)

And anyone who pays more than $20 for a bottle of Makers is just...well I got some crypto to sell them!
 
St. Clown said:
As I’ve said at different points in the past here, our coders have to review all AI-generated code. They only accept about 30% without edits, and up to another 40% with small edits. The remainder is garbage-in-garbage-out.
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I do not code professionally but it sounds to me as if it would be both better and cheaper to just hire real developers in the first place.
 
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