links, etc Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers will LLMs open up a range of small software development opportunities for folks who just need a small thing for friends, family and organizational duct-taping? Jane Street is big. Like, really, really big this was kind of shocking and still fascinating to me. tags: #ai, #finance
notes bookshop link honestly, this didn’t get really interesting until the last 50 pages or so. there’s a couple of hundred pages of setup on what constitutes a hack, examples of “hacks” across the spectrum of society, etc. there was a bit of less than obvious discussion around how some “hacks” become entrenched into the law, how common law interacts with these “hacks” and a generally slow/ossified capability of our governmental/legal systems to address the use of said hacks....
links, etc A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine the actual paper - note that as of today (Mon Jan 22 2024) this is a pre-print. (it’s a short read.) this came to me via a mailing list that i’m on that has, in my opinion, a decidedly curmudgeonly orientation to its membership. so i feel a real need to look at links from this source with a more adversarial bent....
links, etc Michael Cohen gave his lawyer fake citations invented by Google Bard AI tool | Ars Technica and so it begins. for the handful of things where i’ve used “AI”, it’s saved me a little bit time, but you still need to crawl up the ass of the output and make sure that you’re solid. AI done right still requires that we have some form of work/validation ethic to ensure that the outputs are actually useful....
links, etc [2311.07590] Technical Report: Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure this is the most interesting (and likely disturbing) thing that i’ve read re: AI in the past couple of months.