My guess was not wanting to be accused of underhanded marketing/promotion.

Interesting analogy. Basically, yeah - you’ve got to tailor how you speak to the specific topic, participants, and goals you have for what you’re trying to convey. There’s no overriding universal truth, and adaptability certainly makes for a good communicator.

Paragraphs help. Please, for the sanity of your readers use paragraphs (appropriately).

I’m still waiting for the follow-up to Rocket Ranger.

There’s some fine nuance to finding that balance, though. If the word I want to use is less well-known, but better fits what I’m trying to say (or is significantly shorter than “going the long way around”), then I’m more likely to use it. I think most everybody should strive to communicate as clearly as possible, and that may entail learning the occasional new word. Intentionally “talking down” can be insulting, as well as a step towards Idiocracy if we all start doing it together.

I get that it’s appropriate in certain situations, or for certain audiences, but I try to stretch my brain to keep it learning (and therefore more sharp), and I hope most others strive to better their communication skills as well. IMHO it’s necessary both to succeed, and to evolve.

I’d rather be who I am than let all this bullshit force me to play dumb. I earned my ability to speak (somewhat) intelligently, and I’m not going to let the AI bros discredit that effort. I, for one, refuse to contribute to the Idiocracy outcome the control freaks want.

This close to election time, they’re probably putting on a show — all charges will be quietly dropped after the first week of November.

<shocked Pikachu face>

For an hour, maybe two - then it’s off to the next spot to embed my scent in. At least, that’s how my cat does it

I guess it’s good if your vehicle goes up in flames after being hit by a tanker or something. Grabbing my dashcam’s SD card might not occur to me on the way out of escaping my burning vehicle.

Momma’s cheesy macaroni.

“(Arrogance and) Pride goeth before a fall.”

As I said, do as you wish. Don’t say you haven’t been warned. Adios.

As they say, “it’s your funeral, do what you want.” Sooner or later you will wind up trusting it a bit too much, and it will bite you. Also bear in mind who’s behind those “AIs” - control freak tech magnates who can and will abuse their power over them to manipulate the masses.

Oh, okay - on your absolutely minimalist say-so the world will stop using LLMs.

🙄

If you’re going to make an assertion, at least try to back it up with an explanation or example if you want to be taken seriously. Otherwise you’re just wasting everybody’s time - including yours (and potentially diminishing your reputation).

In the meantime, I’ll just point out there’s a reason I said to validate what it’s telling you.

LLMs (“AI” is quite the misnomer, IMHO) can be useful when its source material is well vetted, or at least made up of mostly reliable input. In the rush to dominate the market, “AI” purveyors have been far less judicious in what they provided as input to their LLMs, and in the end shot themselves in the foot by doing so. Validate what it’s telling you against actual sources, and it can indeed be helpful.

ETA: Also check for information it leaves out as you’re doing that validation - especially when it involves server administration, because missing details can be quite fatal to your server security.

I dunno. Microsoft seems to suddenly be concerned enough about their declining user base to start doing things users actually want.

Showing my age here, but I feel it’s likely to be a corporate analogue to the movie Highlander - they gain power by chopping each other’s heads off (I’ll leave which one to the imagination), progressively shrinking the number of immortals with the tagline of “there can be only one” being the goal.

That is indeed the very definition of the term, yes.

Hell, even before AI there were signs. Half the mechanics in our shop can’t diagnose shit unless there’s an error code shown when they plug in the computer.

The issue is making it accessible for people new to it to be able to find.

That last bit is something I think for once I’m glad not to know about.