Confession: Every time I see someone write "NoICE" I flash back to the late twenty-naughts and wonder what they're laying the superlative on...
Confession Every time I see someone Dan Lyke / comment 0
Confession: Every time I see someone write "NoICE" I flash back to the late twenty-naughts and wonder what they're laying the superlative on...
CEQA fix needs fix Dan Lyke / comment 0
CEQA has problems, but the problems aren't "oh, no worries if this facility dumps heavy metals", it's about models for traffic and neighborhood impacts and stuff like that. Grrrr.
Just flat out spanked by the Happy Meal Dan Lyke / comment 0
Just flat out spanked by the Happy Meal in today's Timdle...
careful what you tell those models Dan Lyke / comment 1
Honestly, this makes sense: Programmers who proclaim themselves expert are generally crappy programmers, so if you tell an LLM that it's supposed to be an expert programmer, of course it's gonna generate worse code. The Register: Telling an AI model that it’s an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer
In a pre-print paper titled "Expert Personas Improve LLM Alignment but Damage Accuracy: Bootstrapping Intent-Based Persona Routing with PRISM," researchers affiliated with the University of Southern California (USC) find that persona-based prompting is task-dependent – which they say explains the mixed results.
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Courts are getting more serious about AI Dan Lyke / comment 0
Oregon attorney slapped with record fine after citing case law hallucinated by AI
The Oregon Court of Appeals issued a $10,000 fine to Bill Ghiorso, a Salem-based civil attorney, after determining he signed his name to a legal brief containing 15 bogus citations and nine quotes “that had been contrived from thin air.”
The article mentions a previous slap on the wrist ($2k) against Portland civil attorney Gabriel A. Watson.
one thing that AI is making painfully Dan Lyke / comment 0
The one thing that "AI" is making painfully clear is just how many places people could leave the "Lorem Ipsum" placeholder text in place and not lose any functionality from their company web pages.