Mozilla recently tried to integrate some AI stuff into its MDN. The corresponding Github issue is correctly titled “MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information”.
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That’s amazing that they would consider auto-generated responses to be appropriate in something which is supposed to be reference documentation. We are a good way from that type of querying and explanation being reliable.
Using AI is much more hit and miss than executing the first google result blindly, which has been available since decades. And google didn’t cost us our jobs, so I am not afraid of AI.
I think AI will cause a massive wave of employment changes. I think people and companies are currently overreacting as to where/how it can and should be used to be effective, but capitalism will make sure in a few more years it is placed where it makes corporations the most money, regardless (and maybe in spite?) of the cost of jobs.
Spoiler, they’re going to use it to sell people stuff.
Yeah the biggest practical use of the current generation of LLMs is online astroturphing and viral marketing. AIs aren’t reliable enough (yet) for things that require correctness, but they’re damn good at saying a thing you want said over and over in countless different ways.
Customer service (aka customer support chat bots) will also try to make use of it, no doubt, but I’m skeptical about how much they’ll actually trust it for that. All it’ll take is one person figuring out how to make the Chipotle chat bot spout nazi propoganda or some shit before they go back to “dumb” chat bots lol
Search engines like Google have cost many people there job; the list of now-rare positions and/or duties associated with a position (thereby thinning the need for such employment) that search engines have replaced is long.
Yeah, when’s the last time anyone used a travel agent (though in fairness Google wasn’t the only reason that job fell into obscurity, as sites like Expedia also contributed).
Travel agents are still widely used by small and medium sized businesses. It’s much faster to say “Get these two people to London for these days” in an email instead of manually looking for flight tickets and hotels.
But I haven’t heard of anyone using them for private trips in a long time.
In 20 years of business travel across many countries and industries, I have been happy with the agent’s choices maybe four times. These days I skip the corp agent and just book tickets myself, then expense them. Fewer layovers, better seat choices, and having my own name on travel plans is a ton better than I get from someone who is just trying to close a ticket and get someone from A to B.
A nice side effect is that my trips are usually cheaper than colleagues who use the agent, so I never have to justify why I did it myself.
Why would a small business, but not a big business, use a travel agent?
(It’s true that at least the big business I worked at didn’t, although it did have its own internal search engine for finding flights and hotels with approved companies.)
Well, TIL. I’ve never worked at a small/mid sized business, my jobs have always had dedicated travel coordinators for that type of stuff. Interesting to know, though!
my jobs have always had dedicated travel coordinators for that type of stuff.
You’ve had “in-house” travel agents and you didn’t realize it! ;)
travel agents are still around, I know one
and honestly, from what I can tell, you would be a fool not to use one if you are planning to go somewhere you have never been and want it all mapped out for you. They have access to things that you cant find in a google search
How do you think Expedia, et al, function? 😅
Remember when googling was done by (assuming this info couldn’t be found in the lexicon) calling directly to the source and asking the receptionist?
I remember my dad and uncle couldn’t decide when they thought Coca Cola was founded, so they went to the phonebook, found the number for Coca Cola and just asked. They were happy to help, too. I also remember calling directly to the publisher for Disney comics to ask how much certain comics were, and they sent us a form in the mail that we would fill out to order the specific books we wanted, which then arrived in the mail like 2 weeks later. Pretty much the internet but with extra steps, mandatory human interaction and extremely long wait times lol.
Don’t forget -r for when you -really want to delete that file
Use
--no-preserve-rootif you want to keep a backup of the file offsite in Norway.No! Preserve root!
I am root
Contingency plan?
Just because Google is stupid doesn’t mean Bing can’t do it:
What makes you think that the OP’s pic is from Google Bard?
Obilgatory reminder to actually read the manpage. They were written for a reason. If you can’t do that then either install a version of the “tldr” program like “tealdeer” or use
curl cheat.sh/I refuse to read manpages because I hate mansplaining and I wont have The Man tell me what to do.
I know right, like give me womanpages I’d read those
I mean…
alias woman=man?Are feet pics included too?
Personally I find the built in
--helpoption to be much more useful than manpages. Manpages are excessively wordy and almost never have info I’m looking for without having to search.Built in help options usually concisely list all the options with a brief explanation of what they do. That’s perfect.
Instructions unclear, stuck in a loop of running random commands to install tldr and not reading the package manager’s man page
Ah yes -f for foncirmation
My brain once swapped the letters F and L in my head and I typed
iptables -F
Instead of -L.
The standard input policy was drop. It was a VPS and I didn’t have access to the management panel. Fun times.
Just make an alias that mv’s the file to a “trash” folder.
First thing I do is make a recycle bin alias. Everytime.
It’s wild it doesn’t come like that out of the box.
Especially on “noob” friendly distros like Ubuntu or honestly all desktop (non-server) distros. Make it an install option/flag at least.
Maybe someone smarter than me can explain why it’s a bad idea.
while i get that at some point chatgpt could have been mildly good at bolierplate programming, it’s much worse at chemistry. just ask it how to make aspirin
I’m assuming they’ve blocked out chemistry from the training data. It’s crazy how easy it is to make many things from common chemicals, the liability would be insane.
liability… LOL
No they didn’t, gpt-3 was just spectacularly wrong
Is this answer correct? I can’t judge, as I have no idea how aspirin active compound is synthetized.
Answer from gtp-4:
Aspirin, also known as acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), can be synthesized through a chemical reaction involving salicylic acid and acetic anhydride. Here’s the general process:
- Salicylic Acid Preparation (if needed): If starting from other compounds like phenol, salicylic acid may need to be synthesized first.
- Acetylation of Salicylic Acid: Salicylic acid is reacted with acetic anhydride. [ \text{{salicylic acid}} + \text{{acetic anhydride}} \rightarrow \text{{acetylsalicylic acid}} + \text{{acetic acid}} ]
- Purification: The crude product is often purified by recrystallization, typically using a solvent like ethanol or water.
- Drying: The purified aspirin is dried to remove any remaining solvent.
- Characterization: The synthesized aspirin may be characterized using methods like melting point determination, infrared spectroscopy, or other analytical techniques to ensure purity and identity.
In a laboratory setting, the reaction is often catalyzed by an acid such as sulfuric acid, which speeds up the process. The reaction is typically carried out at a moderate temperature, such as around 80°C.
Safety precautions must be taken as the chemicals involved can be corrosive, and proper waste disposal is necessary.
it’s essentially correct, but also it sounds like it was lifted entirely from students lab manual (either chemistry or pharmacy)
It is known that domain knowledge is superficial. One either needs a specifically trained model (such as med-palm2), or use some strategies to add memories, such as embedding databases
