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Buffout

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    Comment #34624513

    This "kid level" argument fooled even Albert Einstein, Roosevelt, and many others. into developing atomic bomb. "If we don't build it Nazis will" Using it was achieved by different…

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    Comment #34624101

    Scientist have moral responsibility not to build weapons of mass destruction for example. Too bad even Einstein couldn't keep with your advice. Scientists are sometimes not so smar…

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    Comment #34566841

    "Hey, maybe I can use it for starting 10 remote jobs", said software engineer.

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    Comment #34566339

    - some guy uses ChatGPT to generate food recipe, doesn't check it. He poison himself. - some guy uses ChatGPT to generate electronic circuit, doesn't check it. He electrocute himse…

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    Comment #34557004

    So, what prevents chatGPT to use detection tool and fine-tune its response accordingly?

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    Comment #34553921

    > I have more success writing reusable libraries that do very, very fundamental stuff Same here. Things like logical and mathematical operators. Memory access and stuff.

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    Comment #34552436

    Never said it is easy to build simple reusable code. Code itself must be simple but process behind devising it may not be. If the code is not simple it is more prone to error.

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    Comment #34551872

    "generalized" means the most simple code you can come up with. This simple code is then used thousands times from very different programs, and it never changes.

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    Comment #34546212

    Is this such a big problem? Everybody must verify data anyway. Otherwise bad things may happen. Like evil ai apocalypse that scientist have warned us about.

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    Comment #34539620

    Researcher in article discovered that oven pings google , yandex and baidu to check if internet is present. I think who ever coded oven firmware was fair because oven connectivity …

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    Comment #34530626

    How will they contact us? We need Galactical mailbox. And you don't know how to build one unless you already have one.

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    Comment #34529900

    BonziBuddy was spyware.

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    Comment #34524984

    I have few apps that I Am the Only User, never shared them. And the apps that I have shared, I never use them. You should probably do opposite.

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    Comment #34523164

    Interesting , article is about blog post, About how AI can be used to write Polymorphic malware. (writen also by AI). What are they trying to prove?

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    Comment #34441379

    That's the easy part. Checksum algorithms are public knowledge.

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    Comment #34439254

    I mean how can Facebook check government ID if it is legit? ( not how to photoshop ID. )