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I have tested Lexis AI once for a legal research point. I wasn't particularly keen on putting the exact details of an actual problem in, but I gave it a summary version. It didn't …

Just because the citation exists, what the LLM says it stands for and what it actually stands for are not the same. For testing, I've asked (admittedly last-gen) LLMs to generate l…

It’s almost as if all the guardrails aren’t real.

The answer is: the market will work it out eventually. Clients will push for more work to be fixed-fee/outcome-based rather than billed hourly. There'll be some small firms who'll …

> That's why the EA guys are off beng quants. Or in prison for fraud.

Yes, that's the general rule. You then get lots of interesting exceptions and difficulties in applying that rule: who pays when you have multiple potential defendants (but some of …

If my goal is not seeing AI slop, I don't particularly care whether it is honestly labelled or not.

The difference is OneDrive is moderately useful.

> I think we must make it clear that this is not related to AI at all There are clear AI-specific reasons why it's being crammed down everybody's necks. Namely: someone in manageme…

Keeping the lights on is fine. But if they remove a feature I rely on, I can't put it back. If they add a feature I hate, I can't remove it. If they jack the price up, I have no re…

> you'll slowly get dependent on things that will eventually break in ways you will have no capacity to fix If the commercial provider charging you $10 a month breaks it, you also …

Same in the UK. Votes close at 10pm. Might be a few stragglers left in the queue, so call it 10:15pm. (Exit poll results are embargoed until 10pm.) Ballot boxes are transferred fro…

The actual data is being held by GPs, hospitals, other secondary care providers, and pharmacies. Enough of those providers use systems that all conform to a bunch of common standar…

The metaverse is clearly the future. Zuckerberg said so, after all. Browsers without metaverse integration will be a non-starter.

The metaverse is here to stay! Blockchain is the future! Without integrating metaverse and blockchain features into Firefox, Mozilla is at a significant disadvantage compared to ot…

Mozilla shouldn't need to worry about adoption numbers though.

They could even make the AI features available as extensions, downloadable from addons.mozilla.org That way, the users who want them can download them, and the users who don't, don…

> the numbers speak for themselves What numbers? Have Mozilla published any numbers showing their AI experiments have been warmly received by users?

When I'm unconscious in an ambulance, I'm definitely in a position to appreciate all that price transparency the free market has provided, so I can rationally weigh up all my optio…

Yes, but there would have to be an error of law in the High Court judgment. (And you'd usually appeal to the Court of Appeal first.)

[citation needed] because that’s not how the OSA works.

The reason people (myself included) rather like good Git commit messages is evident when one compares them to the alternative. You're working in a commercial/closed source environm…

In addition to the RSPCA example, banks/financial institutions bring a fair number of complex fraud prosecutions because it is in their financial interest to prosecute people who'v…

pex is a build tool built on the top of the zip trick. A pex file doesn't contain a bundled interpreter, but it zips up the entire virtualenv. Also no Windows support. https://pex.…