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FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by nitwit005 »

empthought wrote: post #378
nitwit005 wrote: post #182

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If you imagine it just keeps improving, the end point would be some sort of AGI though. Logically, once you have something better at making software than humans, you can ask it to make a better AI than we were able to make.

I don’t think that follows, nor do I think it will keep improving indefinitely. It will certainly continue to improve for a while. We don’t need anything close to AGI to render the job “software engineer” as we know it today completely obsolete. Ever hear of a lorimer?

If it doesn't follow, why not?

The other possibility is, as you say, progress slows down before its better than humans. But then how is it replacing them? How does a worse horse replace horses?

Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by fragmede »

lstodd wrote: post #352
fragmede wrote: post #319

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Very good point! Different busses are capable of different things. USB is great for that. Windows drivers, especially. Unfortunately laptop hardware is pretty hardwired in, so there's no escaping that there.

I would expect WiFi to be either usb or pci attached, so VM passthrough would work. It also doesn't matter if AI is involved - you save yourself trouble either way.

I was thinking of the laptop that isn't waking up from sleep that I'm trying to get working when I wrote that. Although, hmm...

Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by balder1991 »

alwillis wrote: post #166
slopinthebag wrote: post #70

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Or, and hear me out here, you go to the existing site or app which sells concert tickets, press the purchase button, and then you have your tickets. Like what are we even doing here...

It's more like: - You have to work; you can't stay online all day waiting for the tickets to go on sale - You have your agent watch for when the tickets go on sale - Because the agent has its own wallet, it spends the 6 hours waiting for the tickets to go on sale and buys them for you - Your agent informs you via SMS, iMessage, email, Telegram or whatever messaging platform of your choice Yes agentic wallets are a th…

> it spends the 6 hours waiting for the tickets to go on sale and buys them for you

Or not, because other 7 billion agents were also waiting for it.

Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by balder1991 »

cortesoft wrote: post #200
dollylambda wrote: post #175

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> Because there is other code those experts want to write, and they don't have time to write it all... but what if they could just give a fairly straightforward prompt and have the LLM do it for them? Then pretty soon they wouldn't be the experts anymore?

Maybe? But you could make the same argument that programmers today aren't "experts" at computers because they don't know how to build CPUs. There is no reason to believe you can't gain expertise while still using higher and higher level abstractions. Yes, you will lose some of that low level expertise, but you can still be an expert at the problem set itself.

The way I see it, this is only possible because you can trust the lower layers work reliably and predictably enough that you can move up.

If your operating system was regenerated every day slightly differently and with certain things working and others not, you’d quickly revert to the lower predictable abstraction.

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Post by tasuki »

tehjoker wrote: post #370
tasuki wrote: post #359

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Not really whole. COVID was at best like a quarter pandemic.

How many dead bodies you need to see to even flinch? Millions not enough?

One is enough to make me flinch. But the 7 millions are just a statistic, and a drop in the bucket compared to cancer or cardiovascular disease.

Cancer and heart disease together kill the same number of people as the whole covid pandemic every 10-12 days.

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Post by tasuki »

ztjio wrote: post #364
tasuki wrote: post #359

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Not really whole. COVID was at best like a quarter pandemic.

Stow the propaganda. 1) it's not over, the pandemic continues and will likely continue for a long time 2) it's already the fifth deadliest pandemic in known history. "Quarter pandemic" is an insane thing to think let alone say out loud.

1. It is pretty much over. Covid has become (for me at least) indistinguishable from a common cold.

2. Gemini says covid-19 killed 0.086% of world population (over several years). That's about as mild as it gets. More than sharks, but less than anything that usually kills people, like air polution (estimated about 0.095% yearly), cancer (est 0.12% every damn year) or cardiovascular disease (est 0.25% a year). Peak covid was still killing less than business-as-usual cancer or cardiovascular disease.

As far as pandemics go, the deadliest ones kill double digit percentage of people who contract them. That's two orders of magnitude more than covid. Even the single-digit percentage pandemics must be extremely rough. We were lucky[0].

[0]: Not the ones who died or have lasting consequences, but "we" as humanity, were rather lucky with covid. It could've been something much worse.

Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by tasuki »

nineteen999 wrote: post #365
tasuki wrote: post #359

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Not really whole. COVID was at best like a quarter pandemic.

It depends where you lived. In my city (harshest/longest restrictions in the world), we were not allowed to leave the house for more than 30 minutes a day for 2.5 years unless we were out buying groceries. No large gatherings allowed at our homes. Mask usage enforced everywhere in public. In the city in my country reknowned for having a much higher level of hypochrondria before the pandemic, imagine the mental health…

Ok, sure, but that's a political/social problem, rather than the pandemic.
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