@futurebird We can't rule out conceptual embodiment. Has Cricket recently participated in any expeditions to The Void?

@mushu I wonder if anyone has made something that intentionally looks interesting to corporations that might be looking to steal code and ignore its license and added a .vscode/tasks.json that plays a really loud fart sound when executed

@futurebird if this continues, Zohran might throw people onto roofs

@futurebird This is what experts call "the reverse Urinetown"

@futurebird @david_chisnall In my (very limited) experience, all that resulted in is pseudocode with // before each line

@futurebird @david_chisnall I use math that I wasn't taught at all in school like matrix multiplication all the time, but I have never once in my adult life used the two digit times table I was forced to memorize. I can just type any multiplication I want into a random box on the computer I sit in front of all day and odds are it'll give me the answer.

The non-memorization-based stuff I did learn in school like trig does come in handy but all the memorization is entirely useless.

I did take a few classes in high school that were called "computer science" but were actually just very basic introductions to Java programming. (After I had already been self-taught programming for a few years at that point.) They had the calculus teacher who was smart but didn't really know how to program teaching them, and I distinctly remember him and the kid who sat next to me not being able to figure out why that kid's code wouldn't compile and it was something like

if (x == 1) && (y == 2)

Anyway the reason that people need to learn stuff that AI "can do" is that "AI" can't actually do those things. It can make stuff that's in the shape of whatever, but it's not actually comprehending the text it's writing or knowing what the apple it's drawing a still life of is or intentionally writing the code that you asked it to write.

It's just copying stuff the company that made it stole from the internet. If nobody was publicly making art or writing or programming, the company would have nothing to steal and plagiarize. (Although that's definitely not a reason why people should make art.)

Generative AI is a very impressively space efficient lossy compression algorithm for a database of numbers and nothing more.