Recent content by Copernicus

Their chatbots are definitely not conscious, but I think one could say that Anthropic is very conscious of how precarious their future profitability is. I think that the Chinese are pulling ahead of the US precisely because their investments in technology have had to depend on less expensive...

I've had some really amusing experiences with CoPilot when I've asked it to identify buildings and works of art that I've taken pictures of on recent trips. Usually, it correctly identifies them , but there are times when it gets the identity and location completely wrong. For example, it will...

When I programmed, I often relied on open source libraries of code to model components of the program I was working on. It is stupid to try to invent everything out of whole cloth. I see nothing wrong with using AI as a more convenient source of such information on how to accomplish certain...

Hyperbole aside, you miss the point that writing vibe coding is not going to replace human coders for complex programming tasks. It is bad enough that these LLM-powered programs are black boxes in terms of how they translate human language into code, but the resulting programs need to be tested...

I think that you are more than a little optimistic to gush over vibe coding, which is a technique for building simple web sites and other software applications quickly via natural language interactions. There are problems with that technique, because there may be built-in security and other...

Joe Biden used to be considered a gaffe machine, but Trump doesn't make gaffes. This is no slip of the tongue, mistake, or blunder. It is just normal mental deterioration in an old man who is continuing to spiral downward.

I prefer "Reflective Intelligence", because LLMs can only reflect back the information content of the textual corpora that they've been trained on. Those materials were created by intelligent people, and the program essentially distills and summarizes what it finds in attempting to construct a...

The problem is that anyone can cherrypick events from history to justify a military invasion of another country. Russia has been in a lot of wars and has spread out to become the largest country in the world in terms of territory. That it feels a need to acquire Ukrainian territory because of...

You talked about giving territory back to Germany that had been repopulated with Poles moved into that area from former areas of eastern Poland by Stalin. Shifting borders to historical borders would be moronic and incredibly disruptive to the current residents of those areas. Nobody wants...

That would be idiotic. The chaos of trying to reverse what Stalin did would be unworkable, not to mention just as cruel. Stalin routinely moved populations around in territories under his domination, not caring a whit about the suffering that millions suffered under his brutal regime. Another...

And it was wrong to have done that. Poles who persecuted the German-speaking residents of that area were also in the wrong. False. Stalin engaged in blatant ethnic cleansing. He implemented his own brand of "Lebansraum", uprooting and deporting millions of people from their homelands to...

Historical rubbish but no surprise, considering the source. Czechoslovakia was carved up because Western Europe signed it away to Adolf Hitler. Chamberlain waved a little paper around and made a big fuss about selling Czechoslovakia out. It was only after Hitler invaded the free city of...

Nicely put. I just spent a couple of weeks in Poland on vacation and to participate in a university conference. Before leaving two days ago, my wife and I spent the day in the huge Museum of the Second World War (aka Westerplatte Museum). Hitler started the World War by attacking the free...

I'll convey your view to the retired Marine Corps two star general who told me that a few days ago. Perhaps he neglected to consult social media experts such as yourself. He said that we have failed to meet any of the strategic objectives that the military had established for this war and that...

The majority of US bases in the area have been destroyed by Iranian attacks. The troops that manned those bases have been pushed back and dispersed. The US no longer has the means to defend Gulf states from attacks by drones and missiles. Naval forces have also been repositioned outside of...