Recent content by Copernicus

I'm not sure what you mean by the expression "represent Russians". What I said is that they are no more backward than anyone else, in my experience. What does it really mean to call an entire people "backward"? Generally speaking, they aren't much different from Americans, but social...

No, my aging brain just wanted them to be older than me instead of younger than me. :ROFLMAO: Too bad they don't allow people enough time to go back and edit previous mistakes and typos here.

Russians are no more backward than anyone else. I know many who are extremely well-educated and not fans of Vladimir Putin or the invasion of Ukraine. I think that the new LLM technology has made tremendous leaps in providing an opportunity for people who do not speak each other's languages to...

Trump is not going to leave office voluntarily, and the new Congress is not likely to be able to dislodge him. JD Vance was never onboard with the Iran war, and he has lately been blaming the war for the blue wave. The blue wave would have happened without the war, but that certainly made it...

He doesn't need to. Anyone can translate English into Russian and vice versa these days with Google Translate. Steve could post the Russian translation alongside the English, although I would advise him to use the AI to spell check his English before translating to Russian.

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...