“Wow this seems like a policy designed to work spectacularly well for the class that wrote it and blow up terribly for other people.” More of the first half of that; the second is a side effect. It’s a known side effect, in the literature, but was not considered a blocker.
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Building Exceptional Internet Value Without Shortcuts
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Nobody was bitten by a radioactive spider. Nobody was born into royalty. Nobody married a Kardashian. People just produced outstanding amounts of value on the Internet over a long period of time.
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Aircraft Seat Crushes Phone, Causes Lithium Battery Fire
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See generally: https://
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AI Seat Adjustment System Causes Lithium Battery Fire Risk
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Multiple events where people adjusted a seat to attempt to get at trapped electronics. The seats then applied substantial torque which via mechanical action punctured the seal of a lithium-ion battery, causing rapid combustion. Fire in midair is not wonderful, etc etc.
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Software Complexity: Poor State Machine Design Frustrates Users
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I am, factually, done. They know that I am done. This is as decidable as any problem is in a computer system. But that would be dozens of extra lines of code and so instead they hope the end user is an expert at navigating state machines.
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Email reveals poor product decision-making in AI products
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This email: such a short, eventful minefield of bad product decisionmaking.
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Advanced Math Solves Language Distance and Name Schema Problems
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Extraordinary that sufficiently advanced math manages to cache obscure org charts while also solving distance-in-pronunciation for all words and languages simultaneously while also, no big deal, solving the problem of the human name schema that has bedeviled every program ever.
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AI-Powered Delivery Text Interface with Auto-Translation
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One example among many is the delivery personnel have a text-like interface which includes scripted messages, which are auto-translated into appropriate display language for both sides of the text chain.
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Delivery Apps Bridge Commerce Across Language Barriers
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It is underremarked upon how much the delivery apps build to intermediate commerce between people whose shared slice of a common language is narrow.
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Sophisticated AI Testing: Math Problems Hidden in Prompts
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And if the tester is at all sophisticated Prompt #4 is going to ask you to do a math problem that doesn’t present itself as a math problem, showing all steps of the calculation, with Prompt #5 following less than five seconds later.