Well, that AI mouse pointer idea is one of the most horrifying things I've seen in quite awhile. Hard pass, do not want, do not trust anyone involved.

I always thought it would be low-grade hilarious to record a fairly long video of the unboxing and assembly of a ridiculously elaborate in-case LED setup, only to reveal with a straight face and at the absolute last minute that the case in question is entirely opaque.

I've run into a few restaurant sites whose ordering pages just do not work properly (or at all) in Firefox. Also webgl2 performance is unfortunately still much better in Chrome vs Firefox; as an example, FoundryVTT (virtual tabletop software) works fine in Firefox but is a stuttery mess IME (though it has improved slightly in the last few years).

> I wonder how long these sorts of games will play before the law applies itself.

Perhaps roughly as long as the law turns a blind eye to AI corps flagrantly violating the attribution requirements of software licenses that apply to their training data, as well as basically ignoring other copyright requirements at scale. Fair use, my eye.

> Now my company...

Which company is that? Do let us know so I can make sure to never be your customer.

> As will everyone

Nope. Not for me, not ever.

"Man, you guys really need to get inside sometimes and touch Linoleum..."

I find it surprising how many non-technical friends and family constantly anthropomorphize LLMs, regularly bringing up instances where they "asked AI" about this or that and it "told them" whatever. I'm tired of trying to explain that they are merely statistical sequence generators, don't have a mind, are occasionally completely out to lunch, and ultimately cannot be trusted. This is usually a losing battle. The sheer bullshit that "AI tells them" is often astonishing or ridiculous, but a lot of the time it's given undue weight and trusted anyway. The future is bleak.

I agree. There's also something to be said in it being another level of abstraction, only linguistic instead of technical, but failing to understand that they are "random" is a recipe for disaster.

And probably a lot of uncool sci-fi like stuff, e.g. The Machine Stops.

Sci-fi often seems a bit downbeat. I guess everything goes quite well doesn't make for a good story.

I don't understand why anyone would want to work for a firm that will not allow their employees to do their entire job properly, but will instead insist that they delegate a large portion of it via natural language of all things to some stochastic parrot from hell and hope after enough iterations of this that it will all somehow turn out okay. This sounds like a complete nightmare! To be frank, this entire situation is absurd and honestly sours me on the entire field.

Even just using them for prototyping is a big gain. While they do have monetary cost to run, they massively reduce the time cost of experimenting.

They can also waste a lot of time if you end up over-reliant on them, but that's where experience with LLMs comes in. The nature of them means it's not an exact science, but you get a feel for how to best apply them.