> Computer programming is, fundamentally, about two things:
1. Problem-solving using computers
2. Learning to control complexity while solving these problems
Pretty sure your forgetting more than half of computing…
… 3. The modeling of external systems into code.
Modeling isn't solving a problem, it’s representing an external systems with a degree of fidelity. That’s different from solving a problem through transformation, albeit far harder to teach.
When I was a child, schools didn’t need to communicate on a daily, weekly (or even monthly) basis with parents. How times change. Heck, we went for a whole school day without having to talk to Mummy or Daddy. So this agent is technology to help the mess enabled by technology?
When you were a child you didn’t care (or weren’t aware) about your school’s communication with your parents. Can’t say that is surprising to me, you were a child.
Any thoughts on the subject as a parent with a child in school in the modern day? Or were you just eager to throw out a “back in my day”?
From hearsay, I hear that prestigious private schools tend to communicate very frequently, which manufactures value and evidence that the school has rich experiences for the students. And there may be a mutual expectation for parents to be "involved" in it, contrasted with families that require schools to serve as a childcare.
Referring to public schools as childcare is some elitist nonsense. Public education in United States has been destroyed by decades of attacks on it by politicians, sure. But referring to it as childcare is not productive. If education literally is serving that role, the responsibilities should be split because it would dilute the education experience.
It's sort of confusing though because all schools for children are by definition childcare, and you try to diminish the public variant.
> Without alignment, further improvements in capability turn LLMs into wanton felony generators
Isn’t “full” alignment and guardrails a task that can never be generally achieved? One will always discover and realize the need for new guidelines and guardrails? What about vague, incomplete, inconsistent nuances and generalizations - that make this a losing battle?
I suggest ultimate safeguards need to be outside the models?
- … rolled out … despite internal concerns that the technology mismanages its access to sensitive personal data
- The product will be available only in the U.S.initially
- A basic version of the agent will be available for free, while Meta will offer subscriptions priced at $20 a month and $100 a month for heavier usage
- People can opt out of their interactions being used to train Meta's AI models.
- Others flagged serious security flaws, like an agent routing around guardrails …
On reading the title, the first thing that came to mind was “a good book”.
Albeit, that I view many of the things in the list as “ideals” or “values”, rather than “luxuries”. The greatest thing one can aspire to in terms of an ideal, is to have “peace of mind” in my opinion.
Pretty sure your forgetting more than half of computing…
… 3. The modeling of external systems into code.
Modeling isn't solving a problem, it’s representing an external systems with a degree of fidelity. That’s different from solving a problem through transformation, albeit far harder to teach.
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