I'm not bashing, but just want to remind about the alt attribute on images. The BA messaging wifi is an example of a use cases where images might not work as pointed out in the article and an alternative description would be needed. But the article itself is using images with alt text.
Yeah it's the same for having just one accent "German". Swiss, Austrians but also north vs middle vs south Germans do still sound different - even when they talk English.
Yeah in that regard we should always treat it like a junior something. Very much like you can't expect your own kids to never do something dangerous even if tell it for years to be careful. I got used to getting my kid from the Kindergarten with a new injury at least once a month.
I think it's very dangerous to use the term "junior" here because it implies growth potential, where in fact it's the opposite: you are using a finished product, it won't get any better. AI is an intern, not a junior. All the effort you're spending into correcting it will leave the company, either as soon as you close your browser or whenever the manufacturer releases next year's model -- and that model will be better regardless of how much time you waste on training this year's intern, so why even bother? Thinking of AI as a junior coworker is probably the least productive way of looking at it.
We should move well beyond human analogies.
I have never met a human that would straight up lie about something, or build up so much deceptive tests that it might as well be lying.
Granted this is not super common in these tools, but it is essentially unheard of in junior devs.
> I have never met a human that would straight up lie about something
This doesn't match my experience. Consider high profile things like the VW emissions scandal, where the control system was intentionally programmed to only engage during the emissions test. Dictators. People are prone to lie when it's in their self interest, especially for self preservation. We have entire structures of government, courts, that try to resolve fact in the face of lying.
If we consider true-but-misleading, then politics, marketing, etc. come sharply into view.
I think the challenge is that we don't know when an LLM will generate untrue output, but we expect people to lie in certain circumstances. LLMs don't have clear self-interests, or self awareness to lie with intent. It's just useful noise.
There is an enormous amount of difference between planned deception as part of a product, and undermining your own product with deceptive reporting about its quality. The difference is collaboration and alignment. You might have evil goals, but if your developers are maliciously incompetent, no goal will be accomplished.
Yeah I've also build a Phoniebox a couple of years ago for my kid. It has physical buttons, RFID cards or chips (some hidden in plush toys) and works very much like tonies, but with much easier access to anything you want to put on it. It's all in a wooden box including speakers. I've later extended it with a powerbank.
The article might have some points, but there is also a lot of complaining just for the sake of it.
- One the homescreen seeing the search as a clear button is useful for most users. The swipe down is just not easy to find and remember. The dots shown when swiping through homescreens is actually much clearer if you don't have so many pages.
- Same goes for the pull down search bar. It took me a long time to remember that. And then in the system settings it always took me some time to find it again. That it's the same gesture as reload in other apps made it even more confusing. Now it's right where you thumb is.
- The pulsating buttons - I haven't even seen them. And I switch during the public beta phase. Normally buttons get hidden by your thumb when you press them.
- And then yeah a lot of things look different now. We had that before when we switch to the previous design language and people were just complaining as much.
But of course that's only for things with positive outcomes. If it's negative Alice would start saying "we" and "I" and then come up with a solution that can again give Bob credit because of the positive outcome in fixing something.
I guess the personal vehicle is fine as long as you don't drive in traffic. Maybe you try cycling on your typical route to work to be more immersed in the traffic and all the stress it causes.
All of the presidents are elected. The bodies electing them are always part of a democratic process. Just because it's indirect doesn't make it less democratic. the president of the commission is even covered twice at it gets nominated by the council and the elected by the parliament. The parliament we voted for, the council are the head of states who might also not come from a direct democratic process.
