I'm disappointed that my (Ccanada) goverment is taking this tack. Kind of wierd to think that some piss-ant broadcasters and publishers could out-lobby Google and Facebook... but here we are.

Not likely clickbait, but everybody and their dog are trying to write articles on AI right now, and many are shite, or at best premature.

Yeah, I'm not paying to read that Atlantic article. But if anyone has trouble ponying up $20 a month (... giving up one latte a week, basically) for GPT-4, to be on the bleeding-edge of this new technology... you must not be very curious, or not in tech.

Anyway, even the free version is a revelation.

Do I think that I, as a member of the great unwashed, am somehow owed cos GPT scraped up information that's already been publicly available? Fuck no. ChatGPT already is a huge value-add for its ability to take common language queries, and its speed, and precision of the results.

We don't even understand it, but yeah, lets smother this baby in the crib. Sure.

I'll take your word for it, but I still think there should be a better middle-ground where good authors get a fair deal and a decent push from publishers.

I like ebooks; I'm only saying that their introduction has helped publishers more than authors.

I particularly like how you can click on a word and get the definition. I particularly dislike how you pay almost as much as a paper book but it cant be handed on when you're done.

Retail E-books have been a win for publishers, and flat or a loss for authors. And us readers.

The article was a good summary. It also bolstered my belief that most of us here now won't live to see fusion at scale. I very much suspect that at some point in the near future, simpler renewable power generation plus storage solutions (batteries, kinetic, hydrogen etc) may become so inexpensive that the high startup cost of fusion will seem uneconomic, and fusion will go back on the shelf til we get around to interplanetary travel.

If you create (write , draw, design) for a living - particularly advertising, corporate communications, fluff for blogs & youtube, and you're a grunt, not the creative director... AI is gonna eat your lunch. The advertising companies are already wetting themselves with glee over AI.

AI is also surprisingly competent at programming. Alot of programming is Tinkertoys now: grab an input library here, a little glue logic, data-processing from another library, push to the cloud storage, repeat. An AI can cruise the libraries, whip up a demo, validate the code and unit-test it, all in seconds. Then it pushes this to the human for some business rules added, back to the AIs for QA and end-to-end testing. Any process that can be encapsulated in a library function is now available to a programming AI. I'm sort of glad I left that field a few years ago.

An SMR has also been approved for Ontario Canada as well.

That seems to fly in the face of fair use, which says something like you can quote (small excerpts, not a whole article) from another source and/or link as long as you provide attribution. A link is itself attribution, no?