The article says “starting with mid-level staff” and they clearly don’t know how to do things. If they mean White House literally, low-level staff are probably the only people who do know how to do things right now. I doubt the kitchen workers, cleaning staff, tour guides, etc. are even people to Trump. Even the chef/kitchen staff just probably has to handle state dinners and other events but most days, just make a McDonald’s run or burn a steak.
That makes sense. Like you, I’ve generally found that LLMs are incredibly useful for certain, highly specific things but people (CEOs especially) need to understand their limitations.
When it first came out, I purposely used ChatGPT on a trip to evaluate it. I was in a historic city on a business trip where I stayed an extra few days so I was traveling alone. It was good at being a tour guide. Obviously, I could have researched everything and read guidebooks but I was focused on my work stuff. Being able to ask follow-up questions and have a conversation was a real improvement over traditional search.
That’s obviously a limited use case where I was asking questions that could have been answered in traditional ways but I found that to be a good consumer use case. It knew details that wouldn’t necessarily be in a Wikipedia article or Guidebook that would take me 15 Google searches to answer. Just my own little curiosity questions about an old building or whatever. I cross-checked things later and it didn’t hallucinate. Obviously, a very limited use case but it was good at it.
What the fuck is SpaceX using a large language model for?
Please don’t tell me Drudge Report is still influential in 2025. It’s like finding out how many people’s number one source of news is My Yahoo or some shit. It’s bad for morale.
I fix my elderly relatives’ computers. I know the horrors that lie within. I don’t need to be reminded.
I suspect it’s more likely that Meta won’t exist in any recognizable way in 2035 than anyone makes a huge profit on A.I. in the next decade. There will be advancements, to be sure, and compute will (hopefully) get cheaper and more efficient but 2035 seems like an Elon-Musk-level optimistic timeline.
I’m sort of agnostic on A.I. I don’t like it for much now but certainly see its potential. But look how long it took for The Internet to be universally adopted. And that’s assuming researchers even can solve the really hard last 20% of problems.
But someone smarter than me once put it better:
And consenting heterosexuals in the U.S. Blow jobs are also considered sodomy, even amongst consenting adults.
“Sodomy is defined as any sexual act involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another.”
Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/sodomy
The Supreme Court (finally) struck down the remaining anti-sodomy laws in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas but most states had either repealed their laws or had their law struck down by their state’s Supreme Court. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_States
No. Accounting for it all is actual journalism. Pretending they’re trying to save money when they’re openly trying to replace professionals with loyalists is journalistic malpractice.
DOGE was never about cutting spending and I hate when the media frames it that way. I don’t know what they teach in journalism school but pretending to not know what time it is has to be a required course. It’s like when they use “free speech absolutist” (even ironically) to describe Elon Musk. He was never that and if you believed it and are disappointed, I hope you were just not paying attention. Motherfucker was being sued for discrimination and promising flight attendants horses to get his dick sucked and people act like he betrayed his formerly-held values.
It’s easy to be cynical. I do it all the time. But an autocrat with 20% approval is much, much different than one with 80% approval.
If nothing else, protests and direct action made Elon Musk sad and that’s a side quest complete.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_Off_protests
I disagree that there’s no one doing anything. The largest protest in US history happened. And two motherfuckers tried to get him got. I obviously don’t endorse violence but it’s an action.
And we all thought inhuman lizard people were fake. Jokes on us, I guess.
Well that’s embarrassing considering how many of their shows I’ve seen (4). I’ll fix it. Thanks for correcting me.
Edit: I made a joke about the free radicals being a good band name if it wasn’t taken but I was thinking of Anderson Paak and the Free Nationals.
We at this account regret the error and everyone involved has been catapulted as punishment for the faux pas. May we have the strength, fortitude, and cunning to make it back to shore.
Why? Did he commit high crimes and misdemeanors or something?
I don’t know. I live in New Orleans and they had a Red Lobster in the suburbs and someone is trying to put Chick Fil’A restaurants all over town. (The someone is literally a guy who got rich via owning a garbage truck company.)
Tourists like shitty fast food sometimes. I don’t know why people get the worst fried chicken in the city but people do. Some toddlers throw a fit if their dinner isn’t chicken nuggets.
The United States in the mid 1800’s is famously known as a place and time of peace and harmony where gentlemen-scholars voted in free and fair elections.
Oh good. Germany is rearming.
How the turntables have turned π radians. Maybe. We’ll see.
“Itamar Ben-Gvir supporters” are literally called terrorist sympathizers, at best. An Israeli court convicted him of terrorism related offenses. It’s not even controversial. It’s like saying El Chapo wasn’t in a cartel or that Trump never gave $3 hand jobs in an alleyway near the Sbarro in midtown NYC that now sits on West 33rd St.
I didn’t think they should use A.I. yet at all. I don’t think the shitty version of machine learning of today is ready for engineering giant explosive things. As someone else pointed out, document management for regulatory filings and stuff is (hopefully) the use case. I don’t care if it’s used in that way.
Basically, I think today’s “A.I.” should be treated as alpha software. It has a ton of potential but there is a lot left to do, especially on things involving human or even critter life like rocket science, self-driving cars, or military applications where “edge cases” are life or death situations. (I don’t think it should be used for military applications until it’s really fucking mature tech but it’s already apparently being used for that so the cat’s out the bag there.)