After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff

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After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff
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After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff::The popular developer forum is still hunting for a "path to profitability."

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until they figure out how to train AI with AI

That won't work because machine learning doesn't actually understand what it says. It needs real human knowledge underlying it. It can't just learn things on its own out of nowhere.

But maybe if we sacrifice enough ecosystems we could get it to work and then ask it to solve all the climate problems we created to power it...

That sounds exactly like what an AI, that was trained by another AI, would say to assuage our fears of General Artificial Intelligence. Nice try.

US Robotics would like to give you the first robot for free. It's Three Laws safe! We swear!

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That's true for general purpose LLMs, but there are other contexts in which machine learning models acquire knowledge without continuous human input, e.g. AlphaZero.

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