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the included fucking summary of the press release!

What you need to know: Governor Gavin Newsom invites developers to help create Generative AI (GenAI) solutions for some of the most challenging issues facing California and its 39 million residents, including housing and homelessness.

they wrote this bit so you didn’t have to read! what the fuck is wrong with you

This is bullshit rage bait. I mean, can “GenAI” do this well? IMO no, but the idea of trying to solve the root problems isn’t complete dog shit.

the title of the press release:

Governor Newsom seeks to harness the power of GenAI to address homelessness, other challenges

the paragraph right before the bullet points you quoted out of context:

State agencies and departments began analyzing potential uses for GenAI and developed critical challenges within state government, particularly focusing on issues that impact vulnerable populations. Today, the Governor announces the first step in the process to potentially adopt GenAI to address the following issues identified by state agencies:

it’s literally a press release about supposedly using the nonsense generator to fix homelessness and you had to reach fucking hard to make it look like anything else — you quoted the only two fucking paragraphs that don’t mention GenAI, I fucking counted. and for what?

where the fuck do you shitheads keep coming from

you’re identical to the other poster in both tone and content so either you’re using the same LLM to write your posts or you’re otherwise extremely familiar with each other. either way we don’t particularly need you here, but before you go:

Also, from my experience as a student current LLMs are better at explaining than the average teacher is.

Overall, I think our education system is largely outdated and schools of the future won’t look like one teacher explaining and 25 people more or less not listening

one day you’ll hopefully grow old enough to realize how lazy this shit looks to other people

With readily available video, it is criminal to continue live lecturing and presentation of static information. There is no chance that the live presentation of information is anywhere near the quality of a polished and edited video. There is very little chance that any given lecturer is truly the best at presenting such information.

christ

However, the ability for AI to adapt to any functional thought and help with individualized problem solving is something that no teacher is capable of with more than one student at a time.

it doesn’t do this

It is not always correct, but it is in the same realm of accuracy as an above average teacher. Maybe you too were aware of just how many teachers did not even know the subjects they were tasked with teaching in primary school, I certainly was.

I’m sorry your teachers sucked bad enough you could replace them with a prerecorded video and a statistical language model that’s notorious for generating confident, dangerous lies. I don’t think most kids should have that kind of experience in school though, and if they are currently maybe we should do what it takes (funding, regulation, strikes) to not go in that direction.

what if your rubber duck released just an entire fuckton of CO2 into the environment constantly, even when you weren’t talking to it? surely that means it’s better

that’s great thanks

my IDE, notepad.exe, didn’t support capitalizing words until they added copilot to it. so therefore qed editors couldn’t do that without LLMs. computer science is so easy!

Brownlee, who will take us through “mind-blowing demonstrations of AI’s capabilities,” is a curious addition — he’s previously complained of his work being stolen to feed AI. But a big enough check is a pretty convincing counterargument. [Twitter, archive]

I’m disappointed but not at all surprised Marques is involved in this. I think he was caught by surprise by how popular his mildly AI-critical videos were, and this is him doing damage control and trying to get back into the grifters’ good graces.

it’s always fun when techbros speedrun the narcissist’s prayer like this

oh my god the maitai guy’s actually getting torn apart in the comments

Yeah some of you guys are very good at hacking things. We expected this to get broken eventually, but didn't anticipate how many people would be trying for the bounty, and their persistence. Our logs show over 2000 "saves" before 1 got through. We'll keep trying to get better, and things like this game give us an idea on how to improve.

after it’s pointed out 2000 near-misses before a complete failure is ridiculously awful for anything internet-facing:

Maitai helps LLMs adhere to the expectations given to them. With that said, there are multiple layers to consider when dealing with sensitive data with chatbots, right? First off, you'd probably want to make sure you authenticate the individual on the other end of the convo, then compartmentalize what data the LLM has access to for only that authenticated user. Maitai would be just 1 part of a comprehensive solution.

so uh, what exactly is your product for, then? admit it, this shit just regexed for the secret string on output, that’s why the pirate poem thing worked

e: dear god

We're using Maitai's structured output in prod (Benchify, YC S24) and it's awesome. OpenAI interface for all the models. Super consistent. And they've fixed bugs around escaping characters that OpenAI didn't fix yet.

hahaha ok fuck off now