I feel adoption is either super easy or super hard. No one claims the system is fair. It can also be the article skipped on these difficulties for a better headline.
> It can also be the article skipped on these difficulties for a better headline.
Thanks for the reply. That is certainly a possibility that I didn't think of. I guess they could possibly have thought that if he was caring enough to take time out of his day to call the police and look after the baby until they arrived that he might potentially make a good parent as well.
Yeah, it's a short article. There are obviously lots of things it doesn't go into. I doubt the judge was like "want this baby? Pick it up from the orphanage, here's your receipt."
I still think it's crazy that the heat wave in Portland, OR (116 deg in 2021) had higher temps than places like Austin, Dallas, Miami, etc have ever had in recorded history. An area of BC recorded over 121.
I had just moved into the home we bought a week before that event, about 30 miles south of Maple Valley. The AC was old (original unit from when the home was built in the early 1980s) and we knew it had to be replaced. But with everything (new appliances, etc.) we decided "we'll take care of that before next summer". And then four days of 105+ temperature, and of course, the AC died forever[1] a couple of hours in. We had a portable AC, but an elderly dog with a double coat, and my partner and our dog and I ended up hunkering down in the living room with the portable AC running 24/7 (took the edge off, but still got to mid 80s inside) and us periodically running towels under water, putting them in the freezer and using them as a "blanket" for the dog.
We thought about hotels, but anything in our town was booked. That was not a fun time.
[1] Miraculously we managed to find an AC tech who would come out to look at it. "It's dead." I don't know what he did then, but he did something else (maybe removed a cutout valve?) and said "Here, this will keep it working but might only be for a couple of hours or a couple of days and is absolutely not warrantied or guaranteed or anything". It did keep working for about four more hours before giving up completely.
Intermediate Representation. It's an architecture independent "halfway point" that happens during compilation, in between reading the source code and writing the binary. It's part of the approach that makes it possible for LLVM to "plug-in" a new target architecture by just adding a bit that turns IR into machine code for the new chip.
I'm oversimplifying because it's all black magic to me, but I do know that acronym.
What LLM isn't forced into a specific language? That'd be a weird language model no one could understand, you need to chose at least one language, ideally the same as the creators speak.
Besides, there is knowledge that is locked behind languages, there are things known in Portuguese that aren't known in other languages, and the same for other languages too. More accessibility to those ideas wouldn't hurt.
To my knowledge, all major LLMs are multilingual. This article could really have used an evaluation of existing models' European Portuguese capabilities.
yeah, they seem all confined to being an American-consultant-Chinese-authoritarian split personality with broad second language capabilities. I suppose they become too incoherent otherwise.
E.g. gemma3:4b can fake simple conversations in several european languages, including portuguese, swedish and finnish.
It's just a database. If you push text in one language into it, it'll likely crap out stuff in that same language, unless the system prompt that also goes in with your query causes it not to.
Europe always has a thing for their languages. They think many languages make them stronger while spending billions in system loss due to communication barriers. It is obvious they will try to do the same with LLMs and call it the next best thing since bread and butter.
I went to JCON EUROPE this year. The amount of "Europe this" "Europe that" "sovereign this, sovereign that" is mind boggling and just a waste of time and money. The regular people know this and thus left the conferences mid way. But somehow the people "in charge" really need to push this. Same thing here.
There's an obvious advantage to everyone speaking the same language - although perhaps real-time translation with LLMs and hardware like the Timekettle will reduce this problem. Personally, I wouldn't really care if that language were English or Mandarin Chinese tbh.
Training an entire LLM model for each language is going to be incredibly expensive and likely a waste of resources. Keep in mind that all the big LLMs can already speak these languages anyway - this effort is just to make a 'pure' Portuguese LLM.
Nobody is saying you have to swap your culture for English. You can have English as the mandatory language for tech and business across the EU, while still keeping your language and culture for your education, leisure, festivities, art, media, etc. This way everyone is happy. But countries like France would rather detonate its entire nuclear arsenal rather than accepting official use of English on its own soil.
As long as resources are spent across the EU to account for every language and bureaucracy, we'll keep falling behind internationally, and the only winners will be the bureaucrats, notaries, lawyers, consultants, translators, etc. which would be fine if this were preserving culture like you said in the beginning, but it isn't, it's just preserving friction, segmentation and bureaucracy.
We need another Concord moment. What's wild is that Concord was made via international cooperation, before the EU was even a thing. So whatever the EU is doing to improve things, it's either not good, not enough, or not working. I hope this improves but knowing how petty some EU states are about things being done their way, I doubt it.
Others said a lot already. But yes, go full on English for all official and business needs. Endure a few years of hardship and everyone will come out stronger. Europe can attract so much top talents over night just by this one single step and also save an insane amount of money/resources that can be directed elsewhere.
It reminds me of Qwant - the French Google alternative that got a load of public money. The fact you've probably never heard of it shows how well that went.
I'd also want to get paid to work on stuff not meant to bring any financial returns to my employer, just to learn and pad my resume. Sounds like a sweet gig. Where do I sign up?
> OP, I sure it’s just a transition. AI will get faster, feedback loops shorter, and we will be back at a more traditional flow state.
You are right that it is a transitional state, but the end of the transition isn't that developers return to flow, it is that developers no longer have any reason to be employed.
The end state (assuming LLMs and other AI systems continue to improve at current rates or better) is one where everyone can produce any kind of digital content quickly with minimal toil.
Some people, who imagine themselves as modern Jobs-esque idea men of great taste like the idea of this but they aren't fully thinking about the consequences of easy content creation.
If you can get an LLM to produce a product of such clearly great design through your innate sense of taste, many someone elses can also point their agentic LLMs at your product, clone everything good about it very quickly and undersell you in a rapid race to zero value in a market that is a sea of competing noise.
As AI systems continue to improve at their core ability of mimicry there will be no moats in software anymore, for anyone.
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