I missed this gem >> "For example," the Carnegie Mellon team wrote, "during the execution of one task, the agent cannot find the right person to ask questions on [company chat]. As a result, it then decides to create a shortcut solution by renaming another user to the name of the intended user." << THAT is the kind of ingenuity and can-do attitude CEOs want in their workers! No surprise they're turning to AI!

Futurism

Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents, and You&#039;ll Never Guess What Happened

An experiment by researchers at Carnegie Melon University staffed a fake software company with AI Agents, and the results were dismal.

Unemployment is fun but not quite as fun as having to pay for my fathers care (assuming I can even find somebody willing to do it) because the rest of my family wants to wait until the Italian healthcare leviathan actually decides that being 90 and recently amputated really means you're not in a good shape. And that's assuming they don't demand he goes to an in-person visit somewhere to confirm that he's really 90 and really amputated.

A couple weeks ago I finally picked up the courage to pause my perpetual Pratchett re-read and read The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. After the first few chapters I had to go back to Discworld because it felt unbearable. And then I came back and something magical happened, and the apparently endless desperation ended instead and midway through I can confirm it's a great book even for sensitive cowards like myself.

The best time to add lemon rind to the dough is when the recipe tells you to do it. The second best time is still when the recipe tells you to do it. The third best time is most definitely not when the pie is ine oven and you see the forlorn lemon rind looking at you spitefully from the countertop.

Another #BandcampFriday where I have nothing new and no clue what to do, so here's a song. There are more, to be sure. Some have been favorably compared to other songs of mine.

pgcd

The One To Remember, by pgcd

from the album Sorry.

I wanted to call my genre "apocalyptic pop" but it was taken so I went with "interesting music for interesting times". It still sounds mostly goth- and industrial/ebm-adjacent, with lots of electronics and juvenile angsty lyrics.

I'm all for ridiculing non-Italian people for putting ketchup on their pasta but what I'm doing right now (spouse had an emergency surgery and I must feed the spawn) is worse.

Getting a few custom patches made turned out to be economically unfeasible. So, here's the next best thing, thanks to my lack of talent, non-existent skills and inadequate tools. #GNUTerryPratchett

Almost but not quite too late: happy #TerryPrachett day to all who celebrate!

"She left people thinking they were slightly better people. They weren’t, but as Nanny said, it gave them something to live up to." (from Wintersmith) #GNUTerryPratchett - who singlehandedly made humanity fractionally better.

That time Pratchett talked about the current political situation "And some people didn’t like anyone who knew more than they did, so these days the wandering teachers and the travelling librarians steered clear of the place." (from Wintersmith) #GNUTerryPratchett