Staffers warn DOT's use of Gemini to draft rules could cause injuries and deaths.
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“Wildly irresponsible”: DOT’s use of AI to draft safety rules sparks concerns
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Everyone knows grok is the AI you want here. It'll print some new rules about being topless and all of that and when someone question it, you'll get a poop emoji on your driver's record.
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Would be so cool. Sadly I'm way too dumb to have a chance for that.
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Writing regulations clearly and precisely is only important if you want them to be enforced. Otherwise nah.
The "word salad" is the difference between prose and code. It does mean something to the expert practitioners.
Now, if you're an ethical operator in the space, you probably do want clear and precise and well-formed regulations, for yourself as well as your competitors. But then, if you're an ethical operator you probably haven't paid bribes to Donald Trump.
The "word salad" is the difference between prose and code. It does mean something to the expert practitioners.
Now, if you're an ethical operator in the space, you probably do want clear and precise and well-formed regulations, for yourself as well as your competitors. But then, if you're an ethical operator you probably haven't paid bribes to Donald Trump.
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Its part of the death of experts. The stupid idea that you can use ai to make anyone capable of doing any job or replace experts with ai
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I have ranted about this in another AI comment section about writing reports, but I really wonder how many people are so ignorant about why creating these kinds of documents take so much time.
Are there really that many in "high" positions (and the general public) that think that "writing it" is the reason the process is slow? And not, you know, because writing good rules are really f-ing hard and require involvement by multiple stakeholder, assesment of risk/reward and secondary effects as well as just let citizens have their say before the loop is repeated with all the fixes that was found. Christ, writing a 100 page document modifying some old regulation takes what, a week for a competent writer once all info is there....
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Most of the word salad is laying out history, connections... text that explains what and why.
Because when things go to court you need all that. It is hard enough to read that stuff now, let alone once it becomes auto generated.
Gov rules keep getting harder to write and harder to pass because of courtroom events... Legislative standard, etc.
Writing them automatically won't help any of that.
Because when things go to court you need all that. It is hard enough to read that stuff now, let alone once it becomes auto generated.
Gov rules keep getting harder to write and harder to pass because of courtroom events... Legislative standard, etc.
Writing them automatically won't help any of that.
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BOILERPLATE. The word you’re looking for is BOILERPLATE, you absolute tool. BOILERPLATE is a span of often boring but technically or legally important standardized text.
WORD SALAD is a psychiatric description of a specific symptom of dementia, which your handlers should be well acquainted with.
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It's too complicated having all these different kids of liquids. Could we get rid of water since it is tasteless anyway? We could replace it with a high energy drink. One plants would crave.
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That was exactly my thought when the price came up. Over on the space discussions, there have been repeated assurances that SpaceX can be considered reasonable, if even overbidding (good for profit!), for their launch services because the government audits them to be assured materials and services aren't being bid below cost. I'm very confused as to how these cloud services were analyzed on bid because this sounds exactly like the "first dose is free, then get locked in" sort of situation government procurement is supposed to prevent. Also I'd definitely like to see what realistic bids, properly held to the cost + margin requirements, look like even if the rest of the auditing remains under seal (as it should).
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"Some A lot of you are likely going to die, but that's a risk the investors are willing to take."
- Motto of the Trump admin.
- Motto of the Trump admin.
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Because the data is what’s actually valuable here; no one in the trump admin is savvy enough to know if you aren’t paying, you’re the product.
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I'm genuinely curious what you feel the benefit of using an LLM to then feed through another LLM, and then having it all reviewed by an expert is over just having the expert do it it.
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This guy is a lawyer. He has no specialties in transportation, and in fact has never before been part of that side of government. He's worked mostly to draft rules, and nothing else.
So, his interest isn't in making the DOT better. It's just cheaper.
The fallacy he cited indicates to me that he's just a fuckwit mid-level bureaucrat with extreme delusions of adequacy.
Proof?
There is no such thing. You're ALWAYS moving the goalposts in a world that actually has time passing. What worked before, becomes untenable. And this twit is aiming for a very low bar.
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My novelty hat was $500 and manufactured by Shoei and independently certified by Snell, at least.
But yeah, crossing over into South Carolina (no helmet law) makes my jaw drop every time. I just.. it doesn't compute for me.
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“Staffers warn DOT’s use of Gemini to draft rules could cause injuries and deaths.”
But that is a thing that this administration is willing to very bravely risk. At least as long as it does not actually affect them. Join the Face Eating Leopard Party for very complete safety today!
But that is a thing that this administration is willing to very bravely risk. At least as long as it does not actually affect them. Join the Face Eating Leopard Party for very complete safety today!
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“But, what are electrolytes? It's what plants crave, dummy!” The AI explanation coming to you.
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Because it has been shown that trying to understand code that some else (especially AI) wrote and then fixing the errors in it, is so much less efficient that doing it all yourself. This is the LLM AI model in a nutshell. Create something that will pass a casual non-critical examination, but fails badly when tried in practice, so an expert is required to find the errors and fix them. Any other method leaves Altman, Google, etc. out of the loop and that is really horribly bad! Bad dog*!! Bad dog*!!!
*Purposely misspelled DOGE. /S
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Only in the Trump administration. Because in the world of MAGA, having real expertise and knowing what you’re talking about is verboten.
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Note that Musk is very much against the NHTSA rules that he must report all Tesla FSD accidents, so the obvious fix is to remove those innovation stifling rules so that he can start breaking things much faster. As a “jenius” once alluded to: “If you don't report bad things happening, the bad things quit happening”. It is completely obvious that obeying stop lights and signs should be entirely optional, and likewise for attempting to drive on train tracks, hitting emergency vehicles, stationary objects on the highways, and even in parking lots, etc. Tesla has thoroughly “proved” this, so the world needs to catch up and follow their fantastic lead. /S
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I'm not sure I've ever read a more horrifying sentence. The last thing our over-regulated country needs is for its thoroughly captured bureaucracy to have the ability to create more rules in shorter time.
DOT is probably not the best place to test AI either. Can AI do word salad? Sure. But the part of the rules that correspond with real world activities and objects might be beyond the comprehension of AI, leading to dangerous mistakes.
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I'm still annoyed that Joe Biden didn't step aside in Dec. 2024 so Kamala Harris could be sworn in as the 47th President of the USA...
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Paging mr Jorg X McKie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tactful_Saboteur
(He worked for a govt. bureau dedicated to slowing down govt. regulation by sabotage of various kinds)
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I’m all for the use of AI in rule making IF the vendors of the AI tools used can guarantee that it will no less error prone than a human drafted law and take full responsibility for any deviations.
What’s that? You’re saying that no AI vendors would accept such a liability? Well, then there’s your answer…
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This is very on brand for a Trump business. Of course he'd rapidly adopt a buzz word technology (AI) and force it to be used even if its implementation is shoddy and not the right tool. Only to try and get attention that he's doing it "better" and "faster" than anyone else to feel like a winner. Of course, we know in the end it'll blow up in his face and this latest business venture will fail. Except this latest business venture is the US government.
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In a sensible world this would be grounds for impeachment of the transportation secretary and his general counsel, if for some reasons the POTUS didn't outright fire them for this.
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Rather than having the DOT serve as the guinea pigs for this idea, why not use a department that is perhaps less likely to kill someone if (when) things go bad? I have one in mind: the Internal Revenue Service. It's highly complicated and affects everyone in the US (so streamlining operations should[*] make things better for everyone) and it's not like anyone would take advantage of any massive loopholes AI may introduce (any more than they take advantage of loopholes that have already been caused by Natural Intelligence.) What could go wrong?
I mean, if the Federal Government should go financially bankrupt, that's a situation where Donald Trump has loads of experience.
[*] Definition of should: probably won't.
I mean, if the Federal Government should go financially bankrupt, that's a situation where Donald Trump has loads of experience.
[*] Definition of should: probably won't.
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Jakelshark
Ars Tribunus Militum
I work in local government. Some volunteers used AI to re-write the city's complete street policy. It's fucking garbage and a pain in my ass because it's full of rhetoric that sounds great to the layperson (and problematic to the person actually in charge of doing the policy). They also can't actually explain what was wrong with the existing policy or why it needed to be re-written...
Leave ordinance and policy to the people who actually work with it day to day. AI can generate a jumping off point, but it is not saving that much time in the grand scheme of things.
Leave ordinance and policy to the people who actually work with it day to day. AI can generate a jumping off point, but it is not saving that much time in the grand scheme of things.
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The skeletons have been pouring out for a fucking decade. Turns out, America loves 'em.
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No, it does not. People at the department 'think'... and in this case, it would appear that the 'thinking" is being done by lawyers representing the department; Daniel Cohen and Gregory Zerzan. Lawyers are good at ensuring no one responsible will be held liable for the impending deaths caused by AI created DoT policies; which like most gov policies will focus on increasing the profits of corporate sponsors first, and the safety of the constituents last.
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It's only the higher ups who probably don't write these things that want this. They need to "meet the numbers" and if the numbers are "regulations must be done fast" and also "do it with less headcount" they will find a way that is "good enough".
The actual people whose job it is to write and proofread these things hate it. And not because it "took 'r jobs" but because they are actually providing a service that should be better than "good enough" it is THE STANDARD!
Everything should really be done above standard and if the standard is.... oh.... I see now....
The actual people whose job it is to write and proofread these things hate it. And not because it "took 'r jobs" but because they are actually providing a service that should be better than "good enough" it is THE STANDARD!
Everything should really be done above standard and if the standard is.... oh.... I see now....
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I want the dangerous idiots off this planet. Why should I have to leave, when they're the ones that suck?
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