If you are an expert witness, do not use ChatGPT to write the report you are charging $475/hour for.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@jameshowell @evacide

I think I’m way ahead of you, buddy. my idea is to take all of them, pack them off to a desert island with no connectivity whatsoever. You can choose to provide them enough food and what not or maybe just a little bit too little doesn’t really matter, but they will be left on their own, without any money or attention or influence, and they can spend all of their time working each other’s nerves and figuring out who’s going to dominate who.

Or solitary for life

[tuban_muzuru@beige.party]

@penguin42 @evacide

Watson Grinding is kinda famous: a thriller-movie explosion. A worn out hose allowed propylene gas to fill a workspace overnight.

Boom. Truly horrific explosion. Killed three. The whole operation was sloppy.

But 3M had a gas detection system which failed.

[penguin42@mastodon.org.uk]

@tuban_muzuru @evacide Yeh I'd known about Watson Grinding - hey I watch UCSCB - but I hadn't realised the detection thing was 3M, which yeh makes sense.

[oddhack@mstdn.social]

@evacide first time I was asked to be an expert witness in an IP suit I just charged my regular consulting rate, not knowing better. When the enemy E.W. paperwork showed he was getting paid 4x my rate, I knew to charge a lot more on my second (and, very hopefully, last) E.W. gig.

N.b. that was around $470/hour and 15 years ago. I expect the rate has gone up.

[christianrickert@23.social]

@evacide Nobody linked the ChatGPT conversation link?

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a2985cb-ecd4-83ea-91ed-8b6f1de4cb09

[thriftwicker@mastodon.social]

@evacide LMAO. I hope the motherfucker enjoys their upcoming, neverending hunt for a new job!

[3janeta@beige.party]

@jernej__s @evacide love it

[dontony@hachyderm.io]

@evacide the first video link is a yahoo video link, with a mcaffee url referrer. not to call out people who use yahoo and mcaffee in this day and age… but come on that already speaks volumes!

[bzdev@fosstodon.org]

@evacide There's a possible use case for AI in writing such reports : when you have to support a completely indefensible position. In the late 1960s, I watched a chess master play against a computer at MIT (i.e., when computers were much slower, etc,). It was down to the end game and it was obvious that the computer had lost. But it did a fantastic job of forestalling the inevitable - I presume due to exhaustive search rather than intelligence. It took 40--50 additional moves to checkmate it.

[donchacale@mastodon.social]

@evacide
this is what all those crap students we went to school with end up as....