Re: ‘Advanced AI should be treated similar to Weapons of Mass Destruction’ Community Center by Reverend Jim Based on the proliferation of AI generated content, and the age-old rule of garbage in, garbage out, what will be the result of AI models being trained on ever increasing amounts of content generated by other AI platforms? Will we get into a negative feedback loop where the output will become so polluted with bad input that it will be effectively … Re: ‘Advanced AI should be treated similar to Weapons of Mass Destruction’ Community Center by jwenting Even worse: the junk being deliberately fed to AIs is already at the stage where the results are useless BUT those results are blindly believed by many people BECAUSE they're generated by AI and therefore supposedly automatically correct! Think Google's disastrous launch of their image generator which would under no condition generate Caucasian … Re: AI Code Assistants Programming Software Development by rproffitt The definition of what an AI Code Assistant needs to be spelled out first. However in my circles we are using various tools to increase our productivity and reduce costs. The cost reduction is that we don't outsource nearly as much as we used to. Yes, the folk that we used to call on have noticed. As to VS and .NET work, the works ran the … Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by Nina0X So, what can we do to prevent the web from dying? I guess web3 is the answer! If the technology enables then the internet should not only be used for connecting and sharing some kitties! The whole of humanity's wealth will be held on the Internet.. Future of Web Development: Trends and Tools Programming Web Development by Haseeb_12 Hey everyone! 🌟 Web development is evolving rapidly with exciting trends like Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), Jamstack architecture, and AI integration. What tools and frameworks are you using? How do you tackle challenges like responsive design, performance optimization, and security? Share your experiences and tips! Cheers, Haseeb Ahmad: Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by stuwer12 This theme needs development, but I'm connected with a blockchain group who have what we call web 4.0, totally independent ,totally peer to peer with no outside interference or involvement Don't know if it would bring back relevancy to search, but connections are true blckcerts (or blockcertsai anyone interested ,;et me know and I'll send you a … Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by wwwalker About 40% of hits to my site are bots with some trying to find exploits on my site to hack it and use it to propagate spam. Very few humans are surfing the Web any more. iptables firewall has to be used to block the hackers. Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by Reverend Jim >Very few humans are surfing the Web any more I disagree. Just because the number of bots has grown exponentially relative to the number of meat-based surfers does not mean that very few humans are still surfing. Consider how much spam e-mail is sent every minute. That does not mean e-mail is dying. Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by m_624 "Dead Internet Theory" is an idea that says the internet is becoming less genuine and less alive. Here's a simple explanation: The theory suggests that: Bots and Fake Content: A lot of what we see online is created by bots or automated programs, not real people. This includes social media posts, comments, and even articles. … Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by Reverend Jim Seems like an extension of Sturgeon's Law which states "90% of everything is crap". Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by pcbugfixer I believe it is. With AI involved and the misleading and duplicate information tells me that the WWW is corrupt and becoming useless. And it is the Spammers, Hackers and the like that did it. Time will tell Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by m_624 The Dead Internet Theory suggests that the internet is dying or already dead due to the prevalence of bots and automated content. However, the internet continues to grow and evolve, remaining a vital part of modern life. Re: Future of Web Development: Trends and Tools Programming Web Development by Dani What is jamstack architecture? I'm not familiar with it. As far as tools and frameworks, I've pretty much been using the same ones for the past 20 years. PHP + MySQL + Nginx + Redis + Memcached + SphinxSearch on the backend. Cloudflare as a CDN. On the front end, it's Bootstrap and jQuery. Yes, I'm still old school like that. For many years, I … Hi everyone, I'm Ginny79 Community Center Say Hello! by Ginny79 Hello everyone, I'm currently developing a static web page intended to assist my students with their studies. The web page includes various educational tools and resources, which I've outlined using AWS services. You can check out the current version here: [Click here](https://gradescalc.com/) to test my simple tool for teachers and students.… Re: Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap+jquery+CI is the best thing since sliced bread Programming Web Development by Dani I've posted my story many times before, but here it is again :) I've been programming the majority of my life, first in Apple BASIC, then QBasic, then Visual Basic, then C++. PHP was my first foray into web development, and DaniWeb was my first project. DaniWeb started 22 years ago with phpBB, and then evolved to vBulletin. I knew the phpBB code… Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap+jquery+CI is the best thing since sliced bread Programming Web Development by pyeri Greetings Folks! I had signed up on Daniweb many years ago but never bothered to seriously post until now. Only when the "social networks" of the world like Reddit and Quora and Twitter started disappointing me beyond the usual excruciating limits did I decide to explore some other programming forums on the Interwebs where open and … What is your biggest fear with the current A.I. revolution? Community Center by jkon One thing that I have learned , is to acknowledge my fears in order to see if I can do anything about them. I would love to read yours fears about this A.I. revolution. I have chosen to participate in this weave with what ever resources my small company has , because I know that this is a deeply transformative technology in my field (for … Need help with Lem-in Project Programming by Oven Im trying to code a lem-in project. https://github.com/01-edu/public/tree/master/subjects/lem-in Im coding in go lang. But its okay in another language tho. I can convert it to go. Me and my friends cant even solve the algorithm neither. ChatGPT is stuck and in the web i found a 800 rows of code. Its working but really hard to understand. … Re: Best Cloud Accounting Software? Programming Software Development by pyeri There are several like Quickbooks, Freshbooks, etc. as others have said. Specifically in the Indian context, I think Tally and Zoho Books are two popular apps which are known to work. Then there are web-based ERPs offered by various vendors which take care of several modules like Inventory, HR and Payroll, Costing, etc. apart from just financial … ‘Advanced AI should be treated similar to Weapons of Mass Destruction’ Community Center by Johannes C. **AI policy theorist Demetrius Floudas introduces a novel era classification for the AI epoch and reveals the hidden dangers of AGI, predicting the potential obsolescence of humanity. In retort, he proposes a provocative International Control Treaty.** ![header-agitalks-demetrius.jpg](https://static.daniweb.com/attachments/4/… minimal-mvc: Frugal PHP micro-framework with basic routing and templating Programming Web Development by pyeri Folks, We already know about CodeIgniter and its enormous capabilities as a PHP framework, this very site being a testament of it. But what about an even smaller micro-framework for PHP? Something along the lines of Flask or Bottle? Something you can use to develop things like REST API, prototyping something at initial stage or a frontend SPA … Re: minimal-mvc: Frugal PHP micro-framework with basic routing and templating Programming Web Development by Dani When I first created the platform that powers DaniWeb, I did so only after many years on phpBB, and learning that framework inside and out, and making lots of phpBB mods, and then many years on vBulletin, and learning *that* framework inside and out, and making lots of vBulletin plug-ins. Despite DaniWeb being my first web development app that I've… Re: What is third-party cookie ?Why are they being phased out? Digital Media Digital Marketing by Dani I'm not super experienced in this, but this is my best understanding: third-party cookies are when ads include tracking pixels that are designed to follow people around the web and learn about their user behavior. Google has decided to no longer allow them in future versions of Chrome, citing privacy concerns. Many believe the real reason is so … Re: Hi everyone, I'm Ginny79 Community Center Say Hello! by Dani I suppose I'm confused why you can't just do a lost password reset? Re: Hi everyone, I'm Ginny79 Community Center Say Hello! by Lethabo Can anyone here help me build "SRD application status check" tool that checks the live status of the SASSA application and takes data from the SRD website. Re: LCP improvement needed Programming Web Development by Dani LCP is very unique to each website, so there is little help I can offer aside from redirecting you to https://webpagetest.org/ to see where the failure is. What are the recommendations given by [Google PageSpeed](https://pagespeed.web.dev/)? Re: How do I develop a tracking software for Agriculture purposes Programming Software Development by Dani You can try freelance sites like [Upwork](https://www.upwork.com/) or [Toptal](https://www.toptal.com/) to hire a freelance developer to write this for you. Upwork is probably a better fit if you're looking for a web-based app, but it seems as if that's not the case here, so give Toptal a try. However, it's going to be costly depending on the … Re: Database wrapper for Codeigniter 3 Programming Web Development by pyeri I have never bothered to check CI4 as CI3 fulfilled all my web development needs. It required some modifications when PHP 8 came (PHP 8 didn't allow dynamic properties which are used in CI3). But otherwise, it works fine for most small to medium sized projects. One of the best things about CI3 is that it works out of the box with minimum initial … Re: Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap+jquery+CI is the best thing since sliced bread Programming Web Development by pyeri That's a very fascinating journey, Dani. The early era of the Internet was very different, bulletin boards and IRC were phenomenal, especially when it came to quality of interaction. It's a great achievement that you not only used to be a part but also helped build parts of that Internet. As the PHP creator himself once said, CodeIgniter is a … Re: What is your biggest fear with the current A.I. revolution? Community Center by Reverend Jim My biggest fear is an expansion of misinformation to the extent that we will not be able to trust that anything we see, hear, or read will have any basis in reality.