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The voice sounds awful though. And Nixon had a really distinctive voice. Deep with odd over-emphasis on certain syllables. Hence the famous quote, "there'll be no whhhitewhhashh at the Whhitehouse."
But some of that poor quality might be put down to rubbishy microphones and recordings.
I'm beginning to think this might be a deep fake.
"but you can imagine it might narrow in on certain features that the Chinese government have deemed potentially radical, like wearing a burqa, going to mosques too frequently, or watching forbidden videos".
Bit like living in the USA, UK and Israel (among too many others to list) then, but don't worry. I'm sure the UK et al will do their best to be "Not left behind" (TM) or "be a world leader" (TM) in the science of "stamping on a human throat forever".
I feel sorry for you if you hate your life so much that you think UK comparable to Communist China for Human Rights.
I feel even sorrier that you got upvoted.
Whataboutism just gives succor for dictators who take pleasure from useful idiots
When I look around the world for all UK problems with homelessness etc I feel blessed to be born in Britain.
And you, Mr Bean Counter, are guilty of complacency (at best), or ignorance.
Are the UKUSA authoritarians likely to attempt massive incarcarations and torture based "re-education"? No. But they're certainly guilty of and heavily invested in the technological infrastructure which makes that shit possible. It's already far more intrusive and pervasive than anything dreamed of by the Stasi.
Their use of it will, for the time being at least, and in deference to the freeer press, be somewhat more surgical than the fucktards we're watching in China..The intimate details they are stockpiling on all citizens are already selectively mined and used to persecute the more troublesome dissidents; the ones who might make the more docile citizens sit up and take notice of what is being done in their name.
Of course, if the current woolly generations of politicians are replaced by more aggressive authoritarians, like those we see in Hungary or Poland, the infrastructure will already be in place to weaponise the jackboot version.
I strongly recommend "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff. It's the best researched history of what's been going on "in our name" for the past 20 years and, if it doesn't activate your opposition, I suspect you're probably already terminal.
But they're certainly guilty of and heavily invested in the technological infrastructure which makes that shit possible. It's already far more intrusive and pervasive than anything dreamed of by the Stasi.
Presence of technology doesn't imply usage. We also have nukes, only dreamt of by the Nazis, which make much worse things possible. Had them for 70 years.
Presence of technology doesn't imply usage.
We have used nukes. Not to kill anyone (well, not directly) but to threaten to kill. That's the intended purpose of nuclear weapons; if they were actually used to kill then they would have failed in their purpose. That's MAD for you.
@Chris the bean counter : "I feel sorry for you if you hate your life so much that you think UK comparable to Communist China for Human Rights
How many Uïgours have died because of the Chinese Communist Party ?
How many Iraqis have died because of the UK political rulers ?
Same question with NATO or USA and Libya, Syria, Afghanistan... ?
From the Human rights perspective, the UK, USA and NATO are the worst offenders on Earth in our current times, way before Russia or China. That you're not able to see it is the worrying part here.
My Gran used to write copper plate with her right hand despite being left handed. Her left hand was badly scarred from the beatings it took when it picked up the pen to write. Welsh was banned from being spoken for a while and legally only came back in 1992.
China stinks but we have barely moved on from them.
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They build the computer to match the game*, if you ask them to build a computer that'll win at chess boxing they will, and then we're truely fucked. I'm already pretty scared of the demonstrations coming out of boston dynamics frankly.
*I realise that's a bit of a simplification.
New rules - you have to present your legal birth certificate for ID, shake hands with your opponent, and sit on a standard-sized chair at the game table, where you will be required to physically move your pieces without outside assistance. That should stop the robots competing... for at least a couple of months.
But seriously, why is he giving up because an 'entity' can beat him? The fastest female sprinter doesn't stop competing just because she will never beat the fastest male, who himself will never beat the fastest greyhound. You compete like for like, to be the best in your field. In Go, this man is the best HUMAN Go player.
"But seriously, why is he giving up because an 'entity' can beat him? The fastest female sprinter doesn't stop competing just because she will never beat the fastest male, who himself will never beat the fastest greyhound. You compete like for like, to be the best in your field. In Go, this man is the best HUMAN Go player."
Yeah, it's odd.
Nobody spells better than a dictionary, but we still have spelling bees.
"The Go machine should have to get to the tournament by itself, and then play the game using ~20 watts for the processing CPU"
yes, I've thought about that too: they should be self-powered, recognise the board with their own cameras, and put/move the stones themselves. I'd wonder if they still beat humans in such a setup.
200W seems a bit high, you'd need over 4000 kcal/day to sustain that.
1 MET*, at normal rest, is about 1.16 W/kg: I think you might get to 1.5METs (140W for an 80kg person) by thinking hard but I doubt you could break 2.0 without a lot of fidgeting (be an interesting experiment though!).
"Congratulations if you can name all countries and regions of origin: I couldn't!" Really? It wasn't even difficult, though I did have to think for a moment or two to place Hausa. I feel a bit sorry for press droids who have to spout patter like that, playing dumb in an effort to talk up some new product or service. The chances that she really didn't know seems lower than my chances of being elected Queen of North Korea.
Firstly is a more formal way to introduce the first point, so thanks for showing your ignorance of English grammar.
Secondly, I'll happily point out wherever someone mis-genders a person thank you very much, especially when it specifically mentions the person's gender in the article...
"Firstly is a more formal way to introduce the first point, so thanks for showing your ignorance of English grammar."
Firstly is not more formal. Indeed, I used to use this, but was discouraged from writing firstly by the copyeditors of the books and articles I have published over the years. Maybe they were all wrong...
I also just think it's a bit of a sad existence to hunt the Register forums looking for someone who accidentally used the wrong pronoun.
I couldn't place a lot of them, but I guessed at various parts of Africa... which was about right. Plus various Persian derivatives.
But being able to identify countries that speak various less-common languages doesn't seem like a normal requirement for a PR role, so I'm not sure what your point its. Other than as a bit of willy-waving. Bravo for that.
Languages are my hobby and I enjoy learning about them. I'm no expert, just a passionate dilettante (possibly an oxymoron).When I see content relating to a subject I love learning and talking about, I post in response, as do other readers here when the subject matter is one they either know a lot about or are deeply interested in, or both. I also genuinely find it unlikely that the PR department did not have information on the primary location and L1 speaker population of each of those languages. Having that information available to use in pitching or promoting the service would seem to be a normal requirement for a PR role, to me.
Doesn't seem to be a deepfake if one just hires an actor to read out words to be recorded: which was possible in 1900 AD.
"And now, the Last Message to the Empire, recorded days before her passing by our late most Gracious Queen, wishing all a Happy Christmas and an excellent New Year."
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And if a machine defeats a champion in any game, he's still the champion since a machine has no knowledge of what's it's doing; lacking both motivation and sentience.
If this is peak DeepFake (PeakFake?), I'm not worried. 2 hours in an editing booth would have this knocked out, AI or no AI.
To me, DeepFakes become worrying when they're indistinguishable not only by humans but also by machines trained to analyse fakery. We're a couple years off that point.
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