Posts by Cornishinretirement

Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users in automated browsing push

Hopefully there will be an off switch for the AI pane. Otherwise I will be scanning the Chrome extensions library carefully.

US ownership of TikTok off to a rocky start as outage continues into second day

TikTok unavailable? Sounds like an excellent start. Long may it continue.

Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book

"These companies have invested hundreds of billions of dollars based on the belief that their use of other people's content is lawful"

Based on the belief that they won't get found out is more likely.

CISA warns spyware crews are breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts

Interesting concept "abusing commercial spyware". I thought spyware was pretty much an abuse as it is.

The Chinese Box and Turing Test: AI has no intelligence at all

"However, when we think of AI as intelligent, we tend to also think they're reliable. They're not"

Humans are generally thought of as intelligent but they certainly aren't reliable all the time. You can't link the two attributes.

Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload

Why is it that Americans seem unable to deal with UK English. We in the UK seem to manage to deal with the US version. We have to. There is never any US to UK translation.

Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch

Re: Last meeting of note

More likely she held on until she had got rid of Boris.

Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV

Re: Cold turkey - like surrogates

A lot of people would also die in an 'electrons pushing through cables deficiency'. I think you would need to be a little more specific in your outage. Sound principle though.