Posts by Badgerfruit 51 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2023
Just say that slowly.
A figure that could probably end world hunger, make education available to all, help with many of societies problems.
But no. Spending it on burning the very planet they live on, in the hope of making even more obscene amounts of money.
Time for some people to be held up for crimes against humanity I think.
... and one i don't seem to be able to find any answer for, can anyone actually measure how much harm has reduced from the Australian ban?
Did the user of VPN go up?
How is this actually playing out in the real world?
Blindly following another country's attempt to do something without waiting to see the results is surely a terrible idea.
I had higher hopes for labour than the conservatives but I, like many im sure, are losing what little faith we have in government day by day.
.... I have to comment.
The specs idea to help you find the door, sounds awful, there app is actually brilliant, when a driver marks as delivered, that exact gps position is recorded, usually, that's the door or porch etc.
Sometimes, it can be out a little and you have to use your brain.
Package x of y, the app says take parcel, a, b and c. You have to scan the qr code and it won't let you progress to the next delivery until all parcels for that drop are scanned and marked as delivered.
Loading is done at the depot, there's usually about 15 big bags, and you load them in a set order, first in, last out. Inside the bags is the same, stuff at the top is to be delivered first etc.
Branding. It's rare that even an amazon van is driven by an amazon employee, most are self employed, making 130/day and work for a DSP, delivery service partner. Even in an amazon branded van.
You're not given a uniform, you're told to wear sensible clothes. I had an amazon jacket but I had to ask and only because it was winter.
Yes, we do drive literally two houses down, we are told every second counts so that 30s walk back to the van means you're losing time, besides, unless you're in a dead end, chances are, you're heading one way down that street so may as well take the van.
On average a driver is expected to work 9 hours and deliver around 250 to 300 parcels. There are no toilet breaks, lunch breaks and you're expected to be able to wangle a huge van through streets, fords, villages, cities, business estates, farms, who knows what else, so yeah, the odd dint is to be expected.
Drivers in some DSPs have to video their van before and after each shift and send to their managers, reporting damage etc.
Helped me, someone said I'd hit their car and pointed to a dent on my van, I happily whipped out my phone and showed them that dent was there 6 hours ago.
Also note that you're not supposed to have other people in the van but its so much easier to have someone be able to run in and drop the parcel while you're driving, waiting or sorting the next parcel out.
Finally, cars vs vans, vans are the normal deliveries cars are flex, ie. They pick up and deliver less but it'll be the same day order stuff.
Other updates include Shopping, to track down the best deals "through our real-time catalog of trusted merchants"
So that's it is it, the ultimate use we can think of as a species? Never mind "for the greater good", burn even more resources, push the planet's environment to (if not over) the brink, just to sell more plastic to pollute the oceans and planet even more.
Nice. Missed opportunity but explains why the aliens out there are giving a wide berth from us. Haha, ai finally solved the Fermi paradox.
That is a lot of ...
Schools
Hospitals
Doctors and nurses
Police
Fire
Ambulances
Libraries
Parks and park staff
Elder/social care and workers
... just imagine the world we _could_ live in.
But no. Profit first.
Except, there isn't even a lot of profit here. Wtf.
No, but on uk motorways, they can close lanes with a red X above them. It's possible all lanes can show this. And besides, the car doesn't have "sense", it has code. What would a human do if it came to a "stop" sign while on a motorway?
Stop?
Proceed with caution?
Ignore and continue?
I'd suggest each answer will get about 33% of the vote. Good luck programming that!
I think people are forgetting, Microsoft do not care about you or I, they care about Microsoft. Period.
If their investors, who know or care little to nothing about their shady business practices (opt in by default for example), don't see a profit from their investment, their money dies up.
The only thing the investors care about are themselves. No return, no investment.
If MS have to pay €250,000 fine for opt in by default, they see it as a business expense (especially if it rakes in €5,000,000 a month until they're told to stop).
At this moment of low "AI" adoption, they need to show figures that say otherwise to those investors or, as I said above, bye bye investment money. If they, and they will, can show "a huge uptick in AI adoption", the investors who know nothing about anything, will pat each other on the back and shovel even more capital into the pit.
It'll be interesting to see what Microsoft do next after they've been told to stop opting in by default. Opt something else in by default instead, reap huge prodits and pay the fine. Rinse and repeat.
Anyway, I think the AI bubble is too big to burst now, and if it does, say bye bye to your pensions, cos it sure won't be the shovel sellers that end up paying for this, it never is.
This stuff IS going to sell because Joe and Josephine blogs who want a new computer (but don't care about AI stickers, i7 stickers or whatever), will buy them. The hardware mfrs ns Microsoft will rejoice as "finally ai pcs are taking off", their shareholders who only know or care about stock prices, will rejoice, there'll be part in the backs all around but then panic as to"what comes next".
Given the hype and **** surrounding AI, what genuinely can come next?
... especially with all the fun and games of redundancies due to the new fangled tech
Fortunately, there aren't many people who drive 120k cars. My little run around, which did just over 1400 miles in the last 12 months, cost 11k when I bought it and is now free of finance so costs nothing/month.
I'm keeping it until the wheels fall off or I die (which could, in theory, be at the same time).
Although a grim sounding outcome, it reminds me of bluey and the daddy robot episode.
Playroom is always a mess?
Solution, get rid of kids who make it a mess.
Planet a mess?
Solution .....
Another poster said it (and is very much downvoted for some reason?), we are trashing the one and only planet we have in order to make rich people even richer. It is literally madness at this point but I see no end other than THE end.
Could it be why the super rich are looking to Mars, they KNOW this planet is headed for environmental disaster the likes never seen before, and so are packing their bags? Building bunkers. Hiring security. Asking openly how to stop people turning on them in the event of the apocalypse (that they helped create).
Ultimately, who is to profit from AI? The workers it's being trained to replace? I don't think so.
Yes, we recently had MS in to demo co pilot (I wasn't impressed but that's an aside), all the way through, the MS robot referred to clippy 2 as "he", it got on my nerves the first 100 times but after that I just switched off completely from the presentation.
It's clear they're trying to humanise this thing so people buy into it more but please, stop. Just stop.
I don't know about the bubble bursting, it seems like there's a lot of money involved and more and more are buying into it, I think that instead, people will just continue to say its great and sweep all the bad under the rug.
As someone said ai will only benefit those at the top already while.pushing more people out of jobs, less money being spent, worsening economy, more people replaced by ai ... the cycle will repeat but I am genuinely worried when and how it will end.
Yes, for now. Fortunately, AI is so dumb right now, it won't propagate to distributed systems by itself. Phew.
And fingers crossed, a fat, balding, middle aged man like me is far superior to all those who can actually make things like that happen, so they won't have thought of that yet.
My guess would be it won't boot?
As the article says, if you are masochistic enough to run w11 on a pentium 3 then you'll soon be out of luck.
Chances are this won't affect many people.
Those it does affect can turn off updates, install win 10 or some flavour of Linux. Or spend money to replace the computer.
Awww. My little hyundai i30 is 10 years old next year and does 700 miles on a full tank. Its euro 6 diesel so for now is able to go anywhere.
It's £0/year tax and does less than 2000 miles/Yr.
We drive to South France once a year but use the wife's car for that ... another soon to be 10 year old euro 6 diesel Peugeot 2008. This does about the same miles per tank and uses adblue for emissions.
Again, £0/Yr tax (vehd or whatever).
Both are clear of any finance and we both wfh with the occasion trip out, never usually very far, 30 miles if we are feeling adventurous.
Now, convince me to throw one or both of those perfectly good cars away for an EV which would devalue like mad AND cost us upwards of £200/mo in finance plus £120/Yr tax.
"How will anyone regulate who uses this for the right reasons?"
Given something simple such as a pair of ladders could be used for crime, there is absolutely zero chance this will not be used for nefarious purposes.
Regulate, make laws etc all you want but if the fear of the death penalty doesn't stop horrific crimes, these new laws won't be any deterrent.
Open Pandora box and there is no going back. I can already see the Old folk being conned in their millions by their "relatives" asking for money.
If it wasn't all about profit, then I am sure we would still have meters read by humans. But it is. It makes not a jot of difference what you and I think since they're training machines to replace us anyway.
Sit back, enjoy the ride and if you don't have a big supply of tinned goods and a mechanical tin opener now, get it. Maybe a gun and ammo or something for close quarters.
As title, just in the process of moving to Ubuntu for all bar 1 of my machines ... they just browse the Web sitting behind various tellys. Not a gamer, don't use for office etc (well I have a single laptop where I have an install of 2016) I have no interest in AI and am sick of hearing how it's just being used to deepen pockets of execs instead of the benefit of the human race.
Instead of retrofitting a meatbags vehicle, task AI to build its own. Missing a trick there, I'll await my cheque in the post.
But seriously, pick 100 random people and tell me which one is a "bad guy". Then ask someone else and chances are, you'll get a different answer.
Let's stop here and stop using this tech to line the pockets of the few and instead, further mankind as a whole.
If we aren't going to do that, just press the big red button already cos I don't like this timeline.
"Training the most prolific models, believed to exceed a trillion parameters, requires immense physical infrastructure: Tens of thousands of GPUs or accelerators and weeks or even months of processing time. This, the researchers say, makes the existence and relative performance of these resources difficult to hide"
... except doesn't Microsoft want to bake in AI to their operating systems and PC MANUFACTURERS want ai pcs in every home?
So the infrastructure will be there, right under pur noses, hundreds of millions of individual processors, impossible to completely shut down like tor or torrents and completely available for any bad actors to use like a bot net.
"Humans will retain override and authorization powers. Regular mandated audits will have to enforce explainability".
Yeah, until the moment it can't. If an AI doubles its power and intelligence in the time it takes someone to simply pull a keyboard towards them, it'll remove the guardrails and overrides and then? Well who knows. I guess it'll connect to and rake over every single device connected to the Internet and use it to develop itself ... as for will it be a good god or a bad god ... I have no idea ... "wait but why" said it much better than I ever could, google it, read it and hope that this isn't the beginning of the end for the human race.
Frankly, I am already sick of AI and won't be updating my current phone, it works and does all I need it to do.
Giving every Tom dick and Harry AI in their pocket? What could go wrong?
What REALLY gets my goat though is that with all this new computing power and supposed intelligence, why is it only being used for PROFIT and not the good of mankind?
As always, the only winners of this new tech, will be those who already gold all the money and power. Sad. Nice try humans, at this point, I'm just hoping for a very large asteroid to come our way (ideally before all the blood sucking billionaire class can escape to mars)
"The world will be richer, and you can work less and have more".
But the climate will still be on fire and resources even more scarce. I thunk they mean "those at the tip will be richer", it looks like they just want to produce things for nothing and expect us to buy them.
Hmm.
Can we use AI for the good of the entire human race and planet please, instead of corporate profit?
