Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations

Artificial Ignorance - screwing things up with a speed they've never been screwed up at before....

Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000

You know, if you greedily horde a trillion dollars in a world full of starving and suffering people, you're just an ignorant asshole, not somebody to be admired in the least. :(

And the pyramid scam of Musk's fraudulent claims of what is going to be delivered continues unabated... fed by people too stupid to realize he's nothing more than a spoiled rich-kid con-artist who has personally invented absolutely nothing and personally created absolutely nothing, just been there to invest and demand control, followed by outright lies about the capabilities and plans of the business to boost the stocks.

OpenAI could go from AI pioneer to AI's BlackBerry, says Forrester

They're all going to become "cautionary tales" about how foolish it is to believe a pyramid scam's fraud and hype. But the investment community won't learn a damned thing; they'll chase the next hype bubble in 5-10 years with the same abject ignorance about how what is being sold actually works and what it really can do vs. the empty promises of corporate advertising and media posts.

Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips'

Re: AWS is... overpriced?

Plus they got a stock bonus for laying off all the techies. :(

Let's face it: nothing in humanity's history has ever been as over-hyped as the current generation of so-called "Artificial Intelligence." Even the energy behind implementing and delivering Expert Systems in the '80s and '90s didn't reach a fraction of the hype. So of course Amazon is jumping on the hype bandwagon, like everyone else who thinks that because they added an "if" statement their code is now "intelligent."

Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked

Maybe try using a company to do the work that isn't going to hoover UK citizens data and feed it to the American spy networks. I don't blame anyone for objecting to deals with Palantir who isn't based in America.

Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts

I find it highly amusing that "American designed" means "we sprayed fake gold on it like Trump's fake tan."

Good old America, where obsolete Chinese technology is marketed as "the biggest thing EVER!"

Apple version of Office 2019 becomes useless in a month

Not true at all; people hold car manufacturers to task all the time, not the dealerships.

Re: All is probably not lost

If a bloody spreadsheet app is your "decision point" I sure hope you are not responsible for any company purchasing decisions.

You can always use LibreOffice for free; to hell with the "Microsoft Tax." Then again, maybe Apple users like paying corporate taxes; they sure like paying Apple's!

If your sex life is dead, you can blame Steve Jobs

Re: Our country does anti-support children

You can't have a mass shooting without guns; case closed, propagandist.

Dude, seriously? You think I'm going to pass on an opportunity to get laid because I'm playing with my phone?!?!?!?!

Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'

You're digging at old "issues" that have ALREADY turned out to be a tempest in a teapot from the whack job conspiracy theorists and anti-Liberal bullshit spewers who make up CRAP about our government because they want the Blue Sippy Cup to win the election instead of the Red Sippy Cup.

Interesting. The legislation in question has been leaked, and says absolutely nothing like what you are accusing Canada of. Rather, they're proposing age restrictions and national legislation regulating social media. That's why these companies are "leaving" - they don't want to enforce age restrictions on their applications.

Tough shit. You do not have a "right" to the Canadian market without following our legislation and laws. Screw America's "freedom of speech" fraud that lets neo-Nazi's like Musk spread hatred and misinformation at will!

Trust me, we've got our share of whack-jobs like Trump in this country, too (I'm glaring at you, Smith and Polliviere!)

Funny how the UK and the US are both obsessed with Orwellian surveillance beyond even that posited by "1984."

SpacemiT shows off usably quick RISC-V mini desktop

Disappointing - if they want to grow the RISC-V market and support, they're going to have to come up with much better pricing, especially considering that RISC-V comes without all the licensing issues and costs most other processors incur. RISC-V has to be cheaper than ARM hardware to succeed and grow, despite China's internal support for it.

Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway

Correction: Devs know the code is schite, but management and sales insist on shipping it anyhow because "schedules..."

Kyndryl showers execs with shares while staff ponder redundancy packages

Nothing says "bonus" like shedding a bunch of people who were only the lifeblood of the business... the excuse of the day is "because AI", but it really doesn't matter what the excuse is. The investors are stupid enough to believe you can cut your way to profitability.

Canonical sends Ubuntu into the AI agent era

And Ubuntu just put a HUGE shotgun to their User's heads and said "use it or else; we're JUST like Microsquishy!"

'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says

It would be good for the energy hog of AI to be replaced by something somewhat more CPU-efficient in many cases. https://github.com/msobkow/org.msscf.msscf.v2_13-installer/releases/tag/alpha02 See https://github.com/msobkow/org.msscf.msscf.v2_13-installer for instructions.

Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security

Der Pumpin Fuhrer Trump is Der Brainless Freakin' Flop when it comes to environmental issues. What a suicidal FOOL!

UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract

No, it means you're in denial about your own bigotry because you just made excuses for blaming the vulnerable for societies problems "over here." Double down vote for that.

Down vote for the voiced anti-immigrant spin. Immigrants are not to blame for anything that the right-wing politicians and groups like to blame them for; they just like to blame someone for their woes, and the immigrants are "easy" targets because many of them don't even speak well enough to argue in defence of themselves.

Take the Conservative and right-wing groups in Canada blaming immigrants for "taking up all the housing."

That's utter nonsense. We're in this plight because a Conservative government in the '90s cancelled the low-income housing support programs that built all the low-income housing still in use today. Can't have a Liberal initiated program surviving a Conservative government. Hell, no, it's "cost cutting" and "saving money", yet the Conservative party has historically produced the largest Canadian deficits in history...

The fact that they hired a spy company to run NHS just shows the fact that they think most users and claimants are abusing the system. Shame on them for treating the public so shamefully just so they can send kickbacks to one of Trump's favourite money pits...

No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel

The first thing to be replaced by such a system should be the Board of Directors, the CEO, the CFO, and anybody else involved in the heinously stupid decision to trust Artificial Ignorance that far... that's a firing level of incompetence or malfeasance, if not a lawsuit in the offing from shareholders.

US firms still dominate chip subsidies

But of course the US government is all bent-out-of-shape and screaming about Chinese government support for their tech industries.

Pot, meet kettle...

Anthropic, now atop the AI bubble, files for its IPO

They'd better cash in while they can; the bubble is starting to burst. Prices are going up, developers are revolting, and the only customer base that will be able to afford Artificial Ignorance online services in the future are large enterprises with deep pockets. You'll have to start doing your own coding again, lazy bones!

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Re: The first one is free...

Hence "start doing your own damned work again."

Re: The first one is free...

This. 110% this.

Even companies with actual deep pockets, like Microsoft, and unlike the pyramid scams known as OpenAI or Anthropic that are funded entirely by investments, are starting to feel the demand from their investor base to answer the question: "Where's my ROI?"

Artificial Ignorance service provisioning is no different than any other business; costs have to be covered. And that processing hardware is not cheap, nor is creating the models, and nor is running that processing hardware when you're looking at such scope and scale.

I expect most "personal developers" are going to have to give up on the current crop of AI tools; they're about to become much too expensive for personal use. Time to learn how to leverage a local model and put up with it's limitations and start doing your own damned work again!

FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right

Trump is just lining up to go after a certain publicly funded broadcaster for giving Colbert a home...

"Mama, make the bad comedian go away!" *LOL*

Trump's AI E-(I)-O could let feds pick winners and losers

Bottom line: Trump won't deal with anyone that isn't kissing his ass and paying kickbacks. "Open market?" Fascists don't actually believe in that. They believe in what an open market calls illegal monopoly abuse.

Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine

Re: Excessive devotion to anyone or anything other than God is idolatry

Bingo. Every "true believers" in any religion consider other religions to be silly bullshit at best; I just lump their religion in with the rest and consider all of them to be bullshit.

Funny how so many of us atheists were raised "Christian", but read the Bible ourselves and saw through mankind's bullshit in the texts.

This yahoo from Anthropic needs to get off the meth, crack, or whatever hard drugs are messing with his brain-pan. The Pope is 100% bang-on with his statement about AI emulating aspects of human intelligence. Anyone who has followed my comments anywhere knows very well that I consider Artificial Ignorance to be a sham and a fraud that isn't even vaguely "intelligent" in any sense of the word.

It's just a very creative way of applying statistics to massive data inputs to try to simulate what the average response to a fragment of text would be.

Sham. Fake. Fraud.

Altman and the whole lot of them. Scam artists fleecing the world, because people don't understand how it works, or apply false equivalencies to describe it.

Experts pour cold borscht on Farage's Russian hack claim

Re: Blatant attempt to distract from the fact that...

It's "classic Conservatism" in the US and Canada to blame the Russians. "New Conservatism" blames the Chinese.

But under no circumstances do they ever accept responsibility themselves; there is always someone they point fingers at when caught in Canada. I'm not surprised to see the same playbook in the UK.

EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project

The whole F-35 program is another example of this type of issue. That is a closed source program, with a huge backlog of maintenance and update requests, so unless you're spending hundreds of billions, you've got years to wait for any tweaks or tuning to your needs. And there is always the fact that Trump let the cat out of the bag about kill switches and crippling capabilities built into the aircraft in case you ever are in battle with American forces (which seems increasingly likely to be in the world's future unless something is done about Der Pumpkin Fuhrer and his incestuous billionaire's club of fascists.)

Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust

Personally I think these failures of Bezos' and Musk's "space capability" is because the organizations are driven by technoweenie dreamers instead of rational people like NASA or the EU's space agency.

Linus Torvalds to ‘start being more hardnosed’ about ‘pointless pull requests’ – some of which come from AIs

Garbage in, garbage out - and Artificial Ignorance was trained on the "wisdom" of the masses. As George Carlin once commented: consider how stupid the average person is, and remember half the people are dumber than that. They're part of the inputs, too... and it shows.

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch with seconds to go

Just so long as the "crypto billionaire" takes Elon with him...

Preferably on one of the exploding models. :)

GPU behemoth Nvidia on track to be world's leading CPU supplier too, says CFO

“Vera will deliver up to 1.5x faster performance per core, 2x performance per watt, and 4x density per rack compared to x86-based alternatives,”

This has always been the case with RISC vs. CISC architectures, no matter what you do with the CISC processors. Simpler is always more efficient and easier to tweak and tune to near optimal levels than something complex. It really doesn't matter what problem set you're looking at, simpler and easier to understand/work with is always the better approach.

Too much "information hiding" means you lose track of what is really happening in your code.

Megalodon chums the waters in 5.5K+ GitHub repo poisonings

You do realize that hosting a "private" repository on a public service cluster is the problem here.

If you had the good sense to set up truly private servers and a truly private network with private VPN access for your people only, you wouldn't have these problems. But you're too cheap to pay tech support staff to maintain such an infrastructure, so on behalf of every laid off technical person in the industry, let me say:

Bend over and squeal, Boy!

Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working

Re: BTW

I'm over 60 years old and started playing with computers when I was the ripe old age of 14 on a TRS-80 Model I, Level I (4K RAM, 4MHz Z-80 8-bit CPU), enjoyed it, had fun making a career out of computers, and am retired but still programming because I still enjoy it! But one thing I've learned is that things change, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, but no matter how much bitching, whining, or complaining I might do, things don't go back to the way I like them.

For example, if it were up to me, the Mate desktop for Linux would be the official version of Gnome, because nothing they have done since Gnome 2 has been worth the effort of spitting on!

Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice

Re: Christians

The operator of the website happily collects "Donations" on "behalf" of The AI God.

Intel's CEO reveals early hiring challenges as bankruptcy concerns deterred top talent

Still with the 10A while other companies have moved on to a fraction of that? I wouldn't want to get hired by Intel, either, if I were looking - they're a bankruptcy waiting to happen. The writing is on the wall; they've lost the battle in AI, they've lost the battle for best performing server CPUs, they've lost the thermal efficiency battle, and they're so behind TSMC et. al. that by the time they play catch up, TSMC will have leapfrogged them another two nodes.

Plex appeal fades as Lifetime Pass jumps to $750

Silly me; I just double click media files on my hard drive. Why the hell would I want to stream my media? Stream it where, when it's illegal to copy or share your media except as physical copies of the originals?

I suppose if I had a bankroll and a passel of kids you might want to let the stream the media to their phones or laptops, but I'd think that to be a vanishingly small market segment.

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

Re: Virtual Porn Networks

Nonsense. Breaking the law doesn't mean being stupid about it and getting caught!

Re: I’d rather ban the Mormon church

If you think porn is "reality", you need to get out of the basement more often, go outside, and talk to people of the opposite sex (or the same sex if that is what turns your gears) without expecting to immediately get laid or being rude and demanding.

The porn industry sells you a Virtual Reality where everyone gets their rocks off for extended periods of time; that is NOT normal life by a long stretch of the imagination. Even since Viagra was invented.

BTW, why do none of the "religious right" ever scream that Viagra should be banned because "Impotence is God's will?"

Bye-bye, Gemini CLI; Google's gone and swapped you for a closed-source AI

All the AI vendors are doing their damndest to lock the developer community in to their toolchain so that they can maximize the extracted profits. Look out, world: the great scam is about to unfold as they try to answer the investors' question: "Where's my ROI?"