Posts by Radgie Gadgie

AI security startup CEO posts a job. Deepfake candidate applies, inner turmoil ensues

Re: Profile Pics

I get your point. However, I'm really handsome and photogenic, so it's no great shakes for me.

Re: Test

I'll buy you a pint if you don't.

The pain is too recent.

Re: Test

Neither deserved to be employed.

Re: Test

Just one? Schismatic.

Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes

Re: Not sure if this is due to....

They don't accept white mail anymore.

Re: What the hell

Disagree; the problem is the penalty clauses are there - the problem is that they are so convoluted as to be uninterpretable. Or so mendacious as to make any chance of delivering successfully impossible.

The problem is that they (procurement) have no idea WHY this is.

Re: What the hell

A mountain?

A bloody mountain range.

Re: What the hell

Government procurement (and frankly most corporate procurement) teams don't have enough foresight to participate in pensions.

"What's the cost of the pension that offers £1m in 20 years? 10p per month? I see.

And the cost of the scheme that offers £3.50 and a kick in the balls? 9p per month ?"

"Make it 8p per month, so I can claim the 11% reduction to the board to justify my salary and you're on"

Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind

Re: actual intelligence

Why? You'll end up having to do it anyway.

Hobble your AI agents to prevent them from hurting you too badly

yeah, neither will work after the AI has been let loose.

ServiceNow thinks you're doing AI fast and wrong

Re: 'people are not thinking about agentic AI the right way'

And unlike the intern; your AI won't learn from those corrections. Fast forward 10 years, and the replacement oversite staff have been denied the years experience necessary to correct the AI's mistakes.

After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'

Re: Never delete the old web site, only rename it

"if the new version didn't actually work"

You mistyped "when".

Half of tech firms plotting restructures as AI hype bites

Re: Use case for CoPilot

The time I spent writing up the discussions of meetings is now spent pouring through the inaccurate krap put together by CoPilot, in order to find the poison pill that would lead to a sacking if left uncorrected.

What a time to be alive.

Stick around long enough (7-10 years), and you get to see the "decentralization" that will "allow us to focus on support closer to the coal face, and reduce corporate overhead" turn into "leveraging synergies and making a leaner, through a more efficient centralised model".

All while reaping in the bonuses.

That's my company; This is the 57th tool we've been handed and asked to find a use for.

Incredible.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans checking AI didn't make a mistake – forever

I find it much, much harder to comb through the reams of data created looking for the one - small, but lethal - error embedded in the output.

Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s not going well

Re: Why are they using sign language

Obviously deaf people can read, but you have to remember that someone born with a signficant hearing impairment learns how to read in a completely different way to a hearing person.

It's, in effect, another language.

https://www.insignlanguage.co.uk/post/why-can-t-deaf-people-just-read