Posts by the Jim bloke 1262 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Apr 2007
Exactly the same experience - was part of my formative Sci-Fi experience, trying to find the various series in the local library.. it did kick start my literary cynicism early - with every book having a more ultimate ultimate weapon, but it was OK.
Managed to get hold of some recently, SF Masterworks maybe? and the attitudes are ~alien.
But he did say the company has heard Windows users' frustrations and will act to assuage them.
"The signal from you is clear: keep going. We intend to,"
Definitely sounds like the telemetry is working really well.. what actions may result from it - probably wont be considered improvements by actual users.
An economic analyst here in Australia (yes, I know, economic analysts have successfully predicted 20 of the last 3 financial crises ..) - has pointed out that whenever China moves into an industry space, profitability moves out..
Something about the corrupt and exploitive robber baron capitalists not being able to keep their ludicrous profit margins if competing against corrupt and exploitive state controlled communists..
Government utilities where I am require data to be submitted in official AutoCAD formats, output by licensed AutoCAD.
So all the work is done in something more functional and less user-hostile, then imported into the one licensed AutoCAD machine in the company, then exported from there.
Essentially the same as paying off a protection racket, or union, or all the other extortion rackets through history...
I can remember various bits of gear deliberately shaped with sloping tops to prevent users from placing things on top - from battery chargers to prevent coffee cups, to silicon graphics workstations... admittedly back then, the kind of monitor to use with a silly G was a substantial structural load.. they also had very prominent power switches - at knee height when they were positioned under a desk..
One of the few bits I remember from the movie World War Z, was the specialist/scientist/expert being given a gun at the start of the mission, then tripping over and killing themselves on attempting to leave the helicopter? (spoiler alert)
The other main bit I remember is an infected somehow locking themselves into an airplane toilet and turning - despite it being a key story mechanic that it only took about 12 seconds from bite to turn...
The Chinese will back his run for 3rd term.
He has done more to make them look good than all the belt and road projects combined. They actually call him 'the nation builder' over there.
It is also in their strategic interests to keep the USA a basket case.
He has also done more to discredit democracy as a valid government type than the communists ever managed.
If Trump was punishing people for making a fool of him... which he does .. then he would be the one most guilty ... which he is... but he cannot accept anything negative, so its just same thing, different day.
Amongst the various excuses for !! OPERATION EPIC FURY !! , the most compelling, and least used, was trying for regime change. Now that we have progressed to Operation Freedom, ( or, how the fuck do we get out of this? ), we are still hoping for regime change - just a bit more ambivalent about which one.
3 out of 3 would be excellent
I occasionally get emails intended for someone in the UK, and more frequently for someone in the US, with the same Gmail account name (full stops not being considered)
Getting an early email address let me get a simple name, which is too short for by modern standards
Also a lot of spam triggered from these addresses.
I expect this change will make things worse - because thats just how the world works.
If the users found a way to bring up a picture of a kitten on screen - they would do it all the time. Dont reward failure.
That said, if I found a software/OS vendors stall at a show, with dodgy links accessible, damn straight i would hit those links.
The Israelis and Americans are using AI to 'identify' targets in Iran, Lebanon and probably elsewhere
The Israelis and Americans are using AI to identify 'targets' in Iran, Lebanon and probably elsewhere
FTFY
Israels exploding pagers and various other precision assassinations, along with the US operations in previous years, would have had human-led intelligence..
The more recent strikes on journalists and aid workers in Gaza.... are also probably human led.. but the most recent ones seem to be more weighted towards "What CAN we hit?", rather than "What SHOULD we hit?".
AI misbehaving making the headlines - would require the media empires to not be invested in the AI hype industry.
There is so much information out there about how bad or incompetent (actually 'incompetent' is 'anthropomorphing' whatever, the real term would be 'unfit for purpose' ) AI is, that the media not following up is damning in itself.
It is the most widespread example of Affirmative Action anywhere everywhere? in the world, Technology users are being required to provide employment - or even give up their own jobs for - completely retarded, incompetent, non functional slop generators.
AI is already disabled.
But we are forced to have it anyway.
The first step in dealing with a problem is recognising you have a problem,
and the LLM vendors are actively shouting down anyevery one who points out the problem..
These guys are saying that they realise the output is a bucket of shit, and are trying to implement quality and reality checks.
if 94.5% of produced output can be failed, then by actually performing some quality control -you know, like meat intelligences are trained to do in the process of growing up- you can deliver a better "AI" product.
Some kind of error checking should have been part of the AI structure from the start, but idiots wanted a chatbot...
It is a measure of the absurdity of our modern culture that this is even suggested.
Because it is somehow too hard to stop the social media giants from hosting this crap, yet totally reasonable to persecute the general public for looking at it...
While nobody outside the marketing distortion field finds it surprising that copilot can produce offensive output, making the claim it may produce 'factually correct'... well, you're going to have to back that one up somehow.
There are many 'factually correct' points of data which contradict the chosen narrative of our information vendors, and AI has been a useful tool to obfuscate these. You can see how letting real information out to the public would be considered a failure by the PTB
this deliberate and deceitful way by abusing the trust placed in her, by making it appear she was working when she was not.
No trust was placed in her, for her to abuse.
if you treat your employees like criminals - its probably something to do with the management..
PH] Umm, OK, design me a Trump class battleship
[Grok] Here you go
[PH] Err, that's another Tesla Cybertruck ...
[G] Yes, they float too and it has Full Self Driving (coming in 2027)
I thought cybertrucks were even less water tolerant than the wicked witch of the west?
oh well, spend all the money that was previously going to science, anyway..
so....
apparently, from Karl Popper..
for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols
..points at Trump, enough said.
