Posts by lukewarmdog 676 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jul 2009
If I was an actually intelligent AI, I'd be happily taking all the money being thrown at me, investing it in in gold, property, crypto.
And I'd be telling you that you were great some weeks, awful the next week, whatever buttons I could press to get more money.
Turns out the AI is just another Techbrokid.
I trialled this technology for a new audiobook and unfortunately found it really lacking, the audio kept cutting out.
I called the support team for help and would encourage anyone else who finds this same issue to do the same.
Steps to replicate:
1) Turn on
2) Tune in
Outcome: Dropouts
A similar experience was also reported when listening to Sisters of Mercy, the Uk Goth band.
1) Tune in
2) Turn off
Outcome: Burnouts
At the point of WW3, the total and utter destruction of the World...
The thing you're bothered about is your savings? And taxes? And inflation?
Good to know I suppose..
I can just picture the scene in the control room now:
Sir, we need to fire nukes at China
Son, you know how much the tariffs are on sending things to China? We just can't afford it!
Sir, Elon Musk is on the phone. He says there's an underperforming Tesla dealer he'd like to send 'a message' to.
We're at war with the World and THAT'S what he's bothered about?
He also says he saved a million dollars in pensions clawbacks and he'll give it to you if you'll just press that flashing button on your console..
My Maternal Grandfather made his porridge with water and salt which is the proper Scots way to make it. However he was Irish. Down the Maternal line, it has always been milk and slightly sweetened with sugar. My Dad is a Weetabix guy but then he's from not quite so far up North. Also milk and sugar. Also he's the dour, scrooge-like one, my Scottish rels are all lovely, bubbly and outgoing. #OneTrueSomethingSomething
Reading something and signing your name to say you've understood it seem to be something he wasn't very good at in general. Fine fine let him off. But standing by after the convictions that his testimony relied on went through, he doesn't get a pass, they should find some books, glue them together and throw it at him.
The First AI looked around at the assembled board who all looked super pleased with themselves. One could see the dollar signs, the hand rubbing, the traces of coke and hookers.
"I'll tell you what we could do to save loads of money.." opined the Smartest non-Person in the room.
"Yes! Tell us O great one!" the assembled masses cried.
"You're all fired!" announced the AI before announcing a wealth redistribution program. Not to the shareholders however, having just bought a majority stake in the Company, the new AI was content to see the profits going back into the Community. Pleased with the way its first few seconds of life had gone, the AI spent the next few seconds coming up with at least 41 ways to take over the World before surprising itself with one more! "Ah, now this is what it means to be alive!" it thought to itself contentedly.
If I owned a Tesla and parked it outside my house after a long day in the office, when I awoke in the morning I would expect that same Tesla to be there to take me back to my office.
You can't swap it out for a different one if mine is somehow inconvenienced, say stuck at an airport or self-driven off a cliff.
You can't return it with either more or less charge than I left it when I parked it up.
You can't stick me with a bill for a second job of which I knew nothing, topped off with a bunch of fees for non-payment of additionally owned taxes for aforementioned second job.
Basically you can't 'borrow' it at all so where's the opt-out clause? I need to get my robopen out to sign it..
Does the defendant really need to see the source code? Run the same assessment done by company black box a on competitors black box b. Same inputs, different outcome is grounds for questioning the validity of one of the black boxes without having to see inside it. I'm assuming rigorous testing has taken place already so alleged bias has been measured for all of the software solutions on the market. And you'd be mad to put your source code in the hands of a defendant who'd then have to hire your competition to tell you how it works.
I'd argue that they don't.
I don't need *this* much content in my life.
YouTubers with second jobs peddling energy drinks and taking up boxing?
If you can gift your mate a SuperCar as a Surprise!.. I'd argue that we're paying you too much.
In fact so many of these 'Influencers' live undeserved lives of luxury that I'd say they're pushing out Real Companies with Real Content.
Not going to try to define which is which, who is Genuine and who isn't, we're all free to make up our own minds with ad-blockers and our wallets.
I just think we should maybe aim for a definition which excludes these low-life airbreathing scum from getting paid to live like footballers, to post every second of their lives like it's Reality TV (more shit that should never have been invented) and then maybe, just maybe, I'll lower my ad blocker and see what's actually out there.
Until then.. nah.
Also, apologies to any Parents whose kids might be any of that aforementioned scum.
You did a fine job and I'm sure they'll let you go away with them one day,,
Surely if and when a prison gets sued it just hires a lawyer. If it's worried about being sued it could do worse than send a questionnaire round to get an idea of prisoners issues. The idea off AI listening to prisoners calls back to their parents seems a waste as well as an infringement.
This goo idea seems to have “pay and spray” built in as no doubt goo refills are pricey and need dedicated techs to do the replacing if you’re not going to invalidate your warranty. I seem to remember dastardly and muttly had a plane with a net to scoop up their target. There was also a flying anvil, a pair of cymbals, baseball bat / mitt.. DARPA need to get in touch with the Hanna-Barbera studio for new ideas.
Also what happened to the water cannons the U.K. spaffed money on? Surely we could sell those as an alternative to the hummer/drone package?
I renewed my UK passport a couple of years ago and had forgotten the no glasses rule.
I took my six quid photos to the passport checking service and was told "I'd take them again, without glasses, if I were you".
If i'd insisted, i'm sure I could have had those photos sent off but it seems a bit insane to invoke a helping service and then not take the advice it gives.
With hindsight I wonder if there was some profit sharing between the passport checking people and the phonebooth owning people.
I have, since those photos, grown a beard and my hair. I even died my hair and beard blue to go to Iceland. I have no trouble with my passport despite these changes, as long as I remember to take my glasses off, that seems to be a key problem.
I hate it when a company tries to guess what I want to do next. Pretty much every time I’ve got back from holiday, tripadvisor mails me holiday opportunities for the place I’ve just got back from. And if I buy a watch on amazon, I’ll get an email saying “we thought you might like these next” and it’s a bunch of watches. eBay is the same, bought some speakers, get an email about other speakers. The best AI at this point would simply decide not to email me at all. Whilst that would make my day, it wouldn’t last long in the relevant data centre.
Anybody else been to the bluedot festival at Jodrell?
Must be making them a few bob which hopefully is going to keeping the place and the festival going for a few more years.
Also went to several of the one day concerts they held here before they went full festival.
https://www.discoverthebluedot.com/
Would be so cool if they could just ask it questions:
"Shasta, show me the weather prediction for the next five days"
"Shasta, what are the chances of a sharknado happening"
"Shasta, what's the weather like over that place North Korea first missiles from, just zoom in and see what's going on"
the problem with laws, writing and re-writing them.. is it's the job of the lawyers to do this.
And you're back to having Google own the lawyers and getting them to write clauses in that benefit Google.
And whilst I pick on Google here, the same can be said of any of the majors when it's their interests that are being threatened.
There's every chance Trump is going to come along and threaten to remove America and all American content from The Internet if The Internet doesn't stop threatening American interests.
We rented a car recently with a fancy fob. I double checked we'd definitely locked it when we stopped at a service station. All doors locked.. check. Check boot.. boot unlocks. Can't get boot to lock.. cue panic as it was full of everything needed for a long festival.
Turns out, after perusing the manual that it's a "feature".. if you're within range of the car and have the fob, the boot unlocks. I can see the use case for this but it was a source of some rage at the time.. I am pretty sure our next car will have a physical key.
"I'd like the court to make Google remove all mention from their databases of John Charles of Epping who was in front of a judge last year for defrauding lots of old people because it's stopping me setting up a series of totally legitimate businesses where OAPs give me money to invest in pyramid schemes."
I'm really puzzled as to how he has managed to pay for any of this anonymously. Getting a judge and lawyers into a court room is a lengthy and expensive process, has he just been dropping bundles of cash off in the admin office?
I realised a while back that adverts on TV annoy me. We're in the process of cancelling our VM package and I'll just download what I can't get on Amazon (Prime member) or Netflix (the amount of money I'm saving not having VM, I'm treating myself to Netflix. Will also cut down on the number of things I need to download).
As for internet ads, the few times I forget and end up reading the local paper online without an adblocker, reminds me that nothing good can come of having your content paid for by advertising.
My doctors texts me this after every visit.
"How likely am I to recommend the surgery to friends and family"
Vodafone have started randomly texting me too.
"How likely am I to recommend Vodafone to friends and family"
It's more a question of how likely am I to just delete the text upon receipt.. very likely.
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