Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
There are some areas where "AI" (ie statistical pattern matching") beats humans.
In my background, cell screening and some more general medical imaging - and that's beating human experts who know they are being tested in ideal conditions.
The fancy machines are much better than the 'average' bored and tired user using typical hospital manual equipement.
When you have a president declaring war on Covfefe having an intern in charge of the teleprompter is probably an improvement.
>hearing someone mumble around a mouthful of marbles while the band cranked the distortion to hide their lack of skill was so popular...
Because he is a genius
But there never was a Vietnam war, it's just a story put out by Hollywood.
If there was a war the USA would have won and Vietnam would play baseball and make cars.
Do you see any Vietnamese cars in the USA? No, therefore they couldn't have been a war there.
There's a story from Afghanistan of a unit digging a latrine and finding a buried connex full of weapons.
Thinking it was some special forces secret weapons cache they called an officer who was confused.
He called a sergeant who said he would deal with it. He ordered another group to bury it somewhere else.
What he suspected had happened was a container of weapons were delivered which hadn't been ordered and didn't have paperwork for - so rather than try and sort it out, a previous sergeant had simply buried the mistake and he was continuing the good work.
I'm now suspecting that archaeological finds are actually a bunch of stuff that the Roman Empire sent by mistake and an old hand centurion buried rather than try and sort out the stylus work.
Our fancy new office AC is controlled by a network of artificially intelligent Nest thermostats who apparently hate all humans. As a result it is at a temperature only polar bears and 'Canadian Northern indigenous peoples' would find comfortable.
Working with one of our [she/her] pronoun-ed engineeresses I felt a blast of hot air.
Concerned we were working her, or at least her CPU, too hard I was going to check the computer when she confessed to the under-desk heater.
Seemed like a reasonable engineering solution, although wearing more than a t-shirt which stops above her naval piercing might also help. Not sure I can tell a [she/her] junior report to put on a cardie without sounding like my grandmother and/or being made to go on a course.
In my dealings with Japanese electronics companies, lack of organisation and failure to deliver have never been major problems.
Months of meetings about meetings, who will be present, who will present, making sure everybody is called "san" = yes. Totally project fsckup = no.
How come the govt managed to find Fujitsu ?
But now we will "win".
Afghanistan has no legal exports and needs to import almost all of its food and medicine. We no longer need Pakistan's "cooperation" so can force it go along with embargos on imports.
Then a couple of drone strikes can take out water treatment and sewage works, and any remaining hospitals.
We should be able to engineer a famine that kills easily 20% of the 30million population.
Call it 6 Million dead with no casualties on our side - and we don't even have to pay the gas bill.
The problem is they probably do have lots of safeguards.
Such that it takes 17 levels of sign-off on 8 different security systems by 3 admirals, a field-marshall and 2 popes, to send an email to another dept, and this can only be done from a single Tempest shielded secure terminal in a locked room in a bunker under Rockall.
So as a result the entire system relies on people emailing spreadsheets to each other from private hotmail accounts.
The result of the enquiry will be to add another layer of locks to the door to the bunker ...
