Posts by Felonmarmer 253 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Aug 2012
So the task was comparing two bits of IP (patents presumably), to see if one was infringing on the other. So they must have been fairly similar, just approaching the solution from slightly different directions. So the AI got tied up in knots trying to differentiate between two unbelievably complex bits of text that probably make no sense in themselves let alone in comparison.
The AI gave the correct answer I reckon, both these patents are stupid!
If they used it for party purposes (like this election announcement), other than government purposes then they might have had let the opposition use it too for their announcements. That said use of a brolly and looking at the weather forecast should not have been beyond their powers (or maybe it is).
Yep.
They looked at how Apple made it's billions using child labor in China and thought, we can have a bit of that. But this pesky ECHR is blocking us treating our workers like cattle. What can we do to make people vote for their own downfall? Here's an idea - blame immigrants for everything, they will believe that despite the fact that it's us bring them legally for the most part in to get lower paid workers. But they are mainly European workers who look just like them, do you think they will be stupid enough to get rid of them based on their hatred of brown people, especially when we will have to increase immigration from Asian countries after we block those from Europe after Brexit?
And the answer was yes, they are that stupid. Even now these pages are full of people still thinking it was a good idea.
It's the people who haven't changed their minds that is key (look at the ratio of up/down voting on these pages for a rough idea), and they never will. So this minority will vote for any party that encourages their thinking pretty much regardless of any other issue.
First Past the Post means that this small group of single issue voters can tip voting in a lot of seats one way or another much more easily (or so the politicians and pollsters believe) than people with a broader range of issues and they are more motivated to get out and vote also.
That's the belief anyway, we can only wait and see on July 5th if that translates to actual votes, but no party wants to risk it.
And for the people saying it was 8 years ago, forget it, would they do the same if it went the other way by the same margin. When it looked like it was going against, Farage came out and said it's not over and they would push for a another referendum until they got their way.
"Even if it was completely faked, even if it was proven to be completely faked, some people would still believe it."
Even if it was nothing like her, some people would still believe it.
Look-a-likes and impressionists out of a job too from the sound of it, a long with all parody accounts. Fairly sure these are currently protected under Fair Use legislation in the US.
Company closed 4 offices and half of mine during Covid. Relocated all the staff to the half of mine that was left so we have 500 or so assigned to 125 seats of which 25 or so are permanently pinched by admin, graduates and mid management types. Not IT support though, that's all over in Poland these days.
Now they say we are all expected to come in 2 days a week. so that's 1000 person days per week with a capacity of 500 person days.
The prompt for those Dune images was specifically asking a screenshot from the 2021 trailer. Sure that might be copyright infringement depending on how it's used, but no more so than taking a screenshot directly.
It's using the AI as a search engine, not asking it to do anything different from the original.
The problem is that some papers have published stories based on other papers original stories for as long as journalism has been around and as long as they have rewritten it so it's not a word for word copy and reference the original where needed it's not breaking copyright.
So why when it's an AI doing the same is it now breaking copyright?
Artists certainly develop their own style over time, but I doubt there are many that start that way - they learn by copying (being influenced) by others.
The copyright argument seems to hinge on one aspect, that what AI training does is different from when people do it in terms of legality. It's something that doesn't really get covered in current legislation, but that argument has already be widened in cases to include showing people where to download copyrighted material (Pirate Bay) and the use of particular software that uploads as it downloads (torrents), so it could potentially be widened to include AI training.
I think something like the way musicians get paid for radio broadcasts of their works might be the way it goes for AI use of copyright material. It's that or leave AI to countries where they don't care about copyright.
Every office had a "twatwaffle". Our one was an office manager who used to walk about with a headset talking loudly in fluent management bollocks so everyone could see how important he was. His main job was to sign off the admins staff timesheets and leave requests as far as we could tell.
God knows what he does now with WFH.
Our company is trying to get us to be more hybrid, but they closed half the office, closed 4 other offices and merged them to the half sized one, so we have 500+ staff assigned to 125 seats (some of which permanently booked by admin and managers who don't know what to do unless they can see other people working) and the odds of getting a desk are slim anyway. All my work involves project teams from across the world, so all I'll be doing in the office with regard to meeting people would be Teams meetings I do at home anyway.
So far I've managed to avoid coming in because there's no logical argument for it, but logic won't hold up forever when dealing with management.
Looking at what people are posting as evidence that they are posting hate speech is against X's terms and conditions.
I can't see that working in court, or looking at bank accounts to find evidence of criminal activities would go out the window. It would take a lot of traffic of Cypriot banks though if all banks could carry out dodgy transactions without fear of exposure.
If they do.
My understanding is that Books 1 to 3 contain originally pilfered material which have been made available by the pilferers for use by others. If they contain processed material then there's an element of open-sourcing going on, albeit without out the originators consent.
The truth is the law on copyright was not set up to cover this sort of stuff and some new legislation and agreement is needed. But you won't get world wide agreement for any new stuff like they could get for the base copyright protection laws because some states which very much want to ignore copyright in this case won't agree to it.
Remember what Rwanda used to be infamous for, before becoming an unexpected destination for asylum seekers.
Yep one bunch of locals committed acts of genocide on another bunch of locals. The racial stereotype they used to identify the other side was height. To Europeans it didn't appear to be racist, but it was.
You list a number of characteristics for Braverman to "prove" she's not racist, but one characteristic stands out by it's absence, and that's the main one she's being accused of racism towards.
I admit I don't like her, but that's political, I'm allowed not to.
"Once there is limited work, how will the economy be managed? If people aren't needed for work, what will they be needed for? Even leisure activities (including entertainment) will need to become autonomous? If nobody earns a wage, the state will need to support."
Either everything is free and provided by the state, and money ceases to exist, or some form of universal income is provided which means permanent relative poverty for most and Musk and Co living it up being so rich that for them there is no money (not far from where we are now).
Couple this with Sunak's advice to risk it all on going into business, when 60% of all start-ups fail in the first year (and that's right now, let alone when everybody is doing it and we are all competing for the same customers) and you can see what they mean for us and them. Imagining betting your career and livelihood on a gamble with less than a 50-50 payout? Rishi Sunak can.
Musk is selling us Star Trek, but we are going to get Bladerunner (without the flying cars).
Never rule anything out, after all nothing new was revealed about Johnson, we all knew what he was like. Hancock however has gone down a few grades.
Apply D&D advice, the monster is not dead until you have cut of it's head and burned it and it's body in separate fires and buried the ashes in multiple locations, and even then be wary.
This is a message to any company who is using YouTube to show adverts. YouTube doesn't care that it's showing adverts to people who don't want to buy the product, but you should as they are charging you. If I'm forced to sit through an advert for your product I will not buy it. If I want a product of that type and yours is on the shelf with a bunch of alternatives, I will buy one of the alternatives.
People who use an ad-blocker all think the same way, it's why we use them. So get together and tell YouTube/Google/Alphabet that forcing people who actively block adverts to look at them is going to hurt your business. Because it will.
If you like the idea of targeted adverts, this is the opposite effect. We might of bought your product anyway, but you are ensuring we don't. So save your money and tell YouTube to see sense.
I flipped burgers for a summer between school and university, so did my brother.
I worked for British Rails in-house burger chain, Casey Jones. I didn't join the union as I was only going to be there for 3 months or so, but the job still benefited from union influence - reasonable pay, free food and good working conditions (for burger flipping).
My brother joined the cult that is McDonalds. Half the pay I got, begging the manager for "courtesy cups" of drink these were about half the size of the smallest cup they sell and they didn't expect you to need more than 2 per shift regardless of heat. Anyone who said anything negative was fired on the spot.
It's the American way. Later in my career my British company was acquired by an American one. They thought our Staff Council, which is what we called the Staff Reps required by law was some kind of commie plot. They were shocked they couldn't just sack anyone they wanted without notice. One global team had members in New York, during a round of redundancy they were just moved to zero hours contracts and not given any work. They couldn't even get a new job without quitting and forbidden from working for another company while contracted to their existing one, which of course meant that they were leaving voluntarily and not being made redundant in the eyes of American law.
Amazon and others are exporting their cultish working practices to the rest of the world, only moving the absolute minimum they need to to get away with them in other countries.
Looked it up on Google, that looks just like it! Even had that pocket on the side with a manual in that some of the photos show.
Cheers, nice to know I wasn't imagining it as some thought.
Yep the degauss was quite impressive, used to scare the crap out of me when I first started using it.
A company I worked at had an old terminal (green text type) connected to a digitising table. The terminal needed degaussing quite often (with a button on the side) to clear the text which was semi persistent as did the digitising table with a large magnetic sweeper.
Guess where they stored the back-up tapes from the MicroVAX that ran the office network?
Either you went to the same place as me, or it's more than one lecturer who did this.
His reply when asked a question in the first lecture - "I'm not a teacher, I'm a lecturer. I'm here to talk at you, not answer questions."
His lectures consisted of reading out manufacturers chip specifications, none of which he said would feature in the exams.
He said the final exam would solely consist of questions taken from his book, of which there were two copies in the university library, so if we wanted to pass we would have to buy a copy.
He also did the usual trick of getting masters and phd students to effectively write his next book.
He put me totally off the topic of computer hardware, something that I've only started looking at again recently from online vids like Ben Eater's 8 bit computer series. Now he would have been a good lecturer.
Latest versions of Photoshop, used in creation of much digital art whose creators claim copyright, have AI tools within them such as Generative Fill.
So at what level does the mechanical process in those tools take precedence over the artistic choice to use the tool?
How about a bucket on a string with a hole punched in it, spilling paint on a canvas, running entirely on the mechanical process of gravity and hydrodynamics?
US Gov : All CPUs capable of IO speeds greater than 600GB/sec are banned from exporting to China!
Company : OK, we'll make some 600GB/sec versions for export.
US Gov : You are just trying to get around the ban! We'll impose a lower limit!
Company : OK, we'll make some versions at that limit.
US Gov : There you go again, trying to get around the ban!
I don't expect politicians to know technical details, but I do expect them to know about concepts such as "greater than" and "less than".
One way to do it would be with another AI trained on negative data, a list of proscribed results that the first AI passes it's output to and the second AI assesses that output against it's database of blacklisted info and automatically redacts the output.
It would need to store info on what needs to be forgotten though so would fail that test, but surely when a request to be forgotten is put in, that request is stored somewhere also? How under the current system do you check that the forbidden knowledge is not relearned?
If the redacting AI has a much smaller set of info than the main AI, then it could be used as an interim measure until the main AI LLM is updated, solving the time issue.
"Some tasks, like requesting information from specific military units, can sometimes take staff hours or days to complete, but large language models can provide data within minutes."
Only takes minutes if the info is already included in the LLM. How long does it take for the info to get compiled, and how do you ensure it's not out of date?
Looks like replacing a simple telephone call to the unit, with having to employ someone in each unit whose entire job is updating the LLM. Not to mention ArmyGPT making stuff up when it doesn't have the answer.
The copying when you feed into the system isn't the copyright infringement though - it's publishing the info afterwards.
I can cut and paste into a word doc, go through and rewrite it in my own words and it becomes a new work, derivative sure, but that's allowed as fair use in many jurisdictions (like the USA for example, where the first AI copyright trials are taking place). And they are civil claims as well, not criminal cases, so it will come down to who has the most money for their lawyers.
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