Posts by FF22

'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director

Only if

Only if that Cyber Director wasn't so incompetent that he would realize that all of Asimov's "I, robot" novels were about exposing and proving

1. that the rules he devised didn't actually work, and,

2. that in a wider sense such universal robotic rules could not be established

because human language is not discrete and subject to interpretation, and because perception is loaded and subjective, which allows very different (sometimes directly opposing) outcomes based on the same rules, never intended by the original creators of the rules.

Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check

Re: "AI, which he thinks has enormous potential – for good and evil."

What?!!! In which world?

For one, you don't even get search results anymore, because AI is used to replace them with the AI Overviews and AI Mode in search.

Also the search results you still get are more and more slop pages generated using AI, because well, they're cheaper to generate and you can generate them in a far larger number than human written pages.

So, search is also definitely something that AI only made worse and will keep making worse, by all means.

"AI, which he thinks has enormous potential – for good and evil."

We've seen plenty of evidence for the potential of evil. But do we really have any evidence for the good?

AI is like the mythological jinn, that tempts you with fortune, endless riches and limitless pleasure, but in the end delivers something that only results in pain, suffering and regret.

It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls

Time capsule?

Is this piece from a time capsule buried in 2022?

If it would have been published that year, it would have been possibly an eye opener for most, even if some of us already knew even back then this coming.

But now, when everyone knows all of this from first hand experience? Talk about being late to the curve.

UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse

Way to ensure it goes unregulated

The surefire way to ensure something goes on to be unregulated is proposing a global governance over it. Especially if that something is currently under the control of the United States Corporation (formerly known USA), because the last thing they would want and do is to submit to a global governance body - especially with the current administration, which is even more corrupt and even more in the pockets int the US billionaires than any preceding one.

That being said this should not deter the rest of the world from such governance efforts, and just let the US destroy itself, now even with AI. Because in the end the AI race is akin to a race about who will jump off the cliff first and die. And you don't want to "win" that race - you want to be the one who sees all the others jump off, and then walk away, learn from their mistakes, and keep continuing living, but without all the greedy sociopaths now.

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

Why the conditional?

The question is not whether the AI bubble will pop and that it will take a large chunk of the rest of the economy with it, but when it will pop and how large that chunk will be. Obviously the larger the later the bubble pops.

Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms

In other words

Google wants a regulation that only hinders its competitors from catching up to it, after it has already taken the lead by refusing not only regulation, but practically ignoring all of copyright law

Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000

Re: On the one hand....

"He's moved all of the stuff that people want to invest in into a single place and then, in a master-stroke, given himself utter control over it. He has a legion of Meme-Minions and fanboys and the tactic backing of a hugely corrupt major world power so, unfortunately, I can't see how this will not succeed."

You just listed all the reasons why it won't succeed. You can fool people and fight against reality only so long.

The question is not when it will all come down crashing, but when will that happen. Elon folding up all of his companies into each other is the perfect proof that all of those business operations are failing.

It's essentially a ponzy scheme, with all the losses being hidden in what's essentially a shell company. But Elon is running out of companies to do that.

"Sadly, betting against Elon doesn't have a terribly good track record."

Oh, it does. Actually, there are barely any examples of Elon being right about something or delivering on something as he originally promised.

Because of that, it's a pretty safe bet to assume that whatever he says will not happen, or not at the time he said, or not the way he said.

The real problem is that a large part of humanity is far too dumb to know or realize that, and is easily parted of his money, or can be tricked into becoming a useful idiot for Elon.

Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY

They would not have been built anyway

After this years IPO and rug pull, those AI datacenters wouldn't have been built anyway. And will not be built for many, many years to come.

Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

Re: Everyone is doing it, that's the point

That's a great excuse for being too lazy for standing up for your own rights and interests. But in reality it always starts with only one company doing it, not all of them. If most of their customers would just stop using their services and refuse to participate in taking advantage of them, then the next company wouldn't even try to do the same thing.

But most consumers are lazy and ignorant - and that's why more and more companies are abusing them - leading to a point where even the most conscious consumers indeed have no choise, and where the decent companies - who did not try to take advantage of their customers - have been driven out of business. But that's the endgame, not where it all started. It all starts with lazy and ignorant consumers, who prioritize short term convenience over long term defending of their interests.

"I think this will work for Google since the internet is now just 1 big advertising machine and/or spy tool. "

That's what they want you to believe, because then you won't resist the forced change, and will actually lean into it, making this very thing a reality. And they have obviously succeeded with you at that.

Like indiscriminate ad blocking on websites (on the false basis that they are all spying on you) is the exact thing that kills small independent websites, while allowing Google os Facebook to thrive (who will still be able to spy on you either way).

Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI

"Like it or not, there's going to be more AI in search going forward"- No, it won't

For one, this is completely subject to copyright laws and antitrust enforcement. Both should prohibit Google from doing this in an actually working democracy with actual free market values.

Also, there will come a breaking point when Google will not deliver any value to websites anymore (well, that's already the case for most of them), and they will start blocking Google's crawler en masse. And then Google will simply go out of the search and AI business.

EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash

"Industry backlash"

That's code word for "it was good for the average people, not for the rich", so the rich pressured/bought politicians to neuter it.

This AI madness need to stop. Uncontrolled/unregulated AI is ruining the environment, society and even the economy at large, and only serves the purpose of a few sociopaths - and even that only temporary and short term.

The EU should regulate AI as tightly as possible. AI companies are free to leave, just like any other company that's polluting our environment or society and do their harm elsewhere.

Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'

Make that 99%...

.. (those of aware of you anyway) and you might be closer to the truth.

Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found

Security vulnerabilities can be found and exploited also in the complete absence of source code. Also, the source code of software like Windows is pretty much public, it's just not accessible to anyone and is not open source (in the sense that you've no right to copy, modify or distribute it).

Shoe company says it's getting into AI infrastructure and yes this is the top

Bubble pop

This is the sign of the AI bubble popping you've been looking for...

AI for software developers is in a 'dangerous state'

Re: Phuture

"LLM-based AIs by their very nature are not deterministic"

They actually are completely deterministic in their nature. It's just that 1. their "seeding" (ie. the prompt itself) is usually not the same, and 2. other random seed factors are added to their output on purpose, in order for them to appear less machine-like and more human-like.

Re: Phuture

How to tell me you're clueless about how LLMs work without tellinng me you're clueless about how LLMs work

Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites

Re: It's all for AI

Yeah, that person has been developing operating system, graphical interfaces and power plant control software decades before you were even born.

Then again, that's the very reason why he know what he is talking about, and why you don't.

Re: It's all for AI

You've exactly zero reading comprehension. Which, ironically, could be counted as an impairment.

It's all for AI

No human uses keyboard navigation, save for some impaired individuals (but there's a long-standing and "aria" standard to support them), because it's highly ineffective in many ways compared to using a mouse or touch. Also, you can't even use keyboard navigation on most devices today, because the majority of devices used to browse the web don't even have an actual keyboard (ie. because they're smartphones with touchscreens).

In reality it's about making navigation easier for AI agents, who have a hard time separating and understanding navigation elements.Microsoft wants everyone to make it easier for MS's AI agents to steal and abuse their content and services.

How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom

The real reason

"The limitations of DOS, especially its memory management, are why Intel's successor chip, the 80286, was a bit of a flop."

Nope. 80286 was a flop because for one it didn't support V86 (Virtual 86) mode, so, it was not able to run legacy 8086 software efficiently under a protected mode OS. This totally skewed its value proposition, as if used an OS that actually took advantage of the 286 capabilities, you'd end up with a system that was a lot more expensive than a 8086 DOS PC, but actually ran most software slower than the latter.

Also, the 286 didn't support hardware level paging either, which again, was a great disadvantage, as it made implementing virtual/swapped memory very painful and slow, without which you couldn't a multitasked OS efficiently, because of how much more RAM you'd need for that compared to a single app DOS environment, and how expensive actual physical RAM was back then.

The 80386 DID have all those missing features, hence could run a protected mode multitasking OS with legacy applications efficiently - and that's why it became a success.

IBM unleashes CUGA, an open-source AI agent that actually completes more than half its tasks

In short: it's useless

"Framework looks great for scenarios where a 62 percent completion rate is acceptable" - sounds like the dictionary definition of "useless" to me

Google fixes super-secret 8th Chrome 0-day

Re: What about Chromium and derivatives?

It's something more severe than that. Google regularly discloses vulnerabilities that also affect other Chromium-based browsers. So,that alone would be no reason for them to withhold virtually all information regarding this.

Instead this one must be either very easy to exploit, or is in some more basic library that's used not only in Chrome, but possibly in thousands of other apps as well. Or both.

Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life

The most frequently asked question was...

"How do I remove Copilot from Windows?"

Also 37.5 million conversations in a world with > 7 billion people and over a course of several month, and "it's seeping into everyday life"? Really?

Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware

Most likely hacked or bought up

The extension has been most likely either hacked or simply just bought from the original author, in order to spread malware. Hackers have been doing this for decades.

Nobody will create an extension with the intention to wait 7 years only to place some affiliate cookies - especially when such programs could end anytime, or browser extension rules and APIs could change so that manipulating traffic will not be possible or effective. See Manifest V3 changes (which obviously don't hinder this extension, just mentioning as an example of browsers crippling several extensions with API changes).

Microsoft will force its 'superintelligence' to be a 'humanist' and play nice with people

Re: Last attempt

:"Microsoft stock falling?"

Yes. It lost ~$50 or 10% in a week. Was at $542 on 29th of October. Is now at $496.

And that's not even considering that the dollar lost ~15% of its value in the last 9 months. So, anything that wasn't up at least +15% this year has actually lost value.

Learn to cope.

Last attempt

It's just Microsoft's last and final attempt to try to keep AI relevant while the bubble is finally popping and its stocks are falling.

For Microsoft to "force" something a specific way Microsoft would have to have that thing in its posession first or be able to create one. But Microsoft - or any other company for that matter - is not capable of doing that, and it's doubtful that it ever will be.

We won't get to superintelligence through LLMs, as the latter completely and utterly lack of any kind of intelligence on their own. They appear only intelligent because they spit back intelligent thoughts of humans whose content they digested, without actually understanding anything they do.

Reddit to Perplexity: Get your filthy hands off our forums

Reddit stole it first

Reddit's argument is that it was the first to steal and monetize the user-generated content it didn't pay for, therefore Perplexity shouldn't have the same right. And Perplexity argues that it should also have the right to steal it and monetize it.

In an ideal world both companies would be dissolved and their leaders jailed. Then again, we live in an opposite of an ideal world, lead by the US.

Google reminds EU that Microsoft's cloudy licensing still stinks a year later

Oh, the hipocrisy

So, one day Google complains about the DMA and tells the EU to abandon/reform it, and on the next day it complains to the EU that it should take action based on the DMA against one of its competitors?

Oh, the hipocrisy. If I'd be the EU, I'd make Google pay also Microsoft's fine, just for this.

Apple, Google tell Europe its Digital Markets Act isn't working for them – or consumers

Good

Tech giants complaining about the DMA means one thing: the DMA works as intended, and gives consumers and small comptetitors a leverage to counteract against said tech giants, protecting them from the latter abusing their market power and dominance. If the US wouldn't be an institution serving only the interests of the oligarchy, and of the oligarchy only, they'd adopt the DMA verbatim and impose those rules also, in order to protect American consumers and ensure fair competition.

Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly decides to do hardly anything to break it up

Clueless

" these key assets, which Google did not use to effect any illegal restraints." - That's all you need to read to learn how clueless the judge is, and how much he did not understand any implications of Google having Chrome or Android under its control. And then I even granted him the benefit of doubt of being really just uninformed and dumb, not corrupt.

Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban

The only reason

The only reason Vivalid is doing this, because they've recognized that if gen AI takes over, then browsers will be useless, and most people will just use the AI apps for everything, instead of actually browing the web.

AI robs jobs from recent college grads, but isn't hurting wages, Stanford study says

Impossible

If AI "robs jobs", then it's impossible for it to not have a negative effect on wages, because of the rules of supply and demand.

Developer jailed for taking down employer's network with kill switch malware

Dead man's switch

The correct term is not "kill switch" (which is just a general term for any mechanism that deactivates something), but "dead man's switch", which is a term for a deactivation mechanism that automatically executes in the absense of preventive action in a specified time period

Microsoft researchers: To fend off AI, consider a job as a pile driver

CEOs and AI job market researchers

They forgot the two most important jobs that AI is already be able to take over. It's the jobs of company CEOs and researchers who try to predict what jobs AI will take over.

White House bans 'woke' AI, but LLMs don't know the truth

Woke = truth

"Woke" is a short for "the truth I don't like" for right wing nutjobs

EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players

Re: Let's pause regulation for just a couple of years

You seem to be very, very confused about how laws work. They're not there to make it _impossible_ to break them (ie. do something people agreed on is evil or not desirable). They are there so that when people still break them there's a legally defined way to punish them for that.

Trump lifts US supersonic flight ban, says he's 'Making Aviation Great Again'

Simple guy

Seems like Trump's politics is "do the opposite / revert what Democrats did". Which is obviously the stupides thing you can do, for a multitude of reasons. But that's the only thing the demented orange man is capable of.

AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads

Re: AI clicking ads generates zero money

* Don't ANYTHING to optimize return of investment.

There's no point for ad-supported websites to provide either services or content to any party that doesn't actually view ads, or can make purchase decisions.

Actually, there's a counterincentive to do so, because any computing/bandwidth/storage resouces wasted on serving such AI agents will degrade the resources available for actual humans, who can provide some return on the invesment in the website.

Re: Oh yuck

Without ads, there will be zero free content on the web, that's not an ad itself. Simple as that.

You don't have to like ads. You just have to accept, that it's the very thing that pays for the content and services instead of you. If ads won't do that anymore, you'll have to shell out the cash yourself.

Actually, it will be worse than that, because payments don't scale as good as ads do, so, like 99% of sites and services you use today will not exist, and the ones that will, will be under control of giant corporations.

Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029

False promises

Nvidia & co have promised this already years ago, and it never materialized. By 2029 Trump will be gone either way. So, this is merely virtue signaling.

But even if Nvidia would actually live up to its promises, they'd be barely any jobs created (like in the hundreds at best) through this, and all Nvidia would use the new factories for would be to maximize and swallow all the profits.

And don't even get me started about how in the next few years even the remaining of the AI bubble will have burst, and those $1 trillion of accelerators will be worth $100 million, at best.

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

They were all blinded by their hatred, racism and entitlement. It's not like Donald didn't tell them in advance most of what he actually did then, and he even plain out told them that he doesn't need them, just their votes. And they still voted for him, because they wanted more that other people ("liberals", people of different color, people from different countries, people with different xual preferences, etc) to suffer, than to follow their own financial, democratic, etc. interests.

Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money

"OK, so you list maybe 30 million for executive pay, out of 500 million from Google. That leaves $470 million. You claim to have looked at expense sheets? And somehow concluded that 30 is near 100% of 500? "

No, that's _your_ conclusion, because you obviously failed math class and can't argue what I actually wrote, so, you made up your own straw man.

The good news is though that you - or someone you know an actually knows numbers - can look at Mozilla's financial reports, and realize that what I wrote (and which is not what _you_ wrote above) is true: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/who-we-are/public-records/

You can also check for ex. Opera's financial report for comparison: https://investor.opera.com/news-releases/news-release-details/opera-reports-third-quarter-2024-results-acceleration-beyond/ and realize, that they just do fine and can actually add more new features to their browser than does Mozilla, despite having only 1/4th of the yearly revenue, and about the same market share.

"Turns out, maintaining a browser is expensive, something that's very hard to fund when you're a not-for-profit "

It's really not, if you look at the expense sheets of Mozilla. What costs them the most is not "maintaining the browser", but all the executive pays. Like Mozilla's CEO made $7 million already back in 2022, and the compensation most likely went up several millions since. And Mozilla has like two dozen second line executives who also make around half to a million, at least.

The maintanence and development of the Firefox browser most likely could have been secured for a decade from just one year of revenue Mozilla got from Google (which were around half a billion or more each year), if they only wouldn't have it all spent on executive pays, again, every single year.

OpenAI asks Uncle Sam to let it scrape everything, stop other countries complaining

Re: Hi ! We want to steal everything...

And you're wrong about everything, even about the digital theft thing. Because when you steal an intellectual property, that automatically devalues every other copy of the same thing, despite the original owner or all other licenced owners still also retaining their copies. That's just how supply and demand works. So, you're still stealing value from others.

Also, and again, because of rules of supply and demand, tangible objects don't have an intrinsic value either. Their value depends completely on supply and demand, and their sale price is also set arbitrarily by the seller.

I mean there was literally not a single word in your whole comment that would be actually correct.

Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump

They are. However, they have been legalized. So, you can't get in jail because of them.

Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China

Don't repeat the Trump lie!

"America's neighbors now face 25% because of fentanyl and immigration, China just 10% on top of existing duties"

That's completely wrong semantics. It's not Mexico or China that "face" the tariffs, and will have to pay them, but the American companies and ultimately consumers that import and buy goods from said countries.

It's the exact lie that got Trump elected, but will completely backfire on Americans when actually implemented.

Musk agrees with fan that worries over orbital Starlink traffic a 'silly narrative'

Reporting needs to stop on Musk

There's nothing in it for anyone to report on what a pathological liar known to be a clueless technical illiterate has to say anything on any topic, only for him. He has vested interests in saying what he is, even if it's not true, and how could he know better anyway, when he's not an engineering or business genius, just a ruthless narciissist born into a rich family who pursued and does pursue money and power even to this day without consideration for anyone or anything than himself.

He gets his power mostly from the media reporting all his nonsense, and most of the time not even calling it out as being a nonsense.