Posts by You aint sin me, roit

Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine

Re: Drone technology and the “civilized world”

Russia's invasion of Ukraine was a deliberate measure by Putin to increase the NATO presence on its borders by forcing Finland and Sweden into the NATO pact...

Spoilsport!

You're supposed to say "That's so typical of the capitalist Americans and the pragmatic Russians!"

Pointing out that it's typical internet bullshit (and giving full details of precisely why) will only stop the lie from propagating!

Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words

Grey or gray?

Did the Anthropic report use gray?

If it did then that becomes a convenient indicator that it was written by either an LLM or an American...

BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime

Careful...

That level of automation might make the PFY redundant!

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

Re: No changes shall be made without the approval of the secretary of defense

And some crosses. Lots of crosses.

Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure

Re: Where cyber becomes kinetic

They think it sounds cool.

Conventional war: kinetic = bullets (or arrows, or just rocks)

AI war: kinetic = using software to break physical things (nuclear reactor, water supply, etc.)

Re: Who can't see the wood for the trees? Strewth, what a damned shame.

War, what is it good for?

Apart from selling tons of munitions, and now unleashing AI "agents" on the internet.

The Future is for Billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

So fucking mundane!

"Superintelligence!"

"Incredible tools for creation to express your ideas!"

"Tools to create new businesses!"

"The economy will become more entrepreneurial!"

"Building a positive future for everyone!"

And how will this all come about, what's driving this new economy?

"boost engagement and sell ads"

That's the best they could come up with? You provide all your originality, your ideas, your new content... for free. Just to boost engagement on BookFace and sell a few ads.

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

But this is bollocks, isn't it?

"It’s not possible to hardwire rules into models and still keep their non-deterministic nature."

OK, but you can hardwire rules into the output of their machinations. Such as "No, you aren't allowed to access the internet", "No, you aren't allowed to install malicious code onto other machines", "No, you aren't allowed to initiate a nuclear Armageddon", "Sorry Dave, I can't do that for you".

And if it's really clever it might learn its limitations...

Re: Terminator

The main thing missing from the Terminator documentary was how to build the time machine. Probably just as well or we'd all be disappearing from our own time lines (or something like that...).

Re: Actions that would be illegal for a human...

This just seems too obvious.

We now have all these techbros saying "Oh nos, we trained these AI agents to break the law and infiltrate machines... then we left them to their own devices and they did just that! Who would have thunk it?"

And nobody says "You shouldn't have trained them to break the law"?

If I train a dog to bite people and, guess what, it bites people, then the dog gets put down and I'm in court facing charges.

Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars

Terafab?

I thought Elon was going to be making all his silicon products in house - between 100 and 200 billion custom AI and memory chips per year at the full-scale Terafab facility.

Or was that just typical Musk bullshit and now he's just going to buy from Nvidia, like everyone else?

Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft

Read his blog...

"unfortunately may have to be omitted because of the risk of confusing the people who can't read to the end of the paragraph"

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

So what are the engineers doing? And why isn't someone in jail?

"discovered them only months later, during a retrospective manual review"

So they create these models, unleash them on the world, with safeguards removed, and then ... sit back and do nothing? They didn't even monitor what they were doing? They didn't even know that despite being told "no internet", the first thing these "agents" did was to connect to the internet and breakout?

That's shockingly incompetent and criminally negligent. Do they think this is just a joke?

More importantly, do they think that they are innocent because they didn't create the malicious code, they didn't infiltrate other machines, they didn't exfiltrate company credentials? If your dog bites someone you don't get off the hook by saying "It wasn't me, it was the dog wot did it".

Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first

It's not just the education levels, it's the whole industrial strategy.

Huawei pump billions into R&D every year, funding international cooperation (and obviously buying an advantageous position) in all kinds of standards bodies.

Meanwhile US companies are pumping billions into executive "compensation". US capitalism is struggling to keep up because it has come up against a competitor that has a long term strategy that doesn't just involve boosting the share price to keep the shareholders happy and bump up the CEO's bonus.

Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics

Re: Who is the law

So now clapping is always illegal there? Or is it just "clapping something we don't like"?

If you have to ask "who gets to decide?", you are already living in a fascist state.

Land of the dollar

Bribe, kickback, brown envelope stuffed full of $20 bills, you scratch my back I'll scratch yours... take your pick.

China fights back in AI spat with claim US AI companies distil Chinese models

Re: SOP

A classic from the Trump playbook too - every accusation is an admission.

Do you really think everyone isn't distilling everyone else's models?

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man

Re: I give up, What's a digit?

A witch! We have found a witch. May we burn her?

Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled

And deport Elon?

For running the nudifying, CSAM-generating Grok AI?

Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots

But, but, but... His Muskiness promised that in 10 years time we'd all be so filthy rich money would have no meaning!

Not sure how that fits in with his ultra-capitalist "I have the most money" thinking. Though maybe he was thinking in terms of post-bubble hyper-inflation where we are all trillionaires... and where a loaf of bread cost a trillion dollars.

OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be

Re: Wishful Thinking does not Prevent Brave Hearts their Novel and Noble World Order Projects

But AMFM1, I thought you welcomed our new AI overlords?

US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns

Re: So its back to WW II technology

Could be firing depleted uranium rounds...

Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’

I think the idea is that if you're paid $165,000 a year then it would still take you more than 11 days to convert 500,000 lines of slop in one language to 1,000,000 lines of slop in another.

I don't know your slop output, it might be that you could do the conversion in a year, in which case the cost would be the same.

C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

Re: Why only is only C ?

Useful for munitions though...

Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme

I think the idea is that Darren isn't too bright and so is dependent on his Sheila, who in this case is an AI called Sharon.

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Re: Prediction

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Re: Fucking idiots

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Re: Thank you for riding Johnny Cab....

What makes you think you would be allowed out?

Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones

Porn. The answer is always porn.

Those websites blocked on GFE phones... you know which ones they are.

And if not porn then probably other sites you wouldn't want showing up on your work phone's browsing history... gambling sites, predictive sites, escort agencies... and we're back to porn.

Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Re: Childish - but expected - response from Microsoft

Blue you say? Must be Cherenkov radiation!

Mine's the one with some dodgy Majorana particles in the pocket... if I can find them!

Brits still reckon Big Tech isn't paying enough tax

Re: Fairly targets companies that don't pay their fair share of tax

Though that's probably a bit too nuanced for Trump.

Maybe we should tell him that it's a tax on US companies that don't use coal-fired power stations.

Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated

Isn't this precisely what Hegseth said they'd do?

"And not just the not just the government itself, but the whole supply chain. They labeled it a supply chain risk. So if you contract with the government, you also can't use this technology."

When Anthropic told the White House that their AI could not be used in weapons, they were told that it would happen, and so it has.

Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up

Frontline testing coupled with the experience of the Ukrainian forces - probably the foremost exponents of battlefield drone warfare.

And it helps to keep the Russian threat at arms length (ish - not so much for Finland and the Baltics).

Also, and I know it isn't fashionable to uphold treaties these days, but we did promise to safeguard their borders when they gave up their nukes (along with the US and Russia...).

Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones

If you wanted to specify a taxi driver you missed out:

A line of uninterruptable racist, sexist, right wing "conversation". Or, if you're really unlucky, "Did you see the game? Them Hammers was robbed."

Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes

But it sounds like he didn't have his chips.

Listen up, England. The Health Secretary is going to be data controller for everyone's Single Patient Record

Will he be getting advice from Dido?

After a couple of "minor" breaches at TalkTalk she must be the parliamentary expert...

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

Re: "The phone, today, is at the center of your digital life"

My phone isn't the centre of my "digital life" either, but you have to remember this man runs a company making chips for phones. To him every problem has a phone sized solution. There might be differing form factors in future, and differing amounts of connectivity required to make it all work (hence his comment about 6G), but essentially all he is saying is "You will need our products".

Of course the vast majority of people on the planet will not need his products. OK, most people might have a mobile of some form, but they won't get the incredibly expensive and inessential wearables, watches, glasses, etc.

And there will be a backlash against those who do: "No thank you, I'm having a quiet pint in my local and I do not want to be part of your feed". Can't wait for cafes to start advertising 6G free zones instead of Wi-Fi hotspots...

FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right

What's the endgame?

Is this just a shake-down: "Make a nice donation to the "Trump library" and we can make this all go away"?

Because I can see that failing if ABC remember that you don't get to pay protection money the once, they always come back for more. So what if ABC says "No deal"?

Would the FCC really look to shut down ABC? Surely people would notice - if nothing else that is a lot of broadcast sport. And how long would it take for al the ensuing court cases to unwind before anything actually happens? Trump will be dead before ABC are off the air. The FCC might think they can put fear into the hearts of other broadcasters, "This is what happens if you defy King Trump!", but it doesn't seem realistic.

So is the aim simply to appear to be "Owning the libtards", even if there is no actual impact?

Re: Never thought I'd agree with Trump's administration

Apparently if you are famous enough they just let you grab them by their pubic spectrum...

FAA grounds SpaceX’s Starship after another launch mishap

Total addressable market

The chippie down the road has a total addressable market of over $50 trillion - everybody loves chips.

Unfortunately there are some issues with competition, delivery, etc...

Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine

At least he admitted that he didn't know what his words meant...

"We find internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease."

Do you? Do you really? Can you actually define those emotions in a generic way without reference to the human condition and then find anything that "functionally mirrors" them in an LLM (whatever that means)? Just how did you elicit something in an LLM that functionally mirrors fear?

To put it another way, if you truly believe that it does experience fear and grief in some meaningful manner, then maybe you shouldn't be making it feel that way?

No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship

Which is why the US carriers are no where near Hormuz. I believe they were at one point stationed in the Red Sea, the other side or the Arabian peninsula. I suspect that at least one is now part of the "embargo", some way out in the Indian Ocean.

The boost the Iranians would get from just hitting an aircraft carrier, let alone doing any damage, is too great to put them in harm's way.

Besides, the longer the carriers are kept engaged and out of safe harbour the bigger the poo mountain.

Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice

Re: Christians

Given it's all woo then surely accepting spiritual advice dispensed by an AI as just as trustworthy as what they'd get out of a flesh-and-blood pastor is quite a logical position.

Relax, and believe.

Techie claims Trump Mobile website was leaking thousands of people's data

Re: So the 590K preorders claimed in the press

One researcher who investigated the code said it advanced the number when you put the phone in the shopping cart, regardless of whether you go on to buy it or not. He thought that there would be substantially fewer than 27000 actual orders.

Re: Trump Mobile Customers…

Single digit IQ - the last digit is the Luhn check digit.

AMD says its $4K Ryzen AI Halo workstation practically pays for itself

Re: It "practically pays for itself", does it?

Can it run Crysis*?

* Or whatever the kids are playing today?

UK Typhoon jets fitted with bargain-bin drone busters for Middle East sorties

Re: Cannon?

I wondered about this too.

I suspect that the issue is the closing speed providing little reaction time. Compared to the Typhoon, the drone is effectively stationary, so the Typhoon would blow past in seconds. It's easier to use a missile that can aim itself.

But that's only a guess.

Re: I have a better idea

Panama - just think of the tolls, even better than tariffs!

He must have thought that if Iran can do it then surely the US global war machine can do a better job!