Posts by Bck 14 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Apr 2020
I hear what you wfote, but i do see very little reason why LLM would play any role in "usable" AI. Beyond reformatting what "real" AI tells it, maybe
Or maybe in a very constrained universe, like the Tesla Autopilot wit proper sensors.
Nothing to do with the current hype, which has a Mechanical Turk peddled by the Wizard of Oz quality to me.
My 0.02€
World Domination is IBM aka RedHat and its Systemd horrors.
Undocumentable and so well-structured that reliability of Linux machines is now close to Wondows', and latest improvements of Gnome tools (looking at you, thunderbird) approach the kind of straightjacket that Microsoft sells
Most of what Canonical offers is extensions. Compare to unavoidable changes for the stuff you already did years ago, but is now changed and more vulnerable.
Huh?
Not my personal experience with them. Over the years, used Philips shavers bought about anywhere, chargers are compatible, even between US and EU.
Not to say other products from the same manufacturer are exempt of that problem, but not this one IMHExperience
No need for genuine intelligence. High-tnhroughput sophistry will overwhelm about any defense from society and individuals.
Have you ever been in a situation where you were right, UT did othavd the time/money/energy to prove it?
AI bullies would be perfect as attack attorneys, politicians or US cops.
"DOS and Windows brought computing power from mainframes to individual control."
In my experience, it rather was Apple, especially with VisiCalc. I'll always remember the extatic look in the face of our Accounting manager after he discovered that he could do "what if..." with that box.
MSDOS came with the 8086 and was/is a "me too" product. Apple ][ was 6502, and revolutionary.
There was water under the bridge in the interval. And don't think of "graphics" and "VGA" in the same mind set.
Or "Internet", "V.22" and "xmodem". They're not in the same continent.
Still, UNIX and family are always there.
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I see Windows as a catastrophe that derailed what Apple was, and personal computing never fully recovered.
Well, he already outsourced Ukraine relationship to his priovate attorney. That went well, so why stop.
The GOP handles him like the M**** Don he proves to be. Some claim that they are committing massive perjury, but it is kind of visible that they, as a ghroup, believe him when he says "I am the State" - Louis XIV being his model.
And all of that will be confirmed by computer-based popular vote. The Alpha release was by Diebold in 2000. It takes time to organize and reorganize, as voting machines are not under that brand anymore. And who cares about DEFCON ?
So starting 1/1/2021 it will all be legal.
Any second thoughts will be, er, distracted by an appropriate declaration of war. The target is irrelevant.
I recently watched "1984" (the early BBC version) again. Chilling, especially iof you add to the above the convergence between Political Correctness and Newspeak.
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For-profit Press and for-profit Healthcare. These are useful concepts.
The peer-to-peer Internet could have derailed that. Thankfully, Intellectual Property was handy to turn Internet into an instrument to broadcast propaganda instead.
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