No, no. Nothing needs to be sent back to the servers. That doesn't mean it won't be.

It does if Apple says it does, because they actually have a track record of stuff not going back to servers if you don't want it to.

If they say they aren't collecting your data? They're lying.

Maybe you are incapable of running a traffic proxy to verify but many are not. Apple does keep their word on this.

Even Apple couldn't make the Smart Home concept "just work", which told me all I needed to know about the reliability of other similar systems.

So I've stayed away (except for a few security cams) until I can see a solidly working concept in action, that stays working... holding out hope for Matter in this regard.

So now AI thinks up the ideas and writes the specs, and real people do all the work to make this crap work.

It's more like AI opens a door that you can take advantage of people going through.

Sort of more like a force of nature than a boss.

Or if you like, it is recognizing a shortcoming by pretending something does not exist when plainly it would be useful, and someone opts to fill that hole for the benefit of mankind. Although in truth that scenario feels a bit like AI is a boss. :-)

As cool as this sounds, and I would love to go, I have to say that unless you are SUPER into being on board with Shatner and the astronaut you could get this same quality trip much cheaper.

Any trip that goes on land (not all do, anything I think over 200 people just sails around looking) will include some visit to a penguin rookery. They are super cool and also extremely smelly.

Most trips that have landings also include some historical sites, or research centers. and lectures.

I didn't go on a trip with a submarine but someone I know did, and there is really not much to see down in Antarctic waters, it's pretty murky stuff (which is also why there are so many whales of all kinds and seals and things, rich with nutrients). So I'm not sure it's worth paying for this extra, as opposed to something like camping out on land or being able to ocean kayak.

But I think the people who do spring for this will have an amazing time even if the price is steeper than I'm willing to pay! I would never look down on someone willing to trade money for an amazing and unique experience, and this is definitely that.

there's a reason I can buy ivermectin off the shelf for an animal but I need a script for the human version.

Yes that's because it's a drug that physicians can proscribe to humans.

Until the FDA suddenly decides it's only for horses.

Which is why they were sued.

So your point just reenforces what I was saying, there was no call for the FDA to tell people they should not take it.

Nobody uses actual horse paste for that, which is exactly what a lot of these morons are doing.

The morons at the FDA were not telling people to avoid "horse paste", but Ivermectin specifically in the messaging and tweets they put out. Which is made for use by humans...

Lately we are seeing this silly rise in 'sea salt' (all NaCl we eat has been in a sea at some point), 'kosher salt", "pink salt", etc. with the big marketing point of not being iodized. This has been going on for a couple decades. I can only think that the popularity of shit B movies with characters like King Kong, Godzilla, and comic book characters must be because of diminishing intelligence.

Nonsense, I only eat pink sea salt and I still think real good.

Dune isn't really a story that translates well to a visual media.

Have to totally disagree on that front, especially after watching the recent movies.

Both Dune 1 and Dune 2 have so many amazing visuals...

Yes it is a highly political story but you can indicate those aspects visually which I think the new movies do a good job of.

I asked an LLM (doesn't really matter which one, they are fail in this same way) for advice on how to load a specific file type, it gave me three possible packages to use to be able to land the file...

But not one of them actually existed. When pressed further on one of the frameworks that didn't exist, it doubled-down and gave me a website for the package - which did not exist.

And that led me to think, maybe I should build out that package. Not in order to create malware as described here, but because you already know some people in a similar situation will be directed right to your package of that specific name without having to do anything!

So it's pre-made marketing just waiting for a product.

Hear me out. There are high res cameras all over the airport. The ticket scanner at TSA is connected to a network.

I'm talking more the area outside the security zone where you can go without a ticket.

But you are right that it's pretty meaningless you can opt out of Facial scanning to enter an area where they already know way more than most people about you.

Right to refuse Face scanning just means they finally perfected other recognition models, like gait tracking, and want to make you think you can visit an airport without being identified by automated systems.

Wear masks all you like, it's no use anymore. You will be identified and cataloged.

Advanced search engines will not help you. The AIs are already writing junk into the very web pages that your search engine will read.

I'm thinking of advanced search engines that are only indexing real documents you have written by humans, many places for example that offer SDKs have extensive documentation that today at least, was all written by humans... so a classic search engine that only referenced that catalog for example would still be reliable.

Otherwise I agree with you, and in fact if you think about it Google is in terrible danger here - because they are faster at ingesting and have broader reach they are the MOST affected by AI answers polluting the input stream, as they absorb the nonsense faster than anyone!

In the past month or two, for the first time EVER, I actually had to turn to Bing for answers because google was not finding what I wanted to find - but Bing did!!!

Wish I had thought to mention that as probably only you will ever see this response. But I just had to at least bring it up as an anecdote to support your point.

All of these boomers which have given me everything good I have in the world and a safe place to indulge myself

I can understand your offense at this, but please know I myself am a boomer as well, and that what happened there is I wrote "doomer" and auto-correct altered it for me.

Doomers have never given us anything good, only fear.

The "training" materials are effectively a closed loop of reinfocing the correcteness or flaws of the training materials,

I totally agree with this, in fact I think general LLMs will get much worse over time because of this.

However domain specific LLM's carefully trained not on their own bullshit, so to speak, might offer quick insights into a body of understanding.

I am actively fighting the use of anything that might suggest these programs are anything other than pattern matching algorithms

I see, have to agree that is a really great point. I will stop using that term myself as I agree with your overall goal.

I think I would maybe say, malfunctioning with sometimes backwards output.

In actual reality, a nuke can just blow up once.

WHy mucst nuclear haters be so ignorant as to science?

If you knew anything about them at all, you would realize nuclear power plants of this design cannot "blow up".

But then I guess you prefer to remain stupid and wrong instead of getting with the program and actually trying to save the planet.