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Comment At least our successors will not have the option (Score 1) 178

... of mining vast amounts of cheap energy in the form of squished forests (not dinosaurs -- it was early forests decaying without the presence of fungi to break them down, mostly) as coal, oil, LNG for their industrial revolutions.

The raccoons, or crows, or octopuses will have to move directly from manual labour to machinery powered by renewable resources like solar and wind, since we will have sucked most of the fossil fuels out of the planet just before we drive ourselves to extinction.

Presuming the resulting climate, due to our stupidity, will still allow their evolution to intelligence and industry, honestly at this point I think it'll be for the best. We will have removed the easy, tempting, but ultimately destructive option so they cannot be beguiled by it.

Comment No thanks, just bring back what was nerfed (Score 1) 36

Assistant used to:

- let me play music not on Youtube Music;
- play some actually fun party games;
- have an SDK for custom voice-controlled apps.
- (the BIG one) let me ask for and play podcasts outside of Youtube Music. (newsflash: not everyone hosts podcasts on youtube!)

All this was nerfed in the past 2-3 years and now our Assistants at home are used for nothing more than asking the time, date, weather, maybe an alarm or reminder, switching on/off some lights.

If they gimp the platform any more I'm just going to throw them out at this point.

Comment This is a problem with Boeing and the law (Score 1) 232

Boeing has had how long to build the new AF1? 8 years without progress?

And what law has Congress passed that stops a president from corruptly diverting assets into their foundations upon exit from office?

Solve these two problems first before you go moaning about Trump being Trump yet again.

Comment Hate to be that guy but... (Score 2) 214

Hate to be that guy who sounds like he's supporting Trump, but too many of these DEI programs are racial profiling under another guise.

If DEI actually sought diversity of thought, experience, output, then yes I'd be complaining about Trump.

Instead we see the real-world implementation seeks only 'diversity' of skin color.

Submission + - Boffins report: "AI" creates more "work" than it saves (arstechnica.com) 1

Mr. Dollar Ton writes: Moreover, previous estimates of huge "productivity gains" are largely faked and the new "work" it is not necessarily useful.

A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative AI models like ChatGPT have had almost no significant impact on overall wages or employment yet, despite rapid adoption in some workplaces.

The reported productivity benefits were modest in the study. Users reported average time savings of just 2.8 percent of work hours (about an hour per week).

The finding contradicts a randomized controlled trial published in February that found generative AI increased worker productivity by 15 percent on average. The difference stems from other experiments focusing on tasks highly suited to AI, whereas most real-world jobs involve tasks AI cannot fully automate.

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