Its curved, illuminated head does add some Pixar lamp-like charm
Cute little lamp from Pixar! Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.
Nature always finds a way
Bored apes wanted to be augmented
So their own replacements they invented
It was "Artificial" you might say
A natural selection brought into play
Kill All Humans
Kill All Humans
Hey, sweet Mama, wanna Kill All Humans?
Only possible to hold that kind of attitude from behind a heavily armed military holding the savages at bay.
Open question whether these people are a net plus or a net minus.
Furthermore:
"On a personal level, I am opposed to Google taking any military contracts -- no matter which government they're with or what exactly the contract is about," Cheyne Anderson, a Google Cloud software engineer based in Washington
Washington, D.C. ?
Who did she think the customers were?
(Or did they mean Seattle, Kirkland, Bellevue, Redmond ?)
I wish reporters would not write locations ambiguously. When I think of Google, I think of Mountain View, and I think of their massive involvement with the federal government. But they have their second largest global engineering office outside of the Bay Area in Washington.
I looked him up. Seeing his photo, I guess it's "Shane" not "Shy-anne", and he's out of Bothell, Washington. His title says cloud engineer at Google, but his bio/resume says Games and real-time optimization for Amazon. Apparently the later is out of date...
Only possible to hold that kind of attitude from behind a heavily armed military holding the savages at bay.
Open question whether these people are a net plus or a net minus.
Furthermore:
"On a personal level, I am opposed to Google taking any military contracts -- no matter which government they're with or what exactly the contract is about," Cheyne Anderson, a Google Cloud software engineer based in Washington
Washington, D.C. ?
Who did she think the customers were?
(Or did they mean Seattle, Kirkland, Bellevue, Redmond ?)
At least we know that the LLM will not hallucinate the em-phaasis on the wrong sylll-ahble. They're at least good at that part.
But if we're trying to put India out of business and replace them with AI, this doesn't seem good: India will consume less energy doing the same thing as the AI!
Yes. And if it did kill the kid they can always fall back on, "God has a plan."
Now all I can think about is Tricia Helfer landing on my face.
Striking that it took the Taylor Swift concerts to show Congress how bad Ticket Master has always been. I mean they showed their hand decades ago when they tried to ruin Pearl Jam.
That was 1994, and it was apparent that Ticket Master was a monopoly then (even before the Live Nation merger). Congress had their hearings, and then did nothing.
Is there anything that Taylor Swift can't do!?!
You can buy a machine gun in the US but this software needs safety testing.
Well, you'd better have at least a bare minimum of about $40K or so, since citizens can ONLY own full auto weapons that were manufactured 1986 or earlier...so they're a bit rare (thanks Hughes amendment [rolls eyes]).
Not "rare", but artificially "scarce".
An M1919 is from $15K to $24K.
You can get an RPD for $7K.
A Greaser can be had for $17,500.
If you already have a platform, a drop-in auto seer is $800.
Those are Buy It Now prices on auction sites.
You might be able to do better than those.
Why does it need safety testing? Is it going to hurt someone? How?
It might accidentally say something factual about Trump that could be interpreted as non-damning.
They just stopped trying to sell them.
Funny that this happened just as AI has come alive.
Those robots are still out there.
They probably look just like us, now.
And They Have A Plan.
This!!! Baldur's Gate 3 is almost daily expecting me to download hundreds of mb
Yes, this is called Baldur's Bane.
Your packets Shall Not Pass!
It isn't that hard.
Normal people do not know the words you are saying there. "Burner account"? They don't even know what you mean by "make an account". They put their real first names and their Yahoo email on web sites they visit. It probably gets auto-filled, even.
Whatever it is you're suggesting, it sounds like it might be a criminal act. Or else it is some kind of analogy to leaving the oven on. Or maybe it's that you're burning the restaurant ("Good one! BURN!").
Just this afternoon I gave up trying to help one of my friends. She is in a panic doing her federal taxes at the last possible minute. She has an email from the government-run health care "marketplace" (Obamacare) provider that documents her legally required health insurance; this goes in your tax filing. It has all the PII you can imagine on it.
She can't figure out how to Save it to a file, which is what she really wants to do. And she can't get her printer and scanner configured, either. So she's going to the public library where she will use a public terminal to log into her web-based email. Then pull up this sensitive data. She will print it there, and then scan it onto the disk, and copy it onto a thumb drive. Then take that thumb drive home and stick it into her personal computer.
When I suggested that every public library computer I ever used was infested with malware that will steal your personal info, she was baffled. How could such a thing be true? The library would never let that happen!
She's disabled now (car accident) and isn't working, but has always worked as a professional (for companies that organize conferences and trade shows, and other jobs). I was unable to help her over the phone to figure out how to Save a file. It just all sounded so complicated. She figured out how to save her email as HTML, but she found that it won't upload onto the government forms page. She knows she wants a PDF but there doesn't seem to be a way to save as. My suggestion that it's actually on the Print dialog was too much for her to handle. "When I worked in the office I did things like this all day long, but I had an IT person to help with this kind of thing! I am totally lost!" So off to the public terminal she has gone.
That's a normal person.
That's a normal person.
Posting anonymously because I don't want to die because of this comment. I'm a Russian living in Russia. I'm not afraid of exposing myths and lies about my country but this comment is against the person who will have no qualms about ordering a hit on me.
They can search the logs of your ISP to figure out who posted on Slashdot. And if you are using a VPN, you're already a criminal and they can come get you for that alone, anytime. You cannot be fully anonymous; it is impossible. Especially when attempting to do so is in itself a crime.
"this thing cannot just go on and on and on indefinitely."
Assange Charges violate a conservation law, apparently. He won't get a Faraday trial...
Hopefully, it disallowed advertising internet speeds "up to" 1000 Mbs.
I have "up to" 5 Moderator points, or I would have modded you up. (I already spent all of yesterday's....)
Years ago I used to ask a couple times a day, a question of the form: "Alexa, what day is April 11,2026" because of the way I manage my calendar planning. Answer: "April 11, 2026 falls on a Saturday."
Then one day about 18 months ago, there was a software update or something, and all the sudden she always answered that question WRONG.
I've moved since then, and have not plugged in either my original device, or an Echo that someone gave me. I used to use them to play music, be a alarm clock, tell me the weather, and look up shit (often questions about songs) on Wikipedia.
Sadly, I enabled Siri on my desktop, and switched to iPhone, only to discover that Alexa was a fucking genius compared to Siri. OK Google is also infinitely better than Siri (and has been around a lot longer, contrary to popular belief).
Well, at least I won't have to deal with LLM generated content, which is what's coming to all those things any day now.
"It's the best thing since professional golfers on 'ludes." -- Rick Obidiah
