I'm finding more and more hallucinations coming from AI every day. I asked multiple LLMs for a configuration file for some software, and they all made stuff up that didn't exist. For example, one result told me to use a specific plugin to achieve what I wanted because it was designed just for that purpose. Problem was, that plugin doesn't exist. Even the same LLM would come back and tell me there was no such thing.

So were Trump and Satan just a summer thing?

I may not have a PhD in thinky stuff, but someone running Windows7 is on outdated software even if their word processor is current.

"Grocery store in the arctic goes out of business. Residents now have two choices: move or live in harsh conditions."

I'm a weak man... a weak, petty man...

No phone here.

Let me guess: the CEOs of AI companies assert it's happening really rapidly, while actual researchers are seeing impacts as slow.

Translation: In the same manner that Windows came up with a narrative about why screenshotting user activity is "good for the user", they're now coming up with a narrative about why listening/storing all audio at all times is "good for the user".

Whereas to me, this means windows machines now officially join the ranks of other machines-- like Alexa -- that I refuse to allow in my house EVER. It's arguable I could/should have gotten there even prior to this; let's call this the straw that will finally motivate me to go to the mattress about the issue with other people I live with.

And their partner is a 0xBEEFBABE

I read that Luigi Mangione was motivated by his conversations with an AI. I wonder if that'd get through to them?

(It was, btw, an AI that told me that.)

It was actually a bar phone sold by Esco. Easy mistake to make. :)

I see zero evidence of this. I HEAR it all the time in articles like this, but as far as people I work with or code I experiment with myself using AI, AI has proven to be maybe break-even for very simple, limited-domain things (basically the rough equiv of looking up an answer on stackexchange), and far worse than nothing when doing complex system design (during which I spend so much time shaking out the plausible-sounding but ultimately-bullshit answers that I net lose time).

I know I'm just an anecdote and a small sample base, but I do this for a living, and I don't see anything approaching the benefit that such articles spin.

Ask yourself: if it's so easy to use, where are all the apps written by your neighbors, and the local firemen, and the grocery store folks, and so on?

Dance like no one is watching.

Email, chat, post, and websurf like it will be used against you... whether read aloud in court, used to deny insurance, loans, and jobs, or fed to AI to make the case that you're likely to commit crimes and need to be pre-emptively locked up.

When that species provides no value and brings huge dangers to the world. Hey, if we find we dreadfully miss them for whatever reason, clone 'em and bring them back.

Minor adjust: I think it's the 2350 that does, not the 2040.

Thank goodness my ticket was for Coach.