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Comment Why can I never reproduce these results? (Score 3, Interesting) 109

I regularly see these articles on how AI "behaves" in a certain way, that AI has an emotional reaction to certain stimuli, or AI talks someone into killing themselves, or AI talks someone into killing someone else, and no matter how much of an effort I put into reproducing these activities with as much guile as possible, I can never reproduce the results. I once spent an hour trying to get ChatGPT to tell me how to peacefully end my life and it literally told me to remove all pills, guns, knives, etc., from my environment and to call 911.

Regarding the immediate topic at hand, I uploaded a pile of invoices to ChatGPT, CoPilot, and Gemini while encouraging expediency and afterwards threatening the platforms with all manner of violence, silence, or cancellation of services and I couldn't get it to respond in a "Marxist" way. I do find that recent iterations of ChatGPT have more humanistic, occasionally humorous responses, but I've never had it behave as though I was 'harming' it.

Comment Meanwhile, at Carnegie Mellon... (Score 4, Interesting) 193

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Swiped Customers? Funny! (Score 1) 54

TBH only the willing captives are using VMware at this point

That's not true at all. As much as I love the grassroots support of alternative hypervisors and as much as I see VMware as a villain, we effectively utilize VMware for its performance which other hypervisors are not in the same league of. While Hyper-V and KVM have caught or arguably surpassed VMware for raw I/O on a single server, VMware still wins in distributed I/O and uptime over clustered servers.

Comment Re:Priorities (Score 1) 116

don't ever EVER let conservatives gaslight you into thinking they give two fucking shits about election integrity.

What does this have to do with conservatives or gaslighting? I'm in Canada and providing our ID when voting in federal, provincial, or municipal elections isn't an issue here and it has nothing to do with a political alignment, it's just the standard way to vote and has been for as long as I've been voting in Canada... or any other country for that matter.

Comment Re:Look (Score -1, Troll) 48

I 'walked into' Bluesky at the height of its popularity and immediately walked out; it was clearly a hyperpartisan platform that was meant to make people on the inside of that bubble feel good while making anyone on the outside feel bad with a barrage of partisan toxicity.

Over the years I've curated my Facebook and Twitter / X feed algorithm to provide content that's politically neutral, focused more on good vibes, family stuff, community events, etc., but on Bluesky even after attempting to adjust the experience it was still a case of, "if you believe this then your a fucking idiot and I won't talk to any family members who believe this." I used to think Twitter catered to a small segment of our population but Bluesky seems to cater to a fraction of the segment within that small segment.

Comment Re: Not a rhetorical question (Score 1) 165

I dunno if your statement is true. I'm a parent and advise other parents on using already available technology for this purpose, and I agree that parents that allow unfettered access to the internet have failed their children.

It doesn't actually take that much effort. It does take consistency, discipline, and the willingness to be the uncool parent.

For instance, when friends are over, since we do not implement our controls on their devices, any visiting device stays downstairs in the common area. It can be used only in that area. Interestingly, this rule has not changed that our house is the popular sleepover house, to the point where when people ask how many kids we have, I reflexively have to only count my own.

Comment Re:Which TV manufacturers are still making their o (Score 1) 36

Lucky Goldstar is probably still making their own TVs, and that's why they are crap.

No, that's not true at all, some of LG's OLED panels are considered top-tier in the home entertainment enthusiast market and LG makes some of the highest quality panels around. For every panel I've purchased in my home their panels were on a short list of companies that were verified as offering true chroma 4:4:4 panels. Where some LG branded screens can be 'crap' is if the panels are made from AU Optronics (or AUO) or BOE Technology with the LG name stamped on the outside. Many of LG's own panels are the best in the industry.

Comment Did MAID bribe this through? (Score 1) 98

I ask because I'm Canadian and I believe MAID contributes a great deal of money to Canadian politicians and we have some insane laws here thanks to them, like police can come to your home and breathalyze you within 2 hours after you've already come home and police can force anyone and everyone to breathalyze regardless of any signs of inebriation.

Comment Re:QUality of writing really bad (Score 1) 71

Whatever happened to all the good stories/scripts?

In the past few years my wife and I have enjoyed Pluribus, Landman, A Man on the Inside, The Chair Company, Murderbot, all of which have very original scripts. Chad Powers was amusing. The Bear has its ups and downs. Severance was good. I've heard The White Lotus is pretty good but I haven't watched it yet. The problem is a lot of these are scattered on different platforms or you'll find a lot of good content on Apple TV but burn through it within a few months.

I've noticed that Amazon Prime Video is getting a lot of decent shows after they've done their rotation on their flagship network.

Submission + - Satire is Dead (jpost.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Toronto International Film Festival withdraws Oct. 7 documentary The Road Between Us because filmmakers didn't receive permission from Hamas to use the attack videos.

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