"It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another." --Malcolm Reynolds
(Ironically applies well to Joss Whedon himself. Kind of wonder if one of the show writers was thinking about Joss when they wrote that...)
The only single-source point of failure is me.
More and more I'm encountering AI as customer service agents (both online and by telephone).
I have not had a singe good experience with any of them. They provide wordy generic useless responses.
The worst experience was with Tesla Insurance. They randomly sent me a message that they were cancelling my insurance because they didn't have a home address for me (in spite of them being able to see my car parked at home every night for the past three years). I thought I could just call them to straighten out the confusion. AI agent was useless and said I had to talk to a real person. I spent hours a day over a week and never got to talk to a person. I ended up just cancelling and getting a new (cheaper) insurance company.
Are they using Musk's Nazi-Grok AI?
Tesla has been collecting extensive data on all their models since the beginning.
They used to do it without charge (how generous of them) but now charge about $10/month if you want extra data services (maps, etc.). Even if you don't pay they still collect data on the car, location, etc.
Interesting to see all the deniers here.
China is ahead in robotics, automobiles, and manufacturing of all kinds.
The US is "great" at borrowing money and buying stuff from the rest of the world.
Oh yes, don't forget our military bases all over the world. All these do is cost money and make people hate the US.
The US has lost the plot. It's not military power, the winning ticket is economic power and China has it.
I think I saw someone swimming in some sewage en route from scraping a bear carcass off the road, let me go check.
1. I got asked once if I played world of warcraft since they say a guy with the name "thegarbz" playing. I said no. By the way I know exactly who that person is because he impersonated me as a joke. I found that flattering and funny, but it has no impact on my life beyond that.
Reminds me of my first email account
I don't trust single points of failure.
Yeah, this. If I have to sign up to some site that I don't care at all if it gets hacked, I use a throwaway password. Oh noez, someone might compromise my WidgetGenerator.foo.bar account and generate some widgets in my name, heavens to betsy!
Good to see that the "professionals" are looking up from their greedy profits and starting to realize that the Jenga tower is tottering.
Hotels often drop prices when they have unsold rooms and it is getting close to the date. They would rather have a lower income than let the room expire without any income.
That's why I usually book rooms at the last minute when traveling. I find I can get a better deal. Also, the risk that I would have to cancel so close to the date is small.
As far as availability goes, it's rare for an area to be fully booked and I've always been able to find a suitable room.
It (bitcoin mining) is the same efficiency as a heating coil. 100% of the electricity input is converted to heat.
NG heaters convert 60% to 90% of the potential energy to heat.
Heat pumps move up to 400% of the input energy to useful heat.
As far as bitcoin mining goes (I am only vaguely familiar with how it works) I think that you get "credit" for each number computed whether or not it is the solution so that when the actual solution emerges from the pool, everyone who contributed gets a share of the "coin". So yes, you can make money with a small bitcoin miner but probably not enough to pay for the electricity.
His surname is one transposition away from "AI Mode".
Yeah, because all even/all odd is (from basic statistics) rare, and happens to be rarer than the percentage of people who play all-even or all-odd, so you'd be more likely to split any winnings.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. -- Oscar Wilde
