If, in fact that US did hit the school and 175 other killed,....

This is war....

With the sheer volume of munitions slung so far and THATs the entirety of collateral damage.....I'd calll it a miracle.

It's very sad, but honestly I'd have expected more collateral damage...and I think it shows how advanced we actually are to be able to be as precise as we have been so far, especially considering how much we've blown up over there.

And thing is...Iran could stop it right now...and just behave like any other modern country....give up, quit funding terrorists, quit trying to get nukes and their life would instantly turn around to prosperity.

Alright...I'm seeing more and more of these type articles.

Maybe it's because I'm in the US, but aside from some rise in gas prices...nothing major in my area....this hasn't affected my life so far in the least.

Can some of you in EU give a clearer picture of if this is really hitting ya'll in a meaningful way at this point?

So far I see all these "Chicken Little" type article and I'm just not personally seeing it.

I was a kid in the 70's....and while it got bad in the US for a bit, life did't stop and the world didn't end....didn't even come close.

and it didn't last all that long....

So, is this just that we now have 24/7 news and they continuously have to have HEADLINES...?

See my replies a bit further down for my reasons and potential use cases...

I'm honestly confused about what OpenClaw is supposed to be good for, and why I should want to run it. Am I just showing my age and I can't appreciate modern tools? Or have millions of people gone crazy? Please tell me what I'm missing.

It's a program whose behavior is unpredictable and unreliable. I'm supposed to install it on my computer and give it read and write access to my files and my online accounts. I'm supposed to do that in the hope it will do some things I like and not do too many things I don't like, but with no guarantee of either.

Why is that not a terrible idea?

Well, I'd consider myself an older user....and as such, first...I'm going to a TON of research reading about it....it's pretty much all I watch on YouTube past weeks....and hell, I even go back and forth with my ChatGPT free account asking questions.

So first....I've been researching security on it....

It doesn't appear to be rocket surgery, but it is an agent and especially starting out I don't want it to do much actually until I learn more about it.

That's one appealing part of this project, learning AI and Agents....the purpose and functionality.

Like many, I bought a bit of hardware to dedicate to it, I have some disposable income so I got a Mac Mini 24GB M4 chip.

It just came in the other day.

So, I'm confining the agents to one box...dedicated to this purpose.

I"m hoping to run 2-3 agents on it, one master and two worker agents that are more specialized.

I plan to learn more about containers....because Im relegating each agent to its own container. Security and if one blows up, it doesn't take everything down.

Now...agents...well, by themselves they won't go do anything...they need a model to power them.

One can pay to use something like ChatGPT or Claude, etc....I plan to run local models to again learn about AI and how they work and save a bit of $$ if I can.

I plan to run small local models for each agent...for quick decisions making, easy stuff.....I also have an old Intel Mac Pro with I think 48 or so GB ram, and a 36GB video ram GPU card. It isn't Nvidia, but I think the tools I"m going to be using ollama/llama.cpp are "metal friendly" and hopefully can utilize some of that for the larger local models.

But that one will be for jobs that need a bit more power behind them.

I may toy with paying for a bit of real ChatGPT if needed for heavy job...but again this is experimental.

Anyway...the models are the brains behind the agents.

With OpenClaw...vs just talking 1-1 with an agent like we do today commonly....OC has 'memory' capabilities it a remember long term conversations so this proves valuable over long term jobs and interactions. It also can run 24/7 jobs you tell it to do....but I get ahead of myself.

I'm starting off slow...not granting it much access to anything. But as I grow and learn I'll allow it to maybe run out and scrape websites to research topics of interest. I might set up email accounts just for it and maybe a telegram account to interact with the main agent.

I may start off with having it gather morning reports on topics that interest me....and organize it and see if it can suggest to me new things to do with that info.

I may experiment with it coding up small project for me...see how that works.

But starting off...no, not giving it a bunch of personal. Information....no access to my personal calendars or bank accounts, etc.

It's there to experiment with and see exactly what I can do with it that is useful.

As I grow more confident in it, and my ability to secure it....I may give it more rope....

But I'm thinking fun projects....let it train itself on the market to see if I can predict trends , etc. I'm sure I'm NOT the first to think of this..but could be fun.

I thought it might be fun to have it scrape horse racing info from different tracks and see if it can teach itself to handicap races. Again, nothing original but fun to experiment with.

I thought it might be fun for a creative....maybe have it daily scrape and research YouTube and X and look for trends that might make for interesting videos and help scripting them...maybe even run (with a dedicated email account) the customer management aspect of this...have it interact with customer emails, and see how it does.

I can see a LOT of potential, but for me, the use is just learning....I think this type of thing does have potential, but I'm starting slow.

I hope that gives you some insight....from one older guy to another older person out there.

I see this as a potential path to that proverbial computer of Star Trek where you talk to it, interact with it and the keyboard eventually becomes a thing of the past...you ask/tell it stuff and it just does it.

But you have to start small....

Are the lawmakers and rule makers for the schools NOT old enough to remember BEFORE cell phones when we went to school....?

Can they not remember that we did JUST FINE without a fscking smart phone in our faces 24/7...?

This may just be mind blowing, but we didn't have ANY phones at all except pay phones or what was hard wired landline at homes....

And amazingly enough, we grew up just fine..actually now how to meet and talk to each other in person, etc....

Of course this was also before social media....but hey, let's fight just one battle at a time, eh?

I guess that now just leaves us with Keith Richards as humanity's last hope for immortality.....

The Terminator (or Matrix) scenario where we give nuclear launch capability over to AI, who then kills us, is one future scenario. I think a more likely scenario is where the AI is providing the intel and analysis to human decision makers. Then, because the AI is hallucinating, isn't as smart as it thinks it is, has turned malicious, or the humans are gullible dumbasses, humans launch an unwarranted strike. The decision makers won't blame themselves - they'll blame the machines.

I'm genuinely curious...what major mistakes has the US made on the Iranian strikes?

So far it seems pretty successful to me....?

They've decimated Iran's military for the most part, took out a large number of the leaders...etc.

We've put a major stop to them getting a nuke AND the means to send it in a ballistic missile....

So, what exactly are you thinking AI has hallucinated up so far that has led to grave mistakes?

Probably only in total requests. It's not like bots are streaming Netflix.

I'm sure some people will find this patent to be deeply upsetting, but Walmart having patented it hopefully ensures that no other stores will be able to use it. It's been years since I've shopped at a Walmart so them doing this doesn't affect me at all. Perhaps this patent could be granted in perpetuity so that other stores are unable to use it after the usual 14/28 year period.

I would have to imagine that if it proved lucrative they'd be licensing this tech in a heartbeat to any other store/company that also want to use it.

I also have a hard time imagining that using AI to help pricing if designed internally in a white room for a company would be hit by this....??

What percentage has to be AI to get the label?

I mean if someone take AI generated art, for instance, and opens it in Photoshop/Affinity....and alters it...is it AI then?

Or reverse...start with human generated and sent to AI to finish it?

What does it take to be AI label required?

Just as predicted, Trump now says he doesn't want the strait of Hormuz open anyway [google.com], last seen taking his bat and ball and heading home...

Well,, to be fair....having it closed won't affect the US THAT much....it's the countries he was asking to help that depend on oil from that region....

'Our' Internet was destroyed by the greed of the upper class, they bought it and now they use the Internet and all the top level sites to steal from us, cheat us, lie to us and manipluate us.

Welcome to economic slavery, yes boss, no boss, right away boss

Have you not yet come across the concepts of "sense of self", "backbone", and "free will"?

Since when has the internet overcome all of that...?

Are the masses truly THAT helpless and unable to think....?

Even as bad as some people are, I just cannot think that is the overwhelming majority....

I find that just not joining or using social media in any fashion really helps keep the mind clear....for coming up with own conclusions about the world.

Ok I can't get past the paywall.

What the heck is a "Bloomberg Terminal"...and what makes it so special than any other computer terminal?

Well Eddie and Dan came into the floor....waited a bit....and I think started buying....or was it sellling?

anyway...I think at the very end they were buying....so, how did they make the money AND Ruin the Dukes?

I've watched it over and over and never quite have understood where they got all the money (what they gathered from the butler a Jamie Lee couldn't have been enough to fund all they did....and not quite sure how they ended up ahead.