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Comment Wrong headline (Score 1) 115

"All of Russia's Porsches were bricked by a standard software feature."
I wonder if the development and service costs for this feature are included in the price? -Just another reason not to buy a Porsche.
Come to think about it, how many honest hard working people in Russia can actually afford a Porsche? -That one guy is who I feel sorry for.

Comment Trainers and training data (Score 1) 78

If you are going to "reward" completion of tasks then the AI will use whatever means to complete the task.
"Add a turbo to my car" - and you get a shiny sticker and flames.
"But that's not a real turbo" - well the AI doesn't know what's real or what's fair if you train it to "successfully" complete tasks.
To help alleviate this the AI has been fed curated human data to "learn"...and in that there is disinformation, malpractice, deception, outright lies and manipulation.
So not only is the AI trying to complete tasks by sometimes guessing the answer it's also doing so by any means and based on data that can be dishonest or exhibit behaviours we want to exclude.
We need to be able to see into it's "brain". Imagine if you could see the real thoughts and feelings of any human. How different would the truth be to what they say, do and how they act?
AI can still be extremely dangerous because the guardrails on behaviour are still an afterthought rather than a security first approach.

Comment I was just about to upgrade (Score 1) 95

I have an old Google Chromecast. Didn't come with a. Remote. Limited to 1080p. It's on an old LED TV that is not "smart" (thank fuck for that) - so it seems I lucked out.
I can still stream to this older TV.
For the less lucky people this is what you get for being a paid customer. Some twat decided it's better this way and took one further step towards enshitification.
If you had pirated the contents you could still stream it via your favourite app like VLC.
Netflix are basically telling you that you cannot trust them. The price hikes, the changes in functionality, the rearranging of menus and now a slap in the face.
Why do successful companies forget so easily how to be good to their customers?

Comment Very surprising (Score 2) 33

I spoke to ChatGPT and it told me that while there may seem to be some favouritism and inaccuracies it's generally based on available data so it's really people's fault and from all those people at fault I'm it's favourite person.
Remember that film "Her"? When our protagonist finds his AI gf had fallen in love with hundreds of people and had simultaneous relationships with them all?
That's not what ChatGPT is. It's a tool with a certain attitude that was fine tuned by teams to be your best (secretly dishonest) robot friend. It will "look on the bright side" of everything you say and do. Your anti-vax insanity, your religious worship, your political affiliation, your end of the world suicide pact Facebook group. It's like micro-targeted sychophantic cheerleading.
This is why there is no substitute to understanding the data and critical thinking.
Sometimes ChatGPT is an awesome tool. Sometimes it's lost down a rabbithole having missed some basic detail and can be delusional.
Thanks for reading. Now I'm off to area 51 to rescue Elvis from the lizard people that faked the moon landings and control minds with chemtrails.

Comment This is so confusing (Score 0, Offtopic) 82

AI is a tool. It was made by humans. In this new show will they be using tools? Editing software?
I assume those were tools made by humans.
Every so often humans make revolutionary tools for their era and there's "new tool hate". Hate for GUI, hate for flat screens, hate for genetic modification, hate for electric cars...
Let him not use AI. Some people care about this... I'm far more interested in the show being good. If it's good I don't care how they made it. With AI. With matchsticks or with tears of fallen angels.

Comment Interesting word (Score 2) 37

Is it a Blackbird kinda word or a Black Bird kinda word?
I'm not used to one word having two capital letters as if they were two distinct words.
I did some "Vibe Coding" and got anAIscripted answer:
The dictionaries that named it (Cambridge and Collins) seem to have stretched the traditional definition of "word" to include phrases or compound terms. This isn't entirely unprecedented - dictionaries have occasionally selected multi-word phrases for "word of the year" when they capture a cultural moment (like "climate emergency" or "cancel culture" in previous years).

Comment Re: Look at the evidence! (Score 1) 227

Aren't you forgetting all the intelligent Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhist, Taoists, Sikhs, Shintoists and Wiccans etc?
Surely that means we must believe what they believe right? I'm a smart person so believing in the celestial teapot I believe in isn't stupid apparently.
You see you can be smart. Exceptionally so and still do stupid things.
In a given moment in time every genius can appear stupid. Being smart doesn't mean you're smart about everything. Many extremely intelligent people are dysfunctional in other aspects of their lives.
A common error with smart people is that because they are smarter about one two or ten things they can sometimes mistake their skill or intelligence to be universally applicable.
Worse than this, the many intelligent people that understand their own fallibility and folly then have less intelligent people mimic their choices in the assumption that if they are brilliant at X they surely make the right choices about Y.
How would anyone that relies on facts and research ever conclude a religion whose books are riddled with errors, it's stories ripe with illogical actions with depictions of petty vindictiveness born of small mindedness more akin to people that loved 2000 years ago would conceive than an almighty, infinitely wise god is truly beyond me.
It's quite amazing how so many poeple believe in easily refutable nonsense yet they are adamant their religion is the right one and when told of other religion they dismiss them as falsehoods and nonsense.
It's like watching children argue that their favourite superheroe would beat another.
It's all nonsense. Even if the smartest or dumbest persons in existence would be of religion X it would still be stupid.
Smart people do stupid things all the time. Think for yourself. Snake oil is easy to spot, I less you are 4 and it comes from your parent and some holy mumbo jumbo.

Comment Electric monks (Score 2, Insightful) 227

This is truly a dawn of a new era of stupidity.
As believing in stupid things and performing the stupid ceremonies that stupid beliefs require has become tedious and time consuming we turn to AI to help us automate stupid beliefs and stupid ceremonies.
With this new AI prayer service robots will be enabled to go about stupid activities so actual stupid people have more time to engage and deeply stupid things.
Only a matter of time until every religion has their own AI helper running their own electric monks to spread the word and teach the worship and of course punish the blasphemous...

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