I did a stint as an RV repair tech but I really don't want to replace more poop tanks and I can't get a good reference because my ex-boss is a POS.
Maybe it's appliance repair next I guess, that was some of the least terrible RV repair work
Obviously AI is taking most of the whitecollar jobs. This isn't really news anymore IMHO.
I can't tell you how relieved I am right now that I took a breadless diploma in performing arts mostly just based on personal interest, with zero concrete career aspirations in mind. The arts helped me with every aspect of life, personal, private, public and job, even though it was completely breadless.
That my days making money by developing software are numbered is obvious to me too. I got incredibly lucky with my current gig but since have morphed into an entire team of software experts with me as the lead basically telling AI what to program. Never been this productive. It's only a matter of time that AI will take my current position too.
Here's the harsh reality: AI doesn't work.
Looking at AI doing the job I just did a year ago I'd say AI is working pretty good. Better than me in fact. And waaaay faster. Basically replacing an entire team of developers.
Curiously enough, what won't be working for long anymore is Facebook itself, when it's just AI talking to each other. I never got why FB had a business case in the first place. But then again, I'm a computer expert that isn't to bedazzled about the ability to upload text, images and video to the internet.
Imagine if Nazis had access to modern technology when they were tracking every Jewish person.
We don't have to imagine, we have an apartheid regime including ubiquitous tracking and an ongoing genocide which we can just look at.
as you shovel this garbage onto your audience you should know that your audience does, in fact, know the difference.
Some of them will. Some of them will have absolutely no clue, just like now.
AI hallucination in a factual broadcast is like catshit on a pizza: It doesn't matter how infrequent it is, no amount is acceptable.
To thinking people, yes. A lot of people are listening to podcasts to figure out what to think.
Cloud cover is a problem for visible light, but not for infrared light.
Bro, have you heard of the greenhouse effect?
At this point, there is probably nothing that can rescue either Microsoft or Linux from the hordes at the wall. Both are performance-first operating systems. There's nothing surprising or unusual about that; this is the dominant paradigm. Windows NT made at least some attempt in the other direction until version 4, but then they prioritized UI latency over memory security. LLMs apparently don't have to be able to think to recognize patterns which indicate vulnerabilities. If having closed source is even still a benefit in hiding failures, it won't be for long.
On top of that, the hardware isn't secure enough either and both are going to have to be addressed to reasonably secure our systems from this new threat. They were never really secure, humans could find the same vulnerabilities, but there weren't enough humans looking. There's lots of compute hours being spent looking.
This isn't limited to Windows and Linux, every vaguely common system has the same problem. None of them were built for security first, because such a system would cost more to operate and almost nobody has been demanding to pay more for less performance in security's name. But many have long predicted we'd get to the point where we start to spend our performance advancement budget on security because some development will necessitate it, and it seems like we might have arrived there now. There are and have been more secure systems, but the home PC is going to have to become one of them because otherwise we won't be able to use them for anything other than getting pwned.
Which make it hard to come to a just decision.
That would make it easy if the legal system didn't make it hard.
I hate seeing seemingly intelligent people view this as "I hate that business guy more than the other business guy", as opposed to "What rules should American business have to operate under".
That's a typically shit take, because both of these business guys have proven repeatedly that they are both hot garbage as human beings. It on brand for you to ignore that.
The real fear is not that the AI doesn't work but rather that the AI does work to at least some extent.
And unfortunately, it does. The corporate world has already satisfied all of the relevant if statements. It works to some extent if you are willing to accept massive failures — the industry has proven that over and over again by rewarding failures with sales, they will buy proven trash before paying for quality; they will accept "good enough for right now" and kick the can forever; they will rewrite entire products and discard years of both development and goodwill just to look like they're forward-looking to idiots, because nobody ever went broke assuming there'd be no shortage of them.
If you're willing to accept shit results because you have no pride then AI is good enough. And... *waves around vaguely*
It's hard to prove that Microsoft cares less about security than other vendors, without a bunch of information from Microsoft and other vendors that we're not privy to — not even shareholders get to know the full risks involved in the products upon which their dividends depend. But it's easy to prove that they will happily lie about it.
The virus can persist for days in dry crap, which is the primary way it's spread to humans, when they disturb it
Yeah it's a good idea to try to get people concerned about concerning issues
No problem, there are never rats on ships
If Ebola catches on and goes viral globally it will be a very serious problem. A true pandemic. The current death toll for Ebola infections is around 50%. We're talking Resident Evil/28 days later/I am Legend type shit.
I never quite got all the noise and hysteria about vaccinations going during CoViD 19 on either side and I always said we should - either way - be glad that it's just CoViD 19 and not Ebola 19.
If we now actually have global Ebola 26/27 on the menu, the fecal matter is going to hit the rotary air impeller at levels that will make SARS v2 / CoViD 19 look like a laid-back undressed rehersal during a beach vacation. I sure do effing hope this does _not_ happen.
Either way, I already got my Goggles, professional filter masks, water-filter, cooking gear and gas, etc. when the last reports about a SARS variant came around last Winter. I'm sure as eff not getting caught in some apocalyptic level pandemic without being (somewhat) prepared. That much I learned from CoViD. And everyone else should've too. It would be quite dumb to die an unpreventable death just because you where to cheap to drop 150 Euros on some basic survival gear.
To err is human, to moo bovine.
