Translation: The idiot employee in Sector G-7 will never push the big, red button that disables the cooling pumps to the nuclear reactor.

D'oh....

Whether you're 20, 30, 40, or 50, you're gonna be fucked by AI in some way in the next decade. It doesn't matter if you're old or not.

How?

Can you give some realistic, meaningful ways the average person like myself will be fucked by AI?

> The AI movie experience is slowly improving, but is still terrible. You can make a very short 5s shot that's QUITE convincing...so long as there's a single subject...really closeup.

That's simply not true. I watched a ten-minute AI-generated Star Trek video on Youtube last week which was better than any offficial Star Trek show of the last few years.

And the guy made it at home on an Nvidia GPU in his PC using a Chinese video model.

When I say "sweater" I mean a pullover....down here mostly just simple cotton sweaters, not terribly heavy....

They just turn off your water heater.

What good does turning the gas off to the water heater do....?

The only thing local models do is produce text. Unless you run it in a harness which sees it generate "send all your data to www.evil.com" and actually does that, the model can't do anything.

For a lot of uses like coding, the model has to have harness support for things like reading and writing files, but for basic chat-bots they just have to generate text and the harness has to display it.

If you can cope at 12C in a T-shirt ... up to you, I wear a real jacket and a scarf.

Ugh...had to get on ChatGPT and find out what the fuck 12C was in F.

Ok, so about 54F...roughly. That's cool...I guess depends a bit on how high your humidity is. In the New Orleans area, it can be 54F and very humid...if the wind is coming in off the lake it can be quite chilly....but if lower humidity, more into winter months,...that's not too cold...I'd be wearing a sweater or a jacket....not both.

Last week it was high-90's and low 100's along the central coast (Santa Cruz & Monterey). It cooled down at night, but I also don't have A/C because I almost never need it, maybe for 3-5 days every 3-4 years it would be appreciated.

You can't get a couple window units to have AC when you need it?

You can put them up and take them down pretty readily......better than baking/roasting on those days when you really don't need to.

Talk shows have been exempt from the equal time law right up until 2026.

Not quite true....

NEWS shows are exempt.....talk shows and other entertainment shows most decidedly are not exempt.

and destroyed multiple fields of STEM research

Interesting claim....

Can you give me a list of / citations of such?

They actually seem to be regressing. It's well-known that the new models aren't as good as the older ones at creative writing, and I was reading an article this morning by some guy bemoaning the absolute slop that the new Astra (?) model generates for him; he said it works, but if you look at the code produced it's slop that you can only hope the next generation of LLMs will be able to fix when it breaks.

> Which is good news because once AI can easily defeat them they will go away and hopefully be replaced by something less annoying.

More likely something far more annoying.

One site where I've had an account for twenty years now requires me to "prove I'm human" about every five minutes.

I don't go there much any more.

Geez there seems to be a lot of rage about the FCC potentially enforcing a law LONG on the books for broadcast TV to give equal time to political candidates on both sides of the fence, especially during an election year....

If he wants the Dem.....let him also schedule the Rep. candidate, maybe both on the same show...eh?

Ever notice that it's always worse than we thought and never better?

Unfortunately they don't seem to realize that "Climate Change" is the old grift and they need to hurry up and switch to AI grifting.

> This expectation of privacy in public spaces is extremely new.

Not, it's not. Thirty years ago people could do things in public and know that people who didn't know them wouldn't know who they were and it was highly unlikely that people would be filming or recording them (and if they were then it was pretty obvious as cameras and tape recorders were still quite large).

It's only that last 20-30 years that people have decided that they have the right to record everything you do and make it available to the world without getting a punch in the face.