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Comment Re:Documentation (Score 1) 57

Current AIs are only useful in areas where it's easy to recognize invalid results. (Ideally, easy enough that the AI, itself, can recognize that they are invalid, perhaps by invoking a deterministic tool.)

Agreed. And in those cases, a complex "if" statement can do the same job, but repeatably and accurately and cheaper.

IMNSHO, have this thing help identify those cases and guide in tool/monitoring solutions. Once a condition is determined, codify it - no need to have some LLM keep guessing at it every time. Hopefully, that's closer to what it's actually doing.

Comment Re:A computer can never be held accountable (Score 1) 57

Hell we were using AI models to predict compressor seal failure based on current data being fed into a model that had 30 years of historical operating data for our plant back in 2014. It was already a product Palantir offered back before anyone in the media could even spell AI. And the model was amazingly accurate.

I may be arguing semantics here, but what they were doing in 2014 wasn't "AI"; That was "ML" - machine learning. But I'm also someone who tends to use "LLM" instead of "AI" when referring to most of the things labeled "AI" today, and I consider "SI" (per Executive Order 14434 - https://www.whitehouse.gov/pre... - aka. "Super Intelligence") to be even more backasswards (the "Artificial" part was the only accurate part of "AI").

Comment Re:I hope they realize people hate slop (Score 1) 81

copyright can never work on ai. like you says someone else can generate the same content.

Copyright applies to specific implementations. We're talking about product/game ideas. If one seems to be gaining traction, they can dupe it while dumping lots more resources into it to make it a polished and professional product with proper distribution channels and marketing/etc.., likely patenting as many bits of it as they can along the way and shutting down the original idea (or buying them out).

If it were simple to come up with a great new game idea, we'd be seeing them from the big studios instead of rehashing the same old IP. This seems like a great way to crowdsource game concepts and ideas, while simultaneously field testing them.

Comment Re:I hope they realize people hate slop (Score 1) 81

I don't think this is about creating useful or profitable content this is more about training their AIs and showing them off to investors.

Won't surprise me if the licensing agreement means the get a royalty free license to your result. IE: they probably hope people DO create useful and profitable content so they can co-opt/steal it.

What's the next big idea? AI not giving it up? Get actual people to input the creativity into the system to solve that problem.

Comment Re:poor benchmark (Score 1) 93

Wait until the device is released, tested, and benchmarked in its actual configuration before you draw any conclusions.

This sounds an awful like like, "Wait until the leopard eats your face before you draw any conclusions." There are well established benchmarks that provide insight into what we can expect, and that's a lot more useful than trusting the marketing and suggesting people wait for it to be released before deciding to buy the competition.

Benchmarking CPU/GPUs targeted at laptops generically is fucking stupid. The performance of each device is almost exclusively determined by the thermal and power design. You are using benchmarks wildly incorrectly. Please stop.

If you can't put two and two together and see what the benchmarks imply, that's on you. If you can, then do so and show where this went wrong (something like what AniMoJo implied, like maybe that benchmark was for a wildly different form factor or product... but was it?)

Comment Re:Bunch of eye candy, but what are the specs ??? (Score 2) 56

Pushing a lot of AI stuff, but can it handle it. Specs ?

From the page, "a baseline of 16GB of high-speed RAM across the entire portfolio, and some models go up to 32GB." ...

AFAICT, those "some models" that go up to 32gb don't exist yet. I looked at every one of them on google's site and none had a 32gb option.

They're advertising the local NPU. I know RAM is a shitshow right now, but if you're going to use it for local stuff, 32gb should at least be an option on all of these.

Comment Re:Nope, Kimmel wants to support only his party (Score 1) 281

The "major political parties" is not the same as "competing political candidates", period.

Semantics. Its still the candidate that people are going to want to see on TV.

While discussing US legal code, semantics matter.

your misguided idea that Kimmel chose not to broadcast Talarico's interview as a means of sidestepping regulation, rather than Kimmel planning on broadcasting it and the FCC strong arming them to prevent it from airing on broadcast. Do you have ANY evidence it was the former?

"Jimmy Kimmel said Wednesday night that an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico would not air on ABC, with the Disney-owned network concerned about FCC equal-time rules. The interview streamed on YouTube on Thursday instead."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pol...

Seems you've got nothing. Here, you're quoting a biased rephrasing rather than the actual quote. The actual quote from Jimmy is:

"Now that he's president, his FCC has threatened me, threatened our show, threatened our network, ABC, our affiliates, our local stations based on simple editorial decisions."

Comment Re:Nope, Kimmel wants to support only his party (Score 1) 281

The "major political parties" is not the same as "competing political candidates", period. The part you quoted, "Candidates", and tried equating to "major political parties", is in the title of the US code, not the text thereof, and it still isn't the same.

The "competing political candidates" could include a Republican and someone from the Green party but no Democrats, in which case the "major political parties" would not all need equal opportunities (eg. Dems could be excluded if there was no Dem candidate).

Your second comment doesn't parse. I think that's related to your misguided idea that Kimmel chose not to broadcast Talarico's interview as a means of sidestepping regulation, rather than Kimmel planning on broadcasting it and the FCC strong arming them to prevent it from airing on broadcast. Do you have ANY evidence it was the former? Do you have ANY evidence that Kimmel or ABC did not offer a spot to Paxton as well (for broadcast)?

Comment Re:Lock them up or fire them, at least (Score 1) 172

True, but first we have to fire all of the officers who did these things, and make them unhireable.

Don't let perfect get in the way of good.

Actually... that could be a great way of making good of a bad situation. Bear with me...

Use it as a honeypot for shitty cops.
Keep the Flock cameras up.
Allow bullshit to be entered into request forms.
Periodically take action on those that enter bullshit into the request forms - mass firings and barring from future service.
If we're being really nice, maybe one round of warnings first, then the firings on the next review round.
Repeat the process with stricter controls on each pass (require verified ID, require a warrant, verify the user ID passes background checks, verify the warrant is valid and applies, add a judge to the loop, etc etc..).
If/when the system is no longer used frequently enough to justify its operating costs, so be it.

Comment Re: Nothing of value was added (Score 1) 162

I remove sudo. The whole idea is fundamentally broken and I doubt it can even be made secure the way it is done. If you need root, be root.

On a single user system, I mostly agree. But on a multi-user system, especially one where someone else also needs root for some action, sudo is a damned fine solution. You can lock it down to specific commands with specific arguments for specific users on specific machines, AND you get the logging as well (you are doing secure logging to a centralized system/cluster,right?).

A simple real world example: you've got a cluster of web servers and a support team that needs to be able to restart them.
Of course, there are other ways to implement that access (besides handing out the root password or using sudo), but go ahead and compare the options. Don't forget that you need admins familiar with those solutions, and there will be other cases needing similar solutions. A standard tool (sudo) with a config that can be copied around to all the servers (thanks to the host based stuff) is quite useful. If you only dish out specific access to specific people, and those are people you would otherwise trust with the root password, where's the downside?

That said, it's not a big stretch to say that the whole idea of sudo is fundamentally abused and misused so regularly that many would be better off without it enabling their poor security practices (Ex. "%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL").

Comment Re:Nope, Kimmel wants to support only his party (Score 1) 281

Broadcasting regulations say that the major political parties must be given equal time on the public broadcast frequencies.

That's not what it says, and there's no evidence that an equal opportunity on the network (note "network", not show) was not afforded to the other candidates.

"The equal-time rule (47 U.S. Code 315 - Candidates for public office[1]) specifies that American radio and television broadcast stations must provide equivalent access to competing political candidates. This means, for example, that if a station broadcasts a message by a candidate, it must offer the same amount of time on the same terms (in, say, prime time) to an opposing candidate."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Thanks for proving me correct... That doesn't mention "major political parties" at all.
And you completely ignored the latter part of my claim - that there is no evidence that other candidates for this office were not offered an equal opportunity.

Comment Re:Nope, Kimmel wants to support only his party (Score 1) 281

Broadcasting regulations say that the major political parties must be given equal time on the public broadcast frequencies.

That's not what it says, and there's no evidence that an equal opportunity on the network (note "network", not show) was not afforded to the other candidates.

Comment Re:Feelingx wrong, its equal time rule (Score 5, Informative) 281

Broadcast networks have to give the different major parties equal time. Since Kimmel only wants to give a voice to one party he cannot use the broadcast network.

On what basis are you saying that Kimmel only wants to give voice to one party?

Also, they do NOT have to give equal time, and "major parties" is not part of it; They have to afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office. IE: if Paxton passes on the opportunity, that doesn't block Talarico from airing.

ALSO, as you implied, the "broadcast network" has to give said opportunity. I see nothing in 47USC315 that says it has to be on the same show.

47USC315 also says, "Appearance by a legally qualified candidate on any ... bona fide news interview ... shall not be deemed to be use of a broadcasting station within the meaning of this subsection." IANAL, but this isn't a paid for appearance, and it is an interview, and it's only falling under this provision because the FCC recently reclassified how late night shows are handled.

There are too many ways in which this doesn't apply or is being applied incorrectly. It's the government strong arming a broadcaster to chill speech.

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