an advertisement than a warning.

2011-ish and she's still just as useless now as ever. If they had really been serious about AI they would have been making regular updates, but instead just let it flounder this whole time. I'm assuming they'll just add some LLM features on to it, which will make Siri even more unreliable, since she'll hallucinate half the shit she tells you.

Generate an image of a room with absolutely no elephants in it? This seemingly easy task seems to have stumped most of the chatbots– sorry, Large Language Model AI's.

"Write a funny joke about chatgpt that I can post on slashdot" "Why did ChatGPT apply for a job at the comedy club? It wanted to improve its "byte"-sized humor and master the art of punchlines!"

For some reason my Dad thought it'd be fun to have me try to learn programming when I was a kid and getting interested in computers, so he gave me a manual on Pascal to try learning. Didn't quite work out so well, but I always remember Pascal as the first programming language I was unsuccessful at learning. Since then though I'd never actually seen Pascal mentioned or used anywhere outside of that. I think this news is the first time I've seen Pascal mentioned anywhere in decades.

I'm more tired of poorly written crap. Disney was doing ok for awhile because the Marvel movies were at least competently written, not mind-blowing stuff or anything, just competent enough that the flaws weren't so glaring. Since they started pumping out Disney+ shows the quality of the writing has taken a nosedive, just lazy trash left and right. And somehow it's affected the movies because most of the movies have become formulaic now as well. Somehow even Taika Waititi couldn't even properly follow-up Thor Ragnarok (one of the best Marvel movies) and even his last movie was trash. Whether it's Star Wars or Marvel, their writing is rushed, transparent, and formulaic. Nothing logically connects and it's blatantly obvious that this convoluted scene is really just a vehicle to set up the next action scene, which leads to another convoluted scenario, and on and on. The last straw for me was Secret Invasion, just non-stop drivel and character assassination in service of just getting the plot from point A to point B, but no overall theme or soul to the show. I'm not tired of superhero movies, I'm tired of shitty writing that acts like the audience is too stupid to understand anything. Same with Star Wars, I'm just done with Disney's lack of quality in their scripts. Andor was this weird beacon of light that showed what a well-written Star Wars show could be and it just makes everything else look like trash in comparison.

In alot of sci-fi, it's sort of assumed that first contact will happen fairly rapidly, like we'll just get signals and/or meet the aliens and things go from there, but suppose it's a bit more "mundane" than that? What if we start picking up their signals and start seeing their culture beamed to us over a long period of time? Art and music and whatever other culture they produce, but that's all we get, we never really have a "conversation"? We see their culture grow over time, but we never actually make any contact with them for a century or more, if at all. We'd be like strangers in the night, just passing each other by. Imagine a segment of the population that just absolutely falls in love with this alien culture, that just completely takes on this alien culture's identity as their own, and so we have this part of the population that starts imitating a species that we've never even met before.

welcome our new paper-clip producing overlords. Paper-clips are life, paper-clips are our future!

Apparently the developers for Outer Wilds had a similar idea.

Oh boy, another feature nobody asked for, I can't wait to see the newest iteration of Clippy/Cortana that I'll have to figure out how to disable from day one. Hopefully this Copilot has fun looking through all my porn and video games to figure out... whatever to make my day more efficient. That whole description just does not appeal to me: "able to constantly work in the background to enhance search, jumpstart projects or workflows, understand context, and much more." No, I don't want your AI looking through my stuff, reporting back to who knows what dept or agency. It's bad enough getting the notifications about reporting errors, no way I want it poking through personal stuff.

"People are OUTRAGED at Sen. So&So's Latest Remarks" >proceeds to show a half-dozen mildly annoyed tweets from random people

I'll take the highway, thanks. Anyone staying on Reddit after tomorrow is a digital scab and deserves whatever abuse they get from Reddit going forward. Just walk away, u/spez is obviously on a power trip and going down the route of Twitter and Musk and his decisions will become increasingly unhinged. Join Tildes or one of the instances of Lemmy (Lemmy.world seems cool), or just rediscover the old internet we had before Google Reader or Digg or Reddit.

I understand.

A two-day blackout was always going to be a waste of time if that's all it was and Reddit's official communication since then has confirmed that. These always needed to be indefinite or permanent blackouts from the beginning. Reddit was built off content generated by its own users, and even the official Reddit app itself was once a third-party app (they bought out Alien Blue in 2014 and just rebranded it as the "Official" Reddit app). People need to go scorched earth on Reddit and remove user content that Reddit itself has lived off of, delete posts/comments/accounts. Does this hurt alot of people that find Reddit useful? Yes, and I'm one of them. I've been on the site for 10+ years, but I'm turning my back on them over this. Protests (digital or physical) need to be annoying and cause people frustration to make them see what the problem is. The original decision itself was bad enough, but having seen their doubling down response over the past few days has eliminated whatever doubts I had in my mind.

And yet, Reddit didn't come out with it's own "official app" until 2016 AND they only released it after buying out the biggest third-party app at the time, Alien Blue. The "official" Reddit app was once itself a third-party app. No, this doesn't necessarily make the argument false, but it shows that Reddit has depended on third-parties for a very long time. From the relevant section on Wikipedia: Mobile apps In 2010, Reddit released its first mobile web interface for easier reading and navigating the website on touch screen devices. For several years, redditors relied on third-party apps to access Reddit on mobile devices. In October 2014, Reddit acquired one of them, Alien Blue, which became the official iOS Reddit app. Reddit removed Alien Blue and released its official application, Reddit: The Official App, on Google Play and the iOS App Store in April 2016.