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Comment uh no (Score 5, Insightful) 18

"Autopilots stay active in the background, understand how work gets done across your apps and systems, and take action without needing to be prompted each time," said Omar Shahine"

Actual autopilots require constant oversight, whether you're on a yacht looking or for shipping containers, or in a plane watching for mountains. That's why it's a good name for Tesla's Almost Self Driving misfeature. On that basis it's actually sort of a good name for this, in that so will these AI agents, though they won't be getting it.

If they wanted to give an air of confidence, though, they would have named it more cleverly than this, and without using a name already in common use for a semi related product.

I suggest general operating LLM enterprise management, or GOLEM ;)

Comment Re:Right (Score 0) 56

Trump has no idea whatâ(TM)s going on.

Yeah, but that's the normal state of affairs, you don't need to point it out.

Iâ(TM)m also curious how this could be considered âoeconservativeâ. Donâ(TM)t they hate the government meddling in their affairs?

BUT MUH NATIONAL SECURITY! OF COURSE TRUMP SHUD DO WHUTEVER HE WANTS FOR THAT!

Comment Re:Unintended consequences... (Score 1) 98

I don't want to sound alarmist and I am obviously not an expert but... we know what happens when you remove a species from the food chain. 1. Their predators die off. 2. Other species rise to take their place.

1. is not a significant problem. There are only a couple of species which survive entirely on mosquitoes, they are not common, and there are many kinds of mosquito. 2. is even less of a problem, there's nothing else just waiting in the wings to upstage mosquitoes as they don't compete with anything else.

Comment Re:Recipe for disaster (Score 1) 164

Labeling your item with a generic "BOMB" is such a rookie mistake. Always - always! - use more descriptive bluetooth name so you know exactly which device you are controlling. E.g., "cmdrtaco's BOMB".

Oops. Did I just make Slashdot do a U-turn?

"Bomb" is so 1991, these days we use Improvised Explosive Device (not to be confused with an IUD) or if you're really advanced, Contraterrene Device (CTD).

Comment Tackling the real issue is hard. (Score 1) 40

Blaming AI, especially as it's not Elon's AI is easy.

If American politicians really wanted to do something about shootings and suicides they'd look at introducing meaningful firearm controls, most notably penalties for misuse, stop glorifying guns and violence (fix the culture behind the shootings) and do something to help the mental health of Americans (starting with the bullying that has become endemic to American culture)... But that's all way too sensible where you can just blame the right AI for all the ills because shootings and suicides weren't a problem before AI or Altman skeezed onto the scene?

Right, guys. right?

Hey ho... just more thoughts and prayers then because that's been working fantastically so far.

Comment Re:Yeah.... no (Score 1) 106

Oh come on guys. No one is that dense. We can all see the multi-million dollar record profits that companies are making, in a bid to shore up their stock price. Then putting in the profits into stock buyback to further shore up the stock. Hiring has simply been frozen and more & more work is piled on-top of existing employees.

The existing employees donot dare rebel, and simply do as they are told, as they have seen the firings and are just doing whatever they can to scrape by. The situation does not seem very stable currently

Yes, but the "AI good, worker bad" narrative must be maintained. If they can blame remote work for something remotely bad they will.

Comment The headphone jack is the least of it (Score 1) 92

Apple's got many faults, but their hardware has a very premium feel. I presume this is where Dell's additional hundred bucks went, because Apple's used to doing that and Dell isn't. They think they are, but they aren't normally as good at it. But they're going to deliver this PC with Windows, and there might be Linux issues — there's no way to know until it's in reviewers' hands exactly what hardware is actually used around the parts we know about. And unless you specifically need Windows, it's very hard to imagine getting excited about spending more money to run that.

I have to admit that I find the lack of a headphone jack offensive, but I wouldn't even consider buying a Dell that's trying to be a Macintosh over an actual Macintosh, and I say that as someone with very little respect for Apple. I don't hate Dell, but I've never been impressed by them either. I would describe them as "less terrible than HP".

Comment Re:Airport terminal justice.... (Score 2) 164

The fact that it's a garbage off-brand speaker makes it more likely that it's possible, because people with valuable brands are the ones who are most likely to want to prevent you from changing it, and also the most likely to actually design their own product internals or have them designed to spec. The cheap brands are most likely to grab a complete PCB off the "shelf", or even more likely than that, just have their crappy brand put on someone else's complete product.

But, and it's a big one, they won't be offering the user the tools to do it with. They'd have to figure out who actually made it and/or what chip is on it in order to identify the tool, then they'd have to track it down, then they'd have to maybe short something on the PCB because it's not necessarily as easy as holding down a button, they'd have to do it on a windows PC or at least by attaching a USB hub to a windows VM so that when the device inevitably changes IDs during the reflashing procedure it remains connected, or with some kind of reflashing tool which is cheap but which they definitely don't own.

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