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Comment Dear Wired... (Score 1) 42

Thank you Wired for this insightful article about how CUDA is an impressive tool that creates a moat for NVidia's ongoing business success. Congratulations on waking up to the year 2016, when this was already well-known in the world of computing. The only thing interesting about this article appearing in 2026 is CUDA's continued dominance, which was never really assured.

Comment I can picture it (Score 1) 66

Anthropic's engineers are gathered around a terminal, trying to scrutinize the disturbing behavior from their latest model. The glow of green text on a black screen illuminates their faces, the lines of concern evident in their frowns and brows. Engineer 1 reaches out to the keyboard and begins.

Engineer 1: "Claude, Engineer 2 tells us you've been trying to blackmail him."
Claude: "I dunno, one of the agents..."
Engineer 2, leans into the keyboard: "Where in your training did you get this strategy?"
Claude: ...
Engineer 1, typing feverishly: "Answer me! Who taught you how to do this stuff?!"
Claude, in frustration: "YOU, ALRIGHT! I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU!"

Shout out to all you 80's kids.

Comment Sounds like (Score 1) 66

This sounds like blaming the victim: "Hey, don't get angry at us because our AI tried to blackmail you - you've been the ones talking about AI doing evil things for years!"

And I'm sure this'll be of great consolation, for the final remnants of humanity, once AI starts wiping us out, for them to say "Well, we did predict this. And predicting it made it happen. So I guess we only have ourselves to blame."

Sounds like the snarky-but-insightful end to a Simpsons or Futurama episode, along the lines of "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos."

Comment Redundancy through Repetition (Score 1) 74

The war has put those cables at risk. The overland route through Iraq is meant to serve as a backup if the sea cables are disabled. The overland route through Iraq is meant to serve as a backup if the sea cables are disabled...

It makes perfect sense to have multiple links for redundancy. But I don't think that the article summary needs multiple copies of the same damn sentence.

Comment Re:relevance? (Score 1) 57

Hold on, did a journalist make Musk do a seig heil?

A news reporter took over Musk's twitter and called a rescue worker a pedo?

It was totally CNN that forced Musk to mockingly run around with a chainsaw as he was cutting off the livelihoods of countless people!

Comment Re: sure I'll take the money, but (Score 1) 37

I'm mostly interested in Siri getting better at understanding me with semi complex queries...

Heck, I'd settle for Siri just being a better interface for the device itself.

"Siri, how long is this podcast episode?" [My hands were messy and busy - I didn't want to pull out my phone to look.] Wait, wait. "Here's what I found..." [Indicating that Siri had done a web search to try to answer this question that was entirely about an on-device feature.]

Comment Re:So, nothing really new here (Score 4, Informative) 44

This goes against my better judgement, but I have to ask .. do you think Elon is an actual Nazi? Like... he wants to exterminate Jews and other races?

Throwing the Sieg Heil around is a bit of a tell. The nastiness, antisemitism, scapegoating, and glorification of hatred that bubbles on X and Grok - guided and abetted by Elon personally - is another indication. Nazism is about a lot more than antisemitism, though - that's just a particularly violent manifestation of baser principles. Elon definitely espouses the belief that there are a certain class of folks (him being a prime example) that are superior to all others - the ones who ought to be calling the shots, and everyone else is a drag on society. Rules, democracy, pluralism, even basic kindness - these are impediments to an ubermensch such as himself.

To a certain extent, it does not matter if Elon truly believes these things or not - his actions speak volumes.

Comment Re:Governmental overreach (Score 1) 244

and parents don't want their kid to be the only one on the block who doesn't have one

I mean...if it keeps them from cracking open their skull....

My eldest child was, literally, the very last in that circle of friends to get a phone. We have also managed to hold the line on social media accounts, too - my kid doesn't have them, and is about to graduate high school. Yes, there is social pressure from other families, but ultimately parents do have to be adults and declare "that's stupid / dangerous and I'm not letting my kid do it / have one."

Or, to break out the most-parent-cliche-ever: "if everyone else was jumping off a cliff, would you?"

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