Comment Re:Smells scammy. (Score 1) 128
Comment Re:Wait! Wait! (Score 1) 64
Anthropic's new AI will be called Roberto, after the criminally insane manbot from Futurama.
"I was made by a team of evil scientists trying to make an insane robot, but obviously they FAILED!" -Roberto
Comment Re:If you look at the web... (Score 4, Interesting) 77
It's so refreshing to find a search result from an old web site maintained by a real person. It's like drowning in quicksand and suddenly feeling solid ground beneath your feet.
The other day I actually got a search result from everything2.com... Great feeling.
Comment Perfect movie setup (Score 1) 128
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the film passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, it ensnared another bearer...
Comment Re:Huh. (Score 1) 128
So you mean they cast Nicholas Cage as Forrest Gump?
Comment Re:Terrorists' Eyes Aglow (Score 1) 26
Why bother, just plant some sleeper agents in the Phillipines who control these remotely. Much cheaper.
Comment Re:Doesn't surprise me (Score 1) 79
Why not just dispute it? They reversed the wrong transaction. You did your due diligence...
Comment Re:Forget vending machines (Score 1) 79
I can see the YouTube clickbait now... "I got an AI to play SimCity and This Happened"
Comment Really? (Score 4, Insightful) 52
I doubt that any amount of Excel training would have helped for this specific issue. That mistake could be made by anyone. Once you hide a worksheet it's not obvious it's still attached to your workbook... because it's hidden. It's a mistake waiting to happen.
Comment Re:LMAO (Score 1) 44
You are right to be skeptical. These "tools" are not for your benefit; they are to allow Google to improve its tracking data so they can sell better ads or train their AIs.
Comment Re:Wait, this never even happened to him? (Score 1) 180
You're right, this lawsuit is only over the "threat of violence." The plaintiff was never actually involved in the act. No one was tied down and forced to participate, like this ragebait headline implies. It actually looks like the plaintiff is a serial litigator looking for any excuse to quit and file a lawsuit.
You don't even need to read between the lines here, it's there in the article:
As a result of the pervasive, repeated, and ongoing threats of violence--and actual violence inflicted on co-workers not meeting sales goals...
Figueroa himself “witnessed and videotaped a co-worker, Ty, being tied-up and assaulted by a co-worker in the backroom of the Comcast Store.”
(emphasis added)
Comment Re:Sales managers are (Score 1) 180
These guys are just one step away from a Lord of the Flies scenario.
Comment The floggings will continue until morale improves (Score 2) 180
Great, now "public assaults by co-workers" will be boilerplate in all new employment contracts. Thanks a lot!
Comment Re:Is the teacher qualified? (Score 1) 192
The entire program is actually a reality show run by MrBeast.