It seems like every other technical question posed to an LLM returns some hallucinated (made up) command or property or cmdlet etc.. Rendering it useless much of the time.

..'the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions are not generated by individuals, but rather by industries and large-scale commercial activities. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), around 70% of carbon dioxide emissions stem from just 100 companies worldwide.'

https://cz.boell.org/en/2023/0...

Let's not forget that its mostly not our lifestyles causing the worst of the damage. Even if we all went 100% green, that is only ~30% of CO2 emissions in the WORLD, not a drop in the bucket, but one would be much more costly than another, and one is possible while the other is IMPOSSIBLE due to the resources of many of those households..

I don't think you're qualified to make the decision on what is 'ripping off the actor'. A non-human impressionist cannot be compared with a human impressionist due to a completely different scenario, something that couldn't be done in a lifetime by a human can be done nearly instantly with an AI. Do you really think Ned Luke would be mad if some random person could do a near-perfect impression of him? Probably not, he'd probably be impressed. But a company builds an AI model of his voice without permission, which is obviously a way he makes a living, with the intention to profit from it, yes I can agree that would be infuriating. To pretend you can't see the difference is crazy to me.

Once AI can pretend to learn, have 'emotion' and think abstractly, in a way that is convincing enough to 70-80% of people out there, 'intelligence' will be replicated in silicon. I don't think anyone will have a problem with their house welcoming them home and asking how their day was, when no one else is there.

Yeah, because educational staff are allowed to possess weapons on school grounds.

Not true. You can remove partitions and FAT, or you can write a 0 to every byte on the harddrive. But neither of these will make sure you don't have malware in bios, which can only be done by flashing a known clean bios update, and protecting the bios from being flashed by the OS.

Ordered from extreme pizza last month, they delivered some great pizza and a 24oz craft beer. It was heavenly.

Is building on science learned from others thinking inside the box? So to you, 'outside the box' is completely imagination with no foundation of any kind? By these terms, no one who speaks any language could ever write anything original. And math must be inside the box too, so no numbers may be involved. An outside the box concept must have absolutely no basis in reality according to you sir. Your definition seems a bit skewed. Original thought can still occur and it can exist within a predefined world of math, science, and language. In fact, the more you learn about various subject matter (anything, logical or not, in my opinion), the more likely you are to have an 'outside the box' thought because the more boxes you have, the more you can connect between them and then imagine other boxes which have not been 'discovered' yet.

And what is your reasoning behind this? I don't think mastery of X is NECESSARILY a precursor to an innovation of X. *You* (and everyone you've ever met) might produce ridiculous nonsense not knowing X, but you aren't everyone. Maybe on a statistical level you are correct, but only because the world is mostly filled with morons. But you can't pretend that everyone on earth is a moron, just because you haven't met a genius before. You can't outright say that no one could innovate X without completely mastering every aspect of X. It's like saying, inventing a new method of transportation is impossible unless you've mastered engineered bikes, cars, buses, trains, and planes. It's simply not true. If you actually apply your logic to the post you replied to, it makes even less sense.

Quite possible?? LOL.. This begin in the mid to late 90s, a ton of virii were simulating fake clicks making the author tons of money that probably was detected VERY quickly as soon as ad companies wised up and realize they were paying large sums of money for nothing, being scammed by smart programmers. But they still make money this way today unfortunately. And the smartest ones now aren't even illegal, just using a loophole not found yet.

Agreed! I would love to see this in the mix. And maybe the future progression will be something along these lines: Eventually there will be 2 way monitor /screen communication that verifies that the ad is actually visually playing. And maybe eventually we will have eye tracking that verifies that our eyes are actually pointing towards the ads (I believe this technology is already being engineered as we speak). And past that, our neural implants will be able to tell whether we are consciously accepting the advertising. I hope by then our association with moving pictures and audio as reality has significantly declined and being a luddite / anti-technologist will take on a much more important meaning. For now its much more important that we understand and embrace this technology.

I was gunna say, I've been using playon to watch netflix on my g tablet which is running vegantab (2.3) rooted.. it sure does work..

This person has never been a 1099 contractor. He might never understand the amount of receipts we end up with at the end of the year. Last year I ended up with 8 envelopes packed full of cryptic receipts.. Imagine the time it would take to scan and file each one of them? Not so bad if you do it every day, but I didn't do my taxes until the day before they were due like most Americans.. =]

The thing is, AT&T doesn't care about their copper (last-mile) network anymore. It is costing them WAY too much to maintain it, they make virtually no money off it, and they are not sad to have people switch to other services for that. It's the mobile market that is the only thing they care about, it's where they make all the money, and what they think is the future, money best spent upgrading this. However I really don't see how the rising cost of gas is causing them to implement caps. It's really to make more money off the services than the original unlimited plans. Since now Netflix is rising in popularity so much, & AT&T didn't upgrade their network when they took all the subsidized money to do just that, it went in the pockets of executives, and in upgrading their mobile network, and buying more small companies to have an even greater monopoly. Now they don't even want to supply the pipes for big video, so they are capping and hyping Uverse to hope to get people to switch! It's really not cost-efficient for them to supply TV and light web browsing over a 3meg/6meg pipe, they'd MUCH rather just supply light web browsing .. Facebook etc.. They realize that Netflix is killing their network and are hoping that 5-10% of their userbase (Netflix/Hulu junkies etc) will switch services to remain uncapped, is what it seems like to me..

I think it's ridiculous to say that since Apple is making huge profits on their systems now that they can keep it up once the market is fully saturated with tablets (I know, theres tons of cheap knockoffs now, and a host of workable android tabs, but they mostly all suck @ price per performance atm, which is all I care about). It's never smart to invest in 1st gen/ 2nd gen technology, as if you wait a few years before entering the market, as you get the most of price/performance then. Fanboys keep saying how iPads outshadow everything else in the market in terms of sales and market share, which is true now. But wait a year or two, once the market is completely saturated with competent tablets (if the form factor stays in popularity that long), someone will put out an Android tablet in the $300-$500 range that will put the iPads to shame, and Apple will really have to show us the money and keep innovating. Apple products are currently for people with gadget envy & superiority complexes, or with tons of money to throw away for little functionality improvements in my opinion. They really are netbook like toys (with a huge app market) when it comes down to it. Apple products always have been expensive toys, considering you can do everything (technically, not including the app market of course, but who cares imo) on a PC you can on an Apple for 1/3 the price. (PC Hardware has always been 1-3 steps ahead of apple and now Apple is running on x86 anyway to even try to be a competitor). To be honest, the only genuine use for a tablet for me is WiFi, light web browsing and PDF viewing, editing, & sig-cap for work, & the ability to plug in a real keyboard (and a serial, or usb port with drivers for a usb->serial) is a huge incentive, everything else is done better on a laptop or phone. Offer me a combination of all 3 devices (laptop, tablet, phone) and maybe there will be real reason to spend >$300. I know, skype on 3g/4g, etc etc, not interested in your lowly capped plans tho. The CPU/GPU processing power in tablets is simply not there yet, but it will be soon with the market its achieving.. And for MUCH cheaper when the market is more than 3million people with money to blow =] How big is the laptop market? Just wait, once it includes enterprise (that's smart enough to wait until the Apple hysteria dies down and serious competitors arise like Dell/HP/etc 3rd gen+)