Betteridge again. Not a chance. It's just the old line isn't working so well any more. Turns out people don't fancy being sold a future where everyone not named Altman is a feudal serf fighting for water.

If you want to destroy the AI industry, just accept their ludicrous claims that AIs are conscious beings 'just like us' and therefore require the same level of protections.

What's the point of testing an AI model in a non-prod environment anyway? What does that tell you other than on a particular day at a particular time, it didn't wreck anything? How do you know it's going to behave like that tomorrow or the day after?

And I did not speak out,
Because I was not trans,
Then they came for the autistic,
And I did not speak out,
Because I was not autistic,

...

Then they came for me,
And there was no one left,
To speak out for me

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

The people signing off these contracts have no idea they're about to get eaten by sharks and we all pick up the tab.

35 years prior, tens of millions of people were busy slaughtering each other in WW1. I imagine that might've impacted the number of 65 year olds around.

Strange article. Can someone point me to a reference that says HawkEye Live uses AI? I don't believe it does, at least I can't find reference to it (For example this article https://www.independent.co.uk/...). It uses a bunch of cameras to track the trajectory of the ball and calculates whether it was out or not. I can't see an AI use case there. The problem seems to be some goon had turned it off, not the technology itself.

Neither Italy nor Germany were the dominant political, economic or cultural force when they turned to fascism. I don't think we have a template for what happens when the most powerful nation state in the world goes rogue.

I live almost in the centre of a reasonably large UK conurbation and mobile coverage is garbage. The infrastructure is a bin fire fuelled by grasping companies overpromising and underdelivering. Still. At least it's not railways, or water companies or...

Exactly!

My standing desk* takes 1–2 seconds to shift between different heights, so it's very easy to switch between standing and sitting. I've been standing for 1½–2 hours each day (not always consecutively) — which by an amazing coincidence seems about the optimum according to that survey.

There are other benefits, though. I first got it after hurting my back, and found that standing really helps with that. (Disclaimer: back problems vary, this is not medical advice, etc.) And standing encourages you to move more, which also seems beneficial.

(* Actually, a ‘standing desk converter’, an adjustable spring-loaded platform that sits atop my existing desk — much cheaper and less disruptive than a full desk replacement.)

I'm in the UK where AM is barely a thing, at least I've not heard of it in years but it was always muffled super low quality so why would anyone want it in this day and age?

How on earth is this marked insightful? I remember when this was a site for smart people. At least those with an ounce of empathy.

Firms have done this for decades. Back in the 90's when I was last job hunting I was warned by bureaus that many of the jobs were fake to draw in CVs or analyse the market.

America is amazing. People give all their money to billionaires because of some sort of cult worship.

It's the side effect of believing the American Dream. They hope that with hard work they'll become the next billionaire and don't want to jinx their income when they get there,

So they'd rather promote someone doing an OK job but showing their face than someone doing an awesome job but from home? Well, that's one way to end up with some seriously bad management in a few years, not that the current ones sound that great if this was deemed a good idea.