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Comment Ooooh, I'm TELLING (Score 2) 74

***
This is the third time in seven minutes that you have opened the refrigerator.
Your average time with the door open is 45 seconds.
You stared into the fridge for 80 seconds and did not remove or replace any items.
You access the refrigerator every 73 minutes.

YOUR ENERGY PENALTY SCORE: 175.
(The state recommendation is 45. You will be assessed.)

***
You consumed 800 unapproved calories today.
Overall, you over-consumed: Fat (29%), Carbohydrates (55%).
YOUR FOOD HEALTH SCORE: 19
(Your insurance company will asses a rate penalty.)

***
ALERT:
Your daily steps, sleep hours, screen time,
and health scores have exceeded approved limits.
In addition to fines and penalties,
the following actions are being implemented:

1. Your DRIVING PRIVILEGES have been suspended
for 2 months. Do not attempt to operate your vehicle.
It has been disabled.
(You may still walk or use public transit.)

2. Your SOCIAL BURDEN SCORE has been updated.
This has been reported to your employer,
who may reduce your pay accordingly.

3. Your INTERNET PRIVILEGE has been restricted
to REMEDIAL content for the next 6 months.

Your VOTING privilege will be suspended for one year
if your score averages below 77 for the 9 month window.

You can review your scores at any time by voice query,
or visiting the public disclosure site at:
www.checkanyonesscore.gov

NOTE:
Ambient Conversation Monitoring (AMC) has been
enabled at your premises by The Ministry.

Comment Re:Difference in fundamental rights. (Score -1, Troll) 69

Thanksgiving dinner costs a little more this year

Except for the fact that Thanksgiving dinner costs LESS this year...

(I assume you mean the USA Thanksgiving. It's about $55.18 compared to last year's $58.08.)

Modded "Troll" for stating facts that run counter to some political narrative. Feel free to fact-check it, and then consider the quality of Slashdot moderators.

Comment Re:Why surprising? (Score 3, Informative) 15

Why would this be surprising? Mars has huge dust storms and is very dry. The perfect recipe for static electricity. What am I missing?

That they have decided their direct observations support that theory. That science needs confirming evidence for a theory on its way to being fully accepted. All that has happened is that they have decided that some progress has occurred on that path.

Comment Re:West of House (Score 3, Informative) 33

Open mailbox

Open mailbox" can refer to a physical mailbox or a digital email account.

It is illegal to open a mailbox that does not belong to you, even if the house appears abandoned. Mailboxes installed and used for delivery by the USPS are considered federal property, and tampering with them or the mail inside is a federal offense.
If you are not the property owner or an authorized representative, you cannot legally open the mailbox.
        Do not force the lock: Prying, drilling, or breaking the lock is illegal and will likely damage the mailbox, making it unusable for future mail delivery.

Do not take anything from the property: Taking items from an abandoned house is considered theft.

AI responses may include mistakes. For legal advice, consult a professional.

Comment Re: People do want and need AI (Score 1) 54

I mostly use the Google search AI
(the default Google results behavior,
the Summary and Dive Deeper).
It says all kinds of crazy shit and even
contradicts itself in the same sentence.
It gives me broken wrong shit about 60% of the time.
When it says something correct, it turns out to be a
literal verbatim copy of what Wikipedia.

YMMV.

And these LLMs are not going to improve.
This whole craze is going to be a very drawn
out and painful lesson for the humans.
For example, they have you sold.

Comment Re: People do want and need AI (Score 1) 54

People who want quick answers.
And don't care if the answer is wrong or not.

People who want ideas.
And can't think of any themselves.

People who struggle with proper tone or form.
And need to copy an answer off someone/something, and don't care if it's the correct answer.

People who are busy.
And don't care if they get the correct answer.

People who don't like to read manuals.
Can't be bothered to read or think and don't care if they get the correct answer.

People who are buried in make-work at the office.
And by definition don't care if they get correct answers.
Because their superiors who invented the make-work for them to do also don't care if they get the right answers. But if the AI gets a tiny biy better, those make-work people and their managers will be fired and have no means by which to support themselves. If I were in that category, I would not be singing the praises of AI right now.

There are a host of other kinds of people who want AI. I'm in several of these categries.
People who rely on computers to spell "categories" but can't even be bothered to press the button to automatically fix their mistake when it has been outlined by the computer in red ink.

None of the above is new, just that now there's a machine to "help". It's amazing the world works at all, isn't it? But now we have AI which can propagate and perpetuate the above qualities. Is that a "good" technology? I don't see any answer to the upcoming existential crisis where at least a third of the population is unemployable. What will happen to the huge underclass?

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