Comment Re:inputs and outputs (Score 4, Funny) 51
Probably the next code that it outputs will be:
# You're out of uploads for today, so if you want me to stop this vehicle anytime soon, upgrade your plan now!
Comment Re:I've literally seen it done (Score 2) 79
Our walmart installed these price-as-you-go tags a while ago and I have literally seen them change as I walk up to them, and then change again as I walk away. The trick to get them not to change is to be holding your phone at them - the store's AI won't change the tags if it thinks you're filming them.
My Walmart is worse than that. They didn't have any price tags at all. Just video screens with AI avatars of a guy in baggy pants sitting cross-legged on a rug.
When I walk by, he says "Look at my cotton swabs! I offer you the best cotton swabs in the land!"
I say: "Well, how much to they cost?"
He squints at me, looks me up and down for a long while, then says: "For you........ I give to you seven hundred and fifty swabs for two pieces of silver only. Believe me when I say you will search this entire kingdom and not find a better deal!"
Comment Super Moron (Score 1) 167
They are kissing up to Donny by letting him rename everything he farts on.
Comment Since "Corporations are people" (Score 1) 130
Execute it for spying on gov't.
Comment Realism (Score 5, Funny) 47
The conversation only seems unnatural because they didn't use the right avatar.
If you choose the "Max Headroom" avatar, then everything will look and feel exactly as you would expect. Moreover, the dystopian vibe he gives off will be a perfect fit with the current state of the world.
Comment Re:Oh good (Score 0) 120
Fuck Benjamin Netanyahu
Donnie already has, several times. And both liked it.
Comment Not mutually exclusive (Score 1) 113
The worries are coming from every level within the companies, from junior developers to safety officers to the C-suite and board...also from people who left the companies.
It's possible for the stated high-level worries to be a combination of fear of rogue bots AND angry investors, and thus they got together to collude...I mean agree to a slowdown.
Comment Re: Rust designed to mitigate limitations found in (Score 1) 93
Wrong again.
Moreover, many of the big complex systems I've worked on were big and complex mainly because OOP nitwits had designed them. They often didn't understand how computers actually work, lost sight of the fact that they were writing a computer program, and spewed out frameworks that filled countless gigabytes of resident memory with endlessly deep layers of nothingburger abstractions. Maybe that didn't matter so much when memory was cheap, but that's no longer the case.
If you think that there's only one way to deal with large data sets, you're a just noob that needs more experience before spouting your theories.
Comment Re: Rust designed to mitigate limitations found in (Score 1) 93
C++ is just as much of a sieve as C, only more obtuse.
"Object models" are an anti-feature.
Comment Re:Rust designed to mitigate limitations found in (Score 1) 93
Dr. Dobb's Digest March 2009: The Safe C Library
Dr. Dobb's Journal March 1991: Array bounds checking with Turbo C
The ideal for memory safety is to have an air-tight pressure vessel.
With C, you're starting that task with a colander. You've managed to fill two of the colander's holes with silicone caulk. Congratulations.
Comment Coming soon to an orbit near you (Score 4, Insightful) 159
A space weapons arms race plus one million data center satellites.
What could possibly go wrong?
Comment Re:'Cuz they'll stop making non-AI versions (Score 1) 111
If the toaster has good brownness and heat-bounce sensors, I'm not sure AI is needed: just turn up or down the heat cells where needed to keep it even. Statistical analysis may be needed to manage adjacent cells, but once the formulas are known via lab testing it should be predictable.
Comment Huang lives in Donald's ass. (Score 1) 128
nuf smelt.
Comment Re:This is a weird little hit piece (Score 0) 183
The problem is an overly large proportion of them are creeps, and one may not be able to tell the difference.