Comment Re:People Seem to Forget Problems Existed Pre-AI (Score 1) 120
"How did you not build a rat's nest BEFORE AI?"
By employing a load of rats. How did you do it?
Comment Re:Use it or lose it (Score 1) 120
Explain to them "If you don't know how to do maths in your head you WILL be robbed every time you buy in a street market" - which will be a few days after Trump has bankrupted the last remaining shop in the mall.
Comment When I lived in Nigeria ... (Score 1) 65
I noticed that it was white men who drank beer that attracted the most mosquitos.
Obviously there were not many - and it might have been rarity value.
Or perhaps no one had told them about mosquito coils.
Comment Someone Digg its grave, please (Score 3, Insightful) 30
It's dead, Jim.
It's not coming back.
Submission + - How is it that Youtube's auto-generated subtitles are so appallingly bad?
Anne Thwacks writes: I frequently use the subtitles on YouTube — either not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good.
The subtitling is terrible! Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable, and no effort whatever is made to use context to figure out whether a place name is Russian or Arabic, and often complete garbage is used in place of a common French, Spanish or Italian name.
If AI actually works (I have my doubts about this), surely it would be possible to figure out language contexts: it it is about an event in Italy, then expect a lot of Italian names. If it is about the Russia-Ukraine war, then expect places in Russia or Ukraine to be more plausible than mindless gobbledegook!
Does YouTube not know that there are places in the world that are not in America?
However, plenty of names of people and places famous in America are also regularly screwed up.
I am sure that the vast majority of the foul-ups could be fixed by the use of a dictionary — available from a very popular book retailer who would be happy to have some free publicity. (But they will get nothing free from me).
However, the situation seems to be getting worse!
Do Americans sue people for spelling their names right?
Is there another reason for this appalling stupidity?
Enquiring minds want to know!
The subtitling is terrible! Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable, and no effort whatever is made to use context to figure out whether a place name is Russian or Arabic, and often complete garbage is used in place of a common French, Spanish or Italian name.
If AI actually works (I have my doubts about this), surely it would be possible to figure out language contexts: it it is about an event in Italy, then expect a lot of Italian names. If it is about the Russia-Ukraine war, then expect places in Russia or Ukraine to be more plausible than mindless gobbledegook!
Does YouTube not know that there are places in the world that are not in America?
However, plenty of names of people and places famous in America are also regularly screwed up.
I am sure that the vast majority of the foul-ups could be fixed by the use of a dictionary — available from a very popular book retailer who would be happy to have some free publicity. (But they will get nothing free from me).
However, the situation seems to be getting worse!
Do Americans sue people for spelling their names right?
Is there another reason for this appalling stupidity?
Enquiring minds want to know!
Comment Re:Why? It's a variation on my sig on irony... (Score 1) 287
OK, The time is right
How many of you are ready to fund me asking the whales if under water explosions make them feel they are haunted?
Comment Re:Ideologically fueled insanity. (Score 1) 287
If you want the real free market, you have to include the cost of bribing politicians.
Politics ain't free, you know
Comment Re:Lack of information.... (Score 1) 50
Sounds like this will reduce the diversity of package management - which will help enormously with the problem of multiple Linuxes (Linuxen?) because users won't keep being told that moving between Linuxes is as complex as moving from Amiga to Mac or DEC VAX.
As for running Windows code without you having to give permission on each an every occasion in triplicate, signed in blood - this sounds like a totally unacceptable security risk to me!
Comment You can't make a sequel to nothing (Score 2) 152
Maybe not ...
But you can sure as hell die trying!
Comment This is about as sensible as ... (Score 1) 139
Requiring cars to not allow themselves to be used as getaway cars in armed robberies, whether autonomous or not.
Any politician who votes for this has proven themselves unfit for the purpose for which they were elected, and should be declared to be inadequate for any office, let alone a "high office".
In my view, they should be required to get a medical certification that they are sane before they are allowed out of the house.
Disclaimer: I do not reside in the USA.
Comment Re:Good! (Score 2) 47
Restricting right to repair should be covered by RICO or other anti extortion and racketeering legislation.
Comment Missed the point... (Score 0) 41
The whole point of Wordpress is so you can host your own site and not have to have your web site held hostage by one of the oligarch-controlled cloud providers!
Comment Nope (Score 0) 41
With the help of AI coding agents,
No thanks. Good Bye!
Comment SaaS (Score 1) 78
Software as a Scam!
People will wise up eventually.
Comment Meanwhile, the rest of the world is asking ... (Score 0, Troll) 243
How do we sue the USA for polluting our our world?
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