You joke but this is literally how a lot of AI works already. The only thing that is new here is someone discovered it, called it a loop, and thought they were clever. Since the early days of image generation your prompt doesn't get fed to the image generator, it gets fed through an LLM first that creates the scene. Many AI systems already work like this internally.
I'm confused about how this works. If I don't give a careful sequence of prompts to lead AI then it can go off the rails.
It's multiple levels of abstraction to get to a resolution.
Customer: I want software which does X.
Engineer: Writes a detailed specification for X.
Programmer: Takes detailed specification and converts it into code.
It would seem like they are replacing the engineer here with an agent. It's also worth noting that precisely none of this is new in AI. In fact this kind of thing has been in the workflows for a long time. Take Nano Banana for instance. If you feed Google's model an instruction they don't just feed it into an image generator. They feed it into an LLM first which creates the scene which then feeds into an image generator.
This is how most of AI works, but someone just came up with a snazzy term for it and thinks they are oh-so-smart.
Cars are become mobile surveillance platforms.
Apparently 93% of the population of the USA does not work for the government, and an even higher percentage not in a critical role. No one gives a flying fuck if Xi Jinping knows where they drive. If your post were to be relevant then the car would be banned for government / critical employees only. Banning it outright has zero to do with foreign surveillance unless you are really really fucking bad at making policy.
They'd rather die then use AC
That's a dumb comment. No one would rather die than use AC and the AC use is on the rise everywhere. The problem is houses in Europe are designed for historical European weather, just like houses in Texas are designed for Texan weather. The problem is always a case of adapting. Virtually everyone who is dying because of heat is not in a position to install AC usually for some combination of being unable to afford it, or being unable to get it installed (regulations are a problem, apartment design is a problem).
so I don't know if they'd bother to use diesel to keep the cell network up or not.
No sorry equating one and the other even even dumber.
Greta says to use a string and a tin can.
Who? No one in Europe gives a shit what some autistic kid thinks.
Again Spain is not California. A traffic accident is not going to knock out anyone's power in a country where a massive amount of critical infrastructure is protected and underground. Even on a local level the average duration of an outage is 30minutes largely because competent power system design makes it such that you don't need to care if part of your network is taken offline. You just "internet" the problem and route around the broken link. It's why ring topologies are so prevalent on local levels.
We're complaining about the prevalence of technology used to abuse us
Abuse is a strange word which really makes me wonder if you've never met anyone who has actually been abused. This technology has zero meaningful impact on your life. Daddy government, or the Xi Jinping knowing you drive to your mistress when your wife isn't home doesn't impact you. What does impact you is potential local data sharing with companies that have inaction with you directly (e.g. Ford sharing your data with your insurance company).
The technology isn't the problem here. The smarts aren't the problem here. Polestar knowing my journey history isn't a problem here (sidenote: I chose a Polestar because one of the killer features was the automated log-book functionality, not only is Polestar tracking me, but I explicitly want them to and get an excel report of what is on my Polestar account).
The problem is companies using data in appropriately. The USA really needs a GDPR style law, or any kind of consumer data protection laws period.
Why do so many nerds think they're experts in every category? Some of us have worked on cars for decades and know some real things about the benefits and drawbacks of modern designs.
One of the problem is the use of past tense. It creates a bias. You *worked* on cars and like any good aging nerd you think every change is only a drawback and are completely oblivious to the way normal people interact with cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Even the concept of "working" on your car puts you at odds with the way normal people use a car.
That you have an extinguisher puts you in the top 1% of preparedness. The go-bag maybe in the top 1% of that 1% prepared group. Kudos.
My favourite part about your comment is it shows that people will eventually come around to calling the current mistake "classic" and demand it. Your post would not have been out of place back in 2015 lamenting about the loss of Windows 7 and lambasting Windows 10.
RAM yes, but there is no "unemployment crisis". Unemployment has crept up slightly. Whoop de fucking do, it's within a percent of where it's been since COVID and is still lower than where it was for most of the 2010s.
If you're in a "crisis" now, you've been in a "crisis" for 2 decades with the exception of only a couple of years.
They really should, there is no reason to require TPM and advanced processor features.
No reason except for the features they include in Windows. I'm going to sue Ford now because I bought an electric Mustang. There's no reason for it to be electric!
In case you need to dumbness of your comment explained to you: If you want to buy an OS which includes certain features, then expect to have all those features included. You don't get to decide what features someone developers, you only get to decide what OS to run. Go use a different one, or go get appropriate hardware.
If you bought your components in 2019 you already have a TPM. No need to buy one to plug into your motherboard. Just go enable the CPU's in the BIOS.
That's a great way of advertising to the world you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
Why? Waste is waste. All computers eventually end up as it. Why is it Microsoft's fault that *checks's notes* a TEN YEAR OLD COMPUTER can't run Windows 11?
I think I'm going to sue Ford for releasing a new model of car turning my old one into e-waste because I was *FORCED* to buy something new for the purposes of wanting a new Ford.
You haven't watched and studied crashing commercial airplanes
Neither have you. You watched a bunch of youtube videos while pooping and got scared. What's your take on vaccines?
In their defence there was 15 years between Boeing identifying such cracks and an engine falling off.
Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
