You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
It’s happening because people allow it to happen. I recently unsubbed from a channel because they were beginning to use community posts to promote sponsors. Like a giant fucking post with complete BS like “I always wanted to do X video and now thanks to RAID SHADOW LEGENDS include huge pic it is now reality. Thank you RAID SHADOW LEGENDS and with code BullshitPromoFromYT you get 10% off the newest hat or whatever shit they sell in that game”. Some people complained and asked the creator not to do this, but they were quickly flooded by the hordes of “they have to make money somehow”-drones. Despicable.
I live 30km from the French border, I had 10 years worth of French classes at school. I always hated it, but I did an extra-curriculum to acquire a diploma because a classmate and friend of mine didn’t want to do it alone. My French is in a weird spot: I cannot form a proper sentence, but I understand listening exercises and written text well. I recently started to go through some French lessons on Duolingo and I’m already struggling with the sentences it expects me to form in unit 8…
I’m German, born and raised, but in Saarland. One time when visiting a friend in Berlin, I was at a bar and got a compliment on how good my German is even tho I’m obviously a foreigner.
“Hippopotamus” is another one. It derives from the Greek words hippos (horse) and potamos (river) and this concept of river horse is present in many different languages:
German: Flusspferd (lit. river horse)
Dutch: Rivierpaard (lit. river horse)
Finnish: Virtahepo (lit. stream horse)
Danish: Flodhest (lit. flood horse)
Chinese: 河马 (lit. river horse)
Arabic: فرس النهر (lit. river horse)
French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese use variations of hippopotamus.
There are languages that are considered isolates, meaning they are spoken and written languages that share no connection to any other known language. Basque is an example for that, spoken in the Northern parts of Spain, but does not share any similarities to Spanish, Portuguese, English or French. Common theory is that it just developed in that region and was not influenced by outside factors at all which is linguistically weird since trading with other regions was common. There are also no known languages that descended from Basque, thus it’s not a proto-language either.
I know a guy who wanted to volunteer to go to Iraq and, after assessment, the army said no. He was working as a paper pusher and was apparently so bad at his job that they didn’t even want him as cannon fodder.
I used to upload stuff to youtube, mainly for friends to watch, and I got false copyright claims on every single one of them. I concluded that YT does not want me to share videos with my friends, so I stopped.
The glide ratio of a Cessna 172 is about 9:1, video is from a T210N Centurion II, a similarly sized but heavier plane, so its gliding capabilities are worse.
The glide ratio of an Airbus A320 is 17:1.
A huge Airbus is much better at gliding than a small Cessna.
Maybe a bush pilot. There are many remote areas that don’t have airfields big enough to service large planes and if medicine, food or people need to go there, they have to be brought in by smaller planes that can land on those airfields.
Could have been a part of the incidence investigation to rule out that the crash was caused by the wake turbulence of the fighter jets going supersonic.
Most Roman thermae featured a caldarium, which was like a hot steam sauna and the really fancy ones even had a laconicum which was kinda like a hot, dry sauna.
Captcha was implemented to stop bots and now they are so fucked up that bots are better at solving captchas than humans.
For example the captcha on this site (it’s a google search proxy). It took me 4 tries and last time I checked, I was human. To be fair, they call it an intelligence check, so maybe that was the problem.
In a quiet suburban neighborhood where minivans outnumber streetlights, a group of women have been ingeniously disguising their love of wine as a book club. While their intentions may be transparent to everyone else, these winos insist that their guise is a stroke of genius. “It’s a sophisticated literary club that explores...
Your sentence consists of bringing a higher-than-usually priced bottle of wine from the top shelf on the next occasion. This post is legally binding and enforceable.
Zu einer gefährlichen Körperverletzung kam es am Montagabend in der Schlaggasse in Eichstätt. Gegen 17.50 Uhr ging ein bislang unbekannter Mann auf zwei Iranerinnen zu und schrie diese mehrfach an, dass sie sich aus Deutschland entfernen und in ihr Heimatland zurückgehen sollen....
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers (9to5google.com)
Sovcit can't find the right payroll company. (lemmy.world)
It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. (lemmy.world)
Anon tells their life story (sh.itjust.works)
What Radicalized You? (lemmy.world)
Ant smell (mander.xyz)
AI is the future (lemmy.world)
In Australia, a Cessna light aircraft's engine failed, but the pilot managed to steer it away from residential buildings. (streamable.com)
Roman World (lemmy.world)
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (www.theverge.com)
A glorified terrorist group (lemmy.world)
Local Mom’s Wine Club Cleverly Disguised as a Book Club, Fools No One But Themselves (lemmy.world)
In a quiet suburban neighborhood where minivans outnumber streetlights, a group of women have been ingeniously disguising their love of wine as a book club. While their intentions may be transparent to everyone else, these winos insist that their guise is a stroke of genius. “It’s a sophisticated literary club that explores...
Light (mander.xyz)
Sovcit got a ticket. (lemmy.world)
Rassismus in Eichstätt: Mann schlägt zwei iranische Frauen (www.augsburger-allgemeine.de) German
Zu einer gefährlichen Körperverletzung kam es am Montagabend in der Schlaggasse in Eichstätt. Gegen 17.50 Uhr ging ein bislang unbekannter Mann auf zwei Iranerinnen zu und schrie diese mehrfach an, dass sie sich aus Deutschland entfernen und in ihr Heimatland zurückgehen sollen....