They also highlight the fact that Google’s AI is not a magical fountain of new knowledge, it is reassembled content from things humans posted in the past indiscriminately scraped from the internet and (sometimes) remixed to look like something plausibly new and “intelligent.”
This. “AI” isn’t coming up with new information on its own. The current state of “AI” is a drooling moron, plagiarizing any random scrap of information it sees in a desperate attempt to seem smart. The people promoting AI are scammers.
A Tesla owner’s dream of taking his new Cybetruck for a spin turned into a nightmare. He landed in the emergency room with blood spurting from a wrist wound before even getting behind the wheel.
These are the sort of accidents you get when you mix a child-like worship of billionaires with cheap, sheet metal construction and a failure to grind down exposed sharp edges because there was no rule saying that the billionaire had to do it.
I think the problem with big companies like Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, etc is that once all the smart & creative people have gone, all you have left are the “line must always go up” business idiots, who have no idea what their company does or how to fix it.
CoPilot is exactly the kind of End-stage, “let’s screw our customers to death” idea the CEOs come up with right before their company implodes.
The reason I know that’s true is because when this stupid idea for CoPilot came up, there were no smart people who immediately said, “do you have any idea what a terrible f*cking plan this is?”
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates....
Here’s the sooper-secret search result algorithm for whatever you type into Google:
YouTube results, followed by Reddit results, followed by “Sponsored” results, followed by AI-written Bot results, then a couple pages of Amazon results and finally, on page 10 or so, a ten-year-old result that’s probably no longer relevant.
Funny story: a guy brings his car into a repair shop for service. Starts watching porn on his phone in the waiting room. Meanwhile the Bluetooth speaker in his car is giving everyone the full audio experience.
Make sure you know what your phone is paired with. Especially if you watch porn.
There’s a native Linux version of Steam (at least for Ubuntu / Mint) that works great. It also uses a proprietary Wine wrapper called Proton, that’s pre-configured for all your Steam Library games.
Cartoon could use a “priest” as well. Spouting Prosperity Gospel to keep the rubes in line. “My friend is rich because God has chosen him to BE rich, so his wealth is proof of God’s favor!”
Or lawyer-bot cites some sovereign citizen crap as if it were established legal precedent. “You can’t prosecute me in this court! Your flag has a gold fringe on it!”
Behold the wonders of AI! Now, we don’t have to pay human beings to edit webpages for us! Thanks to AI, you can just sit back and watch the money roll in!
Linux noob using mint for the first time, decided to boot from a flash drive before fully installing on my PC, just to try it out first. I’m having issues getting Wi-Fi to work during the live session though; clicking the Wi-Fi icon only brings up Network Settings and Network connections. Network connections lets me try to set...
What program did you use to make the live usb stick? (I use Rufus, myself). Did you create a persistent partition?
(I’m wondering if “access beyond end of device” is happening because there’s no storage space on the flash drive for new data, like remembering/configuring a WiFi connection)…
Many fallout shelters also had food rations and cots that doubled as stretchers (they had handles at the top and bottom). A few even had radios and Geiger counters.
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.)...
I think this is what happens to every company once all the smart / creative people have gone. All you have left are the “line must always go up” business idiots who don’t understand what their company does or know how to make it work.
This isn’t the first time Microsoft has pushed telemetry and malware in its OS. But I think they have finally crossed the line with CoPilot. What they want to do with it is so incredibly obvious and intrusive that most people just won’t stand for it.
You know, The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that if you chain a room full of monkeys to typewriters and let them all beat the keys at random, for an infinite amount of time, they will . . . eventually . . . through sheer random chance . . . produce the comple works of William Shakespeare. Maybe in 10 trillion years or so. THIS is current state of “AI.”
What Musk is proposing is like building an army of very expensive, very wasteful fusion-powered robots to beat the monkeys in the hope that the monkeys will work just a little bit faster.
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)
Archive link: archive.ph/GtA4Q...
Delivery Goes Wrong: New Cybertruck Slices Owner's Wrist During Inspection (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A Tesla owner’s dream of taking his new Cybetruck for a spin turned into a nightmare. He landed in the emergency room with blood spurting from a wrist wound before even getting behind the wheel.
Giving Windows total recall is a privacy minefield (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft’s Windows Recall feature is attracting controversy before even venturing out of preview....
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates....
Why is there no sound? (lemmy.world)
Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you (www.techspot.com)
AsahiLina: ✨ We got a bunch of Steam games to run on Asahi Linux!!! ✨ (vt.social)
Half of Britons wouldn't take a trip to the the moon, even in guaranteed safety (c.l3n.co)
Quiet Nourishing (i.ibb.co)
A beginner's guide to nationalism (lemmy.world)
MBAs when they see a functioning company (lemmy.world)
China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy (www.theregister.com)
18+ Completely normal - Ai (lemmy.ca)
Arizona lawmaker uses ChatGPT to help craft legislation to combat deepfakes (www.nbcnews.com)
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Google is losing it (lemmy.world)
Marxist Financial Advice (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16038479...
Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
Linux Cinnamon Mint live session Wi-Fi issues
Linux noob using mint for the first time, decided to boot from a flash drive before fully installing on my PC, just to try it out first. I’m having issues getting Wi-Fi to work during the live session though; clicking the Wi-Fi icon only brings up Network Settings and Network connections. Network connections lets me try to set...
Water barrel for a fallout shelter from the Cold War era seen in a flea market. (lemmy.world)
Bonus: modern doomsday prepper booth in the same flea market. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ee65f843-66be-4009-9aec-12d2d991e91d.jpeg
The ten stages of genocide (www.hmd.org.uk)
Palestinians are at #8.
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.)...
2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready? (lemmy.ca)
NTSync coming in Kernel 6.11 for better Wine/Proton game performance and porting....
Elon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUs (www.tomshardware.com)