I think #AI is at the stage where electricity was in the late 1800s. Tons of incompatible standards run by unregulated companies, people electrocuting themselves at their homes, and promises of electricity as the ultimate cure-all.
It has tremendous potential for the future but it absolutely has to be strongly regulated, and the worst excesses curbed.
@stooovie Did electricity consume the water supply of entire towns, and require massive resources to generate? How will AI serve humanity as electricity has while competing with humans for resources they need for survival?
@stooovie No the environment wasn't pristine - only in Europe. Other parts of the world had developed cultures to co-exist in relatively balanced harmony with the environment. I think it was pristine over here🙂
Got a new idea for a novel. Pre-industrial society on nameless planet. Disabled people sometimes disappear and come back “fixed”. It’s the aliens. The kicker is they’re purifying the gene pool and replacing the people in synth bodies. I know this might trigger some disabled people, but what I wouldn’t give to be in a non disabled body with the same mind… #sciFi#ChronicIllness
@Fury No publisher would touch such a book. I was asked to tone down on character's quest to heal his body. He eventually doesn't succeed, but they said the quest in itself was problematic, which didn't make sense since all my life I have longed for a solution to a disability that made my childhood a nightmare.....
@Fury Anyway. Sidenote. In the 90s, HIV/AIDS in Africa got so much attention that it became a lucrative industry. Victims got free food + grants to start businesses + free education for their children among many other benefits from NGOs. Thus to a poor person, getting AIDS was a way out of poverty, and I heard stories of people deliberately infecting themselves to get all this free stuff.
Besides switching to LINUX (which I've tried a couple of times and failed at), how do I permanently turn off copilot and any other snooping AI "features" from Windows?
I failed twice, and I realised its because I was opting for a distro that isn't similar to Windows. Then I discovered linuxmint (you can do most windows things in it, like Win+E to open File Explorer) and suddenly Linux was a lot of fun. Honestly, joining the fediverse shortly after made it smoother for whenever I had a question I would come here and post a question and get answers in minutes. In Reddit it would take days or never.
@realtegan Oh okay... I'm sure you know of Wine? Doesn't work always as advertised but I used it to install windows stuff that I couldn't find in Linux, until I weaned myself of those. Not sure Wine can handle Steam though, but worth looking into it.
Author copies arrived of this bulky anthology of African ghost stories. Now I can say that my story was published in the same book as the legend, Amos Tutuola!
A lot of trees got seriously damaged in storms last winter, and were chopped down as a result. Nice to see so many of them fighting back this spring, and growing magnificent hairdos in the process.
@eclectech@wendinoakland I think you'll get a happy face if you used a thin line for a mouth, but the gaping black hole seems to give a different kind of impression. Or perhaps if there weren't too many teeth, just one or two as I've seen in some comics.