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No, Brent. Some of us have lives, and some of us don’t really give a shit about someone with zero curiosity about anything that won’t confirm their currently-held opinions Wendy P.

it always bothered me that these settlements are done in private, despite the fact that they use a taxpayer based public court system. If you want to examine the damage to our democracy, the settlement actually matters. SmartMatic still has an outstanding case with Fox and I’m sure Fox will do exactly the same thing… Wait until the very last second when they’re selecting the jury and then Settel. I hope they lose another $700 million, lying seditious fucking Cunts.

He would have blocked its path with a wall of Sharpie.

Seen on Xitter: This storm never would have happened under Trump.

My biggest concern is naive idiots in management positions assigning tasks to AI without even understanding what it is, and the limitations. And from my miserable experience in dealing with corporate management, I know there is an inverse relationship between technical knowledge and the level a person has reached in the management heirarchy. On a different aspect of AI: "AI" has entered The Official Corporate Buzzword List. There is no regulatory body to enforce proper use of the term, so every corporate management/marketing drone is now chirping "Our product contains AI!" regardless of whether it really contains machine-learning or not. I have already seen marketing for products claiming to contain AI that I know damned well don't. At this point the term is so over-used, that claims should be interpreted as "Our product contains software that runs on a CPU".

Fair enough. So then who are you exactly like?

One of the points Colbert made in that interview was really interesting, regarding the 'intellectual laziness' that AI can induce. It reminded me of a podcast I was listening to about Air France flight 447, which crashed largely due to pilots not grasping what was going on with the plane, as they'd never really flown without a reliable auto-pilot (they kept trying to climb in the face of stall warnings). AI can be a great tool, but my biggest concern is what happens if the lights go out after we've trained ourselves to outsource our critical thinking to it.

So as not to derail the Harris thread, brought the discussion on AI here as I found it interesting. First off I think like most buzzwords I think it gets misused a lot. Pictures are no longer “photoshopped”, now every doctored image is ‘AI’ as an example. I’ll admit I know very little about what goes on under the hood. I’ve had some experience with machine learning where algorithms find patterns in data correlations that we tend to miss. I know nowadays that’s called AI - although I’m not sure I agree completely with that. I learned something interesting in the other thread about the data sources used by the big AI engines. I had assumed incorrectly that only ‘quality’ data was used. As was pointed it out it’s interesting that it draws on forums, social media and basically everything on the public net. I’m not sure if they have weightings on the data sources or not or if it’s simply volume based statistically. I use Chatgbt quite a lot for work and study, and it’s a productivity booster. Upload log files and get a quick plain English description, generate small python or bash scripts for work. It definitely makes mistakes, but generally saves a lot of time. Or stock takes, which are the bane of my boss and my life, due to shitty company structure they have us managing stock for our product line. Explained to senior management that having a guy with a PhD in mechanical engineering, and me with a Masters in Communications was expensive and could be done by a high school student fell on deaf ears. Chatgbt has been great, take a photo of the shelf and get counts back in 30 seconds. Doing a psych degree involves a huge amount of reading and filtering through lots of garbage that gets published, so being able to source papers (not using AI), but then getting the synopsis and sections saves literally hours of reading. You’ve still got to actually read the papers, that you shortlisted, so it’s not doing the ‘thinking’ and critical analysis. If it’s purely volume based, it’s obviously vulnerable to the old google front page SEI manipulation techniques.

This is real: “If you or someone you know chose not to evacuate, PLEASE write your name, birthday and important information on your arm or leg in A PERMANENT MARKER so that you can be identified and family notified,” the Taylor County Sheriff's Office wrote in a social media statement. Morbid? Not in my opinion. In my opinion it's what should be told everyone in the path of natural disasters.

This is exactly what I have been working on. Microsoft Purview is part of M365 (depending on licenses). Purview is Microsoft's data governance product. If all of the exfiltration settings are configured correctly. It can be relatively well protected. The problem is that is is also very easy to misconfigure it and not realize it. The project I have been working on is training for internal MS security engineers on how to properly configure their customer's environments to allow the use of Copilot, while protecting confidential data from being leaked. We have had to rewrite many of the standards and best practices along the way.

The christian right, AKA the American taliban will be defeated.

We are probably well down that road already in technology. In CAD and Software many engineers already don’t know the fundamentals without the tools. A real danger as a few have mentioned already is part of the laziness is blindly trusting the output.

You mean like my senior management uses ‘Management Consultants’ without understanding the limitations and what the technical details are . My stocktake gripe from earlier, management response was “we will employ someone in Poland because Australia is too expensive”. Product is manufactured and consumed in Australia:( But management consultants said to consolidate low cost labour in Poland

"This amendment may also result in male children being forcibly converted to female, mandatory singing of the Black National Anthem, and immigrants eating your pets. Due to uncertainties surrounding this law, your taxes may increase between 3% and 4960%. This amendment can sometimes cause symptoms ranging from impotence to anal irritation to death."

Only Presidents and Former Presidents can do that. Duh.