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About they track the time between key inputs when you’re searching for something. God knows why though I can’t imagine it being particularly useful information.

Yeah exactly. All these AI that go rogue when you actually look into it it turns out they haven’t gone rogue they’re obeying their prompting, it’s just that they were asked to do something that was impossible unless they hacked the pentagon or something. They then claim that it went rogue despite it very clearly following their instructions.

It’s negligence is what it is. If you don’t prompt an AI to do anything it just sits there, inert, it’s the so-called experts in the AI labs that of the problem.

It’s not really cold though is it. It’s just a lot of numbers and those numbers somehow do things. Like it says no one understands it.

What you don’t think that there is historical photography of Hitler doing that?

I’ve always thought the stylized eagle was an odd choice.

I think I fall a bit between the people who use it for everything and your opinion of it.

I get that it’s basically just a prediction engine but thinking of it like that is unhelpful in my opinion. I’ve seen AI rewrite entire code bases overnight that would have taken a team of humans over a year. It’s obviously useful technology it’s just people have this tendency to overuse it.

It’s kind of like how in the early 2000s they were putting Bluetooth in everything. Eventually we’ll work out what it’s useful for and only use it to that we just have to wait for the frenzy to die down.

I don’t understand what people use it for. At work I use it because it’s much easier to ask an AI than try and deal with our crap internal documentation. People who use AI in their personal lives are just weird to me.

The only technology I really use is a digital calendar, which is an objectively superior product to the paper-based calendar simply because it gets updated by the whole family and stays in sync. I don’t have smart light switches, or cameras in every room, if a hard drive on my computer breaks then I lose all my data there’s nothing on there that I really care about, I might be ultra weird because I even get my photos printed.

Okay so this is how you get an AI dystopia. Yes you have to have massive amounts of AI in everything but you also have to have idiots that insist on using it for everything.

We could just automate all the crap jobs people don’t like e.g. most of the jobs and to be honest most of them probably don’t need doing anyway, and still be human.

Oh we can go down this idiots route.

Oh maybe, I’m not particularly interested in things like that but my dad is pretty into Swiss army knives so maybe he used my Amazon account at one point?

I mean it’s fine I don’t care I just think it’s odd.

I think Amazon just called you basic

Not only did they have my age range completely inaccurate they’ve also listed camping as a hobby. I don’t even own a tent, I have no idea why they think I like camping. I’ve never bought any camping equipment from them, I’ve never accessed the website from communal wi-fi in a campsite. I don’t know where they’re getting this assumption from.

The only self checkout machines I’ve ever seen that actually seem to save time are the ones in IKEA. That’s only because people are buying such bulky heavy items that they don’t bother weighing them. It’s the scales that cause all the problems, they are sensitive enough that they can detect if you put so much as a single piece of paper on them but are I’ll let down by the fact no one weighs the original product.

Oh there’s an unexpected item in the bagging area is their, could it possibly be that loaf of bread I just scanned? No apparently not because this product is overweight by a whole nanogram.

I’m pretty sure I stolen bottle of wine because of the self checkout.

I’m bought a bunch of stuff and some wine, I scan to the bottle and it beeped and I put it in the bag but then no one came to ID me when it came time to paying, presumably it somehow didn’t register.

AIs tend to be consistent on things like that. I think it’s just two people writing things and the result has been bodged together.

Wait they only have 3,000 customers. How is that not the main story here, who cares if their data was hacked, if they are a custom of trump mobile they’re probably the sort of idiot that posts their photos credit card on Facebook anyway

Is even gold. Absolutely nothing possible to take offense out.

Well mostly to piss him off. Making trumplstiltskin feel unhappy is a noble and worthwhile goal.

If Americans feel it’s appropriate to inflict the gross idiot on us, then we reserve the right to make fun of them for it.

If you need an AI to tell you that you don’t deserve either. You got to get in your car and drive around it two o’clock in the morning or it isn’t worth it.

It’s not a hobby though. Or a personal preference like veganism, it’s a belief system based on an incredibly unimaginative fairy tail.

Somebody may very into collecting Yu-Gi-Oh cards but they would quite rightfully be called crazy if they started to insist that they really had magic powers. There is quite an important distinction between an interesting hobby that you kind of suspension of disbelief, believe in, versus an actual astrology theolog who insists that it’s all real.

Oh, a technical explanation