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It is weird given the context

Then why don’t I just get the AI to write my legal filings and skip the lawyer fees?

The whole reason that I would retain professional help rather than just use an AI system is because the AI system makes stuff up, if the professional is just going to use the AI then what’s the point?

The problem with all of these types is they always say “oh well as long as you check its work it’s okay”, aka vibe<insert previously intellectually demanding task here>. The problem with that is firstly if you have to check its work then you’re basically just replacing one boring task with a different boring task, but you haven’t actually saved any time, and the second problem is a lot of the time people don’t actually check its work thoroughly, so mistakes still get through. Which is why using AI in a professional sense is a problem.

It’s fine to use it for summarising the minutes of a meeting, but it just isn’t good enough and reliable enough yet to be used in high-stakes situations. It is utterly irresponsible therefore to attempt to use it like that.

Pretty soon they’re going to pencil in a meeting about possibly arranging a committee to discuss preliminary plans to do a feasibility study.

A duopoly doesn’t require a 50/50 market share. It simply requires them to be the only real options and to both engage in similar anti-consumer practises.

Microsoft bans Xbox users from downloading unlicensed software.

I’m curious what that would even look like. The only thing you can install on an Xbox is Xbox games, where are you getting the Xbox games from if not the official publisher?

Anyone got a transcript? It’s behind a pay wall

If you need 500,000 screws all fitted to a target pressure then automation is what you want. But one off tasks like cutting the grass or trimming the hedge, you’ll end up spending more on the equipment then you’ll save.

No one will take your notices seriously if they’re not in Comic Sans.

Because the legal system is low moving even when major corporations aren’t trying to delay things and you can bet that Apple did everything they could to slow down enforcement. I’m surprised it only took 4 years.

And 100% of their product names are generated by AI. No human would be stupid enough to change something’s name for zero reason.

I don’t know as to poisoning AI, but one thing that I used to do was to redirect any suspicious bots or ones that were hitting their server too much to a simple html page with no JS or CSS or forward links. Then they used to go away.

But they’re off by default so I’m not sure what you’re talking about

I don’t care about AI when it’s doing minor things like this it’s when they’re shoving it down our throats and we don’t want it.

You are mistaking ability to read with desire to read.

I skimmed it and it mostly was just your rambling opinion about the education system in presumably the United States because it didn’t match up with my comprehension of it in general. So I really appreciated the person who generated the summary thus preventing me from having to read the whole thing.

It was especially appreciated because it subsequently turned out that your entire post was essentially irrelevant to what we were talking about. Hence by the way the downvotes.

I think the actual risk takeaway from this is that you wrote a giant fucking wall of text that essentially boiled down to, “I think AI is fine I think that academia is terrible”.

You might have said some other stuff but as I said, it’s a wall of text, so if you had some good points to make it was lost in the unnecessary voburs wall of self-flattering.

Are you using a real browser or just Safari?

I used to do web development, Safari is honestly worse then IE6

I didn’t know about any of this. I don’t like him for completely different reasons and I suspect a lot of people will be like that.

Wasn’t he big into that whole CS go gambling thing? I actually can’t remember when that was that might have been pre-2017

I’ve seen Windows 10 run on computers with 8 GB of RAM. I can’t imagine 11 running on just 4 though.

Also it can double as a self-defense weapon cause it weighs like 10 lbs.

When I was at school they reckoned that I should be in the gifted program so I ended up getting one of the first laptops. This would have been in the very early 1990s and the thing weighed as much as a small whale and was built like a brick. I absolutely used it as a weapon.

It had a grayscale backlit LCD screen. It was seriously a terrible laptop really. It had an interesting mode on it where you could transfer files from it to another computer by plugging it in via a PS2 port, and it would declare itself to be a keyboard and it would just “type” whatever you’d written (of course you lost all formatting). Bit of a useless feature these days but it would have been a godsend back in the early 2000s when transferring files was still quite difficult.