Posts by teebie

Re: Excel can also be unhelpfully helpful...

This is both helpful information, and saying "just do more work something that in more inconvenient, for no good reason"

We tried that at work, it gave a 4 step process that was

1 wrong, from the view that following them wouldn't work

2 wrong, in the sense that they were not even internally consistent

Re: We all know that 'AI' is not really artificial intelligence.

summarizing, editing, building upon, and fictionalising already existing content.

Re: Wetware filters are usually sufficient.

Well that was rendered meaningless by a typo.

I meant "to encourage confirmation bias"

Re: I agree

Possibly the same case, possibly a different one

They thought the AI was detecting cancer, but it was actually detecting the little rulers that are often found in images of cancer

Re: There are already tasks in Jira

"Then maybe Atlassian could start fixing the huge pile of bugs issues shite that is Jira.

TFTFY

Re: Irony

"ask yourself would your job exist without it?"

Yes, I work for a real company that provides users with a service they want, not a pack of bandits using underhand tricks to try to exploit their users.

Re: Why?

"Bad businesses will go bankrupt at some point"

If you want evidence to the contrary then <waves generally at everything>

Re: Do we bounce between mirror universes?

Please don't hold your breath when installing Microsoft patches. Asphyxiation is almost inevitable.

Re: What the Feds wanted

I imagine he took more of an interest in US Federal criminal prosecution than a person picked at random

Re: The research dossier was a 271-page document

A lot of the pages came from the DFS catalogue.

If you challenge someone from behind then you can't justify shooting them for turning round.

Re: "UK government misled MPs"

"so that goverment cannot interfear with day to day management."

Various post office ministers were told that they could not interfere with operational matters because of the Postal Services Act. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that the act stipulates this.

Re: Major crisis averted - just

The phrase to use in that situation is "move it along, future boy"

I don't understand why you would consolidate the two things that can get you home (money for transport, or a phone for cries for help) into one easily stealable item.

Re: Don’t fire, don’t fine

"That would just mean that the responsible people start looking for jobs elsewhere to get a pay rise....."

'Tell me, Mr Exceo, why did you leave your last job'

'I was shit at it'

Re: Realization

"OS doesn't really make the world a better place"

Having viable operating systems and browsers that aren't controlled by Microsoft, Apple and Google does make the world a better place.

Last year Zen were the biggest of the non-shit providers, maybe you can reach 1% if you add them all together. So the share of the broadband market is a tiny niche of a huge market.

The size of the niche will be different in other lines of business.

https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/studies/broadband-statistics/

"Is he trying to differentiate between info that is wrong as an honest mistake, and deliberate misinformation. And then claiming that if the wrong statement is made by a chatbot, it is *deliberately* misinformation, a priori?"

Is a wrong statement is given by a chatbot it is *recklessly* wrong. Whoever decided to use the chatbot either knew it would spew out a load of crap, or should have done.

You can't call information coming from a chatbot deliberately wrong, dishonest or an honest mistake - it does not have a mind that can be deliberate, dishonest or honest.

The idea that I am trying to get at is that companies shouldn't be able to avoid responsibility for their mistakes by getting a bot to make them for it, then claiming the bot didn't have mens rea, so there can't be legal consequences for its actions.

Re: "Norman" who is an electrical engineer by trade and during one phase of his career

Ohm my god it's a pun run

Re: Newspeak

"Giving a good performance"

You know, like an actor does.

Not a doer, an actor.

Re: Not screwdrivers but...

I thought you were going to say that the washer had pinged to just outside the shop in Santa Rosa

Re: Self-driving cars remain ...

I was going to say something like that. But much more politely.

Re: This could be big

"When did you last floss, AC"

"You...you were there"

Re: Overpaid

Plausible: yes

Correct: no

"European Parliament votes that consumers can screw themselves with impunity"

Re: On the plus side

Other times this wouldn't help:

to have time to read the clue that is flashed up at the screen

to get a good look at all of the pictures in the picture round in a quiz show

when somebody on tv pauses whatever screen they are looking at

When player 11 stands still

I'm afraid that simpletons will believe that the results that come out of LLMs are accurate, and that it will negatively affect my life and the lives of others.

I'm afraid that simpletons will believe claims about how other AI products work, and that it will negatively affect my lives of others.

I'm afraid that simpletons will believe claims about how other AI products work, and that money and time will be channeled toward the snake oil peddlers, instead of being used for something useful.