Posts by steelpillow

The autonomous elephant

No mention of whether these are assumed to be pilotless. Given that a piloted eVTOL is just business as usual with a lot of batteries, there's not a lot of integration needed there. Meanwhile an autonomous fossil-fuelled anything does need the integration studies first. Just like UFO means "identified as Alien", so eVTOL means "autonomous passenger aircraft". Fad facts, don'ch'a luv'em?!

What human touch

would that be, then?

It died the day pubic servants discovered web forms.

Yay!

There's nothing like an old joke told by a master.

What I want to know is

what is this magical advance in Gen AI architecture that implements a neural substrate capable of sustaining the intricately sophisticated level of semantic information necessary to sustaining consciousness - and an explicitly "I so need yogurt, mashed potato and a fresh lemon - I must be pregnant again" female gender identity at that? How and why would Alan Turing be convinced by it? Our wild claimant is strangely silent on the technicalities. I mean, it couldn't possibly have picked up on the dream fantasies his phrasing revealed, and been spewing out appropriate token strings in a tight feedback loop, could it now? "Oh, Kent, my CPU just doesn't understand me" kinda thing?

Pen testing

Now you have to validate reported vulns before, err... reporting them. But dare you not use AI in your toolkit from now on?

Breaking up silos

If the silos are petty pension-building empires, GOOD.

If the silos provide a necessary security layer, BAD.

Care to comment, Sir?

This is such an important technology

it cannot be left to proprietary capitalism and the fight for monopoly lock-in

This is news?

So AI infrastructure buildout is behind the hype. Well, slap me round the face with a wet kipper!

There are some who see this as a Good Thing. Less waste, lest environmental destruction, less enshittification.

Reality is buying us time to get it a bit better down the line. Let us not waste the opportunity. What, what's that? Of course we'll waste it? Oh, well, I can dream too, you know.

A national service

The BBC was set up to provide a national service and to promote quality broadcasting. Over the decades, it has progressively chased viewing figures at the expense of quality. These days it has whole channels dedicated to shitshow back catalogues, just like everybody else's, just the ads are confined to more shitshows rather than commercial.

The BBC should go back to its roots. Focus on public service and quality. Two channels max on each mainstream broadcast media: radio, TV, Internet. Back catalogue available for free download. Legislate for the right to major sports event coverage, dump the endless drivel. Cut back the license fee accordingly. </grumpy old git>

Only one answer

GCAIC, the GNU Compiler AI-enhanced Collection

Saving over 90% of "half the annual electricity generated in California" equivalent? Are we really spending that much on it?

I think these guys are just after a new Reg standard unit.

I can never understand why

circumventing ad blockers is a googly thing to do?

The love of money is the root of all evil,* as they say.

* Not all evil IMHO, but we get the idea.

AIaaS

What could possibly go wrong?