The #technology miracle of “#AI” is that the words generated actually form sequences which humans process as plausible formulations of sentences in language we know.
Try these Linux bash aliases for more efficient use of the command line
For those who don’t know, bash aliases allow you to create unique command shortcuts. So, a simple word can be used to run a more complex command which may have a lot of additional parameters, e.g. just type the word ‘update’ to execute an update com ...continues
Am I the only one skeptical about modern developers focusing so much on making AI look and sound like humans? Is it god’s syndrome “create them to reflect their image” kind of thing? Because what I need from AI as an individual is do the mundane tasks and be recognizable. I don’t need it to be able to impersonate a virtual friend or anything.
@gerrymcgovern I deleted 79,125 'promotional' emails from my Gmail account yesterday.
Didn't think I really needed them.
Didn't think they were useful.
Why do I get so many of these completely useless messages?
Why is so much time and energy expended on these hopeless things that most people completely ignore?
And why should we keep storing them, year after year?
Dear tech blogs. Please stop.
These are massive trillion+ dollar megacorporations.
There’s no “war”, no need to choose sides. No flame wars to be had to take more of our money.
These are appliances to get stuff done or enjoy for fun.
Period.
“#OpenAI has presumably pivoted to new features precisely because they don’t know how to produce the kind of capability advance that the “exponential improvement” would have predicted”
If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.
Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.
Data centers are a total loser for a community. They bring little or no jobs and take massive quantities of electricity and water. And politicians have given them huge tax breaks because of the manipulative power of Big Tech. When will we wake up to the scourge that data centers are?
@gerrymcgovern This is quite easy to see in areas of #NorthernVirginia near Dulles Airport. Areas that appear to be normal office parks or light industrial areas are completely empty of people and traffic. Now suburbs of Richmond are trying to lure these data centers. It’s like having a black hole in a community. #technology#RVA
Microsoft shutting down a few studios today should be an eye opener for the people that are rooting for MS. It's a good reminder that it's NEVER a good thing when a massive company buys a smaller company.
Either that smaller company will slowly get worse or dissolve completely. There was a trend of people saying they should buy companies to save them and let them do their own thing, but thankfully I expect to see less of that now...
Calling techie friends! What is the best app for google forms that will allow you to add events to google calendar?
I’ve played a bit with the form populating a sheet and using Zapier to pop it into the calendar and it works, but uses the current time rather than the time the user enters on the form… haven’t had time yet to figure out why.
Thought I’d ask here for inspiration! #Tech#technology#App#Google
“…the hardest kinds of errors to spot. They couldn’t be harder for a human to detect if they were specifically designed to go undetected. The human in the loop isn’t just being asked to spot mistakes — they’re being actively deceived. The AI isn’t merely wrong, it’s constructing a subtle ‘what’s wrong with this picture’-style puzzle.”
Fascinating article from Tim Harford on whether Wright's Law or Moore's Law is the determining factor in the prices of new technology. If it's Wright's Law, we could have had a green transition years ago.
3D illustration for a 2004 issue of the Dutch ComputerTotaal magazine, about file sharing, which was still commonly done on physical media back then. 📀🙂
It's a tiny bit annoying to share files between a linux host to a windows guest.
Right now, I have a firewall-protected samba server that can only be connected to from my VM to share files but I don't love this. When I tried webdav sharing via spice, though, the performance was too slow and a bit annoying to work around.