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At some point I’ll look it up, maybe later.

Would copying it in a text file not work?

Because doing that doesn’t change the contents of the text so the “watermark” is still there.

For most airlines the biggest cost is fuel, they reliably make the money back on the planes themselves because they run them for 30 years, so it’s a long-term investment but it will pay off.

Over the 30 years this aircraft could theoretically be in operation fuel costs are going to skyrocket. So not only is it saving some money today, it’s saving a lot of money tomorrow. We may even get to the point where aviation fuel becomes literally unavailable, an electric aircraft like this is a pretty good insurance policy. But you do have to buy a whole new aircraft, and maybe you’ve still got 20 years on your current one, so you need to make that money back, and one of the best ways to ensure that you pay off that cost is to have more customers, and the best way to have more customers is to have cheap fairs. You can afford cheap affairs because you’ll feel costs a lower.

I suppose you could achieve this with a constantly illuminated red light.

AI has been in development for a long time, I remember learning about neural networks when I was at school in the 90s, they weren’t very sophisticated by all accounts but the research was there. What’s happened lately is that scientists have been replaced by tech bros and all the research is now happening out in public, and it is on sale, rather than in the labs where it can be regulated by people who are not purely profit motivated.

The internet didn’t vanish when the dot com bubble burst, all that happened was that businesses were more accurately assessed as to their market value. If anything, the internet was improved by the dot com bubble burst, does increase the number of actually practical ideas.

I suspect AI will be better once the AI bubble bursts, and the research goes back into labs and starts being done by ethical scientists again.

I’ve never understood the appeal of the “smartified” appliances. My TV is more annoying than it used to be because it has smart features, it was actually more useful when it was dumb and simply played broadcast television or whatever was fed to it varian HDMI port, I don’t need smart light switches asI can turn my own lights on it’s not that difficult, I don’t need a smart fridge either, not unless it’s going to stock itself.

I can’t think of a single piece of equipment that I use on a regular basis that would benefit from having internet connectivity added to it. I guess it would be nice if my wall clock updated when the hours changed due to daylight savings, but nothing other than that.

Also, in some sensitive client projects, companies dont even allow the use of AI so it doesn’t really matter

Which is prohibitively expensive because of the RAM prices. So AI is making it financially unviable to run AI models. Great what a wonderful feedback loop, can’t see that ending badly.

This is really what has put me off AI, yes there are the ethical and environmental considerations and they worry me too but ultimately it’s the price, and the knowledge that the price inevitably will increase.

I don’t want to build all my workflows on a system that not only do I not really control I don’t even have a fixed price for. That just seems like a really bad design.

I also dislike using Microsoft 365 for the exact same reason. I do not want to rest my business model on someone else’s business model.

Voice transcription predates AI. I remember using a piece of software called dragon back in 2010 to transcribe my dissertation.

There’s not enough information in the article. For example has complaint actually been raised, because it’s sort of sounds like she’s just complained online about it but hasn’t actually done anything official.

It also doesn’t apply outside the US (there’s a whole planet out there guys) so regardless of the nuance of its construction, it isn’t relevant here anyway.

A local bar has banned them already with a sign that basically says “this ban is as much to prevent you from getting punched as anything else”.

In theory they shouldn’t be a problem because I think there’s a little LED that lights up when the camera is on, but in practice people don’t know that so assume the worst.

That’s like the least offensive use of AI as well. I’m perfectly fine with voice transcription that’s hardly even an AI

Not to defend the glasses because they’re obviously a problem, but that’s more an individual doctor issue than a problem with the product.

Not if they don’t already have the infrastructure in place. Remember that these power stations were built 30 odd years ago. No one expected climate change to get this bad this quickly even in the most pessimistic of models.

The big problem is it’s really hard to have a conversation you can reply to someone and they can reply to you but the UI does not lend itself well to having a multi-person conversation, so at the moment you try and involve more than two people it just becomes a mess.

Plus I cannot stand with the fact that when somebody quotes a comment their response is placed above the original quote. Meaning I always read them out of order and don’t understand it until I remember that I need to read it bottom to top and now it makes sense.

I’m just don’t really find the Twitter experience to be all that much use. I was never a big Twitter user anyway.

Yeah because they think that AI will make the games in the future.

Have you seen AI make games they’re terrible. They objectively work but they’re not good games because AI has no creativity.

Yeah me too and then I realized I have no idea who supermassive are.

I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion. I can’t see most people really carrying one way or the other but governments don’t like it because it’s messy to legalize murder but only underscertain circumstances, so they would prefer to just not deal with it at all.