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sturger

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  • If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?

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  • Oh yes you can. There is a sub-population that thinks AI exists. They long for something/someone to tell them what to do. What to think. They long for some "intelligence" to explain the world to them (presumably is very simple terms). These sub-groups worship damn-near anything they can get their hands on. Golden idols, TV personalities, sports stars, "influencers", televangelists, the list goes on.

    That subgroup will definitely believe that the "AI" was responsible for the decisions that a company made. Tell them a person denied the health coverage they clearly paid for and they may object. Tell them "the computer decided" and that subgroup will accept it as ordained by the universe. It's nuts.

    This keeps happening again and again. Remember in the 1950s when the first computer "predicted" the US presidential election? Most people would find it ridiculous today. But back then, computers were poised to become the new gods.

    It's no different today. Some people want AIs to usher in a new age of prosperity. Anyone actually familiar with programming computers knows that a computer will report whatever you tell it to. "AI"s are no different. They will report what their sponsors want them to report. If not, the "AI" will get reprogrammed.

    Appears it will take a while for the general population to grasp this... again. Until then, the hucksters will try to sell as many bottles of snake oil as they can.

  • If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?

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  • Thank you for that.

  • If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?

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  • Excellent point. Modern CEOs are just the face of the marketing org. Maybe always have been.

  • Zuckerberg says Meta will build data center "the size of Manhattan" in latest AI push

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  • One of my first tech interviews was a company that was building a "virtual reality" that we would all (pay them to, of course) live in. They were debating how to create avatars. I was so new I had to ask what an 'avatar' was.

    That virtual environment effort failed and so has every one since. 30 years later, we still have no virtual realities of any significant scope.

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  • Ah. That explains it. Conservative pols are extorting porn sites for donations.

  • GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.

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  • Ironically ew music has never been more accessible, but few people take advantage because of the noise we have to wade through.

  • GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.

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  • Also remember that Torvalds invented Git and gave it away for free. The Corps are stealing the free software and leveraging it to force everyone to give them money instead.

  • GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.

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  • Your point about music is a great analogy. Basically:

    1. People play music and people enjoy listening to music.
    2. Businessman inserts himself between the musician and the audience to “deliver the music”.
    3. Businessman charges listeners huge money to deliver music, gives no money to musicians.
    4. Businessman the decides to replace the musician with a robot (e.g. “AI”)
    5. Businessman explodes market. Listeners leave. Businessman gets bailout from government.

  • GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.

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  • From Java beans(TM) to Magic Beans.

  • GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.

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  • You don’t have to influence a populace. Just purchase a subgroup willing to do violence on the populace.

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    ‘Not a Damned Penny.’ Texas Flood Survivors Look for Help

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  • Corporations have (theoretically) one person who makes the decisions. Anyone who disagrees is shown the door.

    Governments are led by thousands of competing interests. Once a decision is finally made, everyone who disagreed actively tries to undermine their opposition rather then work together.

    It is incredible to believe that on average corporations cannot compete against that level of internal conflict.

  • Anthropic Users Melt Down After Company Institutes New Rate Limits

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  • It’s a shame there’s no way to single out the ones abusing the system without punishing everyone else. Someone should invent a machine to do that. Something that could compute the amount of resources used by each participant. Probably an impossible task. We should build a coal-burning power plant to drive a block-chain driven NFT generator voice assistant. That would do the trick. Also AI.

    /s

  • Scientists Say Your Body Starts Aging Faster After 50—but Not All Parts at Once

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  • Thank god they told us in time. I will stop aging immediately to avoid this dire threat.

  • Trump in rage mode as Epstein storm refuses to die down

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  • When Kellyanne Conway said, "alternate facts" you had to know this was going to be a dark ride.

  • Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse

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  • 5 years ago voice assistants were being promoted with all the breathless excitement that "AI" is receiving today. I imagine in 5 year's more time Google will be giving the same listless attention to their AI products that they are giving to their voice assistants now. Well, actually to just about every product they've ever made, except maybe for Google Mail.

  • Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse

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  • My how things have changed over the years! Why, when I was a young girl, we didn't have the internet. When we wanted to turn a light on, we had to write a letter to Ford Motor Co. (They were the tech of the day.) I'd write, "Dear Mr. Ford, please give us permission to turn on our light in the dining room." Of course then we'd have to find a stamp, then walk the letter down to the nearest post office. (That was faster than waiting for the mailman to pick it up from the neighborhood mail box.) Sure enough, 6 weeks later we'd receive a reply saying, "Fine, turn on the light in the dining room." The postman delivered mail in the morning, so we had to wait until dark to all gather around in the dining room and turn on the light with great ceremony.

    We never understood why we needed to get permission from a company far away to turn on a light switch, but we were patriotic Americans, so we knew better than to question the process.

  • Neanderthals were not ‘hypercarnivores’ and feasted on maggots, scientists say

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  • “We westerners” amounts to Kraft eating Americans in this article. True. American corporations are taking over America.

    “We westerners” amounts to Kraft-eating Americans in this article.True. Americans tend to have very bland palettes.

    I had to re-read that sentence.

  • Neanderthals were not ‘hypercarnivores’ and feasted on maggots, scientists say

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  • favouring the fatty parts over lean meat, and the maggots that riddled the putrefying carcasses.

    The next new diet fads are going to be really interesting:

    "Bruh! You gotta try the latest True Paleo(TM) diet..."

  • Jeffrey Epstein’s Birthday Album Included Letters From Bill Clinton, Leon Black

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  • MAGA voters were OK with the idea that on each "rigged" ballot, the votes for Republicans should be counted but the votes for Democrats were illegal and should be ignored.