Beachcomber posted:

Keeping children in pens doesn't sound any better!


It sounds like they're going to eat them. Disrupt the food supply.

Dinosaurtrain posted:

So exactly what is AI good for you guys

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Everybody in my Twitter Timeline: gently caress no, I do not want Nazis added to my timeline, nor do I want to be added to Nazis' timelines so as to give them a fresh target.

OctaMurk posted:

PT6A posted:

Remember when it was a sign of cutting-edge tech to have a small cellphone? Now, all the new smartphones are loving giant. I don't want to make a phone call on my tablet, you wankers! I have a tablet for tablet things, I want a phone for phone things.

Boris Galerkin posted:

Alternatively refuse to do work related stuff on your personal phone.

E: actually you should always do that regardless of if you get a second phone. I would never install an app for work on my phone. I don’t even do work email on my phone.

Boris Galerkin posted:

If you google “ai playground goatse” and click on images, there’s a few entries on the PlaygroundAI website by user “N-word Balls” that shows a pretty convincing goatse.

Neo Rasa posted:

Now I want to ask it a bunch of questions like this and then build a tabletop RPG combat system off of the answers.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Yup! BTW, a couple of years back, thousands of bottles of wine, including winemakers' "libraries" (bottles from all their vintages, for comparison) were lost when a customer set fire to another company's warehouse in order to hide his wine forgery.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

That doesn't actually matter for a wine library. The point of a library (apart from showing off rare bottles to special customers) is so that you can crack open a bottle and say "Okay, the 2015 was really tannic when we bottled it, but it's awesome now, so we shouldn't worry about that in the next high-tannin year." (Making this up because I know nothing of winemaking.) When a vineyard loses its library, it's losing half its winemaking records.

Professor Beetus posted:

You should be able to do a chat with "yourself" which includes being able to test your a/v setup.

Main Paineframe posted:

Mega Comrade posted:

Complete agreement.
AI as a useful tool isn't really a problem in itself. But it's being marketed as this do it all human replacement with slick Microsoft ads glossing over it's issues. The hype is insane.

These gotcha questions are something I share around a lot, not to try and stop people using AI, but to remind people it's incredibly fallible and to check anything and everything that comes out of it. We have lost 4 Devs over the last few months and none of them have been replaced with the CEO convinced we can just "make it up with AI", he'd completely swallowed the hype.

Its finally dawning on him that this isn't working but only as we a slipping further and further from targets that we were smashing before.

Vegetable posted:

I recall the Wolfram Alpha guy saying that OpenAI should just staple Wolfram Alpha to ChatGPT to solve math problems. I wonder why they don’t just do that.

Staluigi posted:

the whole purpose of a cabover is to maximize cargo sizes where there's laws that explicitly limit total trailer + vehicle length restrictions, and the resulting structure of a cabover is entirely in service of that sacrifice. if you don't HAVE to keep the tractor trailer constrained to a low overall length because of those legal limitations on the total combo length, there's no engineering recommendation for the resulting shape, you'd build it engine out front

but as explained the cabover does have a niche, and its to maximize cargo sizes within a limited total length, or arguably (in a minority of cases) increase tight maneuverability in really twisty city conditions or something. so i respect that, you build to purpose. bam, now you have a box where the driver's cabin is elevated up over the engine. the resulting machine has a much tighter wheelbase where you're perched right over the front axle, and this design makes the road way rougher on the driver no matter what kind of air ride you're packing your rear end on, and your seating position is bunched way tighter to the front of the cab, so it's really just not as comfortable. at all

also, the engine is now jammed right up cozy into the cabin frame underneath you and unless you're running a very new, very properly insulated kenworth or something, promises of equivalent noise levels are a lie and everything's loudier and more vibrationalizatedeter (shut up, i'm declaring these to be scientific terms now) all the time, which matters a lot to the quality of your working hours but matters even more for any drivers keeping their engine running after they hit the hos or duty limit, which is basically 100% of the time for truckers operating in hard cold conditions, who need idle engine for AC, or are running reefer. even a slightly louder cabin hurts your quality of life pretty heavy because for otr or regional haulers it's your house and office most of the time, and at least as far as i hear it, these are a lot more than slightly louder for drivers chilling out in their sleeper

add on top of that how much less room you got in a cabover just for living and moving around and its just not a favorable comparison of miseries for long hauler types. it just comes down to that unless you're a day cab guy, your cabin is the vast majority of your life. and anything which cuts into the comfort level of that environment has its effect heavily multiplied by all the skillions of hours you're living and working out of it so things like "there's not even enough room in here for a microwave or standing up straight" or "do i really have to tip my entire living room up on its nose every time to do my pretrip inspection, like how does this actually work" or "i feel kind of a lil bit nervous basically being my truck's crumple zone lol" really add up and matter

Owling Howl posted:

How many of Alphabets skunkworks projects have actually turned into something useful?