Turning yourself into a science fair volcano
Is that Benedict Cumberbatch
Not to defend the mega corporation, but companies file patents for ridiculous things all the time that never end up actually being made or used.
That’s kind of the name of the game with computer models, unfortunately. They’re reflections of the people making them and the data used to train them, which means they can’t be fully objective. Maybe one day we’ll figure out a way around that, but the current “AI” certainly isn’t it.
In a lot of cases you are forced to use AI. Corporate “support” chatbots (not new, but still part of the cause for fatigue), AI responses in search engines that are shown without you asking for them and tend to just be flat out incorrect, Windows Recall that captures constant screenshots of everything you do without an option to uninstall it, etc.
And even if you’re not directly prompting an AI to produce some output for you, the internet is currently flooded with AI-written articles, AI-written books, AI-produced music, AI-generated images, and more that tend to not be properly indicated as being from AI, making it really hard to find real information. This was already a problem with generic SEO stuffing, but AI has just made it worse, and made it easier for bad actors to pump out useless or dangerous content, while not really providing anything useful for good actors in the same context.
Pretty much all AI available right now is also trained on data that includes copyrighted work (explicitly or implicitly, this work shouldn’t have been used without permission), which a lot of people are rightfully unhappy about. If you’re just using that work for your own fun, that’s fine, but it becomes an issue when you then start selling what the AI produces.
And even with all of that aside, it’s just so goddamned annoying for “AI” to be shoved into literally everything now. AI CPUs, AI earbuds, AI mice, AI vibrators, it never ends. The marketing around AI is incredibly exhausting. I know that’s not necessarily the fault of the technology, but it really doesn’t help make people like it.
Just need some TNT, a lever, a trapdoor, and a bunch of patience.
As far as I understand it, blahaj has downvotes disabled, but since Lemmy is federated and other instances don’t, they can still downvote.
I’m missing a meme it seems
Honestly this is pretty funny. As long as they didn’t remove the dog version of crack from these, 25% off sounds good too.
The 2K Launcher in the Steam edition was entirely useless and not even technically required to get the game to run. It just added an extra step of waiting for an interstitial launcher to load so you could press Play a second time, and you could tell Steam to just run the game executable directly to bypass it entirely.
And I’m eating them all
A lot of these scam operations are effectively staffed by slaves.
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/10/1218401565/online-scamming-human-trafficking-interpol
The last time I looked into HarmonyOS, it was an intentionally vague umbrella name for a family of operating systems and kernels. On phones and tablets, HarmonyOS was a fork of Android 10 (this was when 13 was new). On embedded devices, it was a Linux kernel fork. There were supposedly some unifying features and APIs between them, but the documentation felt very much like Huawei didn’t actually want you to know what HarmonyOS is.
It seems intuitive to me that pulling one vehicle with another would be more efficient than driving both, since there’s always an overhead “cost” of gas just to run the engine even if it’s not doing any work.
The trailer complicates things a bit but trailers are light.
Oh no