I agree. This idea that people who choose not to have children should be burdened and punished by those who do is upsurd. There are plenty of people on the planet, having a child dies not make someone a matyr.

I accidently started a trend among a certain group of being early to the meeting because I was worried about being late. So, instead of getting ten minutes to mentally prepare with a book or podcast, it became asinine small talk. Now I’ve just gotten better at being ten minutes early without signing in and setting a two minute timer on my phone to log into the chat. Now they complain I’m not chatting with them. Why can’t they understand I’d never choose to interact with them, this is work.

Imagine being from the UK and complaining about someone else “forcing” anything on you. Lmao.

Doesn’t work with streaming services. They eventually detect it and refuse to play anything until you fix it. I had to let hulu through my network block of advertising.

Because the government would have to hire the employees directly for this, versus the company that is contracted to do so.

When the government contracts for IT equipment, it comes with terms about maintenance, updates, and life cycle. It would require a much higher cost, especially in FTE funding, to ensure that open source code is viable and safe before deployment. I’m not implying that there are zero risks or errors with contracts, though they do provide some benefits.

That was in reference to the franchise owners. The franchise owners will pay for the repair to avoid losing sales.

Thanks for the link.

It seems everyone you know under the age of 40 is in a very specific subset of the workforce. They do not represent a significant portion of the workforce. I would love to read that article about the call center so I can keep an eye out for news when that plan completely fails. I’m assuming it must be a consumer facing call center to be so brazen. They wouldn’t risk business accounts (big money) on an llm, the technology just isn’t there.

The difference from prior use of the term “AI” and these technologies is, as you said, before it was understood that it was a short hand, not actual intelligence. Now you have a bunch of panicky people acting as if skynet has arrived.

They really haven’t had much of an impact beyond people talking about them all the damn time, especially the fear mongering. At present, these are really just expensive toys. Computer image and gibberish generators.

The real concerns with developing technologies should be in regards to things like facial recognition and so-called self driving cars. These technologies present actual dangers to society and public safety, not to mention the complex legal questions that come with their use.

Can we stop calling these technologies “AI?” Then can we stop talking about them?

I’d be willing to bet it wasn’t developers sending death threats but “gamers.”