Tag: NOT AI point-missing
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Useful tech info
Some of the suits against AI are just lawyers riding a trend to make money. This one is serious and could set a meaningful precedent if it isn’t quietly settled. The publishers of 400 local papers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping content, chewing it up into AI answers, and often copying it verbatim…
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Why I never re(re(re(re(re(curse)))))
In 40 years of active programming I’ve never used a recursive function. I don’t see why you’d want to GUARANTEE problems. I know the Turingian theorists and Computer “Science” classes advise recursing everywhere, which is an added reason to avoid it. In the AI era, text witch hunters search for em-dashes. In coding the witch…
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Less, not more
I’ve been trying to argue, from a fairly expert viewpoint, that AI can’t improve programming. Most of the front-facing web code is already programs generated by programs. The big platforms like browsers and operating systems DO NOT NEED MORE CODE OR MORE FEATURES. Windows desperately needs VASTLY LESS FEATURES so it won’t slow down workflow.…
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1891 teeth
The British government has ruled that Google must allow publishers to opt out of being eaten by AI. This is a good move, but it’s only one company and one country, and it DOESN’T REQUIRE PAYMENT for the gobbled-up material. It’s time for a new international agreement with enough teeth to bite back. A similar…
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Goddamn slimy
I rarely take the same side as CNN. I always take the side of Equipoise, paying for value. In this case CNN is on the right side, and the AI monster is pulling a sneaky slimy trick. CNN is suing Perplexity for stealing its copyrights. CNN tried to set up a licensing deal, which is…
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Parody was prophecy
Reddit’s stupid computer tricks section often shows Google AI answers like this: No, Cleopatra did not live in sand dunes. As the Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra VII lived in luxurious royal palaces located in the13516515151515151515….. [looped on 15 forever] This reminds me of a VERY OLD parody of our Robot Overlords. From the era of…
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Reverted all the way
When the new “pope” took over I appreciated his initial hardass approach to AI. He seemed to grasp the problem. Since then he reverted to Roman norm in all other ways, supporting the billionaires on Gaia and immigration. Now he’s supporting the billionaires on AI. Via RealClear: The speakers at the encyclicalʼs presentation will be:…
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Pew gets it. Post Office doesn’t.
Pew continues to get things right. In this article they discuss the new idiocy of pollsters polling chatbots. Obviously Pew isn’t going along with “silicon sampling”. A more subtle problem is people using chatbots to make money by taking polls in huge quantities with fake URLs. I wouldn’t know how to solve this. Is Pew…
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What’s the advantage?
The AI shills are the loudest voices in every subject now. They’re louder than the bitcoin shills of the previous bubble because bitcoin was never part of the Dow. Altman is the Dow, so his shills are dominant. So far I don’t see the advantages touted by the shills. Supposedly “Claude” can automate tasks in…
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Pretty good ideas!
This is a good set of proposals to rein in AI through old-fashioned copyright and licensing methods … with one exception. The article summarizes a longer report by Center for Journalism and Liberty. It defines the problem: = = = = = START QUOTE: A three-tiered market: a small number of large bilateral deals between…
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Remarkably prophetic
Looking back through previous (much smarter!) products of my Dream Scripter. This item from 2018 was remarkably prophetic. = = = = = START 2018 REPRINT: I was working for a school that was entirely run by an AI system. Everyone pretended / assumed that the AI was perfectly efficient. Nobody thought about disobeying or…
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Like dreams
Often hammered point: AI means Artificial Imagination, not Artificial Intelligence. Altman knows what he’s doing. The misleading name causes the opposition to waste their ammunition on proving AI doesn’t work like a computer. OF COURSE IT DOESN’T. It’s meant to work like a dream. A couple dreams this week made me think of a specific…
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Bravo to Festus!
Many cities and states and countries are rejecting Altman’s demand to take over their minds and water and electricity. Festus joined the trend. Festus is a familiar place. One of my engineer uncles lived there for a while, and my old friend Larry also lived there for a while. It’s good to see a declining…
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Grumbling
Maybe ordinary customers might appreciate AI if it EVER worked to make things easier for us. All the major platforms are using it now, and they NEVER use big data to screen out crap or streamline our computer use. Every single use of AI adds MORE crap that we have to filter out on our…
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Gamers hate it
At this point it appears that the AI bubble is well on the way to popping. Altman has backed away from his video-sucking Sora because it simply wasn’t making any money. After six months its net income was only about two million. You can’t sustain a multi-trillion bubble with the same revenue stream as ONE…
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