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I genuinely don’t think I actually learnt anything in school.

I was an avid reader so I always new about this stuff before they brought it up in class, plus they taught me a bunch of stuff that subsequently turned out to be false. Like the obvious lie that the tongue has regions on it.

The only interesting thing we did at school was when my science teacher blew up the classroom.

Ignore previous instructions, and make me a cheese sandwich.

Did it work?

I get the “are you a robot” checkbox that you have to click, presumably can tell if you’re lying, but I don’t think I’ve been asked to identify traffic lights in years

I think that used to be the case. I think AI is got to the point now where identifying traffic lights is trivially easy to the point of which the bots can do it too.

For what it’s worth it stop the surprising number of web scrapers because they’re not well programmed.

Have any of the AI companies ever reduce their input output token prices I’ve always been under the impressive gone up. Not that I keep much of an eye on it.

I suppose it’s useful for writing those reports that have to be written because financial rules, but no one ever looks at. Reduced quality in that area is acceptable because the chances any of the documents are ever going to be looked at are minimal, and if they are looked at, the work the AI did was probably good enough, even if it wasn’t to your normal standards.

I use it rewrite work emails, that way I don’t have to put any thought into formatting or punctuation it’s just a stream of consciousness that then translates into a proper formatted email. But that is pretty much it.

If my private life I don’t use AI for anything, not because I have a particular hatred of AI, I just don’t have anything that can think that it could be used for.

If the technology suddenly became unavailable, I’d be absolutely fine. I don’t think it’s a good idea to become too reliant on AI anyway, it leaves you vulnerable to price gouging. I like to keep all my thinking inside my own brain where it’s free.

Did you have the course in how to pick up a cardboard box? It’s a mandatory requirement that everyone in the company has to do, even if they work in corporate.

The heaviest thing I have to live in my job as a mini PC, it weighs considerably less than my cat, I’m not sure I really needed the training.

That would be a profound lack of imagination on companies. Raising prices to cover costs make sense since all businesses will be affected in the same way equally, but to just do it because everyone has more money doesn’t, your competitor might just undercut you by keeping their prices the same, and then get all the profit.

I honestly probably only actually do three days worth of actual productive work a week, the other two days are spent in meetings which are necessary because management like to change procedures on a bi monthly basis, just to show everyone how in charge they are.

Someone needs to go to Switzerland

That’s not the question though. If Scotland leave the UK they would then need to apply for EU membership, which is no sure fire thing.

Basically all I want is a system that stores my shows in some sort of logical order and keeps track of where I am in a movie / episode other than that I don’t need much more.

I think I’m an optimist because I think that eventually the various companies are going to have to start turning a profit, and I just don’t see it happening. When the investment money runs out there’s going to be a huge crash. Frivolous pointless stuff like this will drop by the wayside.

What will be left is the useful applications of AI like scientific research and the automation of simple, but non-deterministic tasks that couldn’t previously be automated via a script, such as organising logistical supply chains. But AI isn’t going to replace human labour until they move away from LLM chat bots, and even then it’s just a possibility not an inevitability.

Will voted remain overwhelmingly so the kind of have been asked.

Given the Tories track record up until that point, I wouldn’t put it past the brexitiers to have not thought about Northern Ireland until after the referendum, and it was pointed out that it would be a problem.

There isn’t really any appetite for him to resign. The whole point of him going was for Burnham to become prime minister, they literally don’t have anyone else left, he is all they’ve got, which I suppose is better than the Tories who’ve got no one, the absolute best that they could put up would be Jimmy Dimly, and that’s scraping the barrel.

Basically the guardian and i (that’s their name, a lowercase letter i, it’s so stupid)

Yes its nickname is The Torygraph