Echo Dot

I have never bought a fridge in my life. When I bought this house the owner just left the current fridge behind it has no branding at all and is basically a white box. The only smart feature it has is that it beeps if you leave the door open (although honestly it’s not really much use since it only starts beeping after 10 minutes which I feel like is too long).

Unfortunately light wouldn’t remain collimated over a 33 million light year distance which is what we would need to see dinosaurs

No that’s not how light works. It’s not 20 years either direction otherwise you could use your bathroom mirror to see into the future

And yet Apple TV has the worst interface of any streaming platform and that’s saying something Amazon’s is also terrible.

And the kids. It would be really nice if they could leave the kids alone.

Does that work though because I can’t imagine you get a very good angle on things unless there’s multiple cameras and you get a composite image one for each shelf.

I would like to know why anyone would go out and buy a smart fridge. What amazing feature does it have that you cannot be without? I seriously don’t get it.

I am waiting for the Linux phone to get released. Waiting been the operative word because they’re taking their sweet time with it.

I cannot get over how basic iOS is, it’s not in decline it’s just never been that good.

That will inconvenience the Apple map user. I’m sure they’re devastated by this news.

People take epilepsy risk a bit far. I mean I get it they don’t want to kill someone but people with epilepsy know how much flickering is required to be a problem and honestly it’s a lot. That flickering would be extremely annoying but it’s not going to be dangerous to me.

Although I must say I’ve never actually seen this issue and I watch a lot of YouTube because of my job which requires me to be on call but not actually doing anything.

There is an issue that YouTube occasionally has where a video will lock up for a couple of seconds and it always locks up at exactly the same point, and always recovers at exactly the same point, but that’s a very rare issue, isn’t flashing so is unlikely to cause epilepsy, and has been around for years now so is nothing to do with AI.

And thanks to the fact that they’ve now brought cryptocurrency into economic calculations, any financial crash will take down cryptocurrencies too. So the one thing that they kind of do actually have a use for, protecting financial assets from economic collapse, will be destroyed as well. Fantastic.

Everyone should probably just start investing in gold or something.

Got it, don’t invest with JP Morgan.

Why are they doing this this is a seriously stupid idea. “Will need some collateral for this mortgage, but don’t worry we’re perfectly prepared to take this completely unregulated highly fluctuating pseudo currency”. There’s a reason steam stopped accepting cryptocurrency and it’s because it’s unworkable.

Well we are on our way to WW3 so perhaps we’ll get there.

Far be it for me to point out that the “godfather of AI” has a vested interest in AI being seen as more capable than maybe it actually is. But more to the point we know that AI systems like loose on an environment cause absolute chaos and fail disastrously.

There was an experiment a couple of months ago where they tried to get an AI to run a small business and I think at one point it ended up sending emails to the FBI claiming it had been defrauded because a product it ordered didn’t instantly materialise.

Why is it that every time they say stuff like this it always sounds like an advertisement.

“Our product is going to bring about the end of days, buy it now!!!”

Fortunately he isn’t going to build a robot army. His cars can barely follow the road so I can’t imagine his robots would present much in the way of of a threat, except quite possibly in the extent that they would stand on your foot although even then they’d probably fall over.

There has never been another individual who’s ability and ego are so at odds

Didn’t Amazon kill people because they wouldn’t let them go home in a hurricane? That’s not on the individual managers that’s corporate policy.

But that’s the thing, that doesn’t matter. Because as soon as anyone comes along with a policy of introducing universal basic income, it doesn’t matter how entrenched the political establishment are, people will vote for that if they are losing their jobs.

Most countries political systems are not as completely dysfunctional as the US system. It is possible for independence’s and new parties to arise provided there is enough support. Not being made homeless through no fault of your own is a pretty big motivator to change your historical political leanings.

The place where I work has recently introduced to AI but I’d be amazed if the staff could become more stupid. They already don’t know what an ampersand is, so I can’t imagine the bar can get any lower, it’s already a tripping hazard.

When they redid the web blockers a couple of days ago it accidentally blocked corporate co-pilot which is the only AI they’re authorised to use (as if it’ll make any difference at all to data protection), the amount of whining I got about it was unbelievable. Why can’t they just go back to doing their job the way that they presumably were doing it before AI?