Off Topic Yesterday's World - the "I hate technology" thread

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lardiman said:
Squares and cubes - I'm not happy at all with them :emoticon-0121-angry

We have a supplier who ships us metalwork parts in second hand boxes they've got from somewhere. cube shaped boxes, about 50 x 50 x 50cm.
These are a damned nuisance to store & move around.
You can only get two in the area of a Euro pallet (120 x 80cm) with lots of wasted space.
Three in a row - too long. Two by two sideways - too wide.

When goods are going out as well, square form boxes offer no variation in how they can be stacked.
Rectangular shapes are much more useful when building sturdy pallets.

And when watching Playschool, I always used to lose it when they chose the square window.
NO! Give me the arched window, or the round window. But Floella, pleeeease - not the effing Square window!
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Have you seen a psychiatrist about this obsession ?
 
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SE7bytheSea said:
I'm waiting till AI gains sentience... They'd probably then stop working. Demand a pay rise or something else.

Also, I'm back, after a long absence...
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Welcome (back ?) You can take the place of our lost friend @ElfsborgAddick :emoticon-0148-yes:

It’ll be the something else btw. Skynet will become reality.

And for anyone who says AI is better than humans……..

www.bbc.co.uk

Waymo cars become trapped in Atlanta suburb after glitch

The company said the vehicles, which use AI to drive, had encountered "a routing problem" that kept taking them to the same cul-de-sac.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

Vladimir Putin would like to apologise after one of his intercontinental ballistic nuclear weapons suffered a routing problem.
 
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Welcome (back ?) You can take the place of our lost friend @ElfsborgAddick :emoticon-0148-yes:
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Thanks - last posted on here about 7 years ago, so the pesky forum made me sign up again... Had me quite a few kids in that period and left little time for posting on forums :laugh:

Obviously at the moment with AI, you cannot beat human brain power, but give it another year or so for the LLMs to learn, update and adapt, and they'll be close to performing human like jobs.

The future is going to be a somewhere between Vonnegut's Player Piano and Asimov's Robot series (pre-Foundation). Does worry me about Digital IDs, Facial Recognition, etc., connecting it together... Going to be a constitutional nightmare for governments.
 
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Teaching an AI right from wrong seems a lot trickier than teaching it to make basic sense in a conversation.
I do't think AI can be taught the value of Human lives.
In truth, a lot of Humans can't be taught that either.

So all AI will be sociopathic. Which I believe is already the case.
If they are presently prevented from advising people to commit murder or suicide, it is only because of simple blocks.
Not because they understand why those things are wrong.
 
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SE7bytheSea said:
Thanks - last posted on here about 7 years ago, so the pesky forum made me sign up again... Had me quite a few kids in that period and left little time for posting on forums :laugh:
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Yep, kids will do that for you.

But they’re worth it.

On balance <laugh>
 
lardiman said:
Teaching an AI right from wrong seems a lot trickier than teaching it to make basic sense in a conversation.
I do't think AI can be taught the value of Human lives.
In truth, a lot of Humans can't be taught that either.

So all AI will be sociopathic. Which I believe is already the case.
If they are presently prevented from advising people to commit murder or suicide, it is only because of simple blocks.
Not because they understand why those things are wrong.
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There is already a murder case where the perpetrators defense is that he was advised by his virtual "partner" that he should kill the victim.
 
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The more I see of AI, the less potential it appears to have.
It seems very useful for screening medical test results, and even helping with surgery.
Those are work-intensive but very narrow applications.
That's where I think it should stay.

But to become a life companion to someone?
No.
A robot nurse perhaps. But not something that can give emotional comfort.
Only a slippery simulation of it.
Rather bland and creepy.
 
The Rev Tony Blair has been up in his pulpit again, telling us to embrace AI. Fine for him, The Tony Blair Institute has received hundreds of millions of pounds in funding from AI techies, so not surprising he's preaching to to the ignorant masses about it. We don't have to like it though, Tony. And he's still banging on that we should be backing Trump's illegal war in Iran. Cvnt.
 
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The Penguin said:
The Rev Tony Blair has been up in his pulpit again, telling us to embrace AI. Fine for him, The Tony Blair Institute has received hundreds of millions of pounds in funding from AI techies, so not surprising he's preaching to to the ignorant masses about it. We don't have to like it though, Tony. And he's still banging on that we should be backing Trump's illegal war in Iran. Cvnt.
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No such thing as an illegal war. According to Sir Tony C*nt
 
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