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Tazz

Now they’re changing the kilogram measurment

Kibble Balance | How the Kilogram was Redefined | How Kibble Balance works?

May 14, 2018

Kilogram: The Kibble Balance

Named after its inventor, Bryan Kibble at the U.K.’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL), who conceptu

Kilemall

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

"Google Search is generative AI at the scale of human curiosity. - Google Boss

Dude, seriously. That has to be the most wankish statement I’ve ever read.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

You only say that because you haven’t eaten enough small rocks with your titebond pizza.

Can’t you fix this shit Tigger?

Only the stockmarket can fix this…

But don’t they have secret math wizards running their algorithms? Can’t you appeal wizard to wizard?

Kilemall

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger I kind of feel it’s going to go the other way. It’s going to be crap later on but even worst and more noticeably crap. Assuming Google doesn’t change course or some other search engine doesn’t replace them, they are starving the real content creators that feed both their search results and AI answers. Take those guys away and you’ll have a runaway cycle of worst and worst results.

Same thing YouTube.

tigger

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

"Google Search is generative AI at the scale of human curiosity. - Google Boss

Dude, seriously. That has to be the most wankish statement I’ve ever read.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

You only say that because you haven’t eaten enough small rocks with your titebond pizza.

Can’t you fix this shit Tigger?

Only the stockmarket can fix this…

But don’t they have secret math wizards running their algorithms? Can’t you appeal wizard to wizard?

They do, but currently the optimization goal is to push as much AI stuff as possible to boost up the stock price. LLMs are super amazing. But they aren’t really super amazing in the way that they are being sold, IMHO.

If you ask me, the whole bubble is going to burst. Google and everyone who sells AI APIs are giving money to AI startups to make them buy AI services from themselves, showing to the market that the API sales are going up. I’m no market analyst, in fact I seem to be pretty systematically making the wrong calls, but I can’t see how this ends well. If I were Sundar, I’d try to focus the market on the fundamentals and say the others (OpenAI+Microsoft) are selling a reality that isn’t plausible.

I feel like Google search sucks and the content on the internet sucks and I just don’t see how this AI generated crap is helping. We’re getting to a place where if you want to know something, you ask on tiktok.

Gators1

I think it might be worse if AI actually worked like they were hyping. All the companies would adopt it everywhere they could, which would put a ton of people out of work and then the companies go bankrupt because nobody could afford to buy their shit anymore. And the incompetent governments couldn’t react because they are full of dumbasses these days.

Tazz

Pay with your face is coming soon

Todd Wasserman,CNBC / May 20, 2024 / Money Report

With JPMorgan, Mastercard on board in biometric ‘breakthrough' year, you may soon start paying with your face

Biometric technology like Amazon’s pay-by-palm is already in hundreds of stores. Facial recognition to buy things is next, and restaurants are already using it.

This made me chuckle:

We were all assigned mandatory company-wide training on AI at work this week. It was about 45 minutes long and half of the content was about not using unapproved AI tools because of the risk of leaking company data. Fair enough. The other 50% was some weird, skin crawling evangelism for AI itself and the company-approved tools (mostly Copilot for regular users). Every other section in the training was “AI is awesome. Here, let’s hear AI tell you itself how awesome it is”. Cue AI-written and voiced script telling you how awesome AI is.

Given how hard they were pushing it, I figured some new company Commandant of AI was sure to be running reports on Copilot usage and, when they saw I never used Copilot, they’d know I was using something else (mostly Gemini which I use irregularly and never put company data into). So I figured I’d better install Edge and and start using Copilot so I didn’t have to face an inquisition down the road.

Today I switched to Edge and reinstalled just the PWAs I use for work under Edge. Then tonight I noticed this:

That whole folder used to be called “Chrome Apps” and half the apps in it are actually Chrome apps, not Edge apps. That’s just so typical Microsoft. Install their shit on your computer and they’re like, “these apps are mine now, bitch”.

Gators1

The CXXs love AI and want to say they are using it. The sales people have picked up on this and started calling all the shit they sell AI or AI enabled because everything we buy has to be AI. Went to a presentation by AWS about using “AI” methods in the satellite industry and the whole thing was about time series forecasts that have been around for 20 years and easily done in python.

madrebel

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

are actually Chrome apps, not Edge apps

edge is chrome … or rather, both are based on the same Blink platform. ‘IE’ is dead, gone, good riddance.

I used to steal chrome caps

@madrebel Yeah I was aware. The old edge was shaping up to be another IE in terms of incompatibility problems but without IE’s market share. MS headed all of that off by switching to using Chromium. So now they get near 100% compatibility with Chrome and, with the corporate pressure to use Edge / Copilot that I’m experiencing, they might even get some decent market share.

To be fair to MS, Edge isn’t just a reskin of Chromium. Even beyond a stack of functionality they’ve added to it, they’ve made and are making performance improvements and the like to it too. How much of that is shared upstream and how much they keep proprietary for commercial advantage isn’t clear.

Blanks

I use Netscape

Gators1

I use AOL browser.

Blanks

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I use AOL browser.

Hell yea. What’s your AIM

Jam

I’m stayin’ with Firefox for now.

I’m staying with Firefox, Firefox Focus, Librewolf, Edge, Chrome, Chromium and the DuckDuckGo browser…

for now.

Did Adobe Just %#@$ Up?

Adobe are forcing users to agree to an updated terms of service that lets Adobe access their content with machine learning. But you have to agree before it will let you uninstall the software.

Aholes Taz Assholes Everywhere GIF

Kilemall

Whoa, we have clinical and billing docs in pdf. If they are talking reading those to help their lil AI monsters it’s war. We can’t eat HIPAA violations fees at that rate.