my pessimism: eventually we will reach diminishing tech gains, or the producers no longer want to compete, and they will form a battery consortium who will deign which batteries are “safe” and “unsafe” and the market will stagnate, eventually giving rise to shrinkflation and we’ll all be left begging for fusion to come in and lower our energy bills

Is the guy in the background 69ing a Tuba

How is it taught out of interest? I feel like there are many lessons to learn from it, though mostly that none of us are above our baser nature when the situation is dire

Ah okay, IANAA - it was new to me

therefore a computer must always
kick a figurative dick

Because you’re reliving a murder you precipitated that one time you time travelled back to Victorian England to save Conan Doyle from his own creation

I have that exact SanDisk, rocking a rockbox firmware – glad to see its still seeing life

As for the rest of the article, yep no idea why polarising sound(?) is a difficult feat digitally but not analog

You and I clearly inhabit different worlds, and I guess we can just agree to disagree at this point

The older generation are going to give permission to some random monolithic AI company to listen to their calls and handle their lives for them. Bookings will take place automatically, and a verbal grievance will be voiced to prompt the AI (local or otherwise) to negotiate a rebook. It’s way faster than dealing with a form.

then they have the ability to host a website just as much as they have the ability to answer the phone

Many people in the developed world are behind CGNAT. Paying for an Ipv4 is a premium, and most businesses either setup shop on an existing listing page (e.g. facebook), or host a website from website provider/generator.

A phone number is public, accessible, and an AI can get realtime info from a scrawled in entry in a logbook using OCR

w.r.t to aping and using text: I agree with your appeals, which make sense to seasoned web users who favour text and APIs over instead images, videos, and audio.

But consider now your parents generation: flummoxed by even the clearest of web forms, and that’s even when they manage to make it to the official site.
Consider also the next generation: text/forum abhorrent, and largely consumes video/audio content.

It’s not the way things should be, but it is the way things are/are going, and having a bot that can navigate these default forms of media would help a lot of people.

I’d say that AI definitely can adapt in the moment if you supply it with the right context (where context-length is a problem that will get cheaper with time). A hotel doesn’t need to train the model, it can supply its AI-provider with a basic spec sheet and they can do the training. Bespoke laws and customs can be inserted into the prompt.

Employers most of all want to know that you’re reachable and willing to jump hoops. If you want to be seen and hired by the status quo, then yes you will need to show that you pray to the same Holy Trinity as them:

LinkedIn   GitHub
       \   /
        \ /
       Gmail

You can then feed this professional gmail account your.name@gmail.com into your private Proton.

(Glad we’re treating each other with mutual respect)

Would you rather pay for a limited in depth, energy inefficient (food/shelter/fossil-fuel consuming) and less accessible (needs to sleep, has an outside life) human, or an AI that can adapt and gain skills with a few thousand training cycles.

I dont buy the energy argument. I dont buy the skills argument. I do buy the argument that humans shouldn’t be second to automatons and deserve to be nurtured, but only on ethical grounds.

I guess I’m not quite following, aren’t these also simple but dynamic tasks suited to an AI?

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3liwlwvvq6k2s

You have to design and host a website somewhere though, whereas you only need to register a number in a listing.

Que Sera Sera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Que_Sera,_Sera_(Whatever_Will_Be,_Will_Be)

Doris Day introduced it in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956),[5] singing it as a cue to their onscreen kidnapped son.

Goddamit

They’ve had it good too long!

Urgh split keyboards are the worst. Better to have everything in one higher up central position with easy access to entry ports for finer fingering.