Lovely pictures

There’s a whole section on social media. That’s where they discuss Mastodon and W, among others

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST CHATBOTS DON’T KNOW ANYTHING. STOP ASKING THEM QUESTIONS AND THINKING THEIR ANSWERS ARE ANYTHING MORE THAN WORD ASSOCIATION BASED ON THINGS PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN IN THE PAST for fuck’s sake

“Prove you’re a bot by failing to click all the motorcycles in this image”

The entitlement that comes with motoring. It’s not the council’s job to store people’s property for free

This is a good point, but the issue is that vendors have abused this need by not just pushing security updates, but also regular rewrites that make the products more invasive/full of language model shit - Exhibit A being anything at all from Microsoft

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For context, UK domestic energy suppliers don’t actually do any generation or distribution - they just retail electricity produced and distributed by others. So they can buy wholesale energy and attempt to compete on price, customer service, or other innovative products (eg Octopus’s dynamic pricing).

Normally I’d expect Tesla to do an Uber-style approach of subsiding the prices for the first couple of years to try to capture market share, as well as the more obvious vertical integration with their cars. But in this market, switching suppliers is too easy to make that worthwhile

Probably classed as a magazine rather than a newspaper?

Good time to remember that Reform UK are heavily funded by the fossil fuel industry (as if their words and actions left you in any doubt)

Yep. I’m using a used ThinkPad X1 Carbon. 8 years old and running Linux like a dream

I was questioning the use of the word “prolly”

“Prolly”

Deliberate destruction of property to influence the government, with an ideological cause. I dunno - not hard to see the people behind this having an ideology and wanting to influence the government with their destructive act

The idea of general intelligence (g) is that you’ve got some overall capacity that can be turned to any task. Human intelligence is probably much more like a big toolbox of skills, though, and I can’t see a version of computer “intelligence” that’s any different to that. I worry that people who get excited about AI are kidding themselves a bit as it isn’t going to be general - it’s going to be a toolbox at best: an LLM for writing, a totally different system for drawing, another for identifying birdsong, and and yet another for maths… And at that point you’ve not got some special interesting AGI - you’ve just reinvented the idea of apps

If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn’t “general”. Which would be fine, as most psychologists would say the same about human intelligence

Premeditated littering as well

Anyone in Europe looking for an alternative might want to check out Tado

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of with that final sentence

There’s probably a case for saying it doesn’t need specifically to be the PM. In principle Starmer could crack on with things behind closed doors as long as there’s somebody sharp, likeable and media-savvy to counter Farage every day. I guess the risk is you’d have to be a very self-confident PM, unafraid of leadership challenge, to go for that