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homesweethomeMrL ,

AI so bad it can’t get your burger order right.

No wonder people are sinking hundreds of billions into it. As opposed to, say, education.

homesweethomeMrL ,

It’s one of those mysteries. Maybe we should ask an educated person.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Eh......AI messes my order. Some dumbass teenager messes up my order. Whats the difference?

I mean, I can think of a couple.

homesweethomeMrL ,

I mean, it’s funny for a couple of reasons

homesweethomeMrL ,

Cool, thanks for the link!

homesweethomeMrL ,

o7

homesweethomeMrL ,

Remain calm. Assume the position. Your patience is appreciated. A legally authorized operative will be with you shortly. Stop resisting. Or else it gets the hose again.

homesweethomeMrL ,

It’s hard to appreciate how much like catnip/crack AI is inside micro$oft.

They think they’re going to corner the market on AI before it ever actually does anything. No matter that 90% of people want absolutely nothing to do with it. As our de facto tech lords, they’ll tell us what we want. lol

homesweethomeMrL ,

That’s the crack effect. AI is a helluva drug. For every 10 developers and team leads who pointed out what a horrifying clusterfuck it would inevitably become, there were two senior directors or one VP who thought they could advance up the ladder by supporting it.

I don’t doubt that the majority of M$ employees are properly embarrassed about the whole thing. Not that that has ever mattered with regard to corporate direction.

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority, President Brad Smith testified to Congress on Thursday, promising that security will be "more important even than the company’s work on artificial intelligence."...

homesweethomeMrL ,

I've spent the better part of my life watching microsoft fuck people over and then when they finally - finally get called out on it they do a bunch of bashful aw-shucksing before doing it again and again and again.

No.

Microsoft is dead. Kill it with fire. The US government should have known better, but they didn't because like every other organization they have a boatload of clueless mid-level managers who only every learned Windows and fall for microsoft's garbage every time, despite the eye-popping price.

NO MICROSOFT. EVER. They're a criminal organizaiton, the amount of destruction they've created will never be known.

homesweethomeMrL ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_cross-selling_scandal

homesweethomeMrL ,

I don't think it's to outright steal or scam

It is. They’re a monopoly. It’s illegal and unethical. And, just poor design.

homesweethomeMrL ,

We’re terrible at our jobs! Make up for our mistakesssss!

homesweethomeMrL ,

Well i’m sure no one expected this story

homesweethomeMrL ,

I’m sure the millionaire dipshits who cut corners and killed people are super worried.

laughs in golden parachute

homesweethomeMrL ,

Take a lap

homesweethomeMrL ,

Sweet, so homelessness and hunger are eradicated?

I would assume? Because, what’s the point of . . .

homesweethomeMrL ,

Waitaminit . . . Statue of Liberty . . . gasp

That was OUR planet!! You blew it up!! You maniacs!!

DAMN YOOOUUUUU! Damn you all to hell!!

homesweethomeMrL ,

So say all of us

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

homesweethomeMrL ,

For anyone for whom Micro$oft’s reputation wasn’t already cartoonish villainy, sure.

For those of us from the olde worlde, who marveled at dancing monkey boy on a grainy quicktime file, it’s absolutely par for the course. They can shutter everything but cloud tomorrow and still rake in 100 Billion a year for the foreseeable future. It was a monopoly thirty years ago (convicted 20 years ago) that has eaten and shat whatever and wherever it wanted for decades.

The judiciary and congress don’t understand shit, and if they did m$ bought them. Done.

homesweethomeMrL ,

An Agile Project eh. Like an Agile Waterfall process? cool. Cool cool cool.

I know PMI has an Agile thing but by and large Agile can't be "projects" and vice versa.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Windows 8! Haha! Ahh, I'd call it the "New Coke" of Windows but that probably wouldn't help anyone who wasn't there.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Hopefully not

homesweethomeMrL ,

They haven't forgotten. They don't care.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Sometimes.

I do think there's a big shift of business to Apple for this reason. In the cybersecurity world Windows is - no exaggeration - the reason for that industry's existence.

homesweethomeMrL ,

That's partially true. The non-tech-savvy friends and family though need us to fix their Windows machines more or less constantly, and at some point we're not going to.

For me it was about 10 years ago when I forced everyone on to Mac at gunpoint just because I couldn't do Windows any.more. And even then it was another 6 years of explaining the differences in macOS and troubleshooting "office". Now when a friend's co-worker has a "computer problem" (read: Windows) I just say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and I gotta tell ya it's friggin sweet.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Because CoPilot+ is purportedly trained on what users actually do, it looked plausible to someone in marketing at Microsoft that it could deliver on "help the users get stuff done". Unfortunately, human beings assume that LLMs are sentient and understand the questions they're asked, rather than being unthinking statistical models that cough up the highest probability answer-shaped object generated in response to any prompt, regardless of whether it's a truthful answer or not.

Hehehe.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Well done!

homesweethomeMrL ,

Fly tipping

homesweethomeMrL ,

Space X has over 1200 inactive satellites

I know they’re relatively small but 1200 seems like a lot to be up there doing nothing.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Do not quote the ancient magicks to me . . .

homesweethomeMrL ,

They were convicted of being a monopoly over 20 years ago.

Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)

Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....

homesweethomeMrL ,

What account?

Fucking Instagram. Facepals. Tweetle, or, "Borg" as it's called now. The TicketyTark. Fuck all that shit. Hey look! Free garbage in exchange for everything about my movments and thoughts!

This was the deal in 2000. It's been 24 years of marveling at how many people just - give all their shit away. Don't even think about it. And then have the balls to complain when they get screwed.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Seconded.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Class, sophistication, and above all a sense of the dignity of the written word are all things that make Twi- I mean “X” - the foremost social media app on the Interwebs.

Now show us your naughty bits. Barely legal teens to the left.

homesweethomeMrL ,

microsoft had a charming expression for thus kind of corporate maneuver: BOGU

homesweethomeMrL ,

https://seanhoff.medium.com/my-favorite-uncommon-phrase-probably-for-good-reason-comes-from-accounts-ive-read-from-the-early-96e9b9aff4dd

homesweethomeMrL ,

Definitely a cynical PR move.

Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)

Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year's $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan...

homesweethomeMrL ,

What’s “spotify”?

‘A fine line between humor and flopping’: tech summit’s rap battle is the height of corporate cringe (www.theguardian.com)

The next time you’re sitting through a company-wide meeting, half-listening to a leader drone on about updates or product launches (and hoping they don’t announce layoffs or budget cuts), remember this: at least they’re not rapping....

homesweethomeMrL ,

Oh please. The Healthineers beat that without even trying.

homesweethomeMrL OP ,

Right? Yeah lemmy get my economics freak on in the (checks notes) comicstrips community!

Helllooooo Ladiiieeees!
finger guns

homesweethomeMrL OP ,

Curses! And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for you meddling (checks notes) comicstrips kids!

homesweethomeMrL OP ,

OP is definitely not author Ryan North who has been making the exact same comic strip with amazingly fantastic dialogue changes for years and is definitely worth checking out and hitting the “random” button a few hundred times, if one likes language, science, and comedy

homesweethomeMrL ,

What it demonstrates is the actual use case for AI is not All The Things.

Science research, programming, and . . . That’s about it.

homesweethomeMrL ,

True, I’m just using it how they’re using it.

homesweethomeMrL ,

“Light” programming? ‘Find the errant period’ sort of thing?

homesweethomeMrL ,

I took it as just pointing out how “not ready” it is. And, it isn’t ready. For what they’re doing. It’s crazy to do what they’re doing. Crazy in a bad way.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Isn’t that the one Mike Johnson and his son use to monitor each other’s porn consumption?

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