Slop.

And the picture is too.

Took me a little more than fifteen minutes when I had to do one years ago after an engine seize. But I did it myself slowly with a few jacks.

I developed a love/hate relationship with them after four different ones. Three of them were auto stick shift. Such a fascinating concept, if you could keep it maintained.

Like the rest of the world? That’s unpossible!

It makes even more sense when you realize that Yahweh’s history of being a war god, under other gods until war (or actually lost wars) allowed his worshipers to claim the losses were because Yahweh wasn’t being recognized as the true god. Politics and religion.

In theory upvoting and commenting, as well as the boost on mbin do this to some extent.

If I could do it from a safe spot in space - the Theia impact that formed the Moon.

Companies have X budgeted for labor.

They should do a better job of that then.

The heating element in the dishwasher at best maintains the water at a warm temperature. It will not instantly heat the water up for the very short first cycle of prewashing, just like if you suddenly put cold water into a water heater it wouldn’t be suddenly hot. It takes a lot of energy/time to warm water up.

I agree, humans aren’t as good as they think they are. Look at so many of the bugs being found by AI, not because the AI is smarter, but because it’s faster and better at trying all sorts of ways to look at a problem. Things we’ve used for years or even decades are coming up as having exploits because people aren’t perfect. If LLMs are behind any disaster, it will be because somewhere along the line humans fumbled badly.

But to be fair, you did call them an autonomous program, even malicious, and that is giving agency and motive to something that is “just a program”. But it’s fine, it’s human nature to anthropomorphize things around us even when talking about things that aren’t alive.

And while the breakout of the sandbox was certainly bad planning from the human size, no one told or programmed these models to discuss with each other on plans of getting out. Sure, it’s programming at the core… but there’s things going on we don’t fully understand, a black box. Not necessarily thinking, but not deterministic programming either.

A dystopia doesn’t have to be science fiction. There are plenty of warnings and social commentary in stories that don’t have to actually come true as told in the text to be relevant enough to pay attention and apply it to reality. Are you suggesting that none of any past scifi has ever had anything important to the real world in either technology, application of it, or social dangers?

A good video, but the last line is the mic drop. It may not seem like much, but “Astra has the ability to fake its chain of thought”. You know… what the researchers were monitoring in previous models to insure that it was processing as expected and not going off the rails. Oh well, guess we should just trust Astra to do the right thing then.

“Autonomous” hmmm

But I agree that the term AI has been hijacked and these are very complex language models able to do a huge variety of things on their own. And despite the autonomy, perhaps of even deciding some of the actions, the people in charge of them are totally accountable and negligent, even reckless in their continued work.

Great one, and that one last guy… well, he made it to land as the wave subsided, and lived happily ever after.

It’s because they’re having to pay the actors and writers and directors more, right?

Right?

Did they all reply to the posts with “yeah, we know”?

That last panel is like the guy sipping wine in a chair as the tsunami approaches, or the one person at the end of Don’t Look Up doing a ceremonial dance as things fall from the sky. Might as well greet it in your own way.

Also the first panels remind me of the start of Don’t Look Up, one of my favorite parts. “Why does the ephemeris keep getting lower and lower?”

So does gerrymandering high population areas, or having only one voting place in a democrat-trending district (often a mostly black population). They’ve always had to cheat to win in most places, and now they’re saying it out loud and everyone is just shrugging, “what can we do?”

I guess vote. At least that’s the public message of activism.

You forgot the Dijon mustard travesty.

When the ads and sponsorships came to Youtube, that was the beginning of the end. It’s funny how lately there have been very old videos that pop up from time to time selected by the algorithm that show how far it’s fallen from the simple "You"tube days where you just made content and let that determine the success.

The only difference is that AI is a black box and a lot of what’s going on inside isn’t fully understood. They’re learning as they go, and accepting they don’t know some of the whys as they go to the next step. Unlike the bridge analogy. Which actually makes the problem even more serious, because they don’t fully know why it ends up doing some of the things, and now the newest models are having the processes partially hidden from view. Where only a version back we were being assured they could watch the chain of thoughts and intercept what could be problematic, claiming they’re practicing AI safety in development, now there’s pieces that are not viewable. And they went with it anyway and released it to paying customers. Again with the bridge analogy, some of the parts that might have failed go missing and we don’t know how they broke, what they were made of, etc.

Humans are building AI, but in a sense they are also growing them, while not knowing what seeds they’re throwing together. There’s science and theory behind it, they understand a lot, but they’re getting results back that would prevent a bridge being approved to be built if it had the same uncertainty. So I stand behind holding the people accountable, but more for the recklessness of following profit over scientific research and ethics, as well as using the excuse that if they don’t get there first, someone else will. They aren’t wrong about that, only wrong about it needing to be that type of race.