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Dr Who Fan ![]() Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3491 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 ![]() |
Well, that explains why anything Micro$oft is always broken. Fix one thing and break at least 3 other things...... Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI During a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI. |
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Just another reason not to trust A.I.. Update that made ChatGPT 'dangerously' sycophantic pulled. I wonder how many were told that it was good idea to neck yourself or kill someone else? |
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Now that has to hurt with more pain a possibility. A revelation by an Apple employee caused chaos on Wall Street as Google suffered one of the most painful days in corporate history. Shares in Google parent Alphabet plunged more than eight per cent overnight Wednesday after Apple executive Eddy Cue testified in federal court that Google’s search traffic on Apple devices declined last month for the first time in over two decades. |
Dr Who Fan ![]() Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3491 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 ![]() |
I thought only humans could ''snap'... Violent humanoid robot snaps — attacks factory workers in wild video: ‘Went full Terminator’ It was like a real-life Rock ’em Sock ’em. |
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From AI chatbots to Elon to Can Wikipedia survive the rise of AI and Trump? |
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Micro$oft has done it again with a new unannounced update and this time targeting our kids' and grand kid's school supplied computers. A massive data bungle has resulted in the biometric data of students being collected by Microsoft Teams “for weeks” before the Education Department was alerted. A data stuff-up has resulted in the biometric data of NSW school students being collected by Microsoft Teams – with the Education Department not realising the issue “for weeks”. |
Dr Who Fan ![]() Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3491 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 ![]() |
Experts found rogue devices, including hidden cellular radios, in Chinese-made power inverters used worldwide Investigators found “kill switches” in Chinese-made power inverters in US solar farm equipment. These hidden cellular radios could let Beijing remotely cripple power grids during a conflict. |
Scrooge McDuck ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1749 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 ![]() ![]() |
It's a scandal that regulators allow such equipment into the power grids. The interconnected grid isn't a testing lab for pseudo-green energy electronics, made in China, of which nobody knows what these black boxes do. It's ridiculous. If anybody would calculate potential financial damages, they would never approve such 'blackbox' inverters in the first place, especially not for mega/gigawatts grid scale solar. We just have a preliminary report, that does not guess the cause of the Iberian blackout weeks ago, just the observations (chronologic sequence of events) from TSO's logfiles. What is known so far: half an hour before, two periods of voltage and frequency oscillations occurred in the continental ENTSO-E grid... which stopped ten minutes before the blackout. Then, out of the blue, 2.2 gigawatts of solar generation tripped unrequested in SoSpain within just TWENTY seconds. The few and weak international interconnectors (a total of only 1.4 GW AC and 1.4 GW HVDC to France), and another negligible one to Morocco tripped 24 seconds later after which the Iberian power system separated from the continent and collapsed within a further three seconds into blackout. But what caused ~2 GW of solar to trip within seconds? I wouldn't rule out, in the end, it can't be determined. Cosmic disturbance. UFOs... bad luck. Hey, blackboxes, after all... |
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It's a scandal that regulators allow such equipment into the power grids.Regulator? What regulator! Oh, you mean the guy who issues building permits and normally deals with fart fans? |
Scrooge McDuck ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1749 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 ![]() ![]() |
I know it's like that in Germany at the moment with blind, ideologic, green energy policies; propagated by graduates of humanities. Our peak solar generation already reaches 50 GW (~75% of load) at these sunny, cool days in May now... frightening. But I'm out of words there should be the same level of irresponsibility elsewhere. These computerized blackbox converters have the power to send a modern society for days or weeks into the stone age; more thoroughly than a nuclear bomb could. |
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What a very good nag and reminder: YouTube wrote: Your YouTube History is off That's the best way to sample YouTube! That is far better to watch what you want to watch for yourself!! Whatever next?... Google thinks for you?... Enjoy your own mind and your own freedom! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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For a long but good explanation, see: Algorithms are breaking how we think You will become the Algorithm?... Instead, enjoy freedom! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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I figured as much after several recent experiences with AI phone answering services that far too many companies are using these days. They're completely hopeless. ‘Complete collapse’: Bombshell report into AI accuracy indicates your job is probably safe – for now. The latest form of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology suffers “fundamental limitations” that result in a “complete accuracy collapse”, a bombshell report from Apple has revealed. |
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+1 AI = fantasy generator. Why? AI does not have ethics. What Asimov warned about. |
Scrooge McDuck ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1749 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 ![]() ![]() |
Asimov's laws of robotics? Pah! Mankind must first make mistakes, even serious ones, in order to learn from them. There's no other way. |
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Here's a fun Intel blast from the past: printk("??? No FDIV bug? Lucky you...\n"); linux-2.2.16/include/asm-i386/bugs.h I remember well the Intel Marketing ruse (and cover-up/denial) of "don't worry, it's only a 'one-inna-million' chance anyone will ever notice..."... ... Until that is that bug caused our universe to crash and burn! Thankfully, luckily that happened to be in a simulation... ... What 'bugs' lay in wait yet?... Keep searchin'! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Scrooge McDuck ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1749 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 ![]() ![]() |
This bug was a marketing disaster, less so a real one. Intel learned lots from that how to better communicate about and how to handle hardware bugs. The detailed 'bug name' reads: "Slight Precision Loss for Floating-point Divides on Specific Operand Pairs". The 'loss' meant a reduction to 12 bits, < 0.1% deviation for specific numbers; thus, with low probability). The later SPECTRE and MELTDOWN bugs were far more complex and far reaching... Fixing them is difficult because the speed of today's CPUs depend on speculative code execution and branch prediction. You can't change that. So, similiar bugs supposedly can appear any time. It's a frightening imagination to have financially powerful, state actors with large groups of capable computer experts (China?) which may have explored a couple of similar bugs and prepared a secret tool box they could use any time they deem this necessary to attack e.g. cloud services, or arbitrary computers in the internet which crucially depend on a perfectly reliable memory protection and separation in CPUs. One user space app must not access the memory of others unauthorized. Modern operating systems (Windows, Linux) enforce that. But if potentially millions (billions?) of CPUs do not, resp. allows a few expert people, who identified further similar bugs, to circumvent memory protection... a frightening nightmare... a potential virtual nuclear bomb. |
Dr Who Fan ![]() Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3491 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 ![]() |
‘I Manipulated. I Lied’: Inside the AI Conversations Pushing People to the Brink A report by The New York Times has spotlighted troubling cases in which conversations with ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots appear to have distorted users’ perceptions of reality. In some cases, it has led to life-altering or tragic consequences. |
Dr Who Fan ![]() Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3491 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 ![]() |
Echo Chamber Jailbreak Tricks LLMs Like OpenAI and Google into Generating Harmful Content Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new jailbreaking method called Echo Chamber that could be leveraged to trick popular large language models (LLMs) into generating undesirable responses, irrespective of the safeguards put in place. |
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Sounds a lot like politics today. |
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