Nah, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are entertaining and fun (and even somewhat well meaning).

If you want to be technical, US is a proto-fascist state (i.e. there is still a lot of room for things to get worse).

The 14 Characteristics of Fascism

China’s biggest home appliances company, Midea, has launched a series of DeepSeek-enhanced air conditioners. The product is an “understanding friend” who can “catch your thoughts accurately,” according to the company’s product launch video.

This doesn’t really sound like a revolutionary use case.

Chinese media have hailed DeepSeek for saving the day in the city of Wuhan. When the police received a report that five stray horses had been wandering around at night, they asked the chatbot for information on nearby horse farms. Officials were able to locate the owner by visiting the farms DeepSeek suggested.

Maybe an LLM query ran faster than doing a search in a map tool, but by how much?

Recently, she’s been tackling a new challenge at Sunshine, her AI-driven startup focused on making everyday tasks more seamless, starting with managing users’ phone contacts and reminding them about birthdays. The company’s latest AI-powered photo sharing app reflects Mayer’s broader vision for how technology can enhance personal connections and interactions.

What a bunch of PR word salad.

I skimmed through most of the article, it reads like an oligarch propaganda piece. But in the BBC’s defense they did ask some relevant questions.

In particular, Mayer’s framing of “pessimists” and “optimists” is almost beautiful in an abstract kind of way.

It is not a matter of being pessimistic or optimistic about ML powered services, it’s a matter of not trusting a bunch of vapid, corrupt, dishonest ghouls like Mayer and her ilk.

Only a complete fool would believe the word salad about wanting to make the world a better place and leveraging technology to help develop human connections. It reads like a parody or satire.

Is CORBA even used these days? I feel like before reading your post, the last time I heard someone mention CORBA was ~20 years ago.

Who is going to ask you?

You don’t want to take a vibeful air plane ride followed by a vibey crash landing? You’re such a square and so behind the times.

It’s actually a lie on the part of Nvidia. One of those corporate “it’s not technically a lie”, but there is still a clear premeditated intention to deceive stemming from malicious intent.

https://lemmy.world/post/26776509

These mother fucking AI pump and dump promoters. He full well knows what he is saying makes no sense. Why would an ML algorithm solution find a job unpleasant? I doesn’t know or feel anything.

Amodei is trying to anthropomorphize their service (to play into the notion of AI being completely revolutionary) in order to keep the grift going.

Elmo saying the Fediverse is full of pedos is like a stamp of approval for the Fediverse. It means it’s a working and viable solution to getting rid of American oligarch influence on social media.

They have one strong competitive advantage that Starlink will never have; they are not American.

By definition, you cannot trust an American service. Even if the people who run a given service are not degenerates, there are enough degenerates in the US that they could elect a degenerate who will fuck you over.

They have both GEO and LEO satellites. Not on the scale of Starlink (for LEO), but they do have a network.

I am not commenting on the nature of the stock market or anything like that. Just pointing out that they do have a working network, it’s not 100% speculation (like you see with crypto schemes).

“fears of communism”

There is an abstract beauty to this level of confident ignorance.