This is the 3rd of 4th time recently that I’ve heard someone, directly or indirectly, describe AI like meth. The first one was Hank Green when he said something along the lines of getting hooked on ‘being able to get things done faster,’ which is exactly how many people end up meth-heads.
He’s smart when it comes to snuggle acquisition. And I don’t think she’s plotting a coup (yet), just keeping her options open.
One day I’ll learn that swiping keyboards and lack of proof-reading are a bad combination, but today is not that day!
Sometimes, not often, I see things that make me with I was a modern kid. A bouncy castle pipe organ is somehow on that list.
Because the check helps train their robots.
Its a human nature thing, I think. Like sometimes if something sounds too obvious we assume it has to be more complicated than that. The same way many people don’t realize a “meltdown” is a nuclear core literally melting downward through the ground.
You just make a tent out of aluminum foil.
Sometimes the meaning is clear from the name, but just to keep you on your toes they’ll then talk about creaming butter or a bain-marie for melting chocolate.
My parents tell the story of the time, before I was born, that they were totally out of money and cigarettes but managed to scrape together just enough for a pack from the machine at the bar. My dad put the money in and the machine jammed. He fought with it until it started spitting money out of the coin return at him. Someone put a Susan B Anthony dollar in, right after they were introduced, and it blocked it up. There was like $10 backed up behind it and it carried them to payday.
But that particular one is an art dispenser at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. Or at least they were installed there before the pandemic, I think the hotel has had 2 new owners since then.
pterribledactyl, surely.
Didn’t this happen like 2 years ago?
It’s more like Trump’s lies about Iran being fed to Axios are Lucy and the stock market is Charlie Brown.
If you can eat it in an hour, it’s free and you get a t-shirt!
The chocolate was thicker too. Easier to peel off and eat separately.
A third party I contract with is consuming large quantities of copyrighted material to provide training material for my personal Ain’t-artificial Intelligence Model. There’s just no way to build it otherwise, and we can’t possible afford for the Chinese to beat us to this goal. No rare books have been harmed in this effort.
Just imagine the 2 of them in a room together 😱
I got into the digital stuff around 2002ish with eDonkey. There was a big MST3k trading community at the time, and I had access to an OC-48 line back then. All the 90 minute episodes were sized to CD, so I had a whole spindle of episodes.
Maybe it’s my frame of mind (I’m not “discovering” new music, I stopped paying for streaming when I realized 99% of what I was listening to was recorded in the last millennium) but I can’t fathom how this would “turn free users to paid.”
2026?
Some folks have a bit more practice and never let their skills go cold
I’ve been on TuxedoOS for a while. Everything has worked so well I’ve managed to quell my distro hopping for a couple years now.
Brain: Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
Pinky: Whoof, oh, I’d have to say the odds of that are terribly slim, Brain.
Brain: True.
Pinky: I mean, really, when have I ever been pondering what you’ve been pondering?
Brain: To my knowledge, never.
Pinky: Exactly. So, what are the chances that this time, I’m pondering what you’re pondering?
Brain: Next to nil.
Pinky: Well, that’s exactly what I’m thinking, too.
Brain: Therefore, you are pondering what I’m pondering.
Pinky: Poit, I guess I am!