Agreed, fantastic story but I’ll be damned if I wasn’t moved to tears.
Hey, Robin! I know you have to vent sometimes into your works, but give the poor guy a break, won’t you?
General nerd, programmer and sci-fi reader and writer. Neurodivergent, ADHD.
She/her.
Agreed, fantastic story but I’ll be damned if I wasn’t moved to tears.
Hey, Robin! I know you have to vent sometimes into your works, but give the poor guy a break, won’t you?
Hyperion Cantos.
Neuromancer.
When techbros said “you can type a question and the AI will answer”, they seem to have forgotten that we expect the answers to be true and accurate.
And they seem to have forgotten that to do that, they actually need a database of facts.
Not necessarily. Corporate money has a hidden contract. Mainly, you will develop what we tell you to develop and you will stall what we tell you to stall.
Google money is ad money. It’s DRM money, it’s private silo money, not general development money.
If you believe corporations drive all good development in the world, look at how many projects have been bought and killed by Microsoft.
In fact, why would Firefox accept money from one of its competitors? That’s SUPER fucked up.
Just think about the anti features that Google mmay want Firefox to implement: Unlockable ads, third party cookies, user tracking, and so on.
Is tha the development we want?
I say, let’s open fundraisers and keep Firefox free of corporate influence.
It’s a threat to the Mozilla CORPORATION, not the Mozilla Foundation nor the browser.
Nothing to be really scared about. Move along.
My colleagues and I have developed an artificial intelligence system that helps buildings shift their energy use to times when the electric grid is cleaner.
Meanwhile, AI systems are getting trained while using the equivalent of several countries’ use of electricity.
What a bullshit article. The headline itself is so deceptive it makes my blood boil. Now everyone will think AI is a net positive for reducing power usage while it’s all the contrary.
By any chance, were the clamps filled with styrofoam or something? 😁 (Tofu-dreg joke)
Intentional? Better use Negligent. It’s hard to prove intent; knowledge of something going on is much easier to prove.