I should further add - don’t fucking use it in places it’s not capable of properly functioning and then trying to deflect the blame on the AI from yourself, like what Air Canada did.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know

When Air Canada’s chatbot gave incorrect information to a traveller, the airline argued its chatbot is “responsible for its own actions”.

Artificial intelligence is having a growing impact on the way we travel, and a remarkable new case shows what AI-powered chatbots can get wrong – and who should pay. In 2022, Air Canada’s chatbot promised a discount that wasn’t available to passenger Jake Moffatt, who was assured that he could book a full-fare flight for his grandmother’s funeral and then apply for a bereavement fare after the fact.

According to a civil-resolutions tribunal decision last Wednesday, when Moffatt applied for the discount, the airline said the chatbot had been wrong – the request needed to be submitted before the flight – and it wouldn’t offer the discount. Instead, the airline said the chatbot was a “separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions”. Air Canada argued that Moffatt should have gone to the link provided by the chatbot, where he would have seen the correct policy.

The British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal rejected that argument, ruling that Air Canada had to pay Moffatt $812.02 (£642.64) in damages and tribunal fees

Right? Like let me choose if and when I want to use it. Don’t shove it down our throats and then complain when we get upset or don’t use it how you want us to use it. We’ll use it however we want to use it, not you.

My understanding of false accepts is when it think it hears the wake word and starts recording.

Sometimes it happens when I watch TV or rarely in a normal conversation.

If this happens, what else would you expect to happen? It’s going to behave exactly as if you woke it.

Stop talking if you notice, but unless you expect a perfect wake word rate with zero mistakes there’s nothing that can be done.

Now, if Google is intentionally waking it when it knows it’s not the right word that’s another matter entirely.

Edit: I’d refuse to accept any wrong doikg as well if it’s legit false accepts. But if it was intentional, this isn’t even a slap on the wrist for them.

How the fuck is that even legal to force opt in on location.

Google has gotten in a lot of shit for not properly letting people control that before and delete histories.

Over generation is very big. I agree batteries are better, though.

We need to be able to support peak winter heating and peak summer cooling and we need to do that with excess margin.

Everything in between we have excess power, unless it’s something like hydro dams which are easy to control and aren’t a big extra cost and part of how they naturally operate.

We generally use gas peaker plants to help which we can turn off or on, but it’s more efficient to not do that, and those are expensive.

It would also make it easier to build big nuclear plants if we could manage the off peak load into batteries for the day.

For phones / portables, assuming it doesn’t draw more power, it would mean shorter download times, which means less battery usage.

Wireless 4k 120hz streaming from my PC to TV would be pretty sweet. I can run a cable if i really wanted… but this would be easier. It’s still more than that, but getting that would be sweet.

Time to put a goatse picture in front of the camera!

That linking of comments is pretty cool.

This is the whole being poor keeps you poor thing.

You can’t afford $200-300 outright, but you can afford the monthly plan that costs $20 more but ends up costing $490 instead of $250 .

You can’t afford the $300 winter boots, so you buy the $100 ones that fall apart in 2 seasons instead of lasting a decade.

Yes, they’d become a thin client.

The concept isn’t new and happens in the corporate world connecting to the corporate servers to run the software, but he wants that to become the norm.

A chromebook is somewhere between the middle of a regular computer, and what Bezos wants.

You’ve never been looking for an answer to something and it’s on an old reddit post?

How to beat a boss in a game?

Ways to do some sort of home improvement?

Discussion on a product you’re considering that isn’t brand new?

I know the grid in Texas is (was?) separated from the main national grid, and I guess, maybe something like this could eventually lead to a state wide grid that’s disconnected from the main grid, and maybe that’s very much the long term intention and a real problem.

It would take awhile to manifest as a big issue though as at least the blurb indicates it has to be for newly built power plants and new loads.

If a data center wants to build their own offgrid power system though I don’t see the harm in that? In the future they might very well be building SMR’s to power only their facility.

I think it should all still be overseen by whatever existing regulations there are and kept to the same standards though. And maybe some rules about connecting them to other purpose built ones under this same grouping?

Like, Apple builds one, and then Google builds one. Google and Apple can’t join together.

Maybe even limit it to some strict commercial type use, so Google can’t be doing this to power a google city where residents live.

Edits: Clarity and thoughts along those lines.

Edit: Oh and it should be mandated to be green energy.

The idea and motive and intention is great. The (edit: eventual) outcome is always evil.

I like to think if I was in a position to be working with data like that, that I could ‘accidentally’ forget to redact it one time and trigger a leak like this.

They publicly released that data at that point though through their own failures, fuck Flock for trying to suppress it.

I asked a question like 8 years ago, and people are still replying with new answers either due to new APIs or tooling, and for some reason just alternative ways that already existed for years.

Yes that can be done.

Hopefully they’re just setting that up and in the meantime did this.

I would have bought it for that purpose if it was available.

I’m really loving this new Microslop name.

Also… looks like someone bought www.microslop.com and redirected to their own site: https://www.philipncohen.com/

Not sure what the rules are where you are, but one way is to check the menu for calories if they need to be listed.

Then you can tell exactly what the size difference is between a small, medium and large, assuming they aren’t lying about the calories, and that they actually fill it to the proper size listed per the calories.