Skip to content

Zuck tries to justify AI splurge with talk of 'superintelligence' for all

Technology
39 34 88
  • Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS

    Technology technology
    27
    1
    122 Stimmen
    27 Beiträge
    293 Aufrufe
    E
    Lol, so you saying that my N900 now lives in my TV?? :''( I miss you, my beloved N900, and I still talk about you to people.
  • 66 Stimmen
    2 Beiträge
    32 Aufrufe
    W
    In April, Nigeria asked Google, Microsoft, and Amazon to set concrete deadlines for opening data centers in the country. Nigeria has been making this demand for about four years, but the companies have so far failed to fulfill their promises. Now, Nigeria has set up a working group with the companies to ensure that data is stored within its shores. Just onshoring the data center does not solve the problems. You can't be sure no data travels to the US servers, some data does need to travel to the US servers, and the entire DC is still subject to US software and certificate keychains. It's better, but not good or safe. I need to channel my inner Mike Ehrmantrout to the US tech companies and government: you had a good thing going you stupid son of a bitch. You had everything you needed and it all ran like clockwork. You could have shut your mouth, cooked, and made as much money as you needed, but you just had to blow it up, you and your pride and your ego. Seriously, this is a massive own goal by the US government. This is a massive loss to US hegemony and influence around the world that's never coming back. It has never been easier to build sovereign clouds with off the shelf and open source tooling. The best practices are largely documented, software is commoditized, and there are plenty of qualified people out there these days and governments staring down the barrel of existential risk have finally got the incentive to fund these efforts.
  • The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon

    Technology technology
    88
    1
    396 Stimmen
    88 Beiträge
    3k Aufrufe
    X
    Yeah, not a choice any of us who work in tech can make. But the small choices we CAN make do add up significantly.
  • 9 Stimmen
    6 Beiträge
    56 Aufrufe
    F
    You said it yourself: extra places that need human attention ... those need ... humans, right? It's easy to say "let AI find the mistakes". But that tells us nothing at all. There's no substance. It's just a sales pitch for snake oil. In reality, there are various ways one can leverage technology to identify various errors, but that only happens through the focused actions of people who actually understand the details of what's happening. And think about it here. We already have computer systems that monitor patients' real-time data when they're hospitalized. We already have systems that check for allergies in prescribed medication. We already have systems for all kinds of safety mechanisms. We're already using safety tech in hospitals, so what can be inferred from a vague headline about AI doing something that's ... checks notes ... already being done? ... Yeah, the safe money is that it's just a scam.
  • 624 Stimmen
    73 Beiträge
    1k Aufrufe
    swelter_spark@reddthat.comS
    Swappa is good for tech.
  • 282 Stimmen
    27 Beiträge
    389 Aufrufe
    F
    it becomes a form of censorship when snall websites and forums shut down because they don’t have the capacity to comply. In this scenario that's not a consideration. We're talking about algorithmically-driven content, which wouldn't apply to Lemmy, Mastodon, or many mom-and-pop sized pages and forums. Those have human moderation anyway, which the big sites don't. If you're making editorial decisions by weighting algorithmically-driven content, it's not censorship to hold you accountable for the consequences of your editorial decisions. (Just as we would any major media outlet.)
  • iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original

    Technology technology
    126
    1
    698 Stimmen
    126 Beiträge
    4k Aufrufe
    Y
    My understanding is that if they've lasted at least a month and haven't died on you, you probably got a "good" batch and what you have now will be what it stays as for the most part, but a fair number of gulikits just sort of crap out at the 1-2 mo mark. So heads up on that.
  • 75 Stimmen
    8 Beiträge
    69 Aufrufe
    L
    Police: Arrest you for having an open beer in public Judge: sentences you to prison The PIC: