First, "robots" are not "AI". Robots are generally driven by low-level automation that does not even qualify as weak AI (i.e. the "AI" with no actual intelligence). Second, 50% of all jobs in 10 years? No way. Even the administrative processes for that would take longer if the technology was available, ready, reliable and well understood.
Indeed. In modern times there are some tendencies to see people as "educated". But education does not fix stupid. These people have intelligence, they just chose not to use it.
Apt is "core functionality". In the end, I do not care too much but this shows a trend.
As to Dmitry, he obviously gets misused to threaten people. Even the Russian authorities know than a Tor exit-node operator has no control over what is done over it.
As I'm typing this I'm watching my very expensive, ultra-modern cleaning-robot try to figure out how to avoid the catpole in my livingroom, and it's immediately clear that AI has not even approached rodent-level. Or insect-level, for that matter.
Indeed. An ant does far better than "high"-tech at this time.
Anybody actually competent in the subject area has known this for a long time. It is just the morons that use "Technology!" as a surrogate for religion that do not get its limitations at all and ascribe magical powers to it. These idiots are unfortunately about as stupid, as obnoxious and as pervasive as the religious fuckups.
There is a difference between things that are better and things that are advertised as "better" using massive propaganda. I just had to remove the systemd-fail from a laptop to get a serial adapter working again. This thing has no advantages in most situations but compromises stability, usability, simplicity and security. Really a shining example of how not to do it.
What astonishes me though is that two morons with known bad personalities and a bad track-record with their software can compromise most of the Linux community. I would have expected it to be more resilient, but apparently not.
You can still get rid of systemd in Debian, but it seems to be getting harder to do so and you lose more and more core functionality. Now it seems you lose Python3 apt integration.
It seems to me that "choice" has left Debian a while ago, and the authoritarians in control are hard at work to remove what is left of it.
I think the company is trying to anthropomorphise their products.
I agree, but they are probably only a) reflecting their customer's utter lack of understanding and b) are trying to get protection for their products for free by misrepresenting them.
We do have weak AI. Planning algorithms, statistical classifiers, etc. all qualify. We do not have any instance or any credible theory for strong AI and we may never get there.
Of course, calling weak AI "AI" in the first place is grossly misleading, as it is pure automation, no "intelligence" involved.
I doubt that very much. If you actually had written any such software in any real sense, you would not write such nonsense. And incidentally, you have no idea how much networked software I have written.
And that is just the point. The other one is that because your phone does not have a static IP address, there is actually no sane reason to have a listening port open.
Alternatively, she just asked knowingly for full-blown Fascism. I really would not rule that out anymore. George Orwell seems to have had the number of the British political class.
Indeed. The whole statement is so utterly stupid and disconnected from reality _and_ misses what states that tried to get where she wants to go were like (Stalinism, 3rd Reich, etc.) that she cannot be any good at understanding history either. So they have a _bad_ history major as Home Secretary.
Or alternatively, a moron politician that cannot be punished for an exceptionally stupid mistake was told by accident and then thought it was a good idea to tell the whole world. But outside of that, giving away a valuable source like the ability to decrypt WhatsApp is not likely to happen, I completely agree. The only other reason I see is because that ability was already about to become public.
One of the reasons I do not trust smartphones. Unless I have root and can configure what I damn well please, it is an insecure device under control of an untrusted 3rd party.
I fully agree. Even on servers, one of the first things you do in a hardening-review is to scan for open ports and then evaluate the security of the software that opens each port. An App is likely to be horribly insecure and one has to ask what business _client_ software has opening listening ports in the first place.
Of course, all that requires a bit of actual security knowledge. There are far too many wannabes that think they understand IT security. Probably the reason so much software is insecure.
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First, "robots" are not "AI". Robots are generally driven by low-level automation that does not even qualify as weak AI (i.e. the "AI" with no actual intelligence). Second, 50% of all jobs in 10 years? No way. Even the administrative processes for that would take longer if the technology was available, ready, reliable and well understood.
Basically all this shows is how clueless VCs are.
Indeed. In modern times there are some tendencies to see people as "educated". But education does not fix stupid. These people have intelligence, they just chose not to use it.
Apt is "core functionality". In the end, I do not care too much but this shows a trend.
As to Dmitry, he obviously gets misused to threaten people. Even the Russian authorities know than a Tor exit-node operator has no control over what is done over it.
As I'm typing this I'm watching my very expensive, ultra-modern cleaning-robot try to figure out how to avoid the catpole in my livingroom, and it's immediately clear that AI has not even approached rodent-level. Or insect-level, for that matter.
Indeed. An ant does far better than "high"-tech at this time.
Anybody actually competent in the subject area has known this for a long time. It is just the morons that use "Technology!" as a surrogate for religion that do not get its limitations at all and ascribe magical powers to it. These idiots are unfortunately about as stupid, as obnoxious and as pervasive as the religious fuckups.
One of the reasons why my employer has absolutely banned systemd. The risk it brings is just far to high, with no perceptible gain to compensate.
There is a difference between things that are better and things that are advertised as "better" using massive propaganda. I just had to remove the systemd-fail from a laptop to get a serial adapter working again. This thing has no advantages in most situations but compromises stability, usability, simplicity and security. Really a shining example of how not to do it.
What astonishes me though is that two morons with known bad personalities and a bad track-record with their software can compromise most of the Linux community. I would have expected it to be more resilient, but apparently not.
You can still get rid of systemd in Debian, but it seems to be getting harder to do so and you lose more and more core functionality. Now it seems you lose Python3 apt integration.
It seems to me that "choice" has left Debian a while ago, and the authoritarians in control are hard at work to remove what is left of it.
And third, who thinks it's a good idea to vandalize something that has cameras, honestly!
The supply of utterly clueless morons that do not even understand the most basic things in the human race is endless. This is not the only indicator.
I think the company is trying to anthropomorphise their products.
I agree, but they are probably only a) reflecting their customer's utter lack of understanding and b) are trying to get protection for their products for free by misrepresenting them.
We do have weak AI. Planning algorithms, statistical classifiers, etc. all qualify. We do not have any instance or any credible theory for strong AI and we may never get there.
Of course, calling weak AI "AI" in the first place is grossly misleading, as it is pure automation, no "intelligence" involved.
No, it is not. But animists do not get that.
I doubt that very much. If you actually had written any such software in any real sense, you would not write such nonsense. And incidentally, you have no idea how much networked software I have written.
And that is just the point. The other one is that because your phone does not have a static IP address, there is actually no sane reason to have a listening port open.
You really have no clue how this works. You are only heaping more egg on your face.
Naa, that would be the obvious explanation. Too simple and plausible.
Indeed. Terrorists you can typically just ignore with no significant adverse consequences. Fascist politicians are a lot harder to deal with.
Alternatively, she just asked knowingly for full-blown Fascism. I really would not rule that out anymore. George Orwell seems to have had the number of the British political class.
Indeed. The whole statement is so utterly stupid and disconnected from reality _and_ misses what states that tried to get where she wants to go were like (Stalinism, 3rd Reich, etc.) that she cannot be any good at understanding history either. So they have a _bad_ history major as Home Secretary.
Can be a lot of other things, including plain old misdirection. For example, the phone may have been compromised long before.
Or alternatively, a moron politician that cannot be punished for an exceptionally stupid mistake was told by accident and then thought it was a good idea to tell the whole world. But outside of that, giving away a valuable source like the ability to decrypt WhatsApp is not likely to happen, I completely agree. The only other reason I see is because that ability was already about to become public.
One of the reasons I do not trust smartphones. Unless I have root and can configure what I damn well please, it is an insecure device under control of an untrusted 3rd party.
Indeed. Methinks some people here do not understand the difference between a listening port and a port used in an active connection.
I fully agree. Even on servers, one of the first things you do in a hardening-review is to scan for open ports and then evaluate the security of the software that opens each port. An App is likely to be horribly insecure and one has to ask what business _client_ software has opening listening ports in the first place.
Of course, all that requires a bit of actual security knowledge. There are far too many wannabes that think they understand IT security. Probably the reason so much software is insecure.