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I just asked a local one I use and it said “Elias Thorne is not a single famous real person, it’s a name that repeatedly shows up in AI‑generated fiction and content”

I’m pretty sure I do that with EVERY piece of hardware I get. I don’t trust that shenanigans haven’t been done. Hell most times I update the BIOS too if I can.

If it’s software, you could just reinstall it.

Hardware would be a different story. But I’m not sure how that’s different than today. My friend has a RAV4 that he’s added several hardware hacks to. For example, there is a module you can add that will give you actual numbers for each tire’s pressure instead of the usual warning light that a tire is low with no indication of which one. It even shows up as an extra screen on the normal interface between the gauges.

The way I look at it is AI is a time saving tool if you know what you’re doing. Otherwise it’s like playing IT Russian roulette. There are many times I could write the code or procedure I need manually but using AI has saved me countless hours. I’m not doing anything mission critical and I know how to read the code/scripts/configs it’s spitting out. I would never in a million years just accept what it spits out as gospel. I basically treat the output like a junior developer created it and I’m doing the code review. I’d also like to add in running all this on local models since I have the hardware to do that. And 95% of it is either for a lab or a proof of concept. I’ve also had it spit something out I didn’t understand and went and looked it up and learned something in the process. That’s always a nice surprise.

But you do bring up a very good point. It is VERY easy to lose control and understanding of what it’s spitting out. And you absolutely need people to understand what the code is doing, regardless of who or what wrote it. I’ve inherited projects when people leave that I have spent days if not months trying to understand.

There are many things I don’t like about AI… at least the kind run in giant data centers using up way too many resources like electricity and water. But under the right circumstances and used correctly, it can be a very powerful and useful tool.

This probably doesn’t help you much right now but I have a QNAP as well. And I too despise the QTS software. But I found out that TrueNAS can run on it pretty easily. I have an NVME drive on a usb-c enclosure that I installed trueNAS on and it boots fine into it. If I ever wanna go back it’s just a remove the boot drive and reformat (the ZFS pools are compatible unfortunately).

Is this the guy that swatted the granny?

Because the other 19% are trust fund brats?

Yeah by my calc a 1kg of $100 bills is about 100K, but the kg of gold is roughly $140k-150K (I just checked and its $144K)

But then I’d have to sell the gold…

So Minority Report, but with A.I. Great… what could go wrong with that.

Oh sorry. Reading comprehension is not my strong point… 😀 Carry on.

Which is why I said neither of these should be acceptable.

I understand how creepy this is but why is this any different than the 1000s of cameras on poles literally everywhere these days. Neither of these should be acceptable

Man I love geek humor!!

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Edit: I hope that doesn’t sound sarcastic because I really do

I lost an entire semester of college due to UFO: Enemy Unknown (a.k.a. X-COM: UFO Defense). This was in ‘94. I really need to go look at the later games. But man I loved that game.

The outside the box thinking this requires amazing.

As long as it’s fucking singular because the other way sounds stupid …

Well in his defense, that language was sorta AI generated. Very glad the project isn’t. This looks like something I’m very interested in.

Or since this was only in a month, 60000 employees for that same month.

But imagine having a software studio with 1000 skilled developers to work on a project for 5 years. I have several good game ideas I could have created in that time frame. Some might even have made money. Likely not half a billion dollars but still….

This just screams money laundering though.

Geeking out over “your mom” HTTP error code jokes has made me quite happy. …

My first thought was how do you test this actually works?