Things you have an irrational hatred of

[JuanHamm]

It’s just another tool.

True AI would be that which uses tools.

Though a paperclip maximizer would also be regarded as a tool I guess, in the same way a nuclear bomb would

Or a death star

[BurtReynolds]

When people pretend to be unimpressed by technology, particularly AI

I guess that's me, but it's not pretend at all.

The AI stuff in particular just seems totally uninteresting.

+1

People who thought the internet was a fad.

[BurtReynolds]

It’s just another tool.

True AI would be that which uses tools.

Though a paperclip maximizer would also be regarded as a tool I guess, in the same way a nuclear bomb would

Or a death star

Now you're getting it. Only it isn't stupid enough to have weak exhaust ports.

[Higgs]

I can’t overstate how much I hate NBA teams wearing their dark colors at home and road teams in white

Hard agree.

[Strat]

fuck AI

Jennifer DeStefano’s phone rang one afternoon as she climbed out of her car outside the dance studio where her younger daughter Aubrey had a rehearsal. The caller showed up as unknown, and she briefly contemplated not picking up.

But her older daughter, 15-year-old Brianna, was away training for a ski race and DeStefano feared it could be a medical emergency.

“Hello?” she answered on speaker phone as she locked her car and lugged her purse and laptop bag into the studio.

She was greeted by yelling and sobbing.

“Mom! I messed up!” screamed a girl’s voice.

“What did you do?!? What happened?!?” DeStefano asked.


“The voice sounded just like Brie’s, the inflection, everything,” she told CNN recently. “Then, all of a sudden, I heard a man say, ‘Lay down, put your head back.’ I’m thinking she’s being gurnied off the mountain, which is common in skiing. So I started to panic.”

As the cries for help continued in the background, a deep male voice started firing off commands: “Listen here. I have your daughter. You call the police, you call anybody, I’m gonna pop her something so full of drugs. I’m gonna have my way with her then drop her off in Mexico, and you’re never going to see her again.”

DeStefano froze. Then she ran into the dance studio, shaking and screaming for help. She felt like she was suddenly drowning.

After a chaotic, rapid-fire series of events that included a $1 million ransom demand, a 911 call and a frantic effort to reach Brianna, the “kidnapping” was exposed as a scam. A puzzled Brianna called to tell her mother that she didn’t know what the fuss was about and that everything was fine.

But DeStefano, who lives in Arizona, will never forget those four minutes of terror and confusion – and the eerie sound of that familiar voice.

“A mother knows her child,” she said later. “You can hear your child cry across the building, and you know it’s yours.”

Artificial intelligence has made kidnapping scams more believable
The call came in on January 20 around 4:55 p.m. DeStefano had just pulled up outside the dance studio in Scottsdale, near Phoenix.

DeStefano now believes she was a victim of a virtual kidnapping scam that targets people around the country, frightening them with altered audio of loved one’s voices and demanding money. In the United States, families lose an average of $11,000 in each fake-kidnapping scam, said Siobhan Johnson, a special agent and FBI spokesperson in Chicago.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/us/ai-sc ... index.html

[BurtReynolds]

Sounds pretty interesting after all!

[Birds in Hell]

Hey spenno!

G'day Ruddo!

[Bammer]

Waking up consistently 1-2 hours before there is any goddamn reason to be up. Ugh.

[BurtReynolds]

Take a walk

[96583UP]

whack off

[Rangi Guy]

Recruiters who have no idea about the indusrty that they're recruiting for. Got my daily Email about jobs going in my industy and there was one advertised for a senior .Net developer, not that I'm looking to change jobs or anything, but I had a look and the entire job description is talking about using our PHP and Silverstripe skills - nothing about .Net

[bodysnatcher]

Recruiters who have no idea about the indusrty that they're recruiting for. Got my daily Email about jobs going in my industy and there was one advertised for a senior .Net developer, not that I'm looking to change jobs or anything, but I had a look and the entire job description is talking about using our PHP and Silverstripe skills - nothing about .Net

Hah, this situation makes me laugh so much. Happens all the time with me too

[Bammer]

Men wearing sneakers with suits

[Peeps]

agressive drivers

if i carried a gun with me there is no doubt i wouldnt have shot at someone by now

[wease]

Men wearing sneakers with suits

Letterman used to do that

[doug rr]

Men wearing sneakers with suits

Letterman used to do that

weren't they wrestling shoes? that was a big thing in the 80s

[tree_]

agressive drivers

if i carried a gun with me there is no doubt i would've shot at someone by now

second

YOU'RE IN A DANGEROUS WEAPON YOU FUCKING MORONS

but there's nothing irrational about this hatred.. wrong thread

[wease]

Men wearing sneakers with suits

Letterman used to do that

weren't they wrestling shoes? that was a big thing in the 80s

I thought they were just regular Adidas.

[Ello Sailor]

agressive drivers

if i carried a gun with me there is no doubt i wouldnt have shot at someone by now

Seems kinda aggressive to me, idk.

[tree_]

He's technically saying there's no doubt that he WOULD NOT have.. but that's probably an error