He did have the caveat “if I was confident the order was lawful”.

Isn’t Face removal a bit too Cage/Travolta?

1,400,000,000,000

I used to be amazed at how much a billion was, but this many 0s makes my head explode.

These must be bubble inflated costs to match the bubble inflated revenue.

They only “found” the gun on the second search at the police station

“At the McDonalds police also discovered a clip containing bullets which was wrapped up in some undergarments”

“At the Altoona police department, the Altoona police continued to search the backpack resulting in … 9mm handgun with printed lower receiver.”

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I also remember reading about a gap in body cam footage of 11 minutes. This took me 30m to find because internet search is enshitified I had to resort to chatgpt.

Seriously, try finding that bodycam information on a search engine.

With due respect, you have not understood how snake oil is detected.

Yup. This was almost science. It’s just lacking measurements and repeatablity.

As does Bob. I’m not sure what the specific point you are trying to make here. Do you want longer before the twist is revealed? Because this conversation already let that cat out of the bag.

I would argue he humanity lasts much longer, only losing it after a lot of generational drift.

Only the more recent TV show. The original westworld film was more like Terminator.

I would pick blade runner as the classic bot / human confusion.

Different book, but try We are legion (we are Bob)

This is a 2005 desktop. I can’t even get it past the bootloader. Ideally I would run Linux on it headless, but i can’t even get to that stage.

My GPU failed on my old (vista) PC and can no longer boot. Should I throw it away?

Just with these kind of topics you have to be careful. Your edit makes things even clearer.

Either use /s or make your sarcasm clearer.

You dropped a /s

Id like to hear your opinion on Crimea

The seed for the random number generator isn’t usually exposed to the user. Also the AI service providers regularly update the model and/or weights, producing different outputs.

If you are running your own LLM on your own hardware you can guarantee repeatablity, but that’s not what your average Joe does.

So far I have semi-competent voice transcription

Lucky you. When I use voice transcription my English gets automatically translated into Welsh.

Agreed. The word “patterns” is an important qualification. LLMs are great for one off tasks, but not as part of a repeatable process.

Depends on your use case. Adding 0.000001*rand() to a large number retains the functionality as a calculator.

Your argument that AI isn’t useful may be valid, but claiming that AI is not repeatable is false.