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- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 2 days ago:
It was better than AltaVista, Yahoo!, Lycos, Tripod, Ask Jeeves, MetaCrawler et al. at the time when it gained its popularity.
Its main advantage was that they focussed on speed. You didn’t have to load a “homepage” with news articles and link directories (as all the other search engines had become) before you could type your search query. It was just a logo and a text input box.
The search index even at the beginning was pretty comprehensive too.
Google jumped the shark a long time ago though, around when they started putting ads on equal footing with the search results, and boosting their Shopping links.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 2 days ago:
your link is broken
qwant.com
- Comment on Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say 3 days ago:
No, LLMs can’t decipher Enigma ciphertext.
“It would be straightforward to recreate the logic of bombes in a conventional program,” Wooldridge said, noting the AI model ChatGPT was able to do so. “Then with the speed of modern computers, the laborious work of the bombes would be done in very short order.”
He’s speculating that an LLM could write a program to do so.
Using a slightly different approach – that Wooldridge suggested might be slower – researchers have previously used an AI system trained to recognise German using Grimm’s fairytales, together with 2,000 virtual servers, to crack a coded message in 13 minutes.
The link is to an abstract that tells you nothing more without an account on this website. But a better write-up of the mentioned research is here: digitalocean.com/…/how-2000-droplets-broke-the-en…
In late 2017, at the Imperial War Museum in London, developers applied modern artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to break the “unbreakable” Enigma machine …
So this is about research from 8 years ago! They go on to explain that they did a brute-force attack on the key, using a RNN (recurrent neural network) classifier to detect if the decrypted text looked like German.
I’m no cryptographer but I’m pretty sure that we have been able to classify language samples quite successfully for a long time using much simpler (and faster) statistical techniques, like n-gram frequency analysis.
The fact that the Guardian article mentions none of this and presents the topic ambiguously enough to make it sound like ChatGPT can break ciphers on its own makes me think this is more deliberate AI-hype.
- Comment on Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content 4 days ago:
4 percent of employees at 50 banks use their email to register on adult content websites
How do they know it’s not people who are pissed off at a bank employee who take their business card and sign the person up to adult sites?
- Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 6 days ago:
Exactly, it’s a Peter Principle crisis.
- Comment on Apple owes more than $700M in standard-essential patent royalties and interest to licensing firm Optis: England & Wales Court of Appeal 1 week ago:
Patents relating to 4G apparently.
Why are we building our global communication networks on patented IP that has to be licensed anyway? Isn’t this a huge barrier to entry to the telecommunications market for new businesses? Why is the market artificially protected in this way?
Lobbyists and bribes; I bet the answer is lobbyists and bribes.
- Comment on Glass Cannon is my next indie obsession, a chill turn-based shoot-em-up roguelike with wild weapon combos 1 week ago:
- Comment on Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first – Wikimedia Foundation 1 week ago:
This marks the end of the beginning of the end.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 2 weeks ago:
ghoul
- Comment on Netflix aims to be a trillion-dollar company, says co-CEO 2 weeks ago:
Their current market cap is 443B with a P/E of 50, so already massively overpriced.
For comparison, Google P/E is 20, Amazon P/E is 32, Meta P/E is 21, Microsoft P/E is 30.
They would need to more than double their profits to get to 1Tn market cap with the same joke of a price to earnings ratio. At this point I doubt that will be by doubling their customer base. It’s going to be by cutting corners: paying less for shows which means lower quality shows, cutting bandwidth costs which means lower quality streams, and charging customers more for the pleasure. Classic enshittification incoming.
- Comment on Caution urged as UK supermarkets check out facial recognition 2 weeks ago:
So if you happen to look like someone who was once suspected of shoplifting then you’ll no longer be able to buy food anywhere. What could possibly go wrong.
- Comment on YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll 3 weeks ago:
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for an American to buy eggs.
- Comment on [Game] Hogwarts Legacy Adds FSR 3 and XeSS 2 With Mod Fixes in New Update 3 weeks ago:
Identifying an out-group by an immutable attribute of their person, and then railing against them as inherently inferior is fascist behaviour.
- Comment on Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop 3 weeks ago:
Par for the course with Ubuntu. They always fuck something.
- Comment on [Game] Hogwarts Legacy Adds FSR 3 and XeSS 2 With Mod Fixes in New Update 3 weeks ago:
J. K. Rowling is a transphobe, a bigot and a fascist.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 3 weeks ago:
cryptocurrency conference in Bedford
This is the funniest part to me.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 3 weeks ago:
They’re easily taken-in by some grifter selling them their software platform. It’s the same as all the famous people selling their own cryptocoin that turns out to be a rug-pull - someone approached them and dazzled them with buzzwords and jargon, and all they saw was dollar signs.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 3 weeks ago:
IP = Imaginary Property
- Comment on Parkour boomer shooter Metal Eden has a free demo out now, and you can even win some dosh playing it if you're quick enough 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Boomer shooter Gravelord adds controller support and gets Steam Deck Verified 4 weeks ago:
SAY BOOMER SHOOTER ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows adds a self-driving horse, but I implore you not to use it 4 weeks ago:
and Origins and Valhalla
- Comment on I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself 4 weeks ago:
AI = An Insult (to life itself)
- Comment on I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself 4 weeks ago:
what about egg game?
- Comment on Researchers unveil Aardvark, an AI weather prediction system that they say uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current methods. 1 month ago:
The paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.00411
- Comment on [Help] YouTube TV stopped working today, now redirects to normal YouTube 1 month ago:
apparently something in Firefox broke and disabled all my plugins because they can’t be verified
This sounds like the root certificate expiry that just happened. You need to update Firefox to get the updated root certificate.
- Comment on Following the nightmare footage of AI-loy, Horizon actor Ashly Burch shares her stance on the whole debacle 1 month ago:
Quite quickly in the video Burch shared to TikTok, she explained that developer Guerilla had contacted her to claim that the “demo didn’t reflect anything that was actively in development”, and importantly didn’t use any of her vocal or facial performance. Even with that, Burch did still say she feels “worried”, not about “Guerrilla specifically, or Horizon, or my performance, or my career specifically, even. I feel worried about this art form. Game performance as an art form.”
As Burch points out, The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) is still currently on strike, specifically because of concerns over AI being used to replace actors in the game development process, and that they’re asking for protections from its usage. This includes very reasonable things like requiring consent before making an AI version of the actor in question, fair compensation, and to be informed of how the AI dub is being used.
For Burch, her concern is a video like this coming out that is based on someone’s performance, and “the possibility that if we lose this fight, that person would have no recourse. They wouldn’t have any protections, any way to fight back. And that possibility… it makes me so sad. It hurts my heart. It scares me.”
- Comment on Bazzite Linux announced two new editions designed for game developers 1 month ago:
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy Reportedly Getting New Content & A Sequel 2 months ago:
J. K. Rowling is a transphobe, a bigot and a fascist.
- Comment on More Google Spyware to Enjoy! 2 months ago:
Did they do this to users in every country, or just in
Gileadthe US? - Comment on New No Man's Sky update adds walkable gas giants among "trillions" of new planets, just in case you were running out 3 months ago:
Walkable? Gas giants?
