I’m beginning to suspect that the recent election results can be explained by one word: Entropy

If you don’t have any hair, it won’t change colour…

(It’s a joke, laugh)

Also, not for nothing, the human body changes daily. I’d recommend that you get used to it before you have an unhappy life pursuing battle against the inevitable.

I’m fairly sure that the price information shown on a Google Search result page is advertising that comes from a different source than the results do.

As far as I know, you could write a plugin for SearXNG to query suppliers and format the output as required.

I think that Google Shopping might be queried in the same way, but I’ve never looked into it deeply.

No, you didn’t “edit” your mistake, you completely changed the meaning of your response which makes anything after it look absurd.

You originally stated that an algorithm was intelligence, the implication being that using your logic, you thought that a calculator was intelligent.

As far as the meaning of AI, you clearly don’t understand the landscape surrounding the hyperbolic assertions made by ignorant journalism about the topic.

Machine learning is one aspect of the landscape, useful as it is, intelligence it is not.

LLM emissions on the other hand appear to emulate enough grammatically correct language to fool many people some of the time, leading to their mistaken belief that what is happening is intelligence rather than, at least from their perspective, magic.

(Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke)

So, intelligence it is not, Assumed Intelligence is what it is, or autocorrect gone uppity if you prefer, an algorithm either way.

Ignorance is bliss…

A.I. means Assumed Intelligence, despite what you might have read elsewhere. Using it to do “research” is how you’re going to get first hand experience with so-called “hallucinations”.

But you do you…

As opposed to Arabic speakers in the other party?

I’m an industry professional in ICT with 40 years experience.

I’ve come to form the view that industry certification is a vendor lock-in process created solely for the purpose of generating a guaranteed income stream for that vendor.

If your employer wants to spend its money on certification, by all means go for it as a learning experience.

If you have to pay for it yourself, I’ve yet to see any evidence that they represent a return on investment of any kind in your career.

That’s not to say that learning should be abandoned, quite the opposite. In this industry, if you’re not learning, you’re going backwards.

Stay curious, read verociosly and try to figure out how stuff works and more importantly, how it breaks.

Yeah, good luck with that. The Facebook bots are so bad, they literally hammer sites into the ground, to the point where they’re actively being blocked.

Where is this “community” you speak of?

The word you’re looking for is “curmudgeon”.

What I was actually trying to do is encourage a discourse that furthered society, rather than rehash a trope such as the one found at the source of this thread.

I’m not confident that this will actually eventuate here, but I’m hopeful that someone will pleasantly surprise me.

So, if the author is prominently featured on the cover of a book, how hard is it to not pickup or buy a book by an author you don’t care for?

I mean, you have to at least be able to read before there’s any point in buying a book, unless you need toilet paper in a compact portable form and then the author really doesn’t matter…

Anyone?

I was recently introduced to a Microsoft focused Managed Service Provider who told me to my face that they absolutely adopted it in their business to “help run it”.

After that I stopped listening to anything they had to say.

Microsoft has very deep tentacles all over the Australian Government, even more after they donated some money for a random new initiative which does nothing for society and in my opinion absolutely benefits the Microsoft bottom line.

We’ve had “Cash for Comments”, this is “Government Bought and Paid For”…

https://news.microsoft.com/en-au/features/microsoft-announces-a5-billion-investment-in-computing-capacity-and-capability-to-help-australia-seize-the-ai-era/

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I did originally write that in my post, but deleted it because I asked myself, “What’s the alternative?”

And so the world of WordPress comes to an inglorious ending …

The one inside your mind…

AI does not mean Artificial Intelligence, it means Assumed Intelligence.

I just bought two brand new three year old phones to replace the identical broken ones we currently have because the current models have less functionality for more than we paid for these.

To get the same functionality cost twice as much.

And we still get three years warranty…

It’s just the current buzzword.

Hundreds if not thousands went before it and many more will follow.

Think of it as an in-built historic timestamp.

The response from the owner just adds the missing ingredient.