It's not real. It's not intelligent. It's a probability matrix - a very good one, but that's what it is. When people say they 'convinced it', what actually happened was they started using language recognisable in a subset of the model's training data and the model responded using probability with data from that same subset as it's statistically closer.

In this case, they used language which is the kind floating around with people negative to AI, and so the AI constructed a sentence using data in their "negative to AI" section. Nobody got convinced of anything. It's very impressive, but it's 'just' a probability matrix.

I was listening to this on BBC news on my commute this morning (in the UK). They said it attacked a Medicare site, which is the Australian national health system. My immediate thought was "ah, so someone in the US asked it to do something with Medicare records and forgot to limit it to just the US then". So off the AI trots to do exactly what it was asked to do - "collect records on Medicare', without any regard to geography at all. Hence this 'hack'.

I mean, I'm just guessing so that opinion is worth what you just paid for it. It does sound plausible to me though.

"there is no right or expectation of privacy in public"

I agree (UK so different laws, but the principle is the same). However I increasingly feel this needs to be revised somehow. I'll admit up front I don't have all the answers here, but just intuitively it feels to me that this principle predates the era of cheap, automated mass surveillance whether government or private.

In the UK, privacy is protected via the Human Rights Act and UK GDPR. It provides for some level of protection, but it really seems to me that specific rules to address this kind of blanket recording need to start coming in. The definition of 'commercial', for instance. Is it commercial use if I record you on my glasses and then post it to Youtube? Arguably yes, since YouTube is a company and derives revenue from that. Same for Meta. But it's very, very far from clear to me if that claim has enough weight to prevail. A specific set of rules to address what is essentially a new phenomenon needs to be brought in.

Recording is not new. Photographing is not new. But the ease and scale via which it can be achieved, manipulated, tracked...that is new.

Indeed. I built a Raspberry Pi Pico based controller for some flashing LEDs on my drone. It has red and blue LEDs and I wanted them to flash with the cycle of three short flashes then a pause; alternately the red LEDs then the blue LEDS. Took barely a minute to code that in python and dump it onto the board. In such cases it doesn't matter that the language is interpreted because the task is not demanding of the hardware.

The "Police Drone" still flies to this day! :-)

How interesting it would be to do a drive-around with an open wifi hotspot in the car -- just to see how many LG TV sets try to connect and find out what data they send.

Just saying, for a friend :)

The thing here is that there isn't "Apple". There is Apple-the-parent-company, and Apple UK. From the perspective of law, Apple-the-parent is a supplier to Apple UK. Apple UK will have been ordered not to disclose information, including its suppliers. Therefore nothing restricts Apple-the-parent other than its contract as a supplier to Apple UK.

Yes I'm aware that sounds odd, but I deal with these situations fairly regularly (although am not any form of lawyer, this is absolutely not legal advice etc.). Contracts between international entities are common, and Apple US would not be in breach of US law but would be in breach of contract and would place Apple UK in breach of UK law by doing so.

Am not taking the UK government's side on this - I personally think the order is nuts and yep, I'm British. I'm just trying to show why the relationship would be more complex. Legally Apple US could disclose of course. However I'll bet you it has a supplier contract with Apple UK, a legally distinct entity, that says something like "the terms of this agreement will be bound by UK law". Hence it would be in breach of contract, and that could place Apple UK at legal risk in the UK.

I am sure you know this and are just trying to shit on the editors, as one does on /.; but here, use this in case you didn't know: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxcancel.com%2F_lyraaaa_%2F...

Back in the day, the power to grant corporate charters was wielded much more carefully. I think trouble started when we switched from:
Do X to serve societal need, profit as a side effect.
To:
Profit by all means, manufacture need if it doesn't exist, regardless of societal benefit or cost.

Maybe we don't need congressional approval for every charter, but going back to stricter limits and enforcement of it might be a good thing to do.

Indeed. This is the question I posed in /. back in 2015:
https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/comments....
Couple posters pointed to existing solutions back then, though it seems they were easily hacked.
Hopefully, modern implementations are better.

Did some reading off the back of your comment and yep - I now remember the fuss when that happened. Had totally forgotten it, Slashdot even did an article at the time. I'd so associated them with Nintendo that I got it mixed up.

Not sure if it qualifies as functionally illiterate, but the most prominent thing I could think of was when he had trouble reading the Constitution:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gq-magazine.co.uk%2F...
Don't shoot the messenger; this was reported on multiple sources. You can find the others if you don't believe this outlet.

Not evidence of illiteracy, but Trump is famous for, unlike all other presidents, not being able to digest the daily briefings in writing, instead getting them verbally and in pictures. I think there's no way the same information density can be conveyed without the text, and being able to process the full information is a basic job requirement for a President.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com...

From what I gather, even if not "functionally illiterate", his reading level is well below what it should be for such an important job. I would even propose that being able to read The Constitution should be a job requirement in itself.

Other evidence, none of which is conclusive in isolation, but demonstrates a general pattern of lack of vocabulary and comprehension:
-Conflating "political asylum" with "insane asylum"
-Conflating "incursion" and "excursion"
-Not knowing what "currency devaluation" means
-not knowing who pays tariffs.

Even if you [the generic "you", not you personally.] support this administration, you shouldn't give them a free pass on doing a crappy job. In fact, that would be incentive to hold them to a higher standard. "It's OK that he's incompetent because I like him." is not good for any of us, supporter or not.

I remember the very first big box game in the UK. It was Sabre Wulf, from Ultimate Play The Game. At the time, games were around £5.99 to £7.99 - Sabre Wulf was the first £9.99 game in the UK and they part justified it by having a bigger box.

Since everything at that point came on cassette, this was annoying as hell because you couldn't fit it into your cassette holders that you definitely, definitely had as an 8 bit gamer in the UK. No stranger to later price gouging, Ultimate became Rare and was bought by Nintendo. I still think Nintendo is lord of the overpricing, at least these days (in ye olden times there was the NeoGeo charging £300 for a game back in the early 1980s. I think PC Engine charged a fortune too. But absolutely nobody had these in the UK).

Yes... we could destroy Putin's nuclear torpedo before it even made it to the UK coast! :-P

I'm British, and have been following this from the other side of the story. In the UK it's more fragmented - this year England is up, but Scotland and Wales are down and in some cases quite significantly. Wales seems to have taken a hell of a hit in reading for instance.

It's better news in maths and science but we're still behind where we were five-seven years ago except for science. Definitely a mixed bag, though all improvements are welcome of course.

My mistake, appears to have dropped slightly to 3rd.