"It was a bad call, Ripley!"

Also: I always wondered what the other 3K were. Now I know what I was missing. I'll never go back.

"We're not selling the vomit; we're selling the vomit hose." - Mr. Johnny "Mads" Madmen, probably.

"HBO Max's 4K debut of Mad Men was botched after Lionsgate reportedly supplied the wrong file, leading to visible crew members where someone is seen pumping a vomit hose. "

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present: prestige television!

"...the episode adds to a growing list of AI tools behaving in ways that 'would get a junior developer fired'."

The irony here is that these behaviors SHOULD be getting the allegedly senior developers, and their managers, and their corporate leadership, fired.

Cool, so he hired lots of people who couldn't help. Noted.

Yep. I think it may be time to kick out the plugs keeping this old girl on top of the ocean.

Just hold that salute as we sink beneath the waves, mister!

"Pat Gelsinger, the former Intel CEO who was pushed out in late 2024 during a five-year turnaround effort, told the Financial Times that the "decay" he found when he returned to the company in 2021."

Gee, maybe you should have used that three-plus years to hire some people.

Androids and capitalism are incompatible. The shitty deal that the masses made with the wealthy was that there would at least be jobs. When capitalists start giving the jobs to robots, there's no longer any reason for society to tolerate the capitalists.

Or, perhaps more pessimistically, for the capitalists to tolerate society.

Yes, only I think it's more of a "uses own turds to graffiti bathroom walls" attitude.

" Last year one of the robots helped corner a suspect who had taken his mother hostage at knifepoint in Hyannis."

Like, it walked up to the hostage-taker as he was threatening the life of the hostage? And the theory is that this was better than a human confronting him, because why? Seems like they were endangering the hostage.

"Hey, Sora, show me a video of what my building would have looked like at the grand opening if it hadn't fallen on the orphanage. Oh, and ChatGPT, I need a recipe for toilet wine."

My own unsupported hypothesis is that watching video probably has little impact on learning in and of itself, but that it tends to lower literacy when time that would otherwise be spent reading is spent watching video. And that the easy availability of a video version of the reading matter makes reading far less likely in general, because "Why read a book when you can watch a movie?"

My completely unscientific, anecdotal observation is that kids today are hooked on the YouTube and can't read for shit. And that, when I myself was young, there was a strong, perhaps linear correlation between reading frequency and academic performance, and none of these shinier, newer technologies has so far seems to have taken up the educational slack for reading.

In related news, cutting the links that connect 20% of any telecommunications network and replacing them with cups and strings that you have to rent by the hour degrades performance somewhat, especially in the smaller fraction.

Arguably, most people think this "AI" boom is a bubble (except for the people who think that true AGI is happening sometime next year, which to my mind means the end of capitalism, and possibly civilization, shortly thereafter, but whatever), but nobody knows how to time it. The same was true during the subprime mortgage crisis. Burry deserves credit for loudly and publicly stating that the emperor has no clothes at a time when few others in his profession would, but the point of that story was not that it was hard to tell that the emperor was naked.