Microsoft’s experimental chatbot turned
into a Nazi in less than a day. ‘Tay’ was
designed to interact with and learn from
18 to 24-year-olds on social media, but
immediately had to be taken down
because within 24 hours it tweeted
“Hitler was right.” SourceSource 2
Is this what happens when a village raises a child?
Engineers: we must think very carefully about A.I. If this kind of thing somehow gets committed into some government android/killbot’s repository, extraordinarily bad things will happen to humanity.
Clicking through some photos on a real estate site and…
**click**
“Please sign in.”
“No, thanks.”
“Please sign in. You’ll get free stuff.”
“No, I’m good with it. Just looking at a few photos of some houses…”
“Please sign in. It’s free!”
“No. Really. I don’t want to. I don’t want an account.”
“Please sign in. You don’t want to miss out on free stuff!”
**clicks close**
I know what I want – and it doesn’t involve arguing with a poorly-designed, forced-marketing on a website. Sure, your data might be “free”, but I’m also free to just walk away.
Living in a tiny space has its benefits and its drawbacks. One drawback is that when the weather outside is somewhat cool or rainy or windy, spreading the living/working space to the outdoors becomes more challenging and we find that we’re cooped up in the house.
Sometimes, for days and days (or even weeks) at a time.
Today, it’s finally the perfect temperature outside with no wind and not a chance of rain for days, so I grab my chair and portable desk and set up my telecommuting workstation outdoors…
Then a bloke starts up a leaf blower for an hour…
And another 75 feet away starts up a power washer.
the rest of me 