Drewelite

This sucks 😔 It was a great idea, but I admit there was really no clean way to execute it. That being said, I'd have loved it if MS managed one of their rare design wins and made it really seamless.

Small, good value, quiet, power efficient, built in battery backup and server terminal. Laptops are dope for home labs!

I think what is more probable than a bunch of elementary kids stealing drugs, is that this guy isn't actually a predator and just a REALLY stupid dad tired of the girls keeping him up all night. Figured Klonopin in a small enough dose would be perfectly safe. But he's an idiot so he messed up the dose.

But more likely than all that is he's just a sick creep. But this is why we have due process.

I mean... to break into a keyless car you need special radio interception and replay equipment, the know how to implement them, to keep up on the latest security measures from car manufacturers, and car thief communities developing security counter measures.

Or get a coat hanger, watch a YouTube video, and get into any car you want.

Exactly, it's the people who know that are amazed by the subtle intricacies of AI and the implications of it. It's the people that don't know saying, "I asked it to write a horror story about a killer clown, and it ended up sounding like Stephen King. What a rip off machine."

And killing services like sending and receiving payments from friends and family. This is so frustrating, because I remember they made me switch FROM wallet to Google pay and now they're going back. Google, I'm all for not tying yourself to all your previous decisions, but at some point you've got to stand your ground on SOMETHING.

Well then I guess I'd ask you to reconsider your answer but from the perspective of 1989. I'd imagine that'd be the same answer you'd give to the personal computer. AI isn't going to make things more complicated It's going to make things simpler. But people will create a more complicated (diverse) world in the vacuum that leaves. Just like an ox pulled plow made it easier to till farmland led to more complex agricultural societies. This type of advancement has been the story of human history since its beginning. Your perspective seems most concerned with people using this advancement against you, but our future now holds the possibility of having this AI on your side.

Using it to synopsize complicated TOS that corporations use to obfuscate what you're agreeing to, actually answering questions instead of needing to search through ad riddled web pages, allowing more people to become artists and create their vision.

Your examples of useful ways to use AI are great. So help build or support them. If you only look at the future corporations are selling you, yeah, it's going to look like a bleak corporate nightmare. But the truth is technology empowers the individual. So we need to do something good with that power.

I know plenty of modern programmers who are empowered by the ease at which they can learn the trade now. Some never go deeper than front end developer, because there's good money there. That job would look nothing like it does today if it had to be done by hand.

This sort of feels like someone using a PC for the first time in 1989 and asking what it does that they can't do on a piece of paper with a calculator. They may not have been far off at the time, but they would be missing the point. This is a paradigm shift that allows for a single application to fulfill the role of, eventually, infinite applications. And yes it starts with mundane tasks. You know, the kind people don't want to do themselves.

My computer to talk to the company's computer? So a website?

Agreed, people are up in arms that misinformation will become easier. But I think the naive idea that the internet is inherently a reliable source of truth when it is mixed with subtler forms of misinformation, is much more insidious. Journalism used to be a highly respected field before we all forgot why it was so important.

Hey, if you want to make fun of a group of people for something they thought was cool but you don't, go for it.

But if you act this is proof that the entire product is falling apart and completely flawed, when it's actually just some blemishes from shipping... That's pretty sad.