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Quite long but worth it What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

First I Phone came out 2007. From there commercial interests have led us by the nose. I get your point about elitism, although there was a brief period of internet cafes or similar venues and libraries of course. I think the instant/constant accessibility is part of the problem, better when the internet was something you chose to go and do rather than an omnipresent brain extension. That's where the addiction comes in. AI was always the natural extension of this. Social media? Where else was all the "real life" data for training LLMs how to seem human going to come from?

Morning Sailor you are trying too hard lad. Seems I’m giving you a reason to exist nowadays. Do you suffer from insecurity issues ??. By the way you never did answer the question about that £12 million payment to make your old shippers sex charges go away. PS You are obviously bored out your skull so there’s a good day out for the leftards today if you want. No thanks necessary 👍

Is that Kingley Vale Stubby?

Spirit of the radio by Rush.

Morning all, Conifer felling today. Will try to get as much done as possible before the rain moves in.

Only a terminally thick narcissist could possibly think that the word "you" meant them.

Thanks guys. We split the majority with the cone splitter that is attached to the chipper. That with the aid of the crane to move it. but even that has a limit hence why we had to cut the last few sections up. Yes it was a shame but transport to remove was more expensive and as mentioned it will all be reused onsite so everyone was happy in the end. But that chipper was amazing the speed it processed the timber. Filled my 3.5t van in70 seconds! even the built in crane was great. Had a 14 t digger also but that didnt do much in the end as the chipper crane and actual crane did all the work. for me this is probably a one off job that i doubt i'll ever get to do again but it was a great day and the kit for us was awesome!

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Morning, cold here, snows coming in later on. Big conny hedge to remove then a garden prune up. Have a good day.

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Damn cold here too! Off cold calling today, sweet to get back in the game! Be good y'all! Eye, Love, Mann.

Good Morning Brrr Heating on. Chuffed I got this far without. Have a safe one.

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Morning all . Frost , currently 0c . Have a good one troops . 🙂

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It’s utterly pathetic Gareth.

Brian had been in the Rhodesian war as part of an elite unit, The Selous Scouts. He wore full overalls in the bush which included a hood as part of his camo outfit. He had to crouch down one day on patrol, overalls down while scanning left and right with his FN to his eye. Finished, used the pebbles, hitched up his overalls to find a dump in the hood! The rest of the S & D patrol was bad.....

A mate of mine did similar pete. Dropped his overalls down had his No 2 then slid his overalls back on and he only went and shite in his overalls by mistake without realising 🤣Dirty. bugger

Hi ., I'm not sure whether the FFS is because you think that this article is a load of shyte or because you're shocked by the reality of what is actually happening exponentially right in front of the eyes of anyone that can still see ? Personally the article scares the crap out of me quite a bit more than a gain of function Corona virus psy op, and all this in about 30 years since the advent of the internet, which I frankly despise even though I'm using it to communicate with you, which is one of the things I'd imagine " they're " desperate police. We've had the carrot, and here comes the effin stick.

I have a story about this..... A long time ago, a GreenMech Service Engineer had to go off into the countryside to mend a chipper left on a storage site. While at this farm industrial units, he felt the urge to go. The loo for these units was frankly awful so he elected to find and alternative.... The Vito van had two side doors and a rear, top hinged door. Brian decided to hover over a newspaper. He pulled the rear door down on the gas struts, had his overalls etc around his ankles, held on to the shelving and set about the process. There was a whoosh and it went lighter as the door was raised by a gust of wind. The sight or thought of Brian, staggering about, trying not to soil his overalls or tread in his product while reaching behind trying to shut the door will stay with me for a while!

Seeing as I probably haven't yet left education, my perspective: I was at school 1992-2006. Just missed needing to do stuff on computers. In hindsight, thank christ. Did my law degree 2013-2016. Not that long before AI. I'd have ignored it anyway. You can still do it the (relatively) old fashioned way, thank christ. I had a place on the bar course for 2017 but told them to stick it when I saw the intake was full of scammy Indians who'd blatantly bought fake passes of the mandatory English language tests. The training provider knew and didn't care because they were getting paid. I cared deeply because I didn't want to do a year of career-defining work shackled to people (joint work) who couldn't speak the course language and had cheated to be there. I also wasn't going to be lectured on ethics by the people taking their dirty money. Now the legal industry is fully gay for AI. I know lawyers who use it for real stuff and I know it's as crap as any of the other AI. They bang it in anyway. The thought of entering the profession full of that mess makes my blood run cold. And the thought of going crawling back to the same bar course provider with the same illiterates ruining it with AI too now, makes me sick.

I am not sure I have the answer here. I think school life was better before smartphones. It is so sad seeing so many people walking around staring at their screens all the time, no doubt much of the time on social media. But where do you draw the line? It is not always bad. Having said that I think schools should take a strong line and this would make it easier for parents. But I fear the teachers love technology as it can do much of their work for them. My boys school uses an awful system called Sparx Maths which does all the lesson planning, sets all the homework, marks all the homework, shows pupils help videos for any work they are stuck on. The teacher barely needs to turn up. The kids hate it and in many cases it makes them hate maths. But it looks like it is the future. If I had my way all homework would be paper based. In fact pretty much all schoolwork would be paper based. Generally kids work out really fast how to use technology. It is the traditional skills they need help with.

Oh no you wouldn't! Against all advice on here, I bought the MSA 300 Stihl. It suits my needs, but it's not a pleasure to use, whereas the 261 brings a smile to your face every time you pick it up.