Welshfred

You go into a bank? A physical building? I don't think my bank has a branch for 50 miles... So the bank has to be in the phone. And the phone has to be up to a standard dictated by the bank. Funny old world.

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?

+1 I do feel there was a technology sweet spot around 2005. A lot of "advances" since have been purely for commercial gain rather then customer need or desire.

I wonder if we're more or less terminally confused by the ai revolution than our ancestors were by the industrial revolution. Information is a lot more available these days but I'm not sure that leads to greater understanding. Especially after reading the above...

Very much in line with my thoughts.

I believe ai personal assistants are bad news. To me it vastly accelerates what I tend to call 'internet poisoning'. It's already occurring, people are so influenced by algorithmic content and a shift in communications away from face to face contact that human to human interaction is changing. Ai assistants appear designed to further this change. We will become more individually insular and, frequently, more wrong about things, led by commercial interests. Using ai to crunch vast datasets has a controllable goal and is already proving very useful. Intelligence can be variously defined, we can naturally only compare anything to human intelligence but there are are other ways. I'm gonna chuck in another author here, Adrian Tchaikovsky, specifically his Children of Time series, which explores communication and intelligence between different species/races in a futuristic post earth intergalactic setting. My point here, apart from recommending some excellent modern sci fi is that if ai ever forms an independent intelligence we won't necessarily recognise it as such until after the fact.

F**k me that's ridiculous. How far back you gonna go? We're all descendents of immigrants in the uk. There were no people here after the last ice age so maybe we just empty the place and there'd be no more crime? Happy then?

Slime mould of some sort.

Buried in the Welsh news of all places Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery WWW.BBC.CO.UK Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Er... Edinburgh's Maclean brothers set new record for Pacific row WWW.BBC.CO.UK Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan Maclean endured violent tropical storms during their 140-day journey.

I saw this headline and thought immediately of this thread. I read the article and this thread made a load more sense! Do you know about shitposting? It’s cheap humour, rage bait – and now, it seems, US government policy | Robert Topinka | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Donald Trump’s White House reveals a new ‘portrait’ of Joe Biden – and in his world, if you don’t laugh, the joke’s on you, says Robert Topinka of Birkbeck, University of London

Actually not if it's male.

It's comb size. A rooster will be developing a bigger comb by that age, whereas hens combs will still be small, not floppy at all, almost like a toothed ridge on top of the head. In the new pic the brown chick (technically a pullet now I think) looks to have a more developed comb than the white one so could be one of each. You should be able to tell by eye easily if there's a difference between them. A roo might be trying to crow now too. Bit of a comedy performance at that age!

You're almost guaranteed a rooster from that lot. Both your others look like hens btw tho a closer pic would be clearer.