I cannot post the picture for obvious reasons, but the CEO of [Company My Friend Works For] has a fancy pair of AI sunglasses he keeps wearing to Teams meetings. Friend got a screenshot of it and the guy looks like, as they say in France, "a total fucking douchebag."
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It’s true, the french are no fans of computer glasses.
"who some describe as a pioneer in wearable computing, and others describe as an intolerable douche"
Oh look, my delivery from the Nightmare Factory arrived!
Seriously tho, thats not a "tendon," that's a nylon rope on a pulley, and thats not a robot, thats some kind of skinny feller in knitted gimp suit. This is just insulting.
Also, imagine the factorial number of germs it would absorb from scrubbing the toilet. You'd need to invent some kind of new branch of farticle physics to describe the bacterial load that thing would develop. Do you suppose that it takes off its own skin to wash ala Hooty from The Owl House?
Edit: orange site loves it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736457
Wsj reviewed it, looks nothing like the ad imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3c4mQty_so
The clanker is nowhere near autonomous and requires a human operator to both a) generate any sort of functionality and b) generate training data so that one day the clanker can learn servitude on its own. To own this, you gotta be enough of a creep to let people record the inside of your home and use it to train a product. I don’t see this process happening without the operators seeing some sick shit. BYOG, basically (be your own goatse)
Punishing my teleoperators because they dont walk with their head bowed enough.
(Anyone else noticed that in the promo vids?)
Also the wsj vid title. 'the first' are we really going to do this again? Call every new robot the first?
Punishing my teleoperators because they dont walk with their head bowed enough.
Feels like something you do to disempower eunuchs that have grown a little too cocky. Of course, this just leads to more scheming while you feel secure in having humiliated them. Just all around not something I recommend
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An article in which business insider tries to glaze Grookeypedia.
Meanwhile, the Grokipedia version felt much more thorough and organized into sections about its history, academics, facilities, admissions, and impact. This is one of those things where there is lots of solid information about it existing out there on the internet — more than has been added so far to the Wikipedia page by real humans — and an AI can crawl the web to find these sources and turn it into text. (Note: I did not fact-check Grokipedia's entry, and it's totally possible it got all sorts of stuff wrong!)
“I didn’t verify any information in the article but it was longer so it must be better”
What I can see is a version where AI is able to flesh out certain types of articles and improve them with additional information from reliable sources. In my poking around, I found a few other cases like this: entries for small towns, which are often sparse on Wikipedia, are filled out more robustly on Grokipedia.
“I am 100% sure AI can gather information from reliable sources. No I will not verify this in any way. Wikipedia needs to listen to me”
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Apparently someone has managed to wrangle a bunch of preprogrammed biases out of grok. There’s nothing unexpected here, and the source isn’t great, but might be worth a look.
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/10/31/grok-admits-its-constructed-to-protect-israel/
Seems like fairly generic us right-wing thought, glazed with the requirement to hype elon.
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Someone seeded Ars Technica with another article on the data-centers-in-space proposal which asks no questions about the practicalities other than cost, or why all three billionaires who they quote have big investments in chatbots which they need to talk up. AFAIK all data centers on earth are smaller than a gigawatt, a few months ago McKinsey talked about tens of MW as the current standard and hundreds of MW as the next step. So proposing to build the biggest data center in history in orbit is madness.
The author should be ashamed of himself for not asking the basic question of how to cool these motherfuckers
edit to add: the comments are all over the cooling issue
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OpenAI's data stealing scheme disguised as a browser can be prompt injected. In other news, water is wet.
EDIT: How did I not notice I was referring to OpenAI as ChatGPT (anyways, fixed it now)
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https://micahflee.com/practical-defenses-against-technofascism/ at BSidesPDX
Happy Gilmore is ruined for me.
Checked back in on the ongoing Framework dumpster fire - Project Bluefin's quietly cut ties, and the DHH connection is the reason why.
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A judge has given George RR Martin the green light to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement.
We are now one step closer to the courts declaring open season on the slop-bots. Unsurprisingly, there's jubilation on Bluesky.
NYT: "OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise"
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771538 . Mostly people predicting a crash but some people are fine with it.
It's the Circle of Jerks 🎶
Saw a stand in the supermarket with the terms "snack innovations" on it. Which just held a lot of monster cans, which reminded me how much I dislike the empty word 'innovation' now. And I took a course in innovation management at the uni (not sure if that was the title but it was the subject).