I appreciate the information.

For what it’s worth, I’m not downvoting you. My server doesn’t allow downvotes so I can’t even see them.

I just want to make sure we’re doing better for people, not worse. Based off the quote it seemed like a bad idea, but I can also understand just being mad at AI taking over your job. I hope you’re right and that this improves outcomes and decreases admin time. Healthcare is so important and is in a disastrous state in the US. I just want everyone to be well.

I don’t know a lot of nurses, but those I have heard from suggest that AI in the medical field will lead to worse healthcare outcomes.

In the article they say “Shuler said her job often requires complicated communications, over things like medication changes and discharge planning, that would be hard to conduct with AI.”

I don’t want AI in charge of medication changes. That doesn’t seem like a checkbox kind of thing. I can see how maybe it could be boiled down to a checkbox or flowchart, but it doesn’t seem like it’s just data entry. Which I still don’t know that I want AI solely responsible for.

As the nurses regularly have mentioned, even if they were kept on doing patient stuff, you still don’t want AI making healthcare decisions or in charge of healthcare documents.

Instacart confirmed that this campaign marks the first time Instacart made its first-party data available for a brand outside of the consumer-packaged goods category to use on NBCU inventory. (Papa Johns is technically in the quick-service restaurant vertical.)

I don’t use instacart, but my understanding is that there is a fee for that service or some kind of minimum purchase agreement with stores. If you’re paying for a service it should be illegal for them to sell your data.

It sucks that the world we live in is the way it is because in theory this would be an ideal model for so many people. Older adults I know really just need a Facebook terminal but are required to buy a whole computer. If anything at all goes wrong with it they freak out and buy a brand new one. So much tech waste and so much hardware not being used for the majority of the time. If they had lightweight terminals there’d be less issues on their end but even if they replaced it at the first issue, it wouldn’t be an entire computer getting trashed. Since all they use is the occasional facebook the mandatory internet thing wouldn’t even be an issue. Plenty of younger people might also be good candidates for this since they basically exclusively use online features too.

Obviously I would never trust this kind of service for a variety of reasons, but in theory the world could really benefit from that model.

Yes! I’m not on insta or TikTok, but people will share horrible things like “can you believe they said this?” And yes, quite frankly I can because here you are commenting on it and sharing it. It’s like people don’t understand the concept of engagement. If someone has a video abusing their child, just report the video and potentially send it to the authorities if needed. Don’t comment and share the video!

Windows 11 with 16 also runs like hot garbage, so I’m not sure if it’s a ram issue. I’m sure more ram helps, but I don’t think it’s the main problem. I’ve not used 8 GB in a while though, so maybe some updates really changed things.

Not all AI works like LLMs. It doesn’t go into much detail, but similar use of AI in the past has been for converting handwritten samples into a more legible form or separating superimposed letters.

Manually filling in “G__d mor_ing” is doable, but I can see how AI can make that process better. It’s technically just guessing, but so is a person in that scenario and the person will have less data to use to guess from.

I’m pretty sure the person you’re responding to is referring to the fact that in order to buy the steam machine you have to have a steam account in good standing of a certain age. I guess that does not necessarily ensure that the end user will be a big gamer, but it certainly helps.

I’m not suggesting it makes sense to sell it a loss, just providing that information in case people were not aware.

Wonder what people think of:

“We have no ideological agenda,” reads the document shared with WIRED by a past participant. “Dialog is nonpartisan and nonpolitical. We want all participants to come away with a better understanding of the truth—but we don’t presume to know what the truth is. We simply believe that when we bring together open-minded people who are at the top of their fields, with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, they will learn new things.”

I have definitely been to events with people who have a variety of political opinions, but I’m not sure I want to be in any Thiel backed group. I certainly wouldn’t pay to attend a social gathering where prominent people that I think are basically evil will be.

No comments from kids. Mixed reactions from parents.

Based solely on parent feedback from the article it seems like this will most positively affect kids who enter preteen years after the ban and who never had access to social media before. Kids who got used to it and now lost access seem to be a mixed bag. Obviously no one actually knows effects on long term outcomes yet. I would have really liked to see what the kids themselves are saying.

He’s pretty hated by his neighbors if I remember correctly. He started an illegal school on his compound and his neighbors have attempted to get it shut down, but he’s too powerful for even the people in his vicinity. I can’t imagine what a less empowered individual could do.

Not to be a doomer, I’m just at a loss. We need class solidarity on a level we’ve never had before.

In the striking memo, the tech giant noted that the ethically-fraught feature should ideally be launched “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

Great article. Per usual, meta is a horrible company filled with horrible people who make the decisions.

I don’t really eat at fast food places with kiosks, but when I have had the occasion I actually prefer it too. Because I don’t eat at these places often I am generally unfamiliar with the menu and the kiosk tends to have it organized with pictures which are helpful if I don’t know what a “crazy burger” is. It also makes me feel less rushed since I don’t have a human on the other end who has to wait for me to decide or to tell me what’s in a crazy burger or whatever. Especially because a lot of places don’t seem to display their full menu anymore. Not sure what’s up with that.

I pass an anti data center yard sign quite regularly that is featured right next to a pro trump yard sign. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

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They’d be better off with the cash that they could choose to invest or spend as they please and they would be much better off if companies were not able to extract that amount of wealth in the first place. Then they wouldn’t have to threaten a strike to get compensation. They weren’t just gifted this. The union had to fight for it. Additionally, stock valuations change and they have a vestment period and restrictions on selling. If you read my comment as an indictment on compensating employees and not the system in which they exist then I’m not sure you’re engaging in good faith.

I appreciate your response and openness too. I will also sometimes write full responses just to delete them, so I understand that struggle.

I doubt I have a unique perspective to offer, but if at some point in the future you do have a thought or question about this you’d like to share with me, I’ll be around.

Stock is better than nothing, but the equivalent in cash would be better for sure. They can then invest it how they see fit if so desired and unlike company stock there’s no vesting period or restrictions on selling. I’m glad the employees are getting something, I just think it’s important to realize that this is better for the company than paying cash bonuses and is not really similar to owning the means of production in any meaningful sense.

Lmao. They have to pay for NOT listening.

According to the complaints, this service did not, in fact, listen in on consumers’ conversations or use voice data at all—nor did the service accurately place ads in customers’ desired locations. Instead, the service the companies provided consisted of reselling—at a significant markup—email lists obtained from other data brokers.