I’ve yet to see AI for any of the things I’d actually like it for. It’d be good if I could use it as a natural language compatible filter for my feeds, for example. I’m interested in gaming news but have zero interest in a number of popular genres, settings, and so forth. Having an AI look at the feed and be able to spot the rough shape of stuff I don’t care about and throw it away would be useful to me and mistakes wouldn’t matter.

Similarly I could do with something on the desktop that helps me keep my files tidy. Learn the way I’d like to do things and help me keep things sorted. If unsure, learn when I’m likely to be willing to answer questions and ask for clarification then. Worst case scenario it misfiles something and there’s an interface to ask it “the file about the thing - where is that? It’s not where I would expect”.

Instead I’ve got shit like “let us summarise email for you”. If the email is long enough that I’d need a summary then it’s too important to be entrusted to the Hallucinatron 5000. If it’s short enough that it would be safe then there’s zero time saved for me. A few sentences? What an insurmountable challenge - help me, Twatbot 2.0.

There’s always money to be made if one doesn’t stand for anything.

I was making a parallel to another wildly over-hyped technology that has had multiple opportunities to make it when it’s clearly only suitable for niche usecases.

LLMs and “AI” are not useless but the notion that they’ll lead to something significantly more advanced is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the technology.

And VR will take off any day now?

You seem very convinced that glorified auto complete will lead to AGI…

Is that bad?

The sheer amount of advertising for gambling is grim. Whilst I’m not susceptible to it, I can’t imagine it’s doing the UK any good (I find gambling extremely boring - they can advertise all they want at me).

Whilst I can’t be bothered to look it up on my phone - we have hard data that disproves this link, last I checked.

Glad to see us doing the opposite of the US on this.

At least for me, not for a second. I have distinctive physical traits from my father.

Optional is the way.

Saints Row (2022) had some of my flavour of silliness.

Ah, the Kingmaker.

Edit: it’s a reference to Warwick the Kingmaker. Well, it’s a reference to a reference. It’s actually a joke made in Nebulous - “Dionne Warwick, the Kingmaker”.

When did right wing economic policy benefit the nation (as a whole) implementing it last?

To make a commodity with dropping demand even more common? Capitalism can’t keep its story straight.

What was it the yanks were saying a while back? Make them pay for it?

Yeah, same. I use a combination of Linux and macOS at home but have a work laptop running Windows. It’s dreadful and feels like it only exists to make my tasks harder. I never find myself saying “what a useful feature!” but I often say “Ugh, why are you like this?”.

I’m surprised the Orks made it into combat. When I played Shadow War: Armageddon my Boyz would never make it anywhere near anyone as they’d get cut down by gunfire the moment they stepped out of cover.

I’d start with washes to add shading the metal work. Talent in a can.

Is he finished or what is it you’re not sure about?