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Search your settings for Power Button, Side Button, or whatever. You should be able to change the setting for a long press.

And frustrating automated voice systems, support chat bots that go in circles, etc.

>> It looks like this isn't something I can help you with. Would you like to be connected to a human who can help?

> Sure!

>> Ok, I'm connecting you to a human now.

[5 minutes later]

> Hello?

>> Hi! What can I help you with?

> Are you a human?

>> No, I'm an AI agent programmed to help you with anything you need. What can I do for you?

> You said you were going to connect me to a human.

>> That isn't something I can do. What can I help you with?

Turns out "connecting to a human" is something it knows about in its training data so it'll hallucinate doing so.


At least your example IDs itself as an AI agent. The ones I've come across hide it but it becomes obvious with responses like "I don't have access to that information" or something a human would never say. I had a dealership give me one of those, so I hung up on it and called a different dealership where I was connected to an actual human. Guess which one got my business...

So AI is resurrecting the microsoft clippy problem

Clippy was just ahead of its time. Sadly for the bots of now, they are only slightly better than Clippy

Some of that extra cost is for the extra reliability the commercial displays offer, in case anyone wondered. They're designed to be on 24/7 for extended periods.

>you look back and see that almost nothing you've built is still in use, or will be for very long after you're gone.

Software development has more in common with agriculture than architecture. The code always needs maintenance.


> unless data centers are being built in deserts or run off fossil aquifers the or other water constrained circumstance the waste is supurious.

In some cases, they are.

The Colorado River basin waters seven states and is in extreme drought. There are proposed data centers in the area that would require water from the Colorado or from already distressed aquifers.


> It's gonna click the wrong button and delete your account?

Yes


It sounds like you already know the answer.

In other words, USAID was helping with the bushmeat situation and therefore ebola, but Trump killed USAID.

Exactly. The S&P 500 isn't a fund, but let's not pretend that inclusion in the index doesn't mean real money is at stake.

> let's not pretend that inclusion in the index doesn't mean real money is at stake

Straw man. Nobody claims this. The point is (a) the state of decisionmaking was misrepresented for clicks and (b) the effects of a decision one way or the other way way overblown.

Hating on Musk sells subs. That's fair and, frankly, deserved. It doesn't mean we need to get misled chasing that high.


How do you ensure that the output isn't BS if you don't know those areas? What value does it add to have a mathematical proof of questionable validity?


if you have an intuition something is true, you can verify the proof. even if you couldn't construct the proof. allowing skepticism to terminate thought is a dead end.


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