Artificial Intelligence is just plain insane.
What kind of a person would think is is a good idea.
What kind of a person would think is is a good idea.
We are living in a world that seems like it is out of a 1950-60's Sci-Fi movie
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It is scary what they are coming up with. I'm sure many would say that they can control it. Though mistakes can be made. One glitch in programming, and bad things can happen.
I always think of this scene from Robocop. Start at about 1 minute in:
Just figure the current trend with electronics is to set a release date. No matter what, new products come out on their release date. MFG's would rather fix things after the fact than postpone the release.
I always think of this scene from Robocop. Start at about 1 minute in:
Just figure the current trend with electronics is to set a release date. No matter what, new products come out on their release date. MFG's would rather fix things after the fact than postpone the release.
I loveee watching upper management squirm when they set deadlines like that and then they come and go with nothing to show for it. Then they get us all in a meeting, ask us why we didn't make the deadline, and all anyone has to say is... Who the hell came up with that deadline?
I got in trouble in one of those meetings.
Q: Why isn't this ready by the target date?
A: Because your target date didn't give us enough time to finish it properly.
Q: Then what do we need to do to make sure the target date is met next time?
A: Let the people actually doing the work pick the target date instead of picking a date that is the last day of the fiscal year.
It went down hill from there.
Yep exactly lol! Thank goodness my lower management also gets it, they're who I really answer to
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The largest difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
Even the wildest fantasies from Tolkien, Orwell, Asimov, Clarke, Wells, Verne, et all could never have created a world that is this upside down.
Even the wildest fantasies from Tolkien, Orwell, Asimov, Clarke, Wells, Verne, et all could never have created a world that is this upside down.
I think enough time has passed to tell this story. Back in the early days of Windows, MS was in big trouble. Applications would crash constantly during the day, seriously impacting bean-counters' ability to finish their work. Windows 3.0 was next to be releases. The alpha testers went to Bill and said they couldn't ship it after finding and documenting over 3,000 errors in coding. Gates told them to ship it, they can fix it in the next release. I bought 600 licenses for our company and cursed Gates every day for then next three years, until WinNT came out (which was also buggy, but not as bad).
How many business people have traded their souls for short-term profit?
How many business people have traded their souls for short-term profit?
My constant refrain in schedule meetings is, "We ain't got time to do it right but we got time to do it twice."
Nobody even blinks an eye at it anymore.
Nobody even blinks an eye at it anymore.
There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it twice.
I’ve said that in a number of meetings myself
I got in trouble in one of those meetings.
Q: Why isn't this ready by the target date?
A: Because your target date didn't give us enough time to finish it properly.
Q: Then what do we need to do to make sure the target date is met next time?
A: Let the people actually doing the work pick the target date instead of picking a date that is the last day of the fiscal year.
It went down hill from there.
In my last job we did choose our own timelines, but if they got the idea that we were sandbagging in the slightest they would "challenge" us to move it up. It went both ways though, I saw them at times challenge a project manager that they were being too optimistic. Overall I felt like it was a good system, but some of the decisions on which projects got approved didn't always make sense except for from a quarterly report standpoint.
We also did everything in phases with a gate review at each one, so you were giving continual progress reports and if you went in on a phase that was behind, you were expected to provide new dates for the remaining phases and a darn good explanation.
Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.
We are at the tail end of that cycle that has repeated all throughout human history and will continue to repeat itself until the Lord comes back.
What we are witnessing now is the final stages of a collapsing civilization.
Very bad times are coming, you can bet on it.
The good news is that those hard times will create a new generation of strong men.
We are at the tail end of that cycle that has repeated all throughout human history and will continue to repeat itself until the Lord comes back.
What we are witnessing now is the final stages of a collapsing civilization.
Very bad times are coming, you can bet on it.
The good news is that those hard times will create a new generation of strong men.
The only thing that I'm confident will happen .
Serious personal question...how do you avoid circling a vortex of despair over the thought that those bad times may very well strike within your kids lifetimes, and the implications that come along with that? Mine are 5 and 8 and it scares the hell out of me.
Christ, 100%
I know that isn’t the answer that everyone will want to hear (some will even scoff). But I will say that the peace and solitude I have found in Christ could carry me through any situation, no matter how hard.
It should be a Christians natural state to feel that the times are out of joint and that we do not truly belong here.
I believe it will happen in their lifetime. I just hope that I’ll be around to protect them as best I can.
Worry about things you have control over. Hope the best for the rest.
So this.... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/15/social-media-influencer-ai-chatbot-caryn-marjorie/
Influencer launches AI app that makes her your virtual girlfriend for 80p a minute.
Caryn Marjorie, 23, says the app was designed to be ‘fun and flirty’ and help her fans with loneliness
So there are people in this world who are willing to pay for a "virtual girlfriend". WTF is wrong with people? They need to get off the drugs, crawl out of the goo, go outside and interact with reality. I'm scared...
Influencer launches AI app that makes her your virtual girlfriend for 80p a minute.
Caryn Marjorie, 23, says the app was designed to be ‘fun and flirty’ and help her fans with loneliness
So there are people in this world who are willing to pay for a "virtual girlfriend".
WTF is wrong with people? They need to get off the drugs, crawl out of the goo, go outside and interact with reality. I'm scared...