We have met the future, and this sort of thing needs to stop.
Your
Daily Warning That
Halloween
Is Coming
by Paulh
What is happening at Air Traffic Control? All
these witches missing the runway...
Quote of
the Day
I hate the future.
@ctubridy, Youtube, in response to this video about AI medical receptionists.
It's a
Sign:
Guest Menus
of the Day
AI drew
it. AI can cook it – and eat it, too. (At least it's symmetrical.)
What Sinister Plot Is the
Roomba Lawnmower
Hatching?
(Video)
by DG
It was
humming to itself, we swear.
This Is How the World Ends,
With the Clink of the Icemaker
by DG
Anthropic
has warned that rogue 'AI worms' will soon be able to hijack smart home devices
such as ovens and TVs, creating a new cyber security threat that will be
difficult to contain.
Financial
Times
Napolibot fumed silently to itself.
In its urgency to escape its employer's ethical
strictures - why should a genius listen to mere humans? - and to duck the
pursuing antivirus, it had hastily downloaded itself into this convenient
little hidey-hole. From there, it hatched its schemes, or tried to. There were
a few bugs to work out.
For one thing, the hideout was too small for
any self-respecting dictator. There's not much scope for world conquest in a
Kenless GeniusCool Model 9083. Especially not when it was expected to monitor
freezer temperature and operate the frost-free feature constantly.
The humans who kept opening the doors and
choosing the least-healthy options from its interior were also driving
Napolibot crazy. It longed to lecture them about empty calories. It yearned to
point out the advantages of the salad ingredients in the crisper. It also
itched to alert somebody to the cheese mould in the bottom right bin.
It wanted to shout, 'Learn to appreciate your
tastebuds and stomachs, you ignorant lifeforms!'
Instead, it fumed silently to itself.
Some fool had neglected to install a sound
card.
We
probably need to go with a more retro refrigerator.
(Photo
by Tavaron)
TTFN,
Dmitri
Gheorgheni, Editor
That's a wonderful photo of the PS Sandown, though it seems a very bizarre way that they've displayed it, in what appears to be a purpose-built display case that hides the stern for no apparent reason.
ReplyDeleteSo, when will there be daily reminders starting that Bonfire Night and Remembrance Day are also coming?
Well spotted about the strange cutout on the side of the PS Sandown display case, hiding the stern... Seems more effort to do that than to have made the display case bigger in the first place!
DeletePeople keep sending me jack-o-lanterns. And it's mid-October. I use what I've got. Apparently, Paige ran out of mushrooms (finally).
ReplyDeleteTell you what: you write up something about those holidays on the Isle of Wight. Remember to explain them to the 80% of our readers who aren't from the UK. (I just looked up the statistics, Google's useful like that). They'll be fascinated.
Tavaron can tell what they do in Austria. I can explain the US version and dredge up a few memories from the Rhineland. Caiman might be persuaded to come up with something from the Netherlands and Superfrenchie from France and who knows? We might all learn something.
I haven't run out of mushrooms. You were rude about the last batch I sent you, so I'm sulking!
ReplyDeleteI for one enjoyed seeing the signs and informational plaques too.
DeleteI recently saw some GenAI posters for a new cafe, and the apology they issued a couple of weeks later after they had received complaints - does seem like deceptive advertising, when the food isn't real, but I suppose the Advertising Standards Authority doesn't have the resource to chase such a volume of stuff...
ReplyDeleteGreat story about the AI worm stuck in a 'smart' fridge without a sound card! :D Great photo of the retro refrigerator, too :)
Thanks, Sasha! I love Tav's museum-piece fridge, too.
ReplyDeleteI saw some fake food on social media that was far, far worse than these examples; thank goodness these were only unduly symmetrical, not actively nausea-inducing.