OldPhiKap
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Does that make my two cents a collector’s item?We no longer use pennies.
Does that make my two cents a collector’s item?We no longer use pennies.
While those predictions might sound extreme, they’re not just plausible, they’re likely, said Geoffrey Hinton—the British computer scientist widely known as the “Godfather of AI.” The transition, he warned, could trigger a sweeping economic reshuffling that leaves millions of workers behind.
“It seems very likely to a large number of people that we will get massive unemployment caused by AI,” Hinton said in a recent discussion with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at Georgetown University.
Wall-E!!!Gates and Musk predict that humans will have a much lesser work load in the coming years due to AI. The "Godfather of AI" agrees, and not with utopian results.
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‘Godfather of AI’ says Bill Gates and Elon Musk are right about the future of work—but he predicts mass unemployment is on its way
While tech leaders paint a positive future where work is optional thanks to AI, the ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton warns they’re “betting on AI replacing a lot of workers.”www.yahoo.com
I would take just millions of workers being displaced. Worried it could be hundreds of millions... But that's a problem for the AI to figure out.Gates and Musk predict that humans will have a much lesser work load in the coming years due to AI. The "Godfather of AI" agrees, and not with utopian results.
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‘Godfather of AI’ says Bill Gates and Elon Musk are right about the future of work—but he predicts mass unemployment is on its way
While tech leaders paint a positive future where work is optional thanks to AI, the ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton warns they’re “betting on AI replacing a lot of workers.”www.yahoo.com
I would take just millions of workers being displaced. Worried it could be hundreds of millions... But that's a problem for the AI to figure out.
Make sure you use different "voices"!I'm going to be so cooked in the new world order.
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'AI' could dox your anonymous posts
Researchers were able to accurately nail down identities for "anonymous" posts from Reddit, Hacker News, and more.www.pcworld.com
Give the other ones in my head a chance to be free!Make sure you use different "voices"!
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So AI would suck at Wordle?Yesterday I was playing a word unscramble game. A new set of letters popped up and I was stumped. So I popped them into AI and it returned words but with an A, which wasn’t part of the scramble.
It took several rounds of conversation to get it to stop introducing letters not in the set I pasted in.
So, there’s that.
Paywalled.Howard Marks discusses AI advances in last three months….
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Legendary investor Howard Marks was skeptical about AI. What it said to him about Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger has left him shaken — FORTUNE
March 3, 2026, 12:40 PM ET Howard Marks, cofounder and cochairman of Oaktree Capital Management Christopher Goodney—Bloomberg/Getty Images Legendary billionaire investor Howard Marks, cofounder and cochairman of Oaktree Capital Management, has spent decades navigating financial manias, sea...apple.news
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Anthropic’s AI model produced a tutorial, Marks wrote, explaining AI and changes over the past three months. The resulting 10,000-word essay was so impressive, Marks added, he decided to reprint most of it for his clients in a recap, but he wanted to add some of his own human writing.
“I could have saved myself a lot of time by asking Claude to write this memo,” he wrote, “but I decided not to, because I consider putting words on paper a big part of the fun.”
Marks stressed to clients: “I want to try to communicate the level of awe with which I viewed Claude’s output.” Not only did it read like a personal note that a friend or colleague might have sent, but it psychologically dismantled Marks’ skepticism by using the investor’s own legendary mentors against him. Above all, he said, it was really smart.
“It argued logically, anticipated points I might make in response, injected humor, and bolstered its credibility by candidly acknowledging AI’s limitations, just as I might do,” he said. “I’ve asked AI questions before and gotten answers back, but I’ve never received a personalized explanation like I did in this case.”
Yesterday the NC website used to find your polling place was down in the morning. I asked ChatGPT and got a quick and reasonable answer.Yesterday I was playing a word unscramble game. A new set of letters popped up and I was stumped. So I popped them into AI and it returned words but with an A, which wasn’t part of the scramble.
It took several rounds of conversation to get it to stop introducing letters not in the set I pasted in.
So, there’s that.
My joking response to this was deleted by the mods. I said that AI had met a milestone by passing the President in this regard. Not a great joke, but a joke nonetheless. I assume that comment was removed because it was deemed too political. But I think the President being grammar-challenged is accepted by both sides of the aisle and is therefore fair game for teasing, just like Clinton’s womanizing or Bush Jr’s adventures with vocabulary made them the butt of jokes from both the left and the right. Am I wrong?Yesterday the NC website used to find your polling place was down in the morning. I asked ChatGPT and got a quick and reasonable answer.
It was incorrect, but it was quick and reasonable.
Not a joke and maybe not political but what happened to Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15 is kind of scary if you run through the possibility (and likely) scenarios. To this day my parents have a tendency to give information they see on the internet more weight even though I’ve been hammer that you can’t trust everything. AI results would probably carry even more weight if they knew how to use it. This isn’t just old people. It’s happening across all ages.Political jokes often spiral out of bounds. This thread is on the edge of what we allow here, so please keep things as apolitical as manageable.
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Political jokes often spiral out of bounds. This thread is on the edge of what we allow here, so please keep things as apolitical as manageable.
-jk