Holy crap that’s an absurd kneecapping with the RAM. No wonder they’re having parity issues

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It’s shit on because it is not actually AI as the general public tends to use the term. This isn’t Data from Star Trek, or anything even approaching Asimov’s three laws.

The immediate defense against this statement is people going into mental gymnastics and hand waving about “well we don’t have a formal definition for intelligence so you can’t say they aren’t” which is just… nonsense rhetorically because the inverse would be true as well. Can’t label something as intelligent if we have no formal definition either. Or they point at various arbitrary tests that ChatGPT has passed and claim that clearly something without intelligence could never have passed the bar exam, in complete and utter ignorance of how LLMs are suited to those types of problem domains.

Also, I find that anyone bringing up the limitations and dangers is immediately lumped into this “AI haters” group like belief in AI is some sort of black and white religion or requires some sort of idealogical purity. Like having honest conversations about these systems’ problems intrinsically means you want them to fail. That’s BS.

Machine Learning and Large Language Models are amazing, they’re game changing, but they aren’t magical panaceas and they aren’t even an approximation of intelligence despite appearances. LLMs are especially dangerous because of how intelligent they appear to a layperson, which is why we see everyone rushing to apply them to entirely non-fitting use cases as a race to be the first to make the appearance of success and suck down those juicy VC bux.

Anyone trying to say different isn’t familiar with the field or is trying to sell you something. It’s the classic case of the difference between tech developers/workers and tech news outlets/enthusiasts.

The frustrating part is that people caught up in the hype train of AI will say the same thing: “You just don’t understand!” But then they’ll start citing the unproven potential future that is being bandied around by people who want to keep you reading their publication or who want to sell you something, not any technical details of how these (amazing) tools function.

At least in my opinion that’s where the negativity comes from.

Really says something that none of your responses yet seem to have caught that this was a joke.

I’d reason that has more to do with your circles than anything else.

I entered college right around that time. I know multiple families who lost their home from it. My parents nearly did. My Grandparents attempt to downsize was delayed by almost five years of sitting with their house on the market and they ended up having to absolutely slash the sales price to sell their home.

I know people who lost their jobs as primary breadwinner in their household and never were able to get back into the workforce in any significant capacity until just before the pandemic.

I know many people who graduated college 2008-2012, had wonderful credentials/resumes, who weren’t able to find stable employment or a starter “career” job until 2017 or later.

Hell, the 2008 crash was the big tipping point for the public idea that if you worked hard and did good in school, you could just expect things to work out well for your employment.

There’s all sorts of shit you could use to pick apart these folks, blame what occurred on choices they made, and you wouldn’t be entirely off base for some of them. However, that doesnct change that despite your personal circles, it had a significant impact.

We’re going anecdote v anecdote here. Your insistance of a lack of effect on people crumbles the moment anyone comes in and says they know people who were.

Worth noting that the Quake 2 RTX code is on github as well. Hopefully someone enterprising will combine the two.

Since “free speech” is a dogwhistle, what should a hypothetical place actually interested in free speech as more than just a bigotry shield call what they’re trying to do? Some place interested in allowing discussion of objectionable topics without bigotry?

Yes, whatever, those don’t exist anywhere, you don’t need to respond with that tidbit. Humor the hypothetical here.

Or maybe, just maybe, people have been packet sniffing Microsoft’s shit for ages and haven’t found them to be doing things quite as egregiously. Go ahead, you can look this shit up.

Most of the spying features in Windows are able to be explicitly disabled through options Microsoft publishes themselves. It’s Group Policy, only available on Pro licenses, but anyone concerned about privacy should be on that anyway or spoofing their license using again, Microsoft published techniques (KMS). There’s also often registry keys to toggle it as well, but they tend to not be as reliable and change over updates.

There are also tons of ways to strip out entire components of Windows from the install media before installation, and also after it has been installed. Can’t collect telemetry “X” if the telemetry “X” service isn’t there.

Lastly, host file allows blocking network traffic to specific endpoints, and the very few times Microsoft has bypassed that it has made news. You can just block Microsoft’s entire IP block through host if you’re really paranoid.

Beyond that, I’ve seen plenty of people concerned about the US’s data collection. It’s just not always spoken about as a US thing but more as a general tech thing, likely because internet discussion is still very US centric outside the great firewall and most big tech in the English speaking world comes from the US. So i think the US connection often just goes without saying.

I’ll give you this: framing much of this as related to any nation state instead of just all tech’s hoovering up of data is disingenuous.

Also, if your threat model truly needs to be concerned about any nation state actors specifically then you’re probably already fucked.

Apparently they’ve been caught up in working on predictions for a good while which has been harder than they expected, so that’s slowed development and releases considerably. So not abandoned by the devs for what its worth.