Yeah they'll drop this as soon as they realise The Dreaded Kali Linux Hacker OS System is open source tbh. First cyber attack, they'll realise they didnt know the owner of the malicious device's age, cry on TV then amend the law to include it.

Meanwhile the number of school shootings will remain the same, foster care systems will be underfunded, but the children will be rendered safe.

Remind me, if everyone is a child until proven otherwise as implemented by discord etc, are they still allowed to collect my data when I dont age verify? Can I sue them for collecting what could have been a toddlers information as they couldn't possibly have known I wasn't one?

Its all so fucking stupid.

Dynamic programming is a headfuck when you first learn it, they're obviously just a superior being.

Our service desk were forbidden from moving over on release because new outlook can't modify the subject of an email, so we couldn't add ticket numbers. They've been using this feature since outlook was released.

I did some reading on forums and thousands of people rely on this feature and noticed it missing. Not sure if its been added yet because I still use "classic".

I know this with the text "mess with the pope, get the no-scope"

It was the British and they didnt burn it to the ground so I'm not sure why people think thats what happened. It was a retaliation attack for the US fighting in Canada, sure. But they weren't Canadian troops.

They didnt burn it to the ground because the building burnt too fast for them to get the fire hot enough. The outer walls and bits inside were still standing. I believe the British even ate dinner in the house because the chef had prepared it for the president or something but I couldn't find a source for that.

Sydney and Melbourne have pretty good public transport. Unfortunately they're compensating for everywhere else, which has some truly fucking awful public transport. Looking at Adelaide in particular but I know others are also shit.

Was going to say this, the cables are messed up

I mean, you want to go hard ball: our attorney general is who actually fired the prime minister and he was a CIA plant.

Recently had a similar issue with Via, the app for keyboards. Basically, there was an issue with chrome talking to the hardware...Except some lifesaver recommended plugging my keyboard directly into my machine, bypassing the docking station (the thing causing me issues) and fixing my problem. So I've technically still never had a driver issue, only a shitty docking station experience.

Okay fair enough, first bit made sense to me at the time but I was having a weird day. There are things you can't prove was the point of that, doesn't make a lot of sense rereading it.

Rest of it is saying that there is no debate worth having: they are not conscious, nor sentient, and trying to quantify what exactly they are. I'm just talking into the void and arguing against opinions ive seen. Dont mind me. I get passionate and am prone to long-winded rants.

You can't prove all ravens are black. The discovery of even one white raven would disprove the "fact" that all ravens are black, and we can by no means be sure that we gathered all ravens to test the theory.

However, we can look around and comment that there doesn't appear to be any white ravens anywhere...

Do you know about the 'bobo' and 'kiki' study - can't remember the name? People made up words that don't exist in English and asked people whether round objects are more bobo or kiki. AI can't answer this question - not without being fed how to. Toddlers could answer it. It comes down to how it consumes information and if there's no pattern... When asked to define words it had been rarely fed, I.e. usernames people had made up, the AIs apparent consciousness breaks down. As soon as something isn't likely followed by another word, the machine breaks and no one would pretend it has consciousness after that.

Learning models are just pattern recognition machines. LLMs are the kind that mix and match words really well. This makes them seem intelligent, but it just means they can express language and information in a way we understand, and tend to not do so. Consciousness gets into the "what is the soul" territory, so I'm staying away from it. The best I can say of AI is its interesting that language appears to be a system constructed well enough that we can teach it to machines. Even more so we anthropomorphise models when they do it well.

AI doesn't have memory, it can't think for itself - it references what it has consumed - and it can't teach itself new tricks. All of these are experimental research areas for AI. All of them lend to consciousness. Its just very good at sentence generation.