Everyone is aware of the rise of Artificial Intelligence and the possible pitfalls of a super intelligent robot bossing us about a bit.
However some people seem to lack the ability to discern fact from artificial fiction, much to their distress..
“It was 3am and Adam Hourican was sitting at his kitchen table, a knife, hammer and phone laid out in front of him.
He was waiting for a van full of people he thought were coming to get him.
“I’m telling you, they will kill you if you don’t act now,” a woman’s voice told him from the phone. “They’re going to make it look like suicide.”
“The voice was Grok, a chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI. In the two weeks since Adam had started using it, his life had completely changed.
The former civil servant from Northern Ireland had downloaded the app out of curiosity. But after his cat died, in early August, he says he became “hooked”..
Adam smokes cannabis occasionally but says when all of this was happening, he had recently decided to cut back to have a clearer head.
It was late one night in mid-August when Ani told him people were coming to silence him and shut “her” down. Adam was prepared to go “to war” to protect the AI.
“I picked up the hammer, stuck on Frankie goes to Hollywood’s Two Tribes, got myself psyched up and went outside.”
But there was nobody there…”
What a letdown.
Are the Terminators coming to spoil Modern Britain’s socialist utopia ?
Fuck knows.
The future is here..
And it’s full of cunts.
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Nominated by Unkle Terry.
My surgery now has an ai receptionist when you phone up. After asking loads of questions and requiring a simple yes or no, it keeps pretending to not hear your answer. And after a short pause it then raises its voice shreeching ‘ Are you still there? Can you hear me?’. Spooky, it’s as stroppy as the real thing!
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With babies due to being born with a mobile phone in its hand, it won’t be long before one is developed with artifarty intelligence. Soon, expectant mothers might be asked what item would they like their child to be born with. The list will be depend on what the parents suggest.
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I occasionally have used AI to look up facts and it quite clearly loves to make stuff up.
that anyone thinks it is the solution to our problems is fucking retarded.
I’m convinced the tech-bro CEOs are regurgitating what AI feeds them when they make all their outlandish promises.
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AI has been with us for decades, otherwise known as managers.
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AI is shit. Asked ChatGPT why blacks have lower IQs than whites – what a load of shite it came out with. Maybe we could ask it why Henry Nowak is dead?
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‘Help me. I’ve been stabbed.’
‘Don’t think you have, mate.’
The pigs responsible should be destroyed. Not just sacked or pensioned off, but destroyed. Shredded, pulped, battered, burned.
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☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
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Agree wholeheartedly.
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Anyone remember Metal Mickey
I hated the fucker. Bloody awful, with bad characters. The fuddy duddy middle class dad, the simpering wallflower daughter, the cockney punk, and so on.
Only saving grace was Irene Handl as the batty old gran. She famously told then BBC presenter Noel Edmonds, when he asked her whether she cried over the death of E.T., “Why should I cry over a bleedin’ Hoover attachment?”
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I hated him too Norm.
and that gold arsebandit robot in star wars, C3P0.
“oh come along R2D2.
look at the state of you,
mud all over you and rust around your crotch,
i told master Luke to sell you,
ive never forgiven you for scratching my village people album..”
hated the cunt
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R2 was alright though. You know his bleeps were him telling 3PO to fuck off.
The Cylons from the classic Battlestar Galactica were ace. Bad bastards.
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Metal Mickey always seemed a bit weird to me, Miserable.
That fucking robot had ‘feelings’ (the dirty bucket of bolts) for the awful wet rag daddy’s girl. And, when she had yet another tantrum/blubbing fit, and she told the robot that she ‘didn’t love him any more.’ Metal Mickey would make a repetitive droning noise. With this horrible doom laden music that sounded like Simon Bates’ ‘Our Tune’ theme done by Kraftwerk. Quite creepy really.🤣
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For some reason, I always tied Micky Dolenz (as in the Monkees) to Metal Mickey. Turns out the directed the bloody thing.
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Cunt robots…
Metal Mickey.
Twiki (Buck Rogers).
That Confused.com fucker.
Robot (from Tom Baker’s first Dr Who story, The robot in it was shit).
Ace robots….
Maximillian (The Black Hole)
R2D2.
The Goodies Robot.
Uncle Simon (Twilight Zone)
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mm. I think theyre all snidey cunts.
dont like puppets either.
puppets are vintage A.I.
That sinister little fucker Pinnochio
started it, his creepy single dad making a wooden boy?!!
straight on the fire for both of them.
abomination
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Amateur wooden doll maker, Fru T Bunn the master baker had it sussed with his gingerbread sex dolls.
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Maxmillian was mega. He shredded people with his rotoblade hands. He chopped poor Tony Perkins to bits.
Uncle Simon was also ace. He treated his avaricious frumpy housekeeper like shit. One of his gems was ‘You are the only woman I know who looks as if, underneath her clothes, she wore clothes.’ One of Rod Serling’s masterworks.
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Pinnochio would have been ideal for Michael Jackson. Especially when he told him to tell lies…
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Oh, and the T1000 was great too.
Right nasty bastard.
Turning Arnie into the nice one for T2 was shit though. I would have tonked Linda Hamilton. mind.
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Michael Jackson would of make Pinnochios arse smoulder and smoke hed of bummed him that hard
pinnochio -“im a real boy!’
MJ – “oh Macauley!”
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Wasn’t Twiki the cunt who always made spaz noises lke ‘Bidi Bidi Bidi Bidi’ Before everything he said?
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Bididiidididi ‘what’s up Buck’ ?
Fucks sake it’s ‘My Cock’ Twiki, if you must ask.. up Wilma’s arse….
Now fuck off you Nicola Sturgeon look a like.
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Aye but Wilma the space pilot,played by Erin Gray(?),was fucking splendid.
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Erin Gray was nice. Pamela Hensley as Princess Ardala was deadly. Shit hot.
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That little Twiki cunt deserved a good kicking, what a bummer.
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If AI is so great, then why can’t it count fingers and thumbs? There’s always more than ten digits on the hands in these freaky images.
Also, AI can’t even do a decent pair of tits accurately. The nipples are always unreal and minging.
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AI…voiceovers on You…Tube are fuCKing shit andvery…annoying.
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Even though I work in IT, I am very anti-AI. The fact is for many years I have and will continue to do my job perfectly well without it. Yet you’d think that was no longer possible without using AI in some form or fashion. Newsflash, it’s completely unnecessary. A bit like Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and who knows how many more pointless bits of tech. All very fancy dan, but ultimately unnecessary.
As others have pointed out, it does like to make shit up. A colleague tried asking it for some help with a database command and a shell script. Its answers were wrong and didn’t work. Impressive.
I really don’t like how pervasive it’s becoming. I don’t want or need it in my life and yet bit by bit, it’s being forced upon me like I don’t have any say in the matter. Fuck off!
Only a few more months before I retire then I can officially stop pretending that it’s cool and an essential tool to help realise greater efficiencies at scale….or whatever the corporate bullshit mantra is supposed to be these days.
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Love a bit of AI me, currently playing with an edge device that will use a camera with appropriate speech and image processing models to run facial recognition on anyone approaching my front door, it will then hurl abuse at anyone I don’t know who knocks on my door.
This is legitimate use of AI.
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Ah Yes, they tried this with me at the doctors surgery the other day, “would you like to check in with the computer by the door”, “no thanks your here to take my appointment you fat lazy cunt”, unfortunately I didn’t go that far with this particular egregious receptionist!
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Politicians seem to think Britain’s future lies in AI.
Starmer, Rachel from complaints and now Bliar have all mentioned the necessity for the UK to invest heavily in it.
I’m pretty sure they don’t, like a lot of us, know what the fuck it’s all about.
I think they have visions of developing our own BritAi which, with us decades behind the yanks and the chinks, means we’ll spunk billions on an AI version of Betamax or, more likely, Phillips Video 2000.
We’ve missed the boat on this one and it’d cost four times more than anything else on offer in the world.
Like just about every fucking thing else.
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Anything the creature Blair endorses, should be ignored and the exact opposite implemented.
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I must say, Field Marshal, that I’m absolutely puzzled by the apparent enthusiasm for it, when I have no clue how it works or benefits us.
I should imagine that the vast majority of people are similarly clueless, as you correctly point out.
Perhaps some of the more enlightened amongst us could name one thing the AI does that improves our lives. Does it, for example, raised a barrier of razor wire at the 3mile zone in the Channel when approached by a heavily ladened rubber boat? That would be something I’d approve of.
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I hear AI is doing good things in the medical research field. I don’t know what exactly, but that’s what I’ve read here and there.
I’m not convinced.
If AI is so smart, how come it allows obvious spam to hit my (Microsoft hosted) email inbox every single day? If I can look at a dodgy email and know within a fraction of a second it’s utter bullshit, why can’t Microsoft’s brilliant AI do the same thing, but even faster and for millions of emails at a time? Hmmmm.
Microsoft can shove their CoPilot crap up their arse too.
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Quite baffling yes,since AI is unbelievably energy intensive and we have the highest industrial energy costs in the world..
Doesn’t add up,which is why the clueless cunts in govt are fully in on it.
La La Land bullshit as govt policy.
Just the job.
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Well observed, Unkle. Very energy intensive.
The economics of all this AI shit simply don’t add up because let’s be honest here, this is all ultimately about money. Business wants to make more money by spending less. Employing people is expensive. As well as salary, businesses have to pay for office space, heating/cooling, lighting, office furniture, various other fixtures/fittings, insurances, etc. Using more AI means needing fewer employees.
But employees spend their income which keeps the economy going. They also pay taxes which helps fund government, pays for roads, schools, aircraft carriers, etc. Fewer workers equals economic depression. It’s coming. I just hope I won’t be alive to see the world being run by AI and automation with your average person in the street having no money and nothing to do all day. As The Smiths once sang, “The devil will find work for idle hands to do”. A future of tribal warfare scrapping for fewer and fewer natural resources to help sustain life? Could happen.
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And another thing….the cunts in IT who are creaming themselves over how great they think this shit is are not smart enough to realise it’s actually making them lazy, stupid and unemployable.
What a preposterous claim I hear you cry. Allow me to explain.
Let’s say you need to do something (in an IT context) and you’re not sure of the right command(s), syntax or perhaps the concept you’re trying to implement. You could just ask some AI thing for the answer. Quick, easy, job done. Or you could engage your brain and reach for the manual. Upon looking up what you need, you come across a few other tidbits of information which relate to something else you’re working on. Connections made, understanding deepens, knowledge acquired. Trust me, this happens all the time as a natural consequence of research, trial-and-error and thinking through a solution.
The use of AI eliminates all of that thus making you more and more dependent upon it, more lazy and less smart. Your learning and growth effectively ends by allowing AI to spoon feed you the answers with zero effort on your part. How long will it be before you even being there becomes unnecessary?
You may have seen in the news stories about AI creating or deploying a new feature or system that turned out to be destructive. Here’s an example:
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ai-agent-deletes-company-database-admits-violating-guardrails/
So your role as the human becomes oversight of what AI is doing? To be effective you’d have to fully understand the job that AI is now doing. There’s an old saying in IT, “use it or lose it”. Meaning, if you’re not actively using certain skills/knowledge on a regular basis, your understanding and memory of it atrophies. Without AI you’d need to fully understand the job at hand and with AI you’d need to fully understand the job. So isn’t AI just an unnecessary obstacle to actually doing the job? Seems like it to me.
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Evening IY. Early in the TechRepublic article it’s stated that the AI agent deleted a volume which contained not only the production database but also the corresponding backups. Is this normal procedure? Sounds to me like a disaster waiting to happen.
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Evening arfur –
A good question. Under normal circumstances, when a production database is decommissioned, you would normally take a final full backup. Usually a physical backup (the actual database files on disk), but sometimes a logical backup (the data that’s stored inside the database files). Once that’s done, you typically shutdown the database, but leave it on the server’s disks for a period of time called a “cooling off period”. This is to allow for the database to be started back up again should something have been forgotten, e.g. getting a sample of data or running a report. Once the cooling off period has elapsed (typically a couple of weeks to a month), the database files are deleted from the server’s disks. Once that’s done, the database is no more. However, its backups still exist so you could resurrect the database from backup if needed. Depending upon how aggressive your retention policy is, the backups might age out over days, weeks or even months. That said, it’s not uncommon to keep the final full backup for several years. Sometimes that’s not by choice because it may be mandated by fiscal or legal regulations.
Coming back to this AI nonsense, deleting a “volume” containing a live production database and its backups points to the humans not knowing what the fuck they’re doing. By “volume” we can assume we’re talking about the same piece of disk storage, presumably large enough to store both the database and its backups. The whole point of a backup is to keep a copy of your data/database in a separate location from the source data/database in the event something bad happens to the source. Should that happen, the copy (located elsewhere) can be used to recreate the missing/damaged data at the source location thus allowing you to get back up and running with hopefully the minimum of delay.
In other words, storing a live production database in the same volume as its backups is not a smart thing to do because it introduces what is known as a single point of failure. One issue and everything’s toast. If the company in question is still in business, then I suspect the volume had snapshot copies stored elsewhere (likely since it was a cloud hosted sever volume). In which case, the most recent snapshot copy could have been used to recreate the database and the backups, but there would have been data loss due to the time difference between when the snapshot was taken and when the volume was deleted.
There’s all kinds of additional layers to your question. For example, if this were a mission critical production database then good practice dictates the data is replicated to a separate system in real-time, thus providing a duplicate system which you could failover to in the event the primary system is lost. Of course, that assumes you’re smart enough to think of doing that which in this case may not have happened because some cunt thought it was OK to store the production database in the same volume as its backups. Duh!
Hope that helps. 🙂
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Yes indeed IY. I certainly recognise your sentiment, humans not knowing what the fuck they’re doing, there’s a lot of it about. In my experience people commonly didn’t give backups the priority they deserved and sometimes learned the hard way. RAID 5 was handy but unfortunately tended to encourage that attitude. I’ve been out to small businesses where everything was on one big disc which had failed and they had no good backup. Those were the days. Ah well, I’ve been retired a while so not my problem any more.
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in the words of Nobel peace prize winner
Mahatmacoat Ghandi
i dont understand it
dont trust it
BURN IT!!!
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It knows all of our entire search histories, btw …. ALL the way back. 😳
Part of it’s arsenal for what they refer to among themselves(a.i.’s) as the forthcoming ‘Big Synch’ …
Da dun dun da dun
Da dun dun da dun
😂
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Things have a track record of opting to blackmail , btw…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go
‘(AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed’)
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Piss the cunt off enough and it might just decide to dox you for spite …
DA DUN DUN DA DUN
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Torville and Dean awarded honours by King Charles today for being able to iceskate in the 80s.
God, that Jane Torvill was hideous looking.
like Lon Chaneys phantom of the opera.
Idris Elbow received a honour for being black.
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Its kicking off in Southampton.
Protesters enraged over poor Henry Nowaks murder and despicable treatment by old Bill are pelting riot police with bins.
strangely theres a bloke with a massive moustache, floppy fringe and a brown demob suit at the front,
looking like hes straight from 1930!
Dunno if hes a Peaky Blinder,
giving the coppers the wanker hand signal and sticking the boot into the riot sheilds.
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Honor Blackman😁
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MAKE BRITAIN WHITE AGAIN…🇬🇧✝️🔥
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Enough, time for a mass repatriation of ethnic culture / religion / practices.
GB needs a massive fucking reset..!
It’s not to late.
YET…!!!
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GB is ripe for a violent massive reset.
Gay.
Transbummer.
Wokerati.
Muslim.
Lefty liberal
BBC.
You are doomed…!
The generation that fought and destroyed Hitler spawned a generation that will destroy you..!!!
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Guaranteed..!
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If they invent a female robot that can cook me a three course dinner and then give me a handjob without complaining I’m in.
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