The question isn’t whether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will be Eduardo Porter

the Guardian

The question isn’t whether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will be

Will the bubble ravage the economy when it bursts? What will it leave of value once it pops?

#ai #llm #aibubble

I never learned much programming. But one of the few pieces of code that I wrote as a boy was a bullshit generator. It created full correct sentences by inserting random words from a lookup table. #ai #llm #aibubble

Is there a Scandy firm that will jailbreak my 2022 Samsung phone, install an open-source operating system on it and send it back to me? I've fucking had it with these obviously over-demanding operating system versions that they push out to make phones sluggish for no other reason than planned obsolesence. #android

Hörni geologer, eller vågar jag till och med hoppas på att få tag i en petrolog? Vad kallas idag den bergart som hette CHYPERIT år 1874? Sammanhang: arkeolog klassificerar materialet i en stenyxa. #geologi #mineral

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IT-avdelning raderade 18 års arbete: ”Mådde så pass dåligt att jag nästan behövde sjukskriva mig”

Digitalisering av kommunarkiv gick upp i rök med ett knapptryck.

Swedish municipality funds a low-intensity 25-year project to digitise its paper archives. The files were deleted by mistake the other day. Then the municipality discovered that nobody over the entire run of the project has made any backups. *facepalm*