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"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/54810980

US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public Backlash

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/50445196

Yeah, same here honestly

Or maybe I should buy a refurbished gaming laptop

Yeah, that would be swell

God I wish

Aka reliable technology

The only way to get users to switch if YouTube and alphabet goes bankrupt and goes out of business for good and if YouTube goes offline forever

Microslop

Honestly meta should be fined $565 Billion dollars

Investors want ‘real proof’ AI spending is paying off, new report suggests - National | Globalnews.ca

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/68987038

What, investors are beginning to think that maybe AI is more hype than substance? A really expensive way of doing not much of anything?

Didn’t this also happen with the dot.com meltdown? A few good ways to productively use it, a lot of ways to wastefully use it.

You would think they would have learned.

The truth is, AI should not stand for Artificial Intelligence, it is in reality Algorithmic Intelligence. Same computer processing, except that it is thousands of computers in a single chip all processing the data at the same time, with each computer doing the same math (a*b+c) but each simultaneous computation uses different input numbers. Great for doing massive simultaneous calculations, but certainly not ‘revolutionary’. Instead of one computer doing one program taking a thousand cycles, a thousand computers doing the same program taking one cycle. What IS revolutionary are the algorithms that are being developed, and the applications these massive calculator arrays are being used for. Some will bear fruit, most will not.

Let’s take a ‘for example’.

Weather predictions for the next day. You start with a given set of data, then run your predictive algorithm a thousand times, each with a slightly different set of possible future data points. One of them is probably the most accurate. The problem is to decide which one. The second problem is that it takes a week to do all the thousand runs. You can have a 95% accurate prediction in one week for what the weather is going to be tomorrow. See the problem?

But with the newest AI chips, you can do the thousand different scenarios at the same time. Also, you can calculate a probability for each scenario at the same time. The scenario with the highest probability is the most likely. Then you check the actual weather, feed it back to the system, and it gets better at calculating the probabilities for the correct scenario. You get tomorrows weather today, and the system gets better and better at calculating the probabilities. This is a useful application.

Second condition. In a lottery, you can use this same server to predict all of the potential combinations of numbers, before the next draw. Except that the probability of any one combination being drawn is, well, still equal. There is just no way the system can get better at selecting the correct random number. The selection of which combination to use is still random, from equal probabilities. You can calculate what all the potential outcomes can be, but this tells you nothing if they are all equally likely. So it tells you nothing. A completely wasteful application.

Yet there are far more companies trying to use ‘AI’ to do the second condition than for the first condition. After investing a fortune in hardware, they still have the same accuracy in decision making as before.

Honestly, we really should pop the ai bubble and go full Luddite butlerian jihad

Trump’s Truth Social Hit by Humiliating Exodus [Down 40% in one year]

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/64681779

Active users of President Donald Trump’s social media platform have dropped like flies.

Trump’s Truth Social site, where he threatens other countries and posts self-aggrandizing AI slop, has experienced a dramatic drop in daily active users of its mobile app since last July, according to the Financial Times.

The outlet, citing estimates from the digital market intelligence company SimilarWeb, reported that the mobile site’s daily active users have plummeted from 436,000 in July 2025 to only 261,000 one year later.

Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night

cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46324633

Yeah, well said. I wish someone would sell and manufacture actual anti surveillance glasses

Yeah, Same here honestly, God I wish

Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/68943011

This unfortunately, MBAs are the worst, too many of them simp for the billionaire broligarchs

This unfortunately, I’m sick tech broligarchs and billionaire broligarchs and broligarch billionaires ruining everything