Depends on your definition of AI. There are academics who hate OpenAI’s ChatGPT etc but are comfortable using transcription services using OpenAI’s whisper AI. Not an LLM but trained on over 500,000 hours of sound, which would have been “stolen” just like LLM’s data.
Someone thought it a good idea to combine Clippy with AI. felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/
New York is advertising on Sydney trains, little else demonstrates desperation more than this. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen NY advertising itself in Australia, it hasn’t ever needed to.
A hell of a lot more. The main data centre usage by a huge margin is cloud computing (eg google, aws, Microsoft) and corporate usage. Over 80% AI is gaining ground, and crypto in comparison isn’t that much
Hey glen. Social media can be a bit Hive Mind at times. It is a serious issue. I am doing a lot of reading about it. There is serious Academic research about it Here is a good longitudinal study from 2024 that I like bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
True. Email itself wouldn’t take up much space comparatively. It’s mainly text which compresses fantasically. Everyone deleting their videos and images would make more of a dent. It would be interesting to see stats over how much is consumed by corporations, would be massive in comparison I’d guess
The storage device and compute in the data centres where email is stored would use a bit. That being said unless they physically remove those devices and not replace them deleting emails won’t do a damn thing as those devices use same amount of power regardless of how much they are used.
I am sure that “feature” was written by some “bastard programmer from hell” getting revenge on all us Lusers… (Nods towards the original BOFH) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard...
I remember when apple used to advertise the iPad as a creative device, you could draw, make music, write. Now it’s advertised as a ‘hey look, you can do silly things with photos, like remove a cat’ (as seen on TV last night)
Ha, great point….
There were plenty of houses in Sydney Australia that still had backyard outhouses in the 2000’s. (They were connected to the sewer however). Damn cold in the winter. Spiders were fun aswell.
i checked out her double fault % - 4.5% - so there is a chance.....
100%. My kid is 11 and tells me how the school allows the kids to use ChatGPT to look up answers. Australia is banning social media for under 16’s , they should also ban GenAI for them. “Eating our young” is a phrase I use a lot when talking about AI
Old adage is that it’s not a backup unless it’s stored remotely. I’ve seen lightning strikes take out companies that only backed up locally. Enterprise paranoia keeps me employed. 2 local copies, plus two remote, plus local and remote snapshots, plus cloud backups.
For sure . Ideally files are synced from a local directory. So it’s create file locally and then its synced with some sort of cloud provider It’s also why you need a seperate backup, as if you delete locally it will also be deleted on cloud provider. (Data loss gives me sleepless nights)
Enterprise storage guy here. Do what enterprises do. 3 copies of all data 1) Local copy 2) Replicated copy, eg Dropbox or google, 3) backup to external location (plenty of online services) it keeps revisions of documents To be extra careful do a local copy to an external hard drive aswell
Sounds like my 11yr, throughly sick of colonialism. And colonialism can be so interesting! characters like “boatswain” Maroot, disease and decimation, sex, ecological destruction.
$15!!! that's expensive. In the south west of sydney its $8.
Kids are using it for school assignments at age 10.
A member of the cohort is responding to a question, everyone is involved with their own device. I found myself doing this aswell. How hard is it to teach and learn? I’ll turn my device upside down away from me and shut my laptop. It’s commonplace and I wonder what we are losing by not listening
As a 50yr old high school dropout who has just started uni (arts) and have been in tech for my whole life I am appreciating how academic writing forces me to research and “prove” my thinking. That being said I do struggle with how bloody dry it is.
Australian way is the only way mate. Compulsory preferential voting for all…
The internet tells me there are 1.1 billion , of which 200 million are active… Oh, and google has indexed 50 billion pages. This may take awhile :)
I am so going to steal this just have to think of what website i need to memorise
I’ve hit the roof. The shit about helping them create stories… kids do that wonderfully already.
Wilfully ignorant is my guess for a lot of people, that and people with an agenda. A quick google will show ABC has reported on political donations from Rinehart and others in last couple of years
they give you that for free, just like any good drug dealer. Unless you actually subscribe to copilot it’s a cost to Microsoft.
From my limited research the only people paying for generative AI are coders and people that enjoy erotic role play. I do not know if there is a crossover between those groups.
And women going by the author of this article. Maybe we should just get rid of the gender part and say Christian fascists.
And the 90’s ended with the anti globalisation protests, Seattle in particular. Those protests were crushed over the next couple of years. And led to the “free speech” zones at protests. The beginning of the end perhaps (aaah my pessimism has taken hold of me tonight)
Man, that is some major parental flexing :) My son got fixated on ship wrecks at age 4 after be saw the anchor of the Dunbar in Sydney. Every night for many many months he needed a different shipwreck story. At age 5 we had a titanic themed birthday party. The things we do for our kids!
Phil Clarke covered it on Nightlife this week www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Also means you can go direct to New York. I went via South Korea last year (with a nice 2 day break in Seoul)
Um, source and link please to the new logo
I tell the few people I know at the ABC to get the ABC on Bluesky. ABC is a lot more than politics and news.
Arm them with a ballista and a few archers to keep the unwashed hordes out
Further to this, local parents with girls mainly go to private schools as local school has large boy/girl disparity.
Get rid of selective schools state schools in NSW Local “semi’ selective maths/science school has both the selective and its lesser enrichment program as selective to outside catchment area. Shuts out local kids from accessing these programs. Especially the enrichment We look at private due to this
Not saying that all liberal candidates are racist misogynists, but if you are a racist misogynist then….
Looks good. Do you have any detailed info on how the AI summaries were done? The about page doesn’t give much away. I’ve used AI to summarise pdf’s for my own personal projects, and am interested in methods others use.
The dish sounds hideous whichever way it’s said :)
Although it may be wise to to avoid if it’s the salmon mousse
The rest is history podcast has a few episodes on china Including cultural revolution (episode 173) and deng xioaping (episode 366) Also episodes on world war 2 and china If you don’t know it, it’s brilliant.
History is taught to kids as a timeline in the driest way possible. My 11yr old thoroughly dislikes Australian history as the school teaches it so boringly. But he loved it when we listened to Dan Carlin’s Punic war podcast. He loves Ancient Greece as he read Percy Jackson. Tell stories.
My 11 yr old became bored with the anzacs when he was 8.
ChatGPT: turn feedback into haiku, do as Swedish chef from the muppets.
Love that quote. Here is the counterpoint from bill shankley “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”
The romantic in me believes they do bring a sense of unity. The recent World Cup qualifier in Sydney, Australia v Indonesia, was a celebration of the success of multiculturalism in Australia. It brought people together more than any politician could.
No no no… football is much more important that that
What’s bothering me is if this capitalisation was accidental or deliberate “What I’m saying is, things don’t look like they could get a lot worse.”
They also hit zlibrary aswell . Great chance if anyone published anything then meta used it Here’s an article in case anyone is interested They also shared the data they were downloading If it was you or me we’d be done for massive copyright infringement arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
The USA dominate IT services. In a war they could cripple a lot countries just by forcing US companies to turn off services. Email, networking, cloud services , applications… the entire stack for a lot of companies. So, a good start to try to minimise any harm.
100% - I’ve found so many cool local stories. Sometimes I search by local street names. Amazing little vignettes of people and places
The stories of the flooding in 1889 are fascinating to read , eg trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...
Image generation and manipulation getting easier and away from manual inpainting and controlnets. No surprise you need to be specific . Am assuming google needs to map the image and its description to your prompt or something like that.
Thank you for posting this. I’ve just started Uni to study history, and this is very cool to read (I’m a bit old, 50, but better late than never ;) )
The traditionalist in me hates this. Pink ball cricket is not the same as red ball. Maybe I am just getting old…
Man, you have to love evolution. Hands down the best thing I have read today, thanks!
Compounded by every app needing 2FA. And every app having a timeout when you need to login again… I reckon I hit 50 2FA requests today…
Double plus bad
You’ve gotta love football….
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Of all the WTF headlines I was expecting, I wasn’t expecting that.
Just starting Uni, remediating a life long regret. And first thing I see if no AI allowed for assignments. Which is cool. Then I’m told we have full access to Microsoft Copilot 365, which includes the AI component and Microsoft bugging me continually to use it in every app. Seems somewhat ironic
Utter utter bastards.. The photos are still in google until I get a proper backup of them. I lose alot of functionally by not using them, but don't want to give them any more of my $$ Good luck!
I've just spent a long week downloading all my photos off of google. 1300gb , seperated into 684 files. Each file had to be clicked manually. Every 15 minutes had to reauthenticate to google. Files only available for 7 days photos and videos sorted randomly , 30% were duplicated. Sigh...
I do, thankyou
Forgot to say, if you want to read how bullshit most AI claims are this is a wonderful resource pivot-to-ai.com
No worries mate. AI is very much a marketing term right now. Generally though if a business or government uses the word they mean it as way to avoid responsibility… :-)
Hallucinations are a part of generative AI, eg ChatGPT. There is also machine learning which can show bias depending on how it was taught. It would be very interesting to know the method they will be using for this
AI can show bias. The UK do this and a recent report did show bias www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Poetry in motion
The withdrawal isnt as terrifying as it sounds The money was transferred to New York under a protocol called ACH, which allows you to pull the Money back for some days after the deposit. This allowed musk to pull the payment back. This explains it better www.axios.com/2025/02/14/t...
Ha , yeh she was. She doubled as my French teacher. A class where I received an F… Ah the good old days.
My favourite moment of high school was creating / performing a dance / drama type piece to California Uber Alles. Drama Teacher didn’t appreciate it too much.
Brave looks good. It claims its independent and it removed bing a couple of years ago.
For what its worth, duckduckgo primarily uses Bing, ie Microsoft, for it's search.
Oh yeh. My mum ended up sending away for some "left handed pens" from some store 1000km away. They were supposed to not stain hands. They didn't work...
Ha, this brings back memories. The amount of ink that stained my hand back in the day due to being left handed. Ended up being called wonky handed by friends due to the contortions I would go through to avoid the ink.
It's in Google's interest for people to use Reddit Google pays reddit $60 million for access to all of Reddit's data. Which it then sucks up into its AI model. blog.google/inside-googl...
Good grief..
As soon as we work out where the north actually is youtu.be/ENeCYwms-Cc?...
All white, anglo, males aswell . Which is fine, but ABC does have a diversity issue. And there are many reasons for that. But it is compounded by almost all their leadership being the same, with the same backgrounds. ABC has to expand its reach, and I don't see that happening anywhere.
The Chief Digital and Information Officer is also from Nine (joined abc in october 2022)
100% this. Facebook also being a huge offender. The user is often blamed, which is a view that is endemic in IT. People lose thousands on these scams. Blame is sometimes passed to banks for allowing the transfer of $$. But the distributer of the ads... Rarely if ever.
There is also Damian Cronan the Chief Digital and Information Officer. He is also from Nine and started in late 2022.
Kim Williams said this about Hugh on radio, i have no idea what it means "hugh is a person about content and about the primacy of creative motors to media organisations, the future of all media is in the quality of creative thinking in the liberation to the imagination"
Yes, apple also put the summary under a BBC news header in your phone. So, in short, dumb AI summarises news, gets it wrong, then dumb AI sends it to your phone as if news is true. Image here.
They haven't announced it yet, so maybe Hamish is getting cold feet
Don't forget your Location/GPS settings on your phone. Unless you've disallowed it on the app, they know where you are....
its not just VPN its also Location/GPS info that gets sent unless you turn it off. Any existing accounts would probably have already sent that data, so they would need to be verified. New accounts may be harder to block, but I am sure algorithms could be used to see what account interacts with
ABC local radio is being run like its a private company, and the broadcasters, producers and the public are being treated as such. Just look where Ben Latimer and co have come from. Unless they change the format of Mornings, what was the actual reason for sacking Sarah?
They haven't announced any refreshment yet. they did put cricket on all platforms at the same time, a decision they have now reversed. It's not going to be partisan, just crap. That's what you get when you hire commercial radio people, like Ben Latimer and Mike Fitzpatrick.
Ha! What does get easier? Napping perhaps?
Leg strength and core strength makes you able to do wonders at any age. Running is great as you get better the more you do very quickly. I'm 50, took up running and exercise during COVID, I was very unfit and fat. best thing I ever did. ran a 16km a couple of months ago, I was amazed and proud.
You'd think problem would be people around the cutoff age. Same issue if some sort of facial verification is used. I can't see anything working unless it's linked to official records.
A stick! And mud! Bloody spoiled you were We had a decomposed gum leaf and a pile of fly exrement. And we had to make it last the whole summer.
The great thing about running and exercise is your future you thanks your past you for putting in the effort. I don't actually know you, you are on one of the bluesky starter packs I clicked on. Your post gives me positive vibes for the improvement I see in my own running.
