Wearable Joe Biden Simulator LED Consent Light

"sorry for labour party rocking" was RIGHT there

Since you all like monitoring medium sized AI projects, whats the official trash future take on Neuro Sama?

Wait, does this mean that the 2006 film Click was actually presient...

These people invented a pocket Beria.

listenened to this episode maybe 6 times now and i have genuinly withheld no information beyond milo having food poisoning

I want an AI chatbot where I can talk to *Winston Churchill* at Gallipoli, not some poor kid who got turned into cannon pesto

forgot to put this in last episode but the lapel pin that roasts you nips is like the "oooh! my tits are hot! my tits are hot!" heating bra from the I.T. Crowd

I can tell you why the battery life is so bad at the same time I tell you why these combadge-wannabes are being made and why it's not just an app on your phone. This thing is designed to constantly scrape all the data you're generating, whether or not you're actively interacting with the device, to be used to furnish LLMs. Google and Apple are competitors in the space and you also don't want to have to give the disclosures on data harvesting that both Google and Apple require apps to give.

The infinity pin is like a wearable stasi

That wearable is from a black mirror episode except the device is installed in your head

One thing that really struck me about Limitless, as a former miserable ~administrative professional~ at a couple of tech companies, is that it's aiming to replace every function of an executive assistant insofar as possible, because everything it is supposed to for executives is what EAs do. The luxury of having an EA is pitched and getting someone to do all of the essential tasks you're too important to do, but it's actually getting to fully outsource your executive functioning to another human being who is better at it than you are. Anyway, I don't think it will work, because admin labor, especially at an EA level, is not something I think generative AI can do well, but it is yet another sign of how much tech creeps devalue and misunderstand any labor that's not "Business" or "Engineering" and resent having to rely on other people (in admin, project management, customer service, operations, food service, etc.) who don't even have MBAs or write code to make their lives and companies function. If this *were* to work, the result would be to wipe out an occupational category that is a lifeline to middle class to women in particular, though also often to men of color & queer people of all genders -- anyone who doesn't have the luxury to consider admin work beneath them but still has middle class acculturation. However, it won't work, because so replacing skilled feminized labor with a shitty, cheap technological facsimiles based on a) misunderstanding of how the tasks are performed and b) the misconception that it *isn't* skilled labor just doesn't work. (Like BetterHelp -- which has skilled humans involved but does everything it can to make them ineffective, like customer service chat bots, like crisis hotline chat bots, like all the immensely creepy attempts to create childcare and eldercare robots.) But the biggest reason it won't work is because when the algorithm fucks up the executive or aspiring executive whom it mildly inconvenienced won't even get the satisfying catharthis and ego-gratification of screaming at another human being who can't talk back.

Calling it now, Milo’s been dead for months.

perhaps the most depressing episode in a while, i hope that [actionable threat towards politician] etc.

The fuhrer with a thousand faces

The Limitless pin reminds me of the Aide Memoire (AM) from Alastair Reynolds' short story Zima Blue. Only more stupid and dangerous, of course.

Marathon/Halo accurately predicted AI rampancy, except that it only takes 24 hours and always results in the AI literally becoming hitler

Realising that I used Google assistant *like* a limitless pin.. Also listening to Riley on connections with others and linking that with me being unable to remember *anything* uh.. hits.. gods I love being neurodivergent 🥲

Just a heads up, the guy that invented the Segway is not the person who died on the Segway. The person who died was Jimi Heselden, the British businessman who had bought the company in 2009. In 2010 while riding on a trail, he backed up to get out of the way of a hiker and fell off a cliff. Dean Kamen invented the Segway, released in 2001, and he is still alive.

Fun Fact for Riley: as someone who works in the German wine industry we just had a large crop failure, losing up to 50% of our harvest, up to 80-90% in some regions

fully lost it at the arsenal gear joke

Governments are preparing to rule without the Mandate of Heaven? Time to start calling dibs on our generalship titles in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, mk. II.

Not 5 minutes in, and, did the Australians actually make Roko's Basilisk? They made an A.I replica of a veteran and are now tormenting him forever!

OK, I want to take that Limitless pin and turn it around to automate the CEO levels. In a parallel universe a Union vote declares all management has to wear them, and then we can fire them one by one, until we have a clean lean machine that runs on its own.

This, our trash future.

i didnt change name to this for us to not use technology for human connection what the fuck

amazing to see the British Labour Party adopt Gianroberto Casaleggio mindset

I legit wonder if relying on something like Limitless is gonna lead to some DSM recognized mental illness. Like, not actually having to reference your own memory seems like only a short jump from not _being able to_ reference your own memories. (That said, l've had a similar wonder about GPS for a decade now so my suspicions should be taken with a fair bit of salt).

My partner's job now has an AI tool sit in on zoom meetings which listens to the conversation and rates them on "engagement" and other annoying terms. It also gives a summary of what was said in the meeting, which led to the AI meeting assistant sending an email that started with "Point 1: everyone discussed how to turn off the new AI assistant"

hero with a thousand faces but they all have the mustache

I always think the funniest thing to have from Warhammer40k would be Dreadnoughts, having the Anzac guy in a MRAP computer driving around Afghanistan in 2012

November, you ever watched the 2015 show about Gallipoli? As tiring as all the ANZAC glorification gets down here, the show is pretty fantastic https://youtu.be/tecPhfkfcn8 More in the vein of 'all quite on the western front'. "My balls haven't even dropped, what the fuck are we doing shooting each other and dying from shitting too much....!?"