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[Monkeys Fist 46989]

Just now, PaddockLad said:

Don’t remember any of those cardigans being worn by the youth though….probably too busy playing with my dinky toy tbh…

You couldn’t move for the fucking things in Killy- it was like a prequel to the Big Lebowski 

[Toonpack 12514]

5 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

Saturday nights, Starsky and Hutch then match of the day, definitely rivalled top of the pops on Thursdays as the best night of the week ☺️

 

Don’t remember any of those cardigans being worn by the youth though….probably too busy playing with my dinky toy tbh…

 

 

 

 

 

Just about everyone wore a Starsky jumper man

[Sonatine 12498]

13 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

 

 

 too busy playing with my dinky toy tbh…

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Monkeys Fist 46989]

4 minutes ago, Sonatine said:

 

I know, shocking isn’t it? 
 

 

 

 

It’s a fucking Corgi set, right there in the picture he posted !!!

[Meenzer 16942]

5 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

I know, shocking isn’t it? 
 

 

 

 

It’s a fucking Corgi set, right there in the picture he posted !!!

 

When he invites you to pet his Dinky toy but it's actually a Corgi

 

[PaddockLad 20120]

19 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

 

Just about everyone wore a Starsky jumper man

I didn’t. They hadn’t filtered through to the jumble sales I was largely clothed by back then tbh  we weren’t particularly “poor”, we just had a a very frugal and canny Mancunian mother…although this wasn’t unusual, most of the other mothers in our street could be seen at them too. They didn’t seem to be a thing in Scotland after we moved there…

[Alex 38261]

I absolutely loved Strarsky and Hutch. The fucking opening credits, man. Absolutely epic  

 

I’ve just watched that about 6 times  

[Toonpack 12514]

5 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

I didn’t. They hadn’t filtered through to the jumble sales I was largely clothed by back then tbh  we weren’t particularly “poor”, we just had a a very frugal and canny Mancunian mother…although this wasn’t unusual, most of the other mothers in our street could be seen at them too. They didn’t seem to be a thing in Scotland after we moved there…

 

My mum knitted mine, shops sold patterns for them, it was mint, my mates all wanted her to do one for them 😀 Be her Glasgow roots, I'm not buying you something I can make cheaper and better (and she did).

[Monkeys Fist 46989]

 

1 minute ago, Toonpack said:

My mum knitted

Mine too. 
 

She had a knitting machine briefly, knocked out one each for me and my brother. 

[ewerk 34841]

Sometimes this place doesn't half feel like a nursing home.

[Meenzer 16942]

4 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

 

Mine too. 
 

She had a knitting machine briefly, knocked out one each for me and my brother. 

 

[Meenzer 16942]

2 minutes ago, ewerk said:

Sometimes this place doesn't half feel like a nursing home.

 

HE SAID, SOMETIMES THIS PLACE DOESN'T HALF FEEL LIKE A NURSING HOME

[Toonpack 12514]

9 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

 

HE SAID, SOMETIMES THIS PLACE DOESN'T HALF FEEL LIKE A NURSING HOME

[Howmanheyman 38536]

My Mam had David Soul's album, I can hear 'silver lady' now.

[RobinRobin 13117]

1 hour ago, Meenzer said:

 

HE SAID, SOMETIMES THIS PLACE DOESN'T HALF FEEL LIKE A NURSING HOME

[Andrew 5784]

https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter

AI not a viable industry if it doesn't have carte blanche to steal from people who do actual work.

 

Good, let it die.

[Blastronaut 1374]

56 minutes ago, Andrew said:

https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter

AI not a viable industry if it doesn't have carte blanche to steal from people who do actual work.

 

Good, let it die.

 

What I find really hard to deal with, is that we're already living in an age where people have regressed so far that good writers and journalists are being accused of using AI on the grounds that "normal people shouldn't have that knowledge of grammar and punctuation".

 

I think we've long passed the tipping point where a majority people put more faith and trust in Al and algorithms than they do the data that feeds it. 

 

We're now waiting on the stage where it goes too far and the scales tip back the other way. There's encouraging signs of polarisation in the debate about AI, but I'm not convinced this will end well for anyone besides the top 5%.

[Gemmill 53763]

I mentioned Notebook LM on here recently. It's a Google AI thing where you can upload documents and then ask Google about them. 

 

So I used it for some 300 page user manuals where I don't want to have to read them from cover to cover. 

 

I've just discovered there is another feature where you can get it to create a podcast from the documents you upload to it. Its ridiculous, it genuinely sounds like two people having a conversation and providing an outline of how the thing works, what the key features are etc.. 

 

You can also mould the content of the podcast to zero in on certain aspects. I know AI is evil etc, but that is honestly canny impressive. 

[Craig 7940]

13 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

I mentioned Notebook LM on here recently. It's a Google AI thing where you can upload documents and then ask Google about them. 

 

So I used it for some 300 page user manuals where I don't want to have to read them from cover to cover. 

 

I've just discovered there is another feature where you can get it to create a podcast from the documents you upload to it. Its ridiculous, it genuinely sounds like two people having a conversation and providing an outline of how the thing works, what the key features are etc.. 

 

You can also mould the content of the podcast to zero in on certain aspects. I know AI is evil etc, but that is honestly canny impressive. 

Stuff like that is where it has its merits. 

They do one of these  balanced scorecards  here and the exec board has decided that being and the 'AI journey' has to be a metric for the current year - which brought about an AI workshop at our level. 

The opening gambit from the person running the meeting was "Right we've been told we need AI ... where do we use it?"

 

[Andrew 5784]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

I mentioned Notebook LM on here recently. It's a Google AI thing where you can upload documents and then ask Google about them. 

 

So I used it for some 300 page user manuals where I don't want to have to read them from cover to cover. 

 

I've just discovered there is another feature where you can get it to create a podcast from the documents you upload to it. Its ridiculous, it genuinely sounds like two people having a conversation and providing an outline of how the thing works, what the key features are etc.. 

 

You can also mould the content of the podcast to zero in on certain aspects. I know AI is evil etc, but that is honestly canny impressive. 

The podcast things a bit much (imo) but thats exactly the sort of utility that AI can have and be good and useful. 

If we weren't stuck in the system of economy/government we were in then recent breakthroughs with AI could be used to do an absolute fuck load of jobs that people don't actually want to do, and then something like a UBI could be used to help with the fact that it would impact the jobs market. It would be an enormous step forward for humanity, where people could actually focus on health and art and being good for the world and doing all those things that humanity is actually capable of doing if we weren't all stuck having to work all the time to be able to afford to not be homeless.

 

Instead it is for some reason being used to replace art with mindless, soulless drivel that has so little value it can't even get a like on an internet forum whilst burning down rainforests to power data centers to produce valueless garbage. All while stealing from talented, hard working people whose work is referred to as "data". Making billions for a select few people whilst more struggling artists and workers lose their livelihoods and you have tory cunts like Nick Clegg whining that the business won't be viable if they can't steal from everyone as if thats an argument in its favour.

[Meenzer 16942]

It also seems more than a little short-sighted for organisations to be delightedly handing over key functions and decision-making processes to what is, ultimately, a paid product that can be withdrawn, modified or made prohibitively more expensive at any time.

[Craig 7940]

Working in a service industry, my response to this workshop was to suggest we can utilise it to reduce overhead when it comes to reporting and knowledge management, but that both would need QC scrutiny applied to it and even that was entirely dependent on quality data input to start with. 

Apparently they were expecting something more than that.

[Ayatollah Hermione 15423]

They were hoping for a way to lay off 25% of the workforce and replace them with AI