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No, they don't; and if they did, they wouldn't care because it's something you decided for yourself. Nobody gave you this mission, and - as you're finding out - nobody else cares enough about it to help you. No, you don't have to hurry up, because no matter how fast you go, how quickly you get...

Serious question: what's the appeal (for you) in re-telling a story that's already been written, rather than writing your own from scratch? While I can see creative value in looking at a familiar tale from a new perspective*, do you think you'll achieve much satisfaction re-writing an existing...

The (extraordinarily high) energy consumption of AI seems to have suddenly become a hot topic in my corner of YouTube. Up to now, the operators of the various systems have been quite cagey regarding the subject, and attributing a lot of consumption to the (supposedly) one-off cost of...

:hi: Cross-channel greetings, Lynn!

See: it's a political problem, not a technological one! :D These roommates might eventually have the option of acquiring a Figure (kitchen assistant edition) but they'll probably end up fighting over who didn't renew the monthly subscription, or who clicked yes to the clothes-washing add-on...

Remind me again: how do the vegetables in the fields in California get picked? Or the clothes in Walmart get made?

Really? Need more data, as the old school automatons used to say ... like actual costs (purchase, monthly subcription, software updates, energy supply). I don't see any of them for sale on Temu, so for now, humans would still be a heck of a lot cheaper (and more versatile) for any business I'm...

You know those machines already exist, don't you? I've had one for twenty years - first appliance we bought for our house when we moved to France, even before fridge or cooker!

How many working hours are there in a day? Here in France, we're already on a "3-day-week" as standard, compared to many countries (35 hours maximum). In practice, this more often takes the form of a 4-day working week, 3-day weekend. A couple of years ago, I was offered a (permanent...

My remark about Figure taking itself home from the hypothetical business was somewhat sarcastic, but there's no good reason why a business owner would want an automaton programmed to work at peak efficiency in his/her business environment coming back to the family home to sort trash from apples...

The first programmable, automated looms were invented in France and Britain in the late 1700s (before the USofA came into existence ;) ). If you've never seen one in real life, you're missing out on some mind-blowing technology - especially when you remind yourself that they didn't have...

:hi: Ciao, Lorenzo !

Ahhh, the old "I was just following orders" excuse, beloved of those humans with limited intellectual and/or moral capacity. :seeya:

:D My reaction is: stupid robot - didn't think that maybe that plate should have been washed first, seeing as it'd just had some filthy trash on it. Oh, and as it wasn't wet, why would it go in a drying rack. If it aspired to intelligence, the robot should have blasted the human with laser beams...

Is this the first instalment, or do we need to discuss how you should go about it? :D

Was it a for a French company and/or in France? If so, under French law the default maximum period for settlement of B2B invoices is 30 days, after which daily interest and administrative fees can be added. As the natives are pretty good at enforcing their rights with menaces, a foreigner's...

Yes, but that's never what happens in reality. Trades, crafts and professions have been coming and going for millenia in response to society's response to inventions and changing mindsets. You'll never see a lamplighter doing his rounds in the streets of London today, but there's still a horde...

Way off topic now, but this aspect of the American Dream - wanting to be governed rules laid down by a few privileged white dudes nearly 200 years ago - is something we Old Worlders look at and scratch our heads. :contract: Here in France, our constitution was updated yesterday, for the 26th...

Meanwhile, a bit of light relief: (pretend it's about costume design, to keep it movie-related :director: )

Specifically on the topic of creativity, Sabine Hossenfelder this week highlights some recent studies showing how "AI" is becomes less creative as it "learns" from its own output, output which has either been homogenised to the point of banality, or spewed out the same kind of error to the...