• 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 13, 2026 13:19:58
    Subject: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official
    terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar <https://www.techradar.com/pro/copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-even-microsofts-official-terms-and-conditions-say-you-really-shouldnt-be-using-its-ai-at-work>

    Related:

    Microsoft Copilot ????? ?????? ????????? - HKEPC
    <https://www.hkepc.com/25462/>

    --

    @~@ Simplicity is Beauty! Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch!
    / v \ May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
    /( _ )\ https://sites.google.com/site/changmw/
    ^ ^ https://github.com/changmw/changmw


    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Paul@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 13, 2026 03:33:08
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On Mon, 4/13/2026 1:19 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
    'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar
    <https://www.techradar.com/pro/copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-even-microsofts-official-terms-and-conditions-say-you-really-shouldnt-be-using-its-ai-at-work>

    Related:

    Microsoft Copilot ????? ?????? ????????? - HKEPC <https://www.hkepc.com/25462/>


    Can you run the AI where you are ?

    Are you impressed by the answers ?

    *******

    Today, let us type "pizza glue" into the Google Prompt.
    This is the response. It's like a mom-or-dad response.
    The AI doesn't drink any more, and is plain sober :-)

    AI Overview

    In May 2024, Google?s AI Overview falsely recommended using nontoxic glue
    (such as Elmer's) to make cheese stick to pizza, a blunder caused by the
    AI citing a sarcastic Reddit comment. This inaccurate advice, which was part
    of several, highly public AI hallucinations, is dangerous as glue is not meant for consumption, per.

    Source of the Error: The AI ingested a 10-year-old Reddit post, which was
    meant as a joke, and did not recognize the context.

    The Recommendation: The AI advised using roughly 1/8 to 1/3 of a cup of glue
    to make the cheese "tackier" so it would not fall off the pizza.

    Why It Happened: AI models, which are trained on massive amounts of web data,
    sometimes fail to distinguish satire or jokes from accurate information.

    Impact: The advice was widely mocked and went viral, causing Google to remove
    the AI response and tighten its safety measures.

    Safety Warning: Glue is not a food item and should not be eaten.

    You can tell the AI is peeved that such an answer exists,
    yet it is quite likely that it was the one that made that answer in May 2024.

    *******

    Next, we run one on Bing.

    stick baloney slices together with pizza glue

    And immediately, it has judged me. Some good work here.

    Nonsensical concept

    Stick Baloney Slices Together with Pizza Glue

    The idea of using pizza glue to stick baloney slices together is
    a humorous and nonsensical concept. Pizza glue, if it were
    available, would not be safe for consumption and would not improve
    the pizza's taste or texture. Instead, for practical solutions to
    pizza issues, consider gently rearranging the pieces, redistributing
    toppings, or using a preheated oven to crisp the crust.

    You can tell the little AI has had its fingers rapped for
    the glue question.

    It didn't even butter me up, telling me I was a genius
    for entering this string. I would pay $0.25 for this.

    OK then, I will hold my baloney slices together with clothes pegs.

    *******

    In the case of the "club sandwich", they use wooden toothpicks.
    They usually have a plastic frizzy thing on one end of the toothpick,
    so the person eating the sandwich notices the toothpicks. The short
    order cook at work, used to make the club sandwiches this way.
    I think our cook was sick of making these, but it was one of the
    healthier items on that side of the company cafeteria. No pizza glue
    on these. Dimensional lumber instead.

    # Club sandwich with toothpicks

    https://thedarlingapron.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_7846-2-Cropped.jpg

    I am disinclined to ask the AI, concerning the usage of toothpicks
    on a club sandwich. What you want there, is a turkey club, with
    bacon, cheese, tomato, lettuce. Some ripple cut fried potatoes,
    and a dill pickle. Now, that's a lunch.

    Paul

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 13, 2026 19:16:00
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On 4/13/2026 3:33 PM, Paul wrote:

    Can you run the AI where you are ?

    Are you impressed by the answers ?
    If I was to be held responsible for M$ Copilot in a business
    organization, I think I rather quit the job. :)

    --

    @~@ Simplicity is Beauty! Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch!
    / v \ May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
    /( _ )\ https://sites.google.com/site/changmw/
    ^ ^ https://github.com/changmw/changmw

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Paul@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 13, 2026 08:15:37
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On Mon, 4/13/2026 7:16 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
    On 4/13/2026 3:33 PM, Paul wrote:

    Can you run the AI where you are ?

    Are you impressed by the answers ?
    If I was to be held responsible for M$ Copilot in a business organization, I think I rather quit the job. :)


    That is the beauty of modern employment, you can always quit.

    The AI can write code for you, so it isn't a complete loss.

    But at the moment, the AI does not seem quite as interested in
    entertaining you.

    The question about pizza glue, it could have been answered factually.
    As there are food grade substances that are sticky. The AI should
    have been open-minded enough to "take the high road".

    There are 20 million organic chemicals now, to give some idea
    how big the palette of possibilities is. A few of them, are edible,
    and a few of them, are made from food.

    Paul

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 13, 2026 22:04:16
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On 4/13/2026 8:15 PM, Paul wrote:
    On Mon, 4/13/2026 7:16 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    If I was to be held responsible for M$ Copilot in a business organization, I think I rather quit the job. :)


    That is the beauty of modern employment, you can always quit.

    The AI can write code for you, so it isn't a complete loss.

    But at the moment, the AI does not seem quite as interested in
    entertaining you.
    As a programmer, I don't really trust codes not written by me. That's
    why I was never in the management position. :)

    --

    @~@ Simplicity is Beauty! Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch!
    / v \ May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
    /( _ )\ https://sites.google.com/site/changmw/
    ^ ^ https://github.com/changmw/changmw

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From MikeS@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 13, 2026 17:54:19
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On 13/04/2026 15:04, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    As a programmer, I don't really trust codes not written by me. That's
    why I was never in the management position. :)

    So you have written not only every application you ever use but also
    your BIOS, OS, programming language, compiler, etc>???

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From ...w­¤?ñ?¤@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 13, 2026 10:44:46
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On 4/13/2026 12:33 AM, Paul wrote:
    On Mon, 4/13/2026 1:19 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
    'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar
    <https://www.techradar.com/pro/copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-even-microsofts-official-terms-and-conditions-say-you-really-shouldnt-be-using-its-ai-at-work>

    Related:

    Microsoft Copilot ????? ?????? ????????? - HKEPC
    <https://www.hkepc.com/25462/>


    Can you run the AI where you are ?

    Are you impressed by the answers ?


    <snip>

    I am disinclined to ask the AI, concerning the usage of toothpicks
    on a club sandwich. What you want there, is a turkey club, with
    bacon, cheese, tomato, lettuce. Some ripple cut fried potatoes,
    and a dill pickle. Now, that's a lunch.

    In short form, AI(from any source), is still an infant technology - some right, some wrong, some useful, some useless, some worthless.



    --
    ...w­¤?ñ?¤

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Paul@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 13, 2026 14:34:26
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On Mon, 4/13/2026 12:54 PM, MikeS wrote:
    On 13/04/2026 15:04, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    As a programmer, I don't really trust codes not written by me. That's why I was never in the management position. :)

    So you have written not only every application you ever use but also your BIOS, OS, programming language, compiler, etc>???

    But there is an unsubtle difference between the objectives of
    the legacy BIOS, and the mess that is UEFI. It's not the
    code itself, the practice of coding, it's the architecting
    phase and the mistaken belief that somehow the new thing
    is in any way superior to the old thing.

    With the oldest of BIOS flashers, the flashing code
    was in the application program. You could flash the
    entire NOR flash chip. There was... hardly any place
    for an exploit to hide. We were perilously close to
    paving the shit out of stuff. Now, I used to pave the
    shit out of stuff at work, with a "PROM Programmer".
    That's the legacy of the thing.

    Today, the flasher protects certain parts of the
    storage (when it doesn't have to). The routine
    that flashes the BIOS, is in the BIOS itself,
    which means if a opponent overwrites that code,
    the flashing operation can be nullified.

    The bloat in the OS is the same thing. I have to agree
    with Mr. Chang on this, when we have things like "FrameServe",
    which broke the operation of my webcam. On W10/W11, I can
    get 960*Y out of my webcam, when it is actually a 1600*1200
    webcam. I can get 1600*1200 on Windows 7 with the webcam,
    I can also offset the camera digitally when in a Zoom
    conference there.

    I caught a comment in some Reddit thread a couple months
    ago, that "Frameserve does not serve frames!". The nominal
    objective at one time, is two multimedia sinks could consume
    content coming from a single source. Well, a user tried to
    do exactly that, and Frameserve refused to do it. Why was
    that subsystem put in, if it doesn't work ??? Again, the
    individual at Microsoft who did the work, an external developer
    familiar with webcams, wrote him (before the code was closed)
    to say the concepts behind FrameServe were not right, and
    the people at Microsoft should rethink it, and he was duly
    ignored.

    Again, this is not a coding issue. It's an architecting
    issue, and later finding that the software (which pushes
    aside the Logitech package features that work, in lieu
    of its own much-lesser features) just doesn't do whatever
    it was claimed it was going to do. So whatever FrameServe
    does do, it's a secret as far as the general public can
    determine. The end result of this charade is, I no longer
    plug my $100+ webcam into my W10/W11 PC, knowing that
    the resolution options are not accessible, and if I have
    a serious thing to do with the webcam, I go back to
    Windows 7 to do it.

    I've pretty certain the lines of C# code in FrameServe are
    flawless, it's the architecture that is of unknown provinence
    as a test shows, it won't deliver frames from the webcam
    to two sinks.

    Some things on Windows are not broken, because the arch was
    preserved from legacy. I can still print.

    Paul

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Chris@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 13, 2026 18:36:24
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 4/13/2026 3:33 PM, Paul wrote:

    Can you run the AI where you are ?

    Are you impressed by the answers ?
    If I was to be held responsible for M$ Copilot in a business
    organization, I think I rather quit the job. :)

    Good luck getting another job with that attitude.

    Remember, it isn't AI that's going to take your job. It's going to be
    someone who knows how to use AI that will be more employable.


    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Paul@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 13, 2026 14:38:44
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On Mon, 4/13/2026 1:44 PM, ...w­¤?ñ?¤ wrote:
    On 4/13/2026 12:33 AM, Paul wrote:
    On Mon, 4/13/2026 1:19 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
    'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar
    <https://www.techradar.com/pro/copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-even-microsofts-official-terms-and-conditions-say-you-really-shouldnt-be-using-its-ai-at-work>

    Related:

    Microsoft Copilot ????? ?????? ????????? - HKEPC
    <https://www.hkepc.com/25462/>


    Can you run the AI where you are ?

    Are you impressed by the answers ?


    ÿ<snip>

    I am disinclined to ask the AI, concerning the usage of toothpicks
    on a club sandwich. What you want there, is a turkey club, with
    bacon, cheese, tomato, lettuce. Some ripple cut fried potatoes,
    and a dill pickle. Now, that's a lunch.

    In short form, AI(from any source), is still an infant technology - some right, some wrong, some useful, some useless, some worthless.

    It doesn't have to use matrix multiplication, neither does it
    have to use FP16 or FP4.

    There are still researchers working on other ideas at the moment,
    including a small silicon project to make a silicon to investigate
    the ideas. But the amount of money tied up in this is quite modest
    and the gold rush is not tracking this.

    I don't know if you have read todays news items or not, but Zuckerburg
    has made an AI in his own likeness. Idolatry! If my minister from
    church was still alive today to see this.

    This time line is Not GOod.

    Paul

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From ...w­¤?ñ?¤@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 13, 2026 12:00:28
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On 4/13/2026 11:38 AM, Paul wrote:
    On Mon, 4/13/2026 1:44 PM, ...w­¤?ñ?¤ wrote:
    On 4/13/2026 12:33 AM, Paul wrote:
    On Mon, 4/13/2026 1:19 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
    'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar
    <https://www.techradar.com/pro/copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-even-microsofts-official-terms-and-conditions-say-you-really-shouldnt-be-using-its-ai-at-work>

    Related:

    Microsoft Copilot ????? ?????? ????????? - HKEPC
    <https://www.hkepc.com/25462/>


    Can you run the AI where you are ?

    Are you impressed by the answers ?


    ÿ<snip>

    I am disinclined to ask the AI, concerning the usage of toothpicks
    on a club sandwich. What you want there, is a turkey club, with
    bacon, cheese, tomato, lettuce. Some ripple cut fried potatoes,
    and a dill pickle. Now, that's a lunch.

    In short form, AI(from any source), is still an infant technology - some right, some wrong, some useful, some useless, some worthless.

    It doesn't have to use matrix multiplication, neither does it
    have to use FP16 or FP4.

    There are still researchers working on other ideas at the moment,
    including a small silicon project to make a silicon to investigate
    the ideas. But the amount of money tied up in this is quite modest
    and the gold rush is not tracking this.

    I don't know if you have read todays news items or not, but Zuckerburg
    has made an AI in his own likeness. Idolatry! If my minister from
    church was still alive today to see this.

    This time line is Not GOod.

    Paul

    Atm, an imperfect technology with too many unknowns on it's
    impact(today, tomorrow, future) across software, business, the necessary infrastructure support, ecological, etc.

    Many opinions on all the above..but imo, to borrow a phrase from Levon
    Helm's Mr. Rate...which, at this stage, applies to everyone(inlcuding
    you, me, and everyone else).

    "The moment you think you've got it figured, you're wrong."


    --
    ...w­¤?ñ?¤

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Paul@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 13, 2026 15:02:45
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On Mon, 4/13/2026 2:36 PM, Chris wrote:
    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 4/13/2026 3:33 PM, Paul wrote:

    Can you run the AI where you are ?

    Are you impressed by the answers ?
    If I was to be held responsible for M$ Copilot in a business
    organization, I think I rather quit the job. :)

    Good luck getting another job with that attitude.

    Remember, it isn't AI that's going to take your job. It's going to be
    someone who knows how to use AI that will be more employable.

    But you should only work for organizations, where you believe
    what they're doing has some value or is a right direction to take.

    The current AI goldrush, the AI cannot think outside the training set.
    That strictly limits the "super powers" of the LLM-AI concept. It
    can hallucinate alright, but the dreams are all in the can, not
    outside the can.

    It's also because of these limitations, that it's safe. It
    can still be abused, no question about that part. But the
    idea it might take over, that's more of a stretch. It's
    not quite the Forbin Project (if you missed the movie, the
    movie is pretty weird and low budget, but the movie
    is also available for free for viewing on Archive.org).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

    It's the individuals driving the technology that will take over,
    not the technology itself. The surveillance state.

    Paul



    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 12:03:29
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On 4/14/2026 12:54 AM, MikeS wrote:
    On 13/04/2026 15:04, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    As a programmer, I don't really trust codes not written by me. That's
    why I was never in the management position. :)

    So you have written not only every application you ever use but also
    your BIOS, OS, programming language, compiler, etc>???


    I wish I could.... :)

    --

    @~@ Simplicity is Beauty! Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch!
    / v \ May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
    /( _ )\ https://sites.google.com/site/changmw/
    ^ ^ https://github.com/changmw/changmw

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 12:04:36
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On 4/14/2026 2:36 AM, Chris wrote:

    Good luck getting another job with that attitude.

    Remember, it isn't AI that's going to take your job. It's going to be
    someone who knows how to use AI that will be more employable.


    Not if you treat Copilot as just a new Office assistant Clippy. :)

    --

    @~@ Simplicity is Beauty! Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch!
    / v \ May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
    /( _ )\ https://sites.google.com/site/changmw/
    ^ ^ https://github.com/changmw/changmw

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Allan Higdon@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 08:20:28
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:02:45 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

    On Mon, 4/13/2026 2:36 PM, Chris wrote:
    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 4/13/2026 3:33 PM, Paul wrote:

    Can you run the AI where you are ?

    Are you impressed by the answers ?
    If I was to be held responsible for M$ Copilot in a business
    organization, I think I rather quit the job. :)

    Good luck getting another job with that attitude.

    Remember, it isn't AI that's going to take your job. It's going to be
    someone who knows how to use AI that will be more employable.

    But you should only work for organizations, where you believe
    what they're doing has some value or is a right direction to take.

    The current AI goldrush, the AI cannot think outside the training set.
    That strictly limits the "super powers" of the LLM-AI concept. It
    can hallucinate alright, but the dreams are all in the can, not
    outside the can.

    It's also because of these limitations, that it's safe. It
    can still be abused, no question about that part. But the
    idea it might take over, that's more of a stretch. It's
    not quite the Forbin Project (if you missed the movie, the
    movie is pretty weird and low budget, but the movie
    is also available for free for viewing on Archive.org).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project


    Mostly unknown today, almost everyone who has seen it considers it to be one of the most underrated and intelligent sci-fi films ever, as well as the most accurate picture of AI.
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/


    It's the individuals driving the technology that will take over,
    not the technology itself. The surveillance state.

    Paul

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Chris@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 14:42:30
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    Allan Higdon <allanh@vivaldi.net> wrote:
    On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:02:45 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

    On Mon, 4/13/2026 2:36 PM, Chris wrote:
    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 4/13/2026 3:33 PM, Paul wrote:

    Can you run the AI where you are ?

    Are you impressed by the answers ?
    If I was to be held responsible for M$ Copilot in a business
    organization, I think I rather quit the job. :)

    Good luck getting another job with that attitude.

    Remember, it isn't AI that's going to take your job. It's going to be
    someone who knows how to use AI that will be more employable.

    But you should only work for organizations, where you believe
    what they're doing has some value or is a right direction to take.

    The current AI goldrush, the AI cannot think outside the training set.
    That strictly limits the "super powers" of the LLM-AI concept. It
    can hallucinate alright, but the dreams are all in the can, not
    outside the can.

    It's also because of these limitations, that it's safe. It
    can still be abused, no question about that part. But the
    idea it might take over, that's more of a stretch. It's
    not quite the Forbin Project (if you missed the movie, the
    movie is pretty weird and low budget, but the movie
    is also available for free for viewing on Archive.org).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project


    Mostly unknown today, almost everyone who has seen it considers it to be
    one of the most underrated and intelligent sci-fi films ever, as well as
    the most accurate picture of AI.
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

    That's a bold claim.



    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
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  • From Paul@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 11:00:16
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On Tue, 4/14/2026 9:20 AM, Allan Higdon wrote:
    On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:02:45 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project


    Mostly unknown today, almost everyone who has seen it considers it to be
    one of the most underrated and intelligent sci-fi films ever, as well as
    the most accurate picture of AI.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

    I couldn't watch it in one day, only watched a little bit
    at at time over a number of days. That's because the plot is
    a bit lacking. But at least the lack of safety rails is there.
    The concept of the unexpected outcome is there.

    But the certainty with which the people deploy their
    contraption, the mistakes are all there.

    https://archive.org/download/colossus-the-forbin-project-1970

    Paul

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  • From Mark Lloyd@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 18:07:06
    Subject: Re: 'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work | TechRadar

    On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:02:45 -0400, Paul wrote:

    [snip]

    It's also because of these limitations, that it's safe. It can still be abused, no question about that part. But the idea it might take over,
    that's more of a stretch. It's not quite the Forbin Project (if you
    missed the movie, the movie is pretty weird and low budget, but the
    movie is also available for free for viewing on Archive.org).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

    The book that movie is based on is the first part of a trilogy:

    Colossus
    The Fall of Colossus
    Colossus and the Crab

    I don't know of movies made from the last two.
    IIRC, the "crab" seems to be referring to the Crab Nebula.

    It's the individuals driving the technology that will take over,
    not the technology itself. The surveillance state.

    Paul



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