Attempting to jailbreak Bing's AI is against Microsoft's TOS. On the flipside, they get rights to all your data for training purposes and the only surefire way to opt out of that is to pick a different tech giant to be fucked by.
Yes. I speak as a layperson who wants to. The landmine of UEFI/BIOS, TPM, partitions, etc, and knowing I absolutely cannot fuck anything up. Those are huge hurdles for someone whose job is outside of computing and just needs a few things to just work.
I didn't follow it too closely because I didn't see how it could be anything but a nothingburger. I think the internet got high off LLM success and expected nonstop breakthroughs like entitled children.
I'm referring to all BCIs although right now I wouldn't be surprised if Neuralink is the most visible example. But I'm using BCI as an umbrella term for any technology whose input is the brain's electrical signals and whose output purports to be your thoughts, regardless of whether or not that interface is surgically invasive. Given that all surgeries carry risk and that all implants have challenges regarding host compatibility, getting that kind of tech to the point where the graze of a finger on an innocuous surface is enough to ballpark "thoughts" (the back of your phone, a public terminal, the door handle to a store you're walking into in order to complain to the manager...) would be the wet dream of any company and government that hoards data like money.
I didn't really want to have the same conversation in two places but whatever, if you want to bookmark this comment and see how it pans out on a longer timescale, I can make a couple guesses.
Easy potshot is all the generative AI. We get to write code and emails and homework and books faster. We also get more malware; and, when the realms of text, video, and voice are all convincing enough, we get that deepfake flood we're promised is coming, and so the breaking of a "shared reality" that snowballed with social media echo chambers becomes fully realized. So far the only "solution" I've seen is AI detection software. To me that sounds like a continuation of the same old cold war except it exhausts even more mental resources.
If you want a more novel guess, anything of the brain-computer interface ilk. It gets accurate and portable enough and it will get put into as many hard surfaces as Big Tech can stuff it, from trackpads to phone screens to more "public" terminals like ticket counters or automated fast-food restaurant booths. It starts with the novelty of generating Stable Diffusion images with just your brain, or streamlining navigation menus with thought. And then, just like big data fueled AI and proved very economically lucrative, every single thought anyone ever has will be stored just because we have the capability. FAANGs and the NSA have many redundant data centers. Every thought you have can be monetized. Or used to convict you of thoughtcrime. I can't really see the fabric of society withstanding that kind of floodgate.
I'm working through both The Loop and Your Computer Is On Fire which discuss the authoritarian tendencies of computing as it exists today.
Everyone's been saying for years that democracy's at a breaking point, capitalism's at a breaking point, now technology is at a breaking point. Unless we stop flirting with fractures and actually hit that breaking point and survive, this paradigm will only continue to squeeze. Precious little time to find a future that isn't annihilation or incredibly bleak.
I would wish best of luck to the techbros that anointed themselves our enlightened leaders and refer to everyone outside of tech as "normies" and "lemmings", but I've also read Survival of the Richest.
Keep your credit card in an RFID wallet and don't let scammers run amok with your banking info. And personally, I never allow browsers/websites to save my CC info..
Well, what rises to your level of "specifically"? Because it's a lot of bookmarks with a couple keywords that I find meaningful enough to jog my memory, not conscious memory where I'm in the middle of lunch and wonder where That One Article went. And I've only been regularly reading HN for maybe a year.
Some of the stuff I marked might interest you though.
"Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on Youtube". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30694102 One might consider that interesting in light of the recent revelation that some of the FSD footage was staged without being honest about it.
Actually, one caught my eye that is quite timely given the new AI boom. "Economists are revisiting their views on robots and jobs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30078732 You'll have to follow the archive link though, there's a paywall.
It's not like I strung you along like an ad-infested youtube video about how to get rich quick that ends with buying my book... "I read this site." It shows up on the front page, I make note and see how long it takes to go cockeyed.
(You really should buy my book though. It doesn't exist and never will but I promise it's the most riveting thing you'll ever read.)