Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Capable of kidnapping your data? El Reg reports that (s)mooth AI criminal drives ‘first’ end-to-end agentic ransomware attack. (To put that another way, once it got the prompt, an AI bot ran a rensomeware scam from start to finish all on its ownsome.)
AI doesn’t stand for “ariticial intelligence.” It stands “amoral instrumentation.”
A Divider, Not a Uniter 0
In the Las Vegas Sun, Tom Harper points out that that has been the long-standing strategy of today’s Republican Party.
American Stasi 0
Starting with a video of an American WWII veteran, who says that he fought against concentration camps 80 years ago only to see them being established now in his own country, Rick Strom reviews a litany of abuses by the Trump maladministration’s hooded KKK secretive police.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
As my old professor of the early fedeeral period was fond of pointing out, “History is irony.”
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Impartial? Only as impartial as the data they scrape train on.
At the Psychology Today website, Phil Reed reminds that “AI mirrors human cognitive biases, not just factual knowledge.” Follow the link for the evidence.
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . meet a notion of immigrants.
A Tune for the Time 0
Warning: Short promo at about the one minute mark.
All the News that Fits 0
Josh Gay delights in a rare event: A Fox News apology. And he notes a number of times when Fox has–er–broadcast “news” reports of questionable veracity without facing a requirement to accept responsibility for facilitating fabrications.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner.
Another portable phallus left lying about.
Another child.