Alas, this occurred in 1995 and the company is long gone.
The demo was actually conducted using his laptop browser opening his site off-line; no webserver involved. Just a collection of pages stored on his drive C: that frog-guy created using notepad.exe, an impressive feat at the time. Once he onboarded we let him host his frog menagerie on the corporate LAN but I don’t think we ever gave it public access.
Our project manager (also at the interview) nabbed the computer-frog instantly and I haven’t spoken with anybody from that organization since 1998, so… yeah.
If I had the froggy I’d show y'all. And yes, it’s all true.
(If you’re wondering what the heck this is about, it’s about this.)
Since the Ceramic Frog thing has regained traction and I’m getting asks, here ya go.
In a new Washington Post interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted outright that he’s not entirely sure his tech empire’s latest “Apple Intelligence” won’t come up with lies and confidently distort the truth, a problematic and likely intrinsic tendency that has plagued pretty much all AI chatbots released to date.
Holy shit. Apple freely admitting their plagiarism machines will hallucinate & gaslight just like the others AND PROBABLY ALWAYS WILL is a breathtaking PR move.
Probably doing this to soften the blow to board members and high end shareholders when they show that AI isn’t the savior they think it is. CYA? Yes, but probably a smart move to just get it in the open to say ‘this may not ever be what it is touted to be’
Dead on. I’m just blown away that the CEO of Apple is intentionally going forward with the “search engines that lie” project.
In a new Washington Post interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted outright that he’s not entirely sure his tech empire’s latest “Apple Intelligence” won’t come up with lies and confidently distort the truth, a problematic and likely intrinsic tendency that has plagued pretty much all AI chatbots released to date.
Holy shit. Apple freely admitting their plagiarism machines will hallucinate & gaslight just like the others AND PROBABLY ALWAYS WILL is a breathtaking PR move.
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What specifically causes the concerns is unclear, but Apple Intelligence alone covers upgrades to Siri, Genmoji, managing notifications, taking scripted actions across different apps, as well as text generation and summaries.
Oh look, Apple’s AI plagiarism machine won’t roll out in Europe because the mean old EU consumer protection laws are in the way. The last time Apple ran afoul of the EU, they ended up dropping their weird proprietary charging cable and adopting USB-C.
Mixed bag at the Court today, but at least we have 8 justices who are not out of their fucking minds.
Judge Ho on the Fifth wanted to toy with the safety of domestic violence victims to enshrine due process protections for gun owners – if you haven’t been convicted in a criminal proceeding, then you can’t lose your precious 2A gun-toting rights because of a protective order in a civil proceeding. Fucking please.
That concurrence flew in the face of extensive evidence showing how criminal law fails to protect victims of domestic violence. Threatening activity is often a precursor to violence, evidence of imminent violence, but may still fall short of convictable offense let alone an offense that busy DAs have time to prosecute. Judge Ho’s concurrence was willfully ignorant about this at best.
As it is, it’s rare for individuals who are subject to a protective order to actually have their guns removed. The facts in Rahimi were so bad, it’s shocking this was the test case – but I think that’s exactly the fucking point. It takes a lot for this issue to actually come up in a criminal proceeding, let alone be enforced pre-emptively. There are few protections in place for people who are threatened by intimate partner violence – at least the Supreme Court agreed we should continue to try to gesture at those protections no matter how short they fall.