Also it’s madness that systems like these are connected directly to the internet without read-only permissions implemented.

Water systems in the US are, too. And they have been hacked.

The whole field is evolving, there is the EU Cyber Resiliency Act and some provisions for critical infrastructure.

Search YouTube for “Michael Hastings Accident”.

Don’t worry. It is surely only a misbehaving LLM…

You can prey LaTeX from my cold dead hands…

They could go straight to the nuclear stuff and make a liberated version of Oracle’s VirtualBox. Would become as popular as Robin Hood.

These systems are MASSIVELY complicated and require quite a bit of technical know-how.

You named one main problem here.

The other ist cost. How much does a system cost that replaces one worker cost? INCLUDING the required technically skilled service staff?

Wait, you don’t know all the facts yet! We have a free trial for you of our fully automated hairdresser! You will be stunned how a whirlwind of blades trims the stuff growing out of your head in a mere minute! Without boring human conversations! For a little fee of 200 dollar per trail!

Kinda madly irritating that this excludes the whole charming population of Scotland to hone their great cursing skills because these motherfucking clankers which have as much of a soul as a thermonuclear bomb detonator, as much sincerity as a Russian landmine camouflaged as a child’s toy, as much empathy as a cruise missile hitting a girls school, and as much of a hearth as the boss of Oracle firing 10,000 people with a pencil stroke, and moreovee are too dumb to screw a lightbulb socket are allegedly too sensitive and dainty to receive what people are actually thinking…

A bit like an online shop that sells stuff via Amazon…

You are right with your assessment.

I’d guess it might take one generation until the trials begin. But It might be less depending on how rapidly the climate disaster unfolds. And there will probably a transition period where different institutions, governed by different interests, will be literally at war with each other. Look what happens to the car industry.

If you absolutely have to use LLMs, they should be adressed like servants in old school style, in third person only.

Do you beg your dog to sit down?

I was not dreaming about using numpy on the phone for doing compound interest calculations…

This is also a major problem with social networks, gmail and so on - users think these authorize them to give away private data of you- like phone numbers, mail adresses, text message content, images - of you.

Now things that have been told in confidence only for their ears are added to that list.

I noticed that with self-checkout terminals, fruit varieties are still mis-labeled and missing. I noted that because I write down the price for such items, to be sure I enter the correct variety and price. It wasn’t there. Not only you’d pay more than is on the label - you also risk to be accused of theft if there is a bag ceck. And if you call somebody to correct it, you waste several minutes since the missing variety might not even be in the system.

The time saving is hugely illusory. You really should take your watch and measure. What costs most time at a staffed register checkout is mostly the payment. The staff scans much faster than you.

Try to save a file to “PRN”.

I found keyboard layout switching to be too much friction.

I am programming in English and writing in English and German. What I use now is the UK international layout with dead keys. Plus compose key bindings for less frequently used symbols like € or °. This allows me to keep the same layout everywhere, which makes my life easier - and typing faster.

That would lead to an AI ice age. Surely not the worst development for Gaia and her children.

Fantastic. That’s USD 750 per Earth inhabitant. You could feed all of humanity for this, with is what is essentially needed.