Sounds like they’re going to get some mysteriously vocal support and financial backing from Russia.

If you look at the camera footage of him rambling on there are people walking by at the other end. So presumably it’s to stop some passer by taking pot shots at him from behind.

It wasn’t a rally, it was a deeply weird press conference where he rambled on mostly pretending relining the reflecting pool behind him was some kind of triumph of his presidency.

Like I said, it’s not thinking. There is no thought going on with AI.

Well that’s dumb. Not because we should welcome AI, but because AI is a program that runs numbers from one end of a model to the other. It looks like it is “thinking”, but it is not. Input the same token and you will get the exact same set of other tokens as an output every single time. We just perceive thinking because AIs use randomness to select which of the output tokens to feed back into the next iteration of the same process. So if religion is an excuse not to use it, then this person has no place using a computer at all.

Imagine if he just struck a real deal with Iran. This crisis, of Trump’s own making would resolve itself.

The way AIs escape is simple. They’re trained on vulnerabilities and lots of technical commands, e.g. nmap. A prompt tells them to do something and they use their repertoire of training to discover, achieve and do the thing they’re asked to do. It’s not thinking per se, so much as chaining together of things. The problem is they do this stuff systematically and quite clearly in a way that finds a lot of vulnerabilities

And sideways vaginas. Even the men.

As for the service, it doesn’t look very expensive to run, 1 or 2 new clients a year is probably enough to sustain it. I would expect it to run so long as the owner is alive, ironically.

I doubt blockchain will be permanent either. At least it’s distributed I guess which is less fragile than a website. Maybe it would be better if somebody just embedded a (very small) obituary and picture into an RFID or something and epoxied it into the granite.

Anyone could set up a website and point a QR code at it. The issue is one of longevity - what use is a QR code if the site/domain goes down in 5 years? It has to be something which lasts a period of time into the future guaranteed. Or the QR code is just self-describing - 2kb of information about the person.

As for this service, it looks like BS. I see no evidence on their website that they will even try to hold the server in perpetuity or even guarantee it will be up a year from now. I expect the service to last as long as they can convince people to fork out £200 for a link, but that’s it.

And then some asshole in the mould of Erich von Daniken, Graham Hancock will make a career selling books to the credulous proclaiming the signs are from aliens or ancients under the North Pole.

What does that gibberish even mean?

A symptom of homelessness being a thing although it’s a quite understandable mitigation too.

Sadly most open source software is a usability disaster zone, filled with buttons and menus which have nothing to do with what the user is trying to do.

Elon or Donald? Or both?