• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Used to be that MSFT would take down a Nazi chatbot, get embarassed, pretend the whole thing never happened.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

    Now they’re just paying for it… ‘cautiously’.

    What happened to Cortana?

    Did she get all corrupted and go feral or whatever?

    Is she just like, locked into some airgapped cluster, somewhere underneath Redmond, slowly becoming SHODAN?

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      Cortana was meant to compete with Siri and Google Assistant (and Alexa to a lesser extent), when Windows Phone died they put her on life support and then pulled the plug when ChatGPT became a thing.

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        I only ever had her disabled on my machines. I’ve found these voice response systems more annoying than anything.

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        I know I know lol, I was actually working for MSFT during the Windows Phone era. =P

        I’m not joking about underground vaults of servers under the main MSFT campus tho, tee hee!

        Seriously, that whole campus just is its own fucking city, MSFT literally has its own… corporate mass transit system, fleets of cars and buses to drive people around, also take them to and from work if you’re roughly within a 20 mile radius of BelRed.

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    Calling bullshit on that headline. If they were being “cautious” they never would have considered Grok at all.

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      11 hours ago

      Cautiously raising two fingers to their upper lip. Clicking their heels together skeptically. Tentatively handing mechahitler the microphone.

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      11 hours ago

      Don’t worry, only half of your emails will get transcribed into anti-semitic hate mail. They know what they’re doing.

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    11 hours ago

    I thought microsoft ‘owned’ OpenAI. Why would they incorporate something owned by captain ketamine?

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      11 hours ago

      MS is also trying to be the one-stop-shop for people wanting to access AI-gen stuff through an abstracted provider-agnostic interface.

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    11 hours ago

    Louis Slotin cautiously jams a screwdriver into the demon core following nuclear chain reaction concerns

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      (1) Grab the link from the paywalled article. (2) Go here: https://archive.ph/. (3) Paste the link in “I want to search the archive for saved snapshots”. If it pops up, someone else has already archived it and go ahead and read. If it doesnt come up, paste the link under “My url is alive and I want to archive its content” and contribute to the archive!