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Warzone’s always the best environment to test new battlefield systems.

Look at the difference in technology between the beginning of the first world war and the end. We started off with essentially standing in fields shooting each other over distances you could spit, and ended up with tanks. The second world war gave us nukes.

Will probably have AGI battle droids by the end of this war.

It’s not even just about shoving AI into everything. That would be bad enough but this feature is literally useless, and it isn’t as if Microsoft doesn’t have a plethora of other features people want them to work on.

How about inventing Windows airdrop? Or spend some time unifying the UI so it doesn’t all look like it was developed by two separate teams working independently. Nah, let’s just build some spy software.

Hell I’d even accept them spending some time making a non-shit version of Teams

I don’t really understand who this is even aimed at. Anyone who needs to keep records of their work to refer back to already uses some kind of record keeping system such as version control or ticket creation. When I’m doing that I don’t need to keep a record of all of the ancillary actions I’m doing.

Web browsers have history, files can be reverted to previous versions in Windows already, as I said version control software exists (Github is even owned by Microsoft) and there is already software such as Shadow play.

Who exactly is going to be using Recall that doesn’t already have a perfectly good, and actually dedicated, solution in place?

That’s an easy problem to solve you just hash the database. Blockchain is good at solving the problem when you don’t have a reliable central authority but if you do have a reliable central authority there’s no point adding blockchain to it.

And we already have the reliable central authority, we have the original database.

Right but the planets being in particular locations in the sky doesn’t really result in astrologists saying a particular thing is going to happen. They basically just make something up and then decide that’s what the planet says. They could basically just ignore the positions of the planet and it wouldn’t really make any difference.

Otherwise history would repeat every couple of decades.

Yeah and the director of the FBI sells guy healing crystals.

Oh yes blockchain the solution to the world’s problem. Provided the world’s problem is that the current solution works too well and we don’t like that.

We need to back this data up but that doesn’t require anything anywhere near as complicated and over-engineered as blockchain, we can just have something as simple as multiple servers.

I sort of feel like that’s not really relevant. How would being decentralised make any difference, the government would just go after the server owners regardless of who they are. If the server owners didn’t honour the takedown requests turkey would just ban the server IP and no one would be able to access.

Federation isn’t a solution to every problem

Yeah. I want my physical contact back damn it. Only we have to pass a new law that all TSA agents need to be hot.

It is never something that even has the possibility to course personality changes. It’s always something weird.

First time through the machine makes you gay, second time gives you the voice.

It’s interesting that you even felt the need to try it though. I know I’m not attracted to men, I can just tell. I feel no need to test it.

Or at least move them to a job in which they’re actually useful. Have they ever actually managed to catch anybody smuggling contraband?

I’ve managed to run AI on hardware even older than that. The issue is it’s just painfully slow. I have no idea if it has any impact on the actual results though. I have a very high spec AI machine on order, so it’ll be interesting to run the same tests again and see if they’re any better, or if they’re simply quicker.

If you work at an old enough company the answer is usually 4, whoever wrote the code is long since dead and no one these days knows anything about COBOL.

Until about 4 years ago we still had a dot matrix printer.

Obviously the CPU and GPU are made in China. You’d have to be an idiot to believe they were made in the US.

If that were possible they would have already done that, since it’s cheaper to fully automate everything in the long run than to have humans involved in any part of the manufacturing process. No matter how cheap you get the labor automation will still beat it out, unless they are literal slaves, and even then the quality of work probably won’t be as good as an automated system, so it still might not be economically sensible.

Yeah but by 2035 the US dollar will be worth about 8 pence. If they’re lucky.

The dudebro doesn’t know how to program, they’ll just vibe code all over the place and it won’t be any better.

Aha the “it might happen” argument, used to justify pretty much any amount of pearl clutching that one feels is necessary.

I’m not saying it’s impossible but just saying it might happen and then providing no actual evidence as to why that might happen doesn’t really constitute an argument. We might have super intelligent AI by next month, but we probably won’t so I’m not going to worry about it.