Let's talk about Artificial Intelligence

[facthunter]

Isn't Musk in the BAD books?  Steve Bannon reckons no one should be able to  HELP Ukraine... THEY control the whole World. (In their tiny Minds). China's popularity Grows. People cannot TRUST USA. Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

Musk in the bad books because he called the tarriffs policy nuts (or words to that effect). 

 

He has (or is) leaving DOGE more looking like a DOGE-bag than anythign successful. Despite his claims of saving the govenment something like $176bn (of a promised many trillions), the real "savings" are estimated to tbe well below a billion, and that doesn't cover the cost of the damage down outside the agency and the cost of cleaning it all up. All in all, it looks like a toddler had a tandtrum in their play-pen. 

 

Having said, that, he is about to float his AI business and is seeking a $113bn valuation of X.Ai. 

 

 

[nomadpete]

1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/tech-layoffs-2025-ibm-lays-off-8000-employees-as-ai-replaces-hr-department-478053-2025-05-28

Having been involved in numerous HR departments through my varied employment,  I can only applaud this as a triumph of raw computer logic over the plague of bureaucratic chair warmer HR (Human Remains) departments.

[nomadpete]

What I mean, is that sometimes humans (in HR) are not the best judges of other human's (employees) abilities.

 

So maybe AI could help to keep the humans out of HR (in a beneficial, objective way)?

[old man emu]

Here's a definite abuse of AI. But I hope that Sky news can be trusted with this one. I suppose you would have to  be in the UK to recognise the woman's voice.

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Sky in the UK was divested by the merde-docs many years ago. SKy news in the UK is probably on the reasonable scale in terms of integrity.. it still pushes an agenda, much like many MSM publications, but is in no way a Sky News in Australia. GB News, on the other had, was created to be a Sky News Australia type station - poor mans version of Fox News.  Apparently, it isn't doing terribly well.

 

Although it is framed as AI, I see this as sort of a question of contract. The lady contracted (presumably as a limited company) to a company to provide her voice. The terms of the contract would have to be looked at to determine if it gave the buyer unlimited use of her voice (not just the words she spoke).

 

Although, it does raise an interesting point - what would be a reasonable use of her voice, even if the contract said the company had purchased rights to uer her voice as they pleased. Contrary to common perception, contract law isn't only what is written on the contract, and all sorts of terms and restrictions are implied by the courts for a fair outcome given the nature of the contract itself; and clauses have been struck out.

 

If the signed a contract as a limited company (pty ltd in Australia), then it is harder to have terms implied or clauses struck out except if they are illegal. However, if she signed as a private person/sole proprietor, she will be in a much better position and she should go to civil proceedings. My recommendation to her would be to either have the reuse term restricted, or an implied royalty term appolied so she makes money out of it.

[facthunter]

Now more stuff will be fake in the cause of bigger profits. Nev

[old man emu]

My understanding is that several years ago, before AI took off, she did a job for a Swedish company in which her voice was recorded reading books or some such. In recent times, that company sold the recordings to an AI mob who used it to fulfil the Scottish Rail job. 

 

So her voice comes from something that was done before the current application of AI was even thought about. Who knows what future technology will do when entering a contract today?

[Jerry_Atrick]

Ai was well underway in Covid times

 

This is a question of contract and possibly employment law

Edited June 5 by Jerry_Atrick

[old man emu]

Can you see this woman being able to take legal action? The only winners, once again, would be the legal eagles.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Sadly, it is an expensive undertaking and if you lose, you pay the other person's costs (depending on any contributory factors of the other person).

[Jerry_Atrick]

A bit of an "Aussie" development: 

 

 

Lets hope, evne though Anduril is the manufacturer, Aussie business aslo get some of the cake.

[old man emu]

I'm getting heartily sick of AI generated crap on YouTube.

 

I watched one recently about a man who disappeared from his family in 1952. Allegedly, thirty years later they discovered a cassette tape made by the man in which he explained why he had disappeared.

 

Just think about that. A cassette tape in 1952? Small personal reel-to-reel tape recorders were not a common thing then. I was the first to post a comment, calling the video BS and questioning the idea of a cassette tape. Went back a few days later and my comment had been deleted.

[red750]

So many people have nothing better to do.

[spacesailor]

The 'era ' of abundant leisure time .

spacesailor

[Jerry_Atrick]

This video is somewhat clickbait, but I am sure the caption is where it is all heading:

 

I have visions of fellas having the romp of their life, then falling asleep never to wake again... 

[onetrack]

I'll take the real wife with her arguments, attempted dominance, occasional drama (not that many in my case, fortunately), occasional moodiness, and the extreme sensitivity - because at the end of the day, no robot could ever replace her heart of gold, her loving nature, and her willingness to share everything. I'd be lost without her.

[facthunter]

O/T, I'll bet you showed HER that Post. You'd win some Points.  Nev

[onetrack]

She never looks at this site, Nev, and I wouldn't show her anything I post here. She probably thinks this forum is better than me being out and about with attractive female associates.

[rgmwa]

If that’a what life with a robot,looks like, give me a dog any day. 

[facthunter]

Robots don't shed FUR and cost as much as  a CAR to Own and ruin furniture and BARK at the Moon.  Nev

[rgmwa]

I know, but I'd still take the dog.

[spacesailor]

Dogs fur can be spun into yarn & sold .

My daughter is trying " carding  and spinning " her ' husky fur to keep a ' keepsake ' for when the Dog passes on .

Quite a few dog owner's are going to lots of expense to remember their pets .

spacesailor

 

Edited 17 hours ago by spacesailor

[onetrack]

I wonder if all the cats attack you, when you wear a dog-fur coat? 😄  And when wearing that coat, do you spend half your time feeling the need to scratch behind your ear with one leg?? 😄 

[rgmwa]

Or maybe the need to lift a leg against a tree.