Let's talk about Artificial Intelligence

[red750]

There are lots of videeo clips like this one, showing all the old shows and their cast. Mork and Mindy, M*A*S*H, The Addams Family, Bonanza, etc.

 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/942366181696307

[onetrack]

They're unrecognisable now!! Try not to gasp!!! 😄 

[nomadpete]

9 hours ago, onetrack said:

They're unrecognisable now!! Try not to gasp!!! 😄 

And so am I.  Gasp!

[onetrack]

Yes, I often wonder who that wrinkled old bloke is, looking back at me from mirrors and photos!  🫣

[Marty_d]

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

Yes, I often wonder who that wrinkled old bloke is, looking back at me from mirrors and photos!  🫣

I'd get a restraining order if I were you.

[facthunter]

No. Never get involved with the powers that Be, unless it's a last resort.  The old bloke in the Mirror IS a SURVIVOR. and therefore deserving of RESPECT. Nev

[onetrack]

And we're full of vast amounts of knowledge and unbelievable cunning, too! All gained via a lifelong education from the University of Hard Knocks!  😄

 

[facthunter]

And we can only be insulted by people we respect. . Nev

[facthunter]

ONLY Highly intelligent people understand what we are saying and appreciate our Jokes also. It's not an easy Life.. Nev

[onetrack]

Malcolm told us, life wasn't meant to be easy. 😄

[facthunter]

Keating said THIS is the Recession We HAD to HAVE. Interest rates went to 18%. Nev

[red750]

News that Jerry won't want to hear.

 

A number of software developers, here and overseas, are laying off thousands of staff and relying on artificial intelligence to lower costs and prevent going out of business.

 

‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push

Source: The Guardian. Many other reports.
Layoffs to affect 10% of workforce amid Australian company’s restructuring plan to push into artificial intelligence and enterprise sales.

 

Software giant Atlassian has announced it is laying off about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 1,600 positions, and replacing its chief technology officer as it restructures to invest further in artificial intelligence.

 

More than 900 affected positions were involved in software research and development, a spokesperson said. Most of Atlassian’s employees work in software engineering and design, accounting for over 50% of its 13,813 full-time workforce in June 2025.

 

About 640 affected employees are in North America, 480 in Australia and 250 in India, with the remainder spread across Japan, the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to the spokesperson.

 

And that's just one Aussie company. Total job losses could exceed 20,000.

[nomadpete]

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

Malcolm told us, life wasn't meant to be easy. 😄

Bet he didn't learn that at home.

[Litespeed]

Mal wasn't a full silver spoon boy but a sheep farmer, successful yes but no full landed gentry.

 

Taylor is the full silver cutlery draw. The best dressed idiot the LNP ever had.

[Jerry_Atrick]

1 hour ago, red750 said:

News that Jerry won't want to hear.

Yes I did see that this morning. Thankfully I am no longer a developer, but also coming up to retirement, anyway. 

 

I had a catch up with a friend of mine who is a developer and he is very concerned. They are required to use Claude (https://claude.com/), whichis a specialist software development platform. If they don't ring upa big enough biill in Claude, they are considered underproductive and not adept to change, and the door will be shown to them. 

 

Hi is absoltely gobsmacked at how far the paid for version has come. He can literally do in minutes what was done in days. And itis all highquality code and consider the edge cases without being prompted. We concluded that there will be far, far fewer, but higher quality developers managing the delivery by prompt. 

 

I have said for a while now that AI has hit critical mass and jobs are going to go.. Software development is a clear one. As are solicitors and even barristers (not baristas, though), accountants, even financial engineers (quants) are going to find it hard going.  Project management, etc.. It is all

 

Not to mention interviews are becoming more grulling as the questions are created by AI.

 

Development interviws give you an AI set and a timelimit and you have to build a fully functioning app in the technology stack using the AI tools within an hour.

 

I have said it before and will say it again.. Unlike other labour disruption technologies in whhich people could redeploy, AI will replace without the redeploy option for most.

 

 

[old man emu]

Just when you thought that letting your kids spend hours playing X-Box games with a handheld controller would get them a cozy job in the military operating remotely controlled weapons, it looks like AI will take over that task and leave the kids unemployed.

 

Redmember when we thought as parents that we must get our kids involved with computer programming and such? We forgot that there would always be a need for people who knew how to plug a connector into a server unit to connect it to to the outside world, or knew how to diagnose a dead board and replace it. If you surf YouTube you will find that some of teh most popular sites del with fixing things, like clogged drains or broken tools. Like the line in the song 'I shot the Sheriff' says, "You've gotta get a little dirt on your hands, boy".

[onetrack]

It's the people with electronic item repair knowledge, or electrical installation knowledge, who will be unlikely to be out of a job because of AI, for a long time yet.

[old man emu]

Not only that sort of person. Anyone with with the ability to do something that a lot of people need done from time to time will have work thrust on them.  Have you ever tried to get a plumber or electrician at short notice? 

[Jerry_Atrick]

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/china_bot_berated_woman_freaking_crazy/?td=keepreading

[nomadpete]

This link takes you to a conversation between Claude (A.I.) and Margret Attwood.

Totally worth a read.

 

https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/claude-you-are-a-cutie-pie?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1195719&post_id=190895157

 

Does A.I. have emotions? Is it a psychopath in sheep's clothing?

Does it tell lies just to shut you up?

[nomadpete]

There's an interesting through-line. Atwood's picture of Claude:


 

 

Vonnegut's asshole in Breakfast of Champions looks like this:

Edited Saturday at 09:46 PM by nomadpete

[onetrack]

Lots of shortcomings in Claudes answers, and "he" constantly probes for more information from Margaret, to add to his knowledge bank. Give it 20 years, and we may struggle to determine if we're speaking to an AI robot or a real human being.

[old man emu]

The AI company, Anthropic, which owns Claude, is suing the US Government. It says that as part of its contract details bans the use of its AI for the deploying weapons unless the go ahead to fire was given by a human. Of course, Trump and Hegseth are ignoring that contract detail. In response to Anthropic's lawsuit, which still has to be dealt with in Court, Trump has decreed that Anthropic cna no longer be granted government contracts.

 

 

[facthunter]

NO Laws apply to Trump. Nev

[nomadpete]

Cast your mind back to September 1, 1983. Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was on a routine flight from New York to Seoul via Anchorage. It accidentally crossed into Soviet airspace. At the time, NATO had a policy of continually flying its bombers directly at Eastern Bloc airspace and then diverting at the last possible moment. The Soviets were kept on perpetual high alert.

When Flight 007 accidentally crossed over the line, the Soviets, fearing an American bomber incursion, shot the plane out of the sky. The 269 civilian passengers died. The world seemed to be teetering on disaster.

On September 22, 1983, the Toronto Disarmament Network issued a public warning of the danger of escalating tensions: “A miscalculation, a computer error, an itchy trigger finger could lead to the murder of not hundreds but millions of innocent civilians.” (WW3)

In the immediate aftermath of the Korean jetliner disaster, the Soviets anticipated a retaliatory action, and their radar crews were trained to respond quickly in the event of a serious incursion. The crews knew that if they hesitated, the Soviets would be wiped out in a first-wave attack.

On September 26, 1983, Soviet radar crews detected a large group of incoming missiles. But Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov broke protocol by refusing to immediately launch the counter-strike. He suspected the blips on the screen might be some kind of computer error.

Petrov was correct.

 

Had the automatic rapid military response been controlled by A.I. You would not be reading this now.

 

It is equally possible that human error might start MAD WW3.  But I cannot trust computer to control it.

 

In Iran, a missile landed on a park that was marked on the town map as "Police Park". It is alleged the target was chosen by A.I. 

Which begs the question "who targetted the school, human or A.I."?