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I too heard about such meetings. I’m yet to participate in one though.

From the article:

The Israeli military uses Microsoft Azure to compile information gathered through mass surveillance, which it transcribes and translates, including phone calls, texts and audio messages, according to an Israeli intelligence officer who works with the systems.

From my understanding, they use AI to automate the processing of text, audio, and video data collected by the intelligence services.

Now adjust our salaries to inflation please because they’re lagging behind.

ML in action.

That’s strange. A lot of people from Russia continue contributing on GitHub without any issues.

ICQ, MSN, Skype, and many others are laying on the cemetery, but IRC is still alive and active. Decentralized protocols ftw.

It’s funny that with how enclosed the Apple ecosystem is, even they don’t force you to create an Apple account to use macOS.

Their intention is clear. I wonder for how long this workaround is going to stay.

Did you try that with the latest beta build?

* laughs maniacally in German *

But even a web-based version of Word can’t be a Google Docs alternative, because Word can’t into spreadsheets and presentations.

Maybe I missed something, but since when Word is not only an alternative to an office suite, but also a web-based one?

A tablet versus laptop? I don’t get it. Apples to oranges.

Every time people say “it’d be nice to live in the 50s” or something like that, I always think: “Nope, I’d never trade modern medicine for anything else.”

Yeah, but smartphones have stopped offering anything new. I recently upgraded my 8-year-old device, and I hardly notice any difference. I bet other customers see that too. They are desperately trying to find the next big thing. It’s astonishing, however, that all these companies completely ignore the fact that their customers don’t even want AI features.

I guess if you make a lot of money you get a pass for allowing misleading and anti-consumer marketing campaigns?

He is appointed by the people for whom he is making money and not by the customers. So the answer is likely yes.

My back hurts when I see a colleague on a zoom meeting sitting like that cat.

Is it? In Sam’s case, we’re mostly talking about creative products in the form of text, audio, and video. If an artist releases a song and the song is copyrighted, it doesn’t hamper innovation and technological development. The same cannot be said when a company patents a sorting algorithm, the method for swiping to unlock a smartphone, or something similar.

I think they are either completely delusional, or they know very well how important AI is for the government and the military. The same cannot be said for regular people and their daily struggles.