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Did we cover this? An AI chatbot that replaced a human helpdesk has been shut down after dishing out dangerous advice.

Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice'
Just as helpline staff say they were laid off after forming a union
https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/31/ai_chatbot_eating_union/

Why on Earth would an organisation that gives advice on dealing with mental illness, use an AI chatbot? That’s about the worst possible org to be using such a prototype system.

Given the bullshitting that has been seen by many, many users of “AI” systems, this is a breach of duty of care, IMHO.

I’m sure there’s some good uses of the technology, although most of what’s around at the moment is hype rather than actual product, but examples such as customer-facing mental health medicine, or military, lead to dead people if not managed really carefully.

Did we cover this? An AI chatbot that replaced a human helpdesk has been shut down after dishing out dangerous advice.

Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice'
Just as helpline staff say they were laid off after forming a union
https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/31/ai_chatbot_eating_union/

Why on Earth would an organisation that gives advice on dealing with mental illness, use an AI chatbot? That’s about the worst possible org to be using such a prototype system.

Given the bullshitting that has been seen by many, many users of “AI” systems, this is a breach of duty of care, IMHO.

I’m sure there’s some good uses of the technology, although most of what’s around at the moment is hype rather than actual product, but examples such as customer-facing mental health medicine, or military, lead to dead people if not managed really carefully.

It can do some code completion tasks moderately well - it is quite clear that it has inhaled Stackoverflow. The code it produces doesn’t run or does completely the wrong thing a significant proportion of the time.

I’ve used chunk of the code it has produced - take its output, and rewrite about 20%-30% of a solution that works is typical.

I think you're missing the big story from yesterday, an 80 year old man got it up really quickly.

Nah, the big story is the debt ceiling and Ron DeSantis being a snowflake and losing his rag with a reporter.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-lashes-reporter-are-blind-rcna87246

That will go down very badly in NH.

Whereas Biden went down fortunately not too badly in Colorado.

If he really had dementia, he likely wouldn't have put out his arms to break his fall.

Although putting out his arms to break his fall could of course potentially have left him with a broken arm.

As it happens, it seems he was unhurt.

As was Bob Dole in 1996 as well, but falling off that stage didn't do him any favours either.

Bob Dole's fall in 1996 at a rally was even more spectacular than Biden's.

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2012/10/18/vault-vonat-dole-campaign-fall.pool


Fair play to then 73 year old Dole though, he got up and resumed and kept campaigning hard to the end even though he surely knew in his heart he had no chance against Bill Clinton who ended up winning the biggest Democratic presidential win in the EC since LBJ against Goldwater in 1964

On topic. Biden does seem an old 80 year old.

But is the Presidential Election a Presidential Election? Or is it a change administration election? In which case it’s actually the change it to what election. And the, I am happy with the administration carrying on 4 years, but he is old for eighty, and a bit doddery, so what happens if something happens in the next 4 years, what happens then? To which the answer is working out what happens if something were to happen, such as veep being more a voter consideration than perhaps normal. I personally think they don’t swap round enough mid term in the administration. I’ll give you an example. If veep went to Secretary of State, it would probably do more for her campaign in 4 years than staying at veep, whilst if buttlegieg filled her hole it would do wonders for him in 4 years too, so why not be a president who cares about succession. But buttlegieg as veep would do wonders for Biden’s election chances too as people wonder what might happen if something happens would know that some one quite capable would be the happening thing.

I know plenty of 80 year olds: Biden is not an old 80.

But he is still 80 years old.

Good morning

My wife would endorse your comment as applied to myself as I near my 80th birthday

I've just had mine.

On topic. Biden does seem an old 80 year old.

But is the Presidential Election a Presidential Election? Or is it a change administration election? In which case it’s actually the change it to what election. And the, I am happy with the administration carrying on 4 years, but he is old for eighty, and a bit doddery, so what happens if something happens in the next 4 years, what happens then? To which the answer is working out what happens if something were to happen, such as veep being more a voter consideration than perhaps normal. I personally think they don’t swap round enough mid term in the administration. I’ll give you an example. If veep went to Secretary of State, it would probably do more for her campaign in 4 years than staying at veep, whilst if buttlegieg filled her hole it would do wonders for him in 4 years too, so why not be a president who cares about succession. But buttlegieg as veep would do wonders for Biden’s election chances too as people wonder what might happen if something happens would know that some one quite capable would be the happening thing.

I know plenty of 80 year olds: Biden is not an old 80.

But he is still 80 years old.

Good morning

My wife would endorse your comment as applied to myself as I near my 80th birthday

I've just had mine. Mick Jagger is 80 next month. 80 is just a number.

Indeed, Al Pacino a dad again at 83. Jagger was a dad again at 73 as well as being a great grandad

The utter selfishness of fathering a child at 83 appals me. Will the child ever know it’s father and what effect will that have on it, for all the money he or she will inherit?

Rumours that Twitter’s “Head of Trust and Safety” has resigned, over a decision to allow Daily Wire to post their documentary “What is a Woman?” on the platform.

https://thepostmillennial.com/twitters-head-of-trust-and-safety-ella-irwin-reportedly-leaves-the-company-amid-daily-wire-debacle

It is not 100 per cent clear from that link whether the documentary will or will not be posted on Twitter.

It was posted yesterday evening, and has 1.5m views so far.
https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1664424891372941312
But there appears to be the mother of all internal rows going on at Twitter about it.

The video was almost immediately labelled as hateful content, and prevented from being shared or retweeted. It may have actually been deleted and then reinstated.

https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog is the producer of the video, and his timeline is all people asking Twitter and Elon why this video is being restricted, after the company themselves had agreed to let it be posted.

Not sure if it’s still the case, but IIRC a ‘view’ on Twitter is 2 seconds of a video. It may be longer on longer-form content, but still - it is absolutely not the equivalent of E.g. BARB’s measures for broadcasters.

Never trust social media metrics.

QTWTAIN. You don't need to be able to walk to be president. It's probably easier for the security people if you can't, their job is hard enough already without the thing they're trying to secure moving around of its own accord.

I guess the most successful POTUS ever spent getting on for 4 terms being mostly unable to walk.

Actually it was three terms and three months #pedanticbetting.com

3.25 is closer to 4 than to none, so I'd say 'getting on for 4' is fair.

When I was 6 and a quarter, I was definitely 'getting on for 7'.

If you had 5 marks out of 100, you'd claim Grade A in Maths O-level?

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On topic. Biden does seem an old 80 year old.

But is the Presidential Election a Presidential Election? Or is it a change administration election? In which case it’s actually the change it to what election. And the, I am happy with the administration carrying on 4 years, but he is old for eighty, and a bit doddery, so what happens if something happens in the next 4 years, what happens then? To which the answer is working out what happens if something were to happen, such as veep being more a voter consideration than perhaps normal. I personally think they don’t swap round enough mid term in the administration. I’ll give you an example. If veep went to Secretary of State, it would probably do more for her campaign in 4 years than staying at veep, whilst if buttlegieg filled her hole it would do wonders for him in 4 years too, so why not be a president who cares about succession. But buttlegieg as veep would do wonders for Biden’s election chances too as people wonder what might happen if something happens would know that some one quite capable would be the happening thing.

Get to 80 and aging can come at you real fast. I'm seeing that with a couple of my neighbours. They have aged 10 years in 2. Same happened to my mother.

You've done your years of public service, Joe. Allow yourself some pressure-free years in that catered-for-everything retirement of an ex-President.

My dad is 75 and has aged 10 years in 10 weeks. Now too frail to be safe to release home from hospital, he's heading for a rehab unit to try and get some strength back. Looking at him I think we're going to be very lucky to avoid him being sent to a care home.

To be fair, we all knew that if he got Covid he would have been dead in hours (bad chest amongst other things). So we have made it this far and moved both of them up from Rochdale to a nice bungalow overlooking the sea in Macduff. So its a bit of an arse that he's already decayed this rapidly as to make it pretty likely he's never going home again.

So good luck to Biden. The odd slip here and there does not make him incapable.

My MIL is much the same. She has aged more in the last 2 months than the previous 5 years. It seems pretty commonplace for people to be able to live on a plateau for extended periods until some event or insult to health occurs. Finding a new plateau at an advanced age can then be very tricky.

Bill Deedes was incredibly active, indeed, still doing overseas investigative articles in Africa, until he had a fall and broke his thigh aged 90 or 91.

After that the decline was swift. I think he did one more overseas trip to Holland linked with a WWII anniversary but he had to have a medical team with him, and then he died aged 94

Never change Scotland.

A funeral parlour is offering the bereaved coffins with designs of a Greggs sausage roll, a pint of Tennent’s lager or a can of Irn-Bru.

The Edinburgh undertaker Go As You Please Funerals allows patrons to pick any photo or design to be printed on a wooden coffin, inspired by favourite movies, musicians or even soft drinks.

Murdo Chambers, the parlour’s manager, said the quirky coffins challenge preconceived notions of what a funeral should look like.





https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/meet-your-maker-in-a-quirky-coffin-80xpn0g5k

Not quite as good as Ghana, but getting there:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/feb/07/ghana-coffins-in-pictures?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

They had an exhibition of them in Edinburgh some years back, like this very upmarket one:

https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-
collections/stories/global-arts-cultures-and-design/mercedes-benz-coffin/

With the increasingly less sombre style of funeral on the rise (ACDC "Highway to Hell" as funeral music etc) I think that Ghana coffins would sell well here. A good business for the right entrepreneur.

My brother used Highway to Hell as his music. It was fine. I think that the important thing to remember is that funerals are about the living, not the dead who are gone. If it gives closure and some comfort to those left behind it has achieved its purpose.

QTWTAIN. You don't need to be able to walk to be president. It's probably easier for the security people if you can't, their job is hard enough already without the thing they're trying to secure moving around of its own accord.

I guess the most successful POTUS ever spent getting on for 4 terms being mostly unable to walk.

Actually it was three terms and three months #pedanticbetting.com

3.25 is closer to 4 than to none, so I'd say 'getting on for 4' is fair.

When I was 6 and a quarter, I was definitely 'getting on for 7'.

If you had 5 marks out of 100, you'd claim Grade A in Maths O-level?