• NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Very James Bond, I like it.

    And then the cool twist where the bad guys figure out how to exploit it and uno reverse all the good guys computers. Man, that would be a fun movie. I’m glad we’re not talking about real life or whatever.

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    6 hours ago

    So then what happens when someone spoofs a GPS signal outside your AI datacenter? … I think I like this idea.

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Absolutely not. Keep your tracking devices out of our products. If you want to shove a fucking GPS up your ass and give it to the government that’s your choice, but you can fuck right off with selling more tracking services tied to hardware to the population who has no say.

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    The man is a Democrat, a physicist and non-religious. Most have been in politics too long to come up with this dumb idea.

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        Never trust a physicist on software. We have a special term at work, “Scientific Python”. When we say it to a physicist, they wear the hat proudly, but what we mean is “incomprehensible garbage that breaks as soon as you give it any input other than the one thing they tested it with”. If they want you to maintain it, the first step is to ask them to run it, look at whatever plot it generates, and write something from scratch that produces the same plot.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah, they don’t even trust themselves!
        Also just looking for falsification…

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    How would something like that even work? Create a driver that phones home is somehow able to figure out the location of the computer by some method that is not easily defeated with a VPN? Even a GPS chip on the cards won’t work in a datacenter rack

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      It’s perfectly simple really. They’ll add a small AI module designed to detect Chinese language being spoken, levels of air pollution, and the scent of Chinese food, which will detonate an appropriately-sized self-destruct charge when a certain threshold is reached.

      Nvidia products are just the start. Cars, sneakers, Coca-Cola — eventually every consumer product made in the USA will come with one. They’re just working out how to stop them accidentally detonating in certain parts of San Francisco and New York.