The issue is getting that prompt in the first place. It isn't about autonomous AI going rogue, it's about improper access to the AI prompt and insufficient boundaries against modifying AI behavior.
Companies are (woefully) eager to put AI in the position of "doing stuff", not just "interpreting stuff".
I don't know if you read the essay. If you had or had followed the story, you would know that he was not only fired but his character and professional reputation were smeared publicly by who was it, Marty Stratton I think? I read this last year.
When your reputation is being dragged through the mud, why is it "petty and immature" to defend yourself? How do you know what works or doesn't in the entertainment industry?
Do people, in general, form opinions of others based on reddit posts?
That seems... odd... to me.
For example, I work in a very, extremely, small and specialized subsector of the aerospace industry. Everyone knows everyone else, or close to it.
If I'm going to work with Alice and I don't know Alice I can be assured that Bob knows Alice or at least Charlie, Bob's and my Director of Engineering, knows Alice. Maybe she's new? Doesn't matter, Alice works for either Charlie, Dan, or Erin.
If I was directed to a reddit post about Alice not only would I not read it, I would be instantly suspicious of the person who wrote it (What kind of dickhead goes on Reddit and complains about a coworker? A huge dickhead, that's who.) and the evidentiary weight of any discussion that would be forced upon me (because I wouldn't read the post to begin with) regarding Alice would be so low as to be irrelevant.
You can see how (edit: incredibly) dumb all of this is, right?
When I read "My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal (2022)" I thought it was going to be about egregious bugs or something, not bullshit People Magazine drama.
All of that being said, if Frank writes a reddit post about Alice, and Alice responds with a FOURTEEN THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, AND TWENTY-THREE word essay that I'm tricked into reading, my only thought is "wow, Frank and Alice are both apparently dickheads".
I like the idea of certain types of ships being superstock Maersks that launch air or sea drones from the rear. Quantity may be useful in the drone and AI era.
I absolutely cannot stand that no bank I have (US) supports generic TOTP, which is more secure and easier to recover from backup if my phone is broken or stolen.
This is probably compliance-related. For me, TOTP isn’t “something I have”, it’s another thing I toss into my password manager and sync to all devices.
I really agree with it, but that’s probably their rationale.
Banks didn't support TOTP long before we were able to easily sync them across devices. It's likely more along the lines of banks generally have bad IT departments and outdated digital security policies.
That same rationale wouldn't support SMS as "something I have." iMessage and other solutions easily spread SMS into cloud and PC lands (ones that are more easily accessible than password managers.) More likely it's because of legacy and "good enough" reasons.
Personally I don't put TOTP tokens into my password manager and keep a dedicated app for it, just in case my password manager is pwned.
I'm not really defending it, I'm explaining the mentality. iMessage is probably closer to "something I have" but yeah, often not true for many American users.
I'd probably keep a TOTP app if I actually brought my cell with my everywhere but I really don't feel like it; if I'm heading to a cafe to work for a bit I might need to access something and can't be bothered to bring two devices.
Plus, people increasingly access stuff from cell phones, so it's not a guarantee of "something you have" anymore. And no shot we're convincing everyone to start carrying some kind of hardware token.
You have to remember that cybersecurity is driven by what is secure so much as what is compliant, and increasingly so.
I do the same, and it somewhat defeats the spirit of 2FA, but I still believe it's more secure. It's basically a second password where intercepting it in transit once isn't enough to be able to repeat the login in the future.
My bank sends me 2FA codes in their app, which I then have to type into... their app. No kidding. Both the key and the validation in the same place, really ridiculous. Even something as crap as SMS 2FA would be better. TOTP or FIDO2 would be miles better.
TOTP is alright for logins, but it's generally very phishable. For transaction confirmation, not being able to tie a code to a given recipient and amount is somewhat of a dealbreaker.
Fwiw, Symantec VIP is TOTP under the hood, and you can extract the seed with some hackery. There is at least one financial institution in the US that uses that.
USAA. Better than nothing, but since it doesn't do push notifications it's a needlessly proprietary piece. It's probably a combination of legal and a slow IT infrastructure.
There is at least one major US bank that supports Yubikeys and a different major that one supports (with some convincing) phone notification-based second factor.
My Mazda from 2014 has this innovative feature: a digital control mechanism for my climate control, with real knobs! No more navigating menus and swiping across touchscreens to adjust temperature. And if I want to change the direction of the airflow? I just move the vent!
The Tesla vents are definitely a debatable choice. I like them, but I acknowledge they are mostly an aesthetic choice. Many Tesla removals (stalks, etc.) come with a cost savings, but I don't really see it with vents. You're probably adding parts in the form of little motors and wires to power them. But they do fit with the theme of autonomy. Software can remember their position for each driver, or could hypothetically cycle through different positions depending on mode selection. (They might do this already but I don't pay close enough attention.)
Edit: Now that I think of it, it's possibly still a huge cost savings in that you can have interchangeable parts across all models, since the vents are hidden to the user.
Lots of car brands have only a few sizes of vents across several different models of cars. Look at the interiors of all the various GM cars across their different brands especially in the 90s and 2000s, and they're all essentially the same vents.
I don't know what kind of breakage was the parent talking about.
My experience is that as the car gets older it is common for the vents to lose the capability to stay pointed where I place them. As in: you point them where you want and they flip back all the way to one side as soon as you let go.
(Hot climate here, with several months of "a/c set to max during the whole trip" per year)
I’ve been in many cars where they don’t stay pointed and where the moving mechanism plastic broke off from where it’s connected so it doesn’t move the vent fins at all.
Plastic in the 1990s was more brittle than today. Even back then, my 10-15 year old Ford had issues with the vents not easily moving, then breaking from force.
More modern cars of decent build do not have this issue.
I've driven Tesla's a number of times and absolutely hate the vent controls, they are wildly less precise and take much more attention than in any other car I've driven. I hate pretty much all gimmicky Tesla UX decisions and think most are categorically worse than the standard options.
>Now, they need to make compelling apps, slick new features and all-new electrical architectures that neither the companies nor their suppliers are used to using. They need to build Tesla-level upgradeability with far less willingness to ship unfinished goods, all while tucking it behind a military-grade firewall to ensure your car can’t be remotely hacked.
Did the market demand this? Does safety? Fuel efficiency?
I'm holding onto my 2014 vehicle precisely because of this over the air update, constant tracking bullshit.
If you can't deliver a reliable car without needing to patch it weekly, I don't want it.
If it isn't happening in good faith, then you can't call it a "reorg". That's like shooting something in the head and saying you "reorganized" their brain matter.
Don't cry because [the United States has decided to turn its back on science and research and foreign aid], smile because we were great once :)
You didn't say "I'm glad you had those things". And if that's what you meant, then you are listening to this person's story as some personal tale of nostalgia instead of a reflection on what is being broken in our country.
Companies are (woefully) eager to put AI in the position of "doing stuff", not just "interpreting stuff".
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