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xtsho

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it is also pretty new. can you imagine after a decade's machine learning?
And yeah there are leavels of code...I oncewatched a video by an old guy on a C++ script he was explaining... it was like this guy was around when they dark code was created... it didn;t even look like anything I was familiar with...
he'd use things like > instead of long verbose print commands etc.

Fucker really humbled me in a few minutes....
I seem to have saved it....
I say fucker as he has some pretty toxic polital things to drop in between.
ChatGPT is more advanced than we've seen so far but AI has been around for decades. OCR was AI and it was pretty buggy at first as well. I personally don't have any use for ChatGPT but it did get me focused on AI. I'm looking at it from a different standpoint than just a regular end user. I'm interested in the technology behind it as that promises to be a lucrative field if you have the knowledge.
 

ANC

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ChatGPT is more advanced than we've seen so far but AI has been around for decades. OCR was AI and it was pretty buggy at first as well. I personally don't have any use for ChatGPT but it did get me focused on AI. I'm looking at it from a different standpoint than just a regular end user. I'm interested in the technology behind it as that promises to be a lucrative field if you have the knowledge.
I agree AI has been around for ages, but I think it is only, say, in the last 5 years that it is starting to get really good and to be more accessible to the genius at home. things like the AI art we can do now etc as good as it is, only just started now...

I honestly think those of us not willing to become cybernetic hybrids in the future will have no place on earth, as computers will become smarter than the average human pretty fast... (P.S. the average human isn't all that smart).
 

xtsho

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I agree AI has been around for ages, but I think it is only, say, in the last 5 years that it is starting to get really good and to be more accessible to the genius at home. things like the AI art we can do now etc as good as it is, only just started now...

I honestly think those of us not willing to become cybernetic hybrids in the future will have no place on earth, as computers will become smarter than the average human pretty fast... (P.S. the average human isn't all that smart).
Diving into Python.
 

neosapien

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I've actually thought about it a lot and I would like to be one of the first recipients to get a chip in my brain that lets me speak any language. I'm sure there's a ton of other neurolink type things to be useful but that's one of the biggest I can think of.
 

ANC

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I'm not sure if you are aware of these guys....
I ordered some from China the other day, but I happened to see Amazon stocks them too today while looking for something else...

These replace the screws your computer case fans use to connect to your case so doing it prevents the fan noise from getting amplified by the case...
I used to have tonnes of these in the 90s and haven't seen any since... I think most people just simply don't know this product exists.
 

raratt

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I've actually thought about it a lot and I would like to be one of the first recipients to get a chip in my brain that lets me speak any language. I'm sure there's a ton of other neurolink type things to be useful but that's one of the biggest I can think of.
It makes you sound like Alexa...
 

BarnBuster

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If you're a TurboTax user, you may want to keep an eye on offerings thru Amazon. I got 2022 Deluxe, Fed & State disc for $44.99 and Amex offered another -15% ($6.75) if I used accumulated reward points (another $9.23 off). Total was $31.69.
Ran into a glitch with both the CD and the download from TT. Wouldn't even start to load. Fix was changing the TEMP and TMP Environment Variables. Ain't that some shit from Intuit? No problem with the CD last year. lots of forum chatter about the BS.
 

ANC

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It makes you sound like Alexa...
I wouldn't mind the Babelfish upgrade either. I do love languages, and although I am only proficient at the first language level with two, I do understand quite a bit of vocabulary in a range of languages ranging from French to Hindi.
 

BarnBuster

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Almost a necessity anymore. Check in with your parents and elders and make sure they're not using the same password for everything, especially the important stuff.
 

neosapien

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Almost a necessity anymore. Check in with your parents and elders and make sure they're not using the same password for everything, especially the important stuff.
It's pretty wild just how many and how often breaches occur now. Pretty soon we're going to need a social security like number for our online lives or something.
 

BarnBuster

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I've had a Hotmail Email account since they started (mid 90's?) and according to the below, It's shown up 26! times. I've not been hacked that I know about but in the olden days I used the same password (It would take a computer about 54 milliseconds to crack your password) compared to today (It would take a computer about 5 million years to crack your password). lol

 
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neosapien

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I've had a Hotmail Email account since they started (mid 90's?) and according to the below, It's shown up 26! times. I've not been hacked that I know about but in the olden days I used the same password (It would take a computer about 54 milliseconds to crack your password) compared to today (It would take a computer about 5 million years to crack your password). lol

Same. I wonder if I can look up and see when I actually did first get my Hotmail account. I'll be right back lol.
 

neosapien

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I've had a Hotmail Email account since they started (mid 90's?) and according to the below, It's shown up 26! times. I've not been hacked that I know about but in the olden days I used the same password (It would take a computer about 54 milliseconds to crack your password) compared to today (It would take a computer about 5 million years to crack your password). lol

Same. I wonder if I can look up and see when I actually did first get my Hotmail account. I'll be right back lol.
As with everything Microsoft, that endeavor was overly complicated and I couldn't find it. Even going to tutorials it seems they are outdated.
 

neosapien

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I was able to sort it by oldest emails. But the oldest one I have is 2005 and I definitely did a mass deleting around then. The oldest email I had was a MySpace registration LOL.
 

BarnBuster

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Yeah I can't find the "registered since" section that everybody was showing. Hell I couldn't even find the "options" section.
I couldn't find it either and the only reason I knew was I remember talking about that "new fangled" Hotmail when we were struggling with Win95 and maybe we should all sign up for it.
 
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