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More on Alexa - When I'm build up a new computer (which I often do several times a day) I begin in the BIOS by setting the time to GMT.
So I usually say "Alexa what's the GMT?"
Old Alexa would promptly give me an answer.
New Alexa takes about five seconds of deep (and probably power consuming) thinking and then tells me the meaning of GMT.
Then I yell that I want the time in GMT and, after that five second pause, tells me the GMT time (but not the …

An LLM is a machine for giving confident plausible answers to whatever question is thrown at it.
The methods it uses to do this mean that (for questions that are not too challenging) there is a good chance that the answer is correct as well as confident.
Confident is guaranteed, correct is not. Is that what you need?

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
IT-Angriff betrifft IT der Beweisstückstelle der Polizei

"A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick the NSA once codenamed TEMPEST"
https://www.wired.com/story/how-vulnerable

How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers
A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick the NSA once codenamed TEMPEST.

Dass Unternehmen sich alle Hardware krallen macht nicht nur Computer teuer: Sie ist ein direkter Angriff auf unsere Fähigkeit, unabhängige Infrastrukturen zu bauen.
Uns werden die "Mittel der Computerisierung" entrissen um uns Zugang zu vermieten.
(Original title: Verteuerte Hardware: KI-Konzerne versperren den Weg aus der Cloud)

Verteuerte Hardware: KI-Konzerne versperren den Weg aus der Cloud - Golem.de
Eigene Hardware bedeutet Selbstbestimmung - und die wird durch hohe Kosten zum Luxus. Den Verursachern der Knappheit kommt das gerade recht.

Another failure of #ChatGPT. I asked if a diagram had ever appeared in anything I'd published. It confidently gave me three answers, all wrong, before admitting that it couldn't find it. It even gave totally wrong Figure numbers. When I pointed this out, I got the usual dose of mock humility.
#AI…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
IT-Angriff betrifft IT der Beweisstückstelle der Polizei
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The year starts with a new competition case re. public EV charging prices in Italy. The competition authority has decided to conduct a further investigation into A2A Mobility, as prices charged to others were higher than in their own app.
https://www.agcm.it/pubblicazioni/bolletti<…

The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/livenation-a…

Justice Department and Live Nation settle over illegal monopoly case
The Justice Department says it's reached a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and its parent company, California-based Live Nation Entertainment that will benefit consumers by letting competitors play a role in ticket sales and force Live Nation to sell 13 amphitheaters. Some states, though, are not joining the deal and say they'll continue a trial in New York federal court. The case alleged there was an illegal monopoly over live events in America. The announcement angere…

Wenn Cybercrime zeigt, dass wirklich niemand verschont bleibt. 🫠 Ein Ransomware-Angriff auf die Werkstatt Bremen hat auch Auswirkungen auf die IT-Systeme der polizeilichen Beweisstückstelle.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11165825?wt_mc=sm.re