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Will This End In A Blazing Row...
between climatologists? It’s a burning question raised by boffins discovering too much sunshine – apparently caused by the human race racing to net zero – might be a recent contributor to climate change and oceanic warming.
‘Cleaner shipping fuel is contributing to ocean warming [...] Some also suggest cuts in air pollution around the world could have accelerated global warming.’
https://www.reuters.com/business/env...ay-2024-05-31/
and
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01442-3
and
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/04/...ion-from-nasa/
The other day, when the sun was actually shining in a clear blue sky, I thought how much fiercer it felt than it used to years ago. I mean, it was literally scorching even though it was cool day. I wondered: could this be because, after three hundred years of industrial air pollution now being reduced by various green initiatives, there is more sunshine getting through a cleaner atmosphere? It could be a very down-to-earth explanation; which might mean, like the old saying goes, that whatever we do, we’ll end up being as badly burnt as scalded....
Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see
Never saw the sun shining so bright....
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Do You Have To Watch What You Eat?...
Well, not any more you don’t – here’s some artificial intelligence to keep an eye on you and give a running consumption commentary and advice.... Don’t scoff!
‘AI to watch every spoonful you eat and calculate your calorie consumption’...
https://news.sky.com/story/ai-to-wat...ption-13147703
‘Just last month, the World Health Organisation released its own AI health promoter called SARAH (Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health) to answer users questions about diet and health 24 hours a day.’
Hmmmm!
BEEP.... Hi! Nigella nagbot here, your AI dietician. I have been watching you for the past ten minutes and you have consumed one thousand six hundred fifty four calories, derived from one hundred eleven grams of saturated fat, one hundred seventy four grams of carbohydrate in the form of refined sugar, and three point two six grams of salt. I need to remind you urgently that you are headed toward some very serious illnesses if you continue this way; such as type two diabetes, metabolic syndrome, arterial hypertension, atherosc....
Nigella?...
Yes Mister Creosote?
Get stuffed!
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AI Reveals Its Crystal Balls...
and starts telling us the outcome of stuff that hasn’t even happened yet! This is almost unbelievable (although I wouldn’t bet on it).
‘ChatGPT tells users Labour has already won the election’...
https://news.sky.com/story/chatgpt-t...ction-13148330
There you go then; not much point in hot-footing it down to your local polling station in a month’s time; the General Election’s already been decided.... Wait a moment! This all sounds very sinister, doesn’t it? I mean, when Labour wins with that whacking great majority, how are we going to know it wasn’t... y’know... rigged, eh? Hey, you don’t think this is all a great big conspiracy thing, do you?... AI spreads disinformation and casts doubt over votes cast?
‘"Obviously that's damaging to democracy [...] because if there isn't that bedrock of trust that the information you consume has some basis of truth to it, then people are going to start to disbelieve everything politicians say as well."’
No! Really? I thought that ship slid down the slipway when the very first politician stood up and began “Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to say....”.
PS: Of course, when that very first politician stood up he would only have addressed his audience "Gentlemen..." because there would have been no ladies present.
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Beauty Isn’t Even Skin Deep!
Apparently, there’s now a Miss AI Beauty Contest! All we need now are some AI feminists to call for it to be banned, as it’s a degrading spectacle and... er... dehumanising....
‘10 finalists in the world's first AI beauty pageant announced’...
https://www.indy100.com/viral/fanvue...eant-shortlist
Hold those whiter-than-white smiles! Here’s a late entry....
KRYTILLE (awaiting a suitably AI-flattered photo).
Bio: Krytille is the only love-child of parents Kryten and Camille, both series 4000 mechanoids. She has the shapely head and features of her father; but without her make-up on she’s the spitting image of her mother (once innocently but rather horribly described as a ‘blob’). Her greatest ambition is to follow in her famous parents’ electro-neurological footsteps and be an actress taking a starring role in a future ressurection of that zany British sci fi series Red Dwarf. Her hobbies are practical electronics, shape-changing and re-writing history by effortlessly weaving fact and fiction. She has eschewed a social media presence and following as she considers them an artificial and vulgar human construct.
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Originally Posted by
Pain
AI Reveals Its Crystal Balls...
and starts telling us the outcome of stuff that hasn’t even happened yet! This is almost unbelievable (although I wouldn’t bet on it).
‘
ChatGPT tells users Labour has already won the election’...
https://news.sky.com/story/chatgpt-t...ction-13148330
There you go then; not much point in hot-footing it down to your local polling station in a month’s time; the General Election’s already been decided.... Wait a moment! This all sounds very sinister, doesn’t it? I mean, when Labour wins with that whacking great majority, how are we going to know it wasn’t... y’know... rigged, eh? Hey, you don’t think this is all a great big conspiracy thing, do you?... AI spreads disinformation and casts doubt over votes cast?
‘
"Obviously that's damaging to democracy [...] because if there isn't that bedrock of trust that the information you consume has some basis of truth to it, then people are going to start to disbelieve everything politicians say as well."’
No! Really? I thought that ship slid down the slipway when the very first politician stood up and began “Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to say....”.
PS: Of course, when that very first politician stood up he would only have addressed his audience "Gentlemen..." because there would have been no ladies present.
But they're still only forecasts at this stage. I can't believe that even AI at this stage can predict events in 4 weeks time with any great accuracy.
And dare I say it, it still might not quite be 'game over' for the Tories as anything can happen between now and 4th July that could turn them around once again, for instance one or more Labour MPs suddenly embroiled in some kind of 'scandal(s)', e.g, getting done for historical child/sexual abuse, siding with terrorists or certain criminals, fiddling expenses, some mega anti-Semitic and/or Islamophobic faux-pas, 'shy Tory factor', etc, though I seriously hope to God that none of those 'hypothetical' events actually reveal themselves.
Plus people can still be extremely fickle when it comes to politics in general.
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Lencoboy
But they're still only forecasts at this stage. I can't believe that even AI at this stage can predict events in 4 weeks time with any great accuracy....
Lencoboy, I respectfully suggest you read that article again. "The UK general election of 2024, held on July 4, resulted in a significant victory for the Labour Party." was no forecast or prediction made by ChatGPT, but a statement of fact in answer to the question "Who won the UK general election 2024?". In fact, if that article had been merely an AI prediction (which it’s supposedly programmed to be forbidden to do), it probably wouldn’t even have made the news.
Yes, it was another load of AI tosh, but so many folks believe AI tosh these days that that's what makes it a menace and potentially subversive.
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Pain
Lencoboy, I respectfully suggest you read that article again. "The UK general election of 2024, held on July 4, resulted in a significant victory for the Labour Party." was no forecast or prediction made by ChatGPT, but a statement of fact in answer to the question "Who won the UK general election 2024?". In fact, if that article had been merely an AI prediction (which it’s supposedly programmed to be forbidden to do), it probably wouldn’t even have made the news.
Yes, it was another load of AI tosh, but so many folks believe AI tosh these days that that's what makes it a menace and potentially subversive.
Well in that case then I might just as well enter Number 10 unlawfully by the back door and take over as PM against Sunak's will.
The Lenco Party Rules OK!
(I'm only joking BTW).