AI, as good or evil as human nature allows

ChatGPT is still working on "my" redesign.

 

Ummm... how do you get inside? There's no door except through the garage.

The fixation on bathrooms will probably appeal to certain fetishists. I'm not as into what I assume is corpse storage on the south east corner.

 

I quit ChatGPT after 12 hours of waiting for the redesign.

Gemini renamed one of the little bathrooms as a bedroom.

I think architects' jobs are still safe.

 

It's Steve Miller's dream house.

 

Please,let’s not sully the legacy of the Space Cowboy.

Stephen, not Steve

 

Okay, a vacancy written for and fitting like a glove for posters in here!!

Striking vacancy at the company behind ChatGPT: who wants to counter the dangers of AI for four hundred thousand euros a year?
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is looking for a new executive to oversee the risks of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence.
The position, 'Head of Preparedness', offers an annual salary of 467,000 euros and includes a broad responsibility: from reducing mental health risks to countering possible misuse of AI in the development of biological weapons.

 

Not fake images from CES 2026

 

FIFA is going to use AI to help with offside calls at the World Cup

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6949920/2026/01/07/fifa-ai-offside-world-cup/

 

Is it really AI though? It's just estimating where a players body parts were at a particular point in time based on pictures from multiple angles.

 

AI is a very broad term. It can be anything from a few conditional statements to a trillion dollar LLM housed concurrently in scores of massive computer datacenters. We don't have the right language for it yet.

 

The chief of West Midlands police has apologised to MPs for giving them incorrect evidence about the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans, saying it had been produced by artificial intelligence (AI).

Craig Guildford told the home affairs select committee on Monday that the inclusion of a fictitious match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and West Ham in police intelligence “arose as a result of a use of Microsoft Copilot”.

The chief constable had previously told MPs that the force did not use AI and the mistake regarding the West Ham match, which had never taken place, was made by “one individual doing one Google search”.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ief-apologises-ai-error-maccabi-tel-aviv-ban?

 

If you plan on buying a SSD, it better be soon. Prices are already starting to go up, and they will go up steeply as the companies making solid state drives switch from making NAND to making DRAM for AI datacenters.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/1097...nix-reportedly-cut-nand-production/index.html

 

The AI bubble is hoovering up all the components and starving everyone else with massively inflated prices. I've been procrastinating on updating some machines but looks like I'll have to wait.

 

I've even notice old-fashioned hard drives have went up in price. Wanted to get one a few weeks ago, but it was too much.

 

There are lots of jobs for architects right now (I work with dozens of firms). Retirements in the US are at about 10k/year, while schools produce only about 4,000 master of architecture grads per year.

Re: AI, of what use is a sketch of a house? Who makes the construction drawings? Who ensures the HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems meet local code? Who works with the homeowner on a design that aligns with a realistic budget? Who designs a home for an actual site in the real world, and not just a disembodied screen?

The list goes on. AI may be a useful tool for architects. But it can’t replace what architects do.

 

I grabbed a PS5 while it's still cheap. My other machines are old so I switched from Windows to Linux (Cinnamon Mint).

 

I would actually put my money on OpenAI being the first one to fold, they don't have Google's Gemini's structural advantages or Anthropic AI's increasingly deep integration in high level development (mostly for its amazing one-shot prototyping abilities). Outside of Google's very deep pockets, Gemini's massive context window is something that ChatGPT cannot match*.

OpenAI cannot afford for ChatGPT to be a middle of the road A.I. model, which it currently increasingly appears to be. I think we need to see some of its stranger decisions within that light.

* If you are interested in testing this aspect, feed the various models a .sql export of a large and complex database and then ask it for the following:

- Identifying the core entities
- Overview of the relationships (output to mermaid diagram)
- Identify the business rules
- Generate a markdown-formatted doc to illustrate the data flow

 

OpenAI will be absorbed by Microsoft, who already have a 27% stake.

"Our screenshot shows you have a negative bank balance. Would you like help with that?".

 

Let’s blame this one on AI:

 

Also Uber drivers have become more and more discerning, only operating "profitable" routes (for them not Uber) and it's become almost impossible to get an Uber outside of a metro area.

 

I know that sometimes my Credit Card offers me to create an alternate number for internet transactions, I'm not sure if you can generate those numbers as an user.

 

I think they will take whatever tech they think is useful and let the company rot. Even Microsoft isn't rich enough to fund OpenAI's path to nowhere.

 

Yes, I also haz kwestions

 

If there is a crash, what will be the impact on prices?

I’m guessing the market will be absolutely flooded with 6 month old pieces of hardware, right, and a bunch of manufacturers will fold while the rest slash prices in an attempt to live out the “I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you” joke.

Am I right?