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Submission + - Babylon Five is now free to watch on YouTube (cordcuttersnews.com)

sandbagger writes: Eep! The amazing series Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube! For those not in the know, in the mid-23rd century, the Earth Alliance space station Babylon Five, located in neutral territory, is a major focal point for political intrigue, racial tensions, and a major war as Earth descends into fascism and cuts off relations with its allies.

Submission + - Predictions of how 2026 could be (abc.net.au)

sandbagger writes: 67 years ago, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation recorded a collection of predictions about the future—the one we’re living in now, in 2026. Their forecasts are truly extraordinary — Intergalactic super speed travel, future pod houses, Nuclear fallout, but all of these are wrong..

Submission + - Canada advances fusion records (ecoticias.com)

sandbagger writes: Fusion power may only be 30 years away as Canada has just broken a world record in nuclear fusion, producing about 600 million fusion neutrons every second at peak output.

Comment Robot heads 'reading' AI slop is still AI slop. (Score 4, Insightful) 49

Most algorithmically generated content is... not worth paying for. Of course, 'in the future' AI will get better, and AI slop will disappear, says the man who's invested heavily in AI systems.

Much stock market and sports score reporting has been generated for years. That works when you have regularized inputs and narrow outputs. This is 'convert this table to text in pre-defined paragraph formats' and not that complicated. Will AI tools help content creators? Sure? Will it make content creators go away? Some. Others will use AI tools to generate even more content.

As for no-human-in-the-loop podcasts/YouTube channels? Those audiences of ten people that marketing f***wits are convinced will be 'microtargetted' consumers / voters are likely to be 90 per cent bots. It'll just be a huge waste of electricity.

Comment Mgt wanting to lay off eveyrone but mgt (Score 4, Interesting) 61

We have narcissistic CEO types, tapping away in ChatGTP all day, and the LLMs are providing a narcissistic feedback loop. In public companies, axis 2 cluster b personalities tend to group in management, and with LLMs telling these maniacs that they're blessed with cosmic insights, management has become insufferable.

The only good benefit I have seen from AI is that marketing f***wits have all been laid off.

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