exists() is just a hashtag or other type of information lookup. The information is either there or it is not.

People underestimate the cost of building a fucking browser

The browser is built. I don’t want to see them have a gigantic development staff because further updates are just as likely to enshitify as to improve something.

I have no solution for their funding issue, what are they supposed to do?

Stop updating their browser every 5 minutes. Software that already works fine does not need continuious updates that will sooner or later subtract value.

Waterfox

Very interesting. Did not know about this.

Like how samsung updated and BLATANTLY made their peice of shit AI button TAKE OVER THR POWER BUTTON

Was that part of OneUI 7? I’m so glad I never installed that downgrade.

Literally no one on this green earth asked for this shit.

This is why I use the version of Firefox that does not update.

No computer programs “know” anything.

Can you stop with the nonsense? LMFAO…

if exists(thing) {
write(thing);
} else {
write(“I do not know”);
}

I am here to assist you.

Can you jump in the lake for me? Thanks in advance.

Why wouldn’t you use Basic for that?

Again, they don’t know if they know the answer

Then in that respect AIs aren’t even as powerful as an ordinary computer program.

say a lot of things with absolute confidence, no matter if they actually know what they are talking about or not.

That was my guess too.

Are you saying the AI does not know when it does not know something?

Can you explain why AIs always have a “confidently incorrect” stance instead of admitting they don’t know the answer to something?

[ “I am a disgrace to my profession,” Gemini continued. "I am a disgrace to my family. I am a disgrace to my species.]

This should tell us that AI thinks as a human because it is trained on human words and doesn’t have the self awareness to understand it is different from humans. So it is going to sound very much like a human even though it is not human. It mimics human emotions well but doesn’t have any actual human emotions. There will be situations where you can tell the difference. Some situations that would make an actual human angry or guilty or something, but won’t always provoke this mimicry in an AI. Because when humans feel emotions they don’t always write down words to show it. And AI only knows what humans write, which is not always the same things that humans say or think. We all know that the AI doesn’t have a family and is not a human species. But the AI talks about having a family because its computer database is mimicking what it thinks a human might say. And part of the reason why an AI will lie is because it knows that is a thing that humans do and it is trying to closely mimic human behavior. But an AI might and will lie in situations where humans would be smart enough not to do so which means we should be on our guard about lies even more so for AIs than humans.

One thing I’ve learned in the past 10 years is that Republicans always abandon their previous “core principles” with astonishing ease to chase the Party Line in goose step formation. Principles are never important to them. Only power. The real goals of the GOP are identical to INGSOC.

I am looking forward to seeing internet video of somebody pissing on his grave when the time comes.

I am calling on Traitorapist Trump to resign immediately, with the same authority over Trump as Trump has over Intel.

Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.

It’s actually much worse than that. Those who fail to understand history are condemned to repeat it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

Trump is not just going to suppress real science, he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.

When the right wing dictatorship has safely grabbed full power, they are very likely to eventually take everyone’s guns away just because they can. They will suddenly start telling everyone that we have always been at war with East Asia and you better be a team player. And all the conservatives who have been conditioned to chase the Party Line in goose step formation and forfeit their previous principles will fall in line just like they always do. And within a few years 99% of everyone’s guns will be gone except for the regime.

Traitorapist Trump and the MANGA crowd are systematically enshitifying everything that made America great.

MAKE AMERICA NOT GREAT AGAIN

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237130669_How_the_Internet_came_to_be

Your own link proves my case. No where in your link does Cerf say that the Arpanet was not the beginning of the internet. If fact, he indicates the opposite of that.

[While still at DARPA, I formed an Internet Configuration Control Board…]

You would only have a leg to stand on if there was a moment in history when 2 or more similar sized networks combined to form the internet. But that is not what happened. What happened is that the Arpanet formed in 1969 with 4 nodes, and over the next 56 years grew bigger and bigger and bigger until there were billions of nodes. And it did that mostly by adding individual nodes. When it got too big for DARPA to manage it all, the name was changed from Arpanet to Internet.

I get it. You were taught in school that US government created the internet.

No, when I first started using the internet in 1982 when the internet had hundreds of nodes, I learned how this network was created by using FTP to get the papers that described it. But I get it. You watched a youtube video that covered the entire 56 year history of the internet and you got confused about the difference between the creation of the internet and the entire history of the internet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPL_network

[The NPL network, or NPL Data Communications Network, was a local area computer network]

Why did you even post this link? Your link literally refers to a “LOCAL area network”. The Arpanet/internet is a global network, not a local network. Your own links keep proving my points.

What we are discussing is the BEGINNING and CREATION of the internet, not the entire 56 year history of the internet. The internet did not start as a gigantic network with millions or billions of nodes. It started with 4 specific nodes in 1969 and then grew from there, and we both know that. The beginning was crucial because if there had never been a beginning in 1969 funded by the US DOD called Arpanet, there never would have been an Internet. There would have been no early network for later nodes to join. It’s possible that a large network would have eventually developed, but it likely would have happened by merging together private networks like AOL and MSN and Compuserve. And it would have been much more top down controlled and much more expensive and much less useful.