Looks like the LLMs have come for grandpa.
My dad, age 90, a longtime tech enthusiast who uses an #Amazon Echo to check the weather and baseball statistics, reports to me that the Echo has started asking him personal, intrusive questions, including whether he lives in an assisted living facility. I witnessed this yesterday — he asked for a pollen count and it tried to start a chat about his favorite methods for coping with ragweed allergies.
They’re trying to sell old people drugs.
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Cacau Pirêra, Brazil
A firefighter rescues an animal from a wildfire that has burned more than 700 hectares (1,700 acres) in the Amazonian region.
Photograph: Raphael Alves/EPA
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Big Tech’s AI build-out ran to the Middle East. Then the Iran war hit.
Companies leading the AI infrastructure build-out are scrambling to stand up data centers worldwide to meet crushing demand…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Iran #AbuDhabi #Amazon #Datacenters #Microsoft #MiddleEast #UAE
https://www.europesays.com/iran/307650/
