"The UK's procurement processes are not fit to bring AI into the nation's military capabilities, lawmakers heard at a parliamentary hearing."
Thank goodness for that.
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"because, obviously, who would configure a 90-second ringtone ?"
They made an assumption. Any assumption quickly becomes a limitation if not a bug. Assume as little as possible, Even so it should be a requirement of ringing a phone that the ring tone ill be cut off as soon as it's answered.
"Cloning the MAC Address of the original ISP router can be useful to avoid 'simple' detection if you replace the router"
Didn't bother, just stuck a TP-Link in as was. Only issue with that, several generations of router have been quite happy to live with the name I chose to give the router in my hosts file. This one doesn't like it so I just use the IP address to connect to it.
There's also a "dogfooding" aspect to the move. Fujitsu currently emphasizes its "Uvance" digital experience practice and methodologies.
Unlike some companies we could think of.
Of course it's possible they might need to sell off property to pay compensation to ex-sub-postmasters - if so, not before time. Justice delayed is justice denied.
"No-one suspects that something with four wheels contains something deadly until it goes KABOOM."
No-one?
Suspecting exactly that was SOP in Northern Ireland. It became law that an unoccupied car should be locked because of the increased risk of it being stolen and used as a bomb (which puzzled me why it seems to have been so easy to lift documents from a PSNI Super's car). There were substantial areas where it was illegal to park an unoccupied car (they may not have been aware of it but my children were sometimes car-sitters on weekends when I needed to run a quick errand into one of the zones).
Even so, my lab was bombed. Someone the IRA wrongly though worked there was targetted. They loaded his car, told him to drive there and held his family hostage. As he didn't work there the car never got beyond the double gate trap. Everyone was evacuated to the back of the site until it went off
I was down town in court at the time and got told about it by a couple of Peelers (even writing about it brings back the terminology of the time and place) while the defence had asked for a recess whilst they considered what I'd just said. Windows were blown in but not much real damage. I was greeted by a strong smell of clove oil as I entered the door. I used it as a dehydrating agent for preparing wood sections and had a 100 ml bottle near one of the windows that blown in. The spilled oil must have got trodden right down to the door.
An over-seas allowance? I'd have appreciated that. Instead I was up against the Civil Service/HMG mentality which says "We rate people who are qualified for their jobs by their education well below those who aren't, promotion comes with responsibility measured by direct reports, not by what the actual job is, and if we want a national pay policy the easiest place to start is with the public sector."
"Pastiche Generator" would be my description. They create pastiches of real statements, images or whatever. Whether the response to any prompt will be all true, all false, all irrelevant or somewhere in-between is, if not pure chance, at least not ready determinable ahead of time.
A statement based on reports that somebody reported a crime or was a witness at a trial and mangles them to say that that person was convicted of the crime is simply not true. Which epithet you choose to apply to the untruth is your personal choice and frankly doesn't matter very much. What matters is that people are trusting the system that creates such a statement.
"How much of a world model or theory of the world does a newly conceived human have?"
The newly conceived born human acquires a world model by being a physical entity and encountering the other physical entities around it. It starts to do so before starting to acquire language. Our non-human relatives do the same without ever acquiring language. Language - words - is/are the means by which we apply symbolic labels to the real world in order to build and manipulate ideas about them. They are not intrinsic to an internal model of the external world. But words are al LLMs have. They do not have the physicality to react with the physical world.
“take full control of our device” sounds more like Microsoft's approach. I think Apple is more along the lines of "it's your device but you're not going anywhere outside our walled garden". I suppose vulnerabilities like these could have also opened up the possibility of 3rd party stores such as F-Droid run for Android phones.
People have been using textual analysis for years to (try to) identify writers. Computers have been used in the Who Really Wrote Shakespeare game since they became available. But I don't see it working well by trying to score individual sentences. I'd have thought it would work better picking on a whole lot of factors, consistency of choice of grammatical constructions, consistency of shortening (e.g can't vs cannot vs can not) & so forth that would require gathering statistics from the entire text or at least substantial portions of it. It might be quite reasonable for all replies form any particular LLM to occupy quite a small portion of a multidimensional space defined in that way.
Amazon is going to show you what *they* want you to see and buy,
They may succeed with the first but fail with the second. Perhaps they could try an A/B test with an alternative search engine that does as it's asked to find out how much trade they're turning away.
"it's probably best just not to answer the call"
No, siita has the right idea. Get them to hang on. While they're doing that they're not bothering anyone else so you can put it down as a public service on your part, and it's wasting their time. Given how few such calls we get my belief is that there are lists circulating of numbers it's best not to ring.
I keep saying this but:
The telco has records of at least who it took the call from. What's needed is a number, say 1476, to ring immediately after hanging up to report the spam. The telco records the number and with a bit of statistical checking to see if the source is being reported enough times it credits the reporters' accounts with a fee for their troubles (at least double for numbers on TPS), adds a fee for its own troubles and bills whoever sent it the call. If it's another telco then they can add their own fee and pass the bill back to the source until it either reaches the caller's account or a telco which has not yet learned to keep records. This will make it unduly expensive either for callers or for telcos who are prepared to handle the calls carelessly. One way or another it would kill the whole business stone dead.
In practice it probably wouldn't need to be implemented. It would put telcos to considerable upfront costs to set up the system. Once legislators or regulators started talking seriously about implementing it I think the industry would quickly discover other, effective ways of stopping such calls, ways which up to now haven't been practical.
"although I never answer calls from numbers I don't recognise"
What you should do is answer ask them to hold on - you need to look something up to answer their question, have to go to answer the door, whatever - and then put the phone aside for 10 minutes. AFAICS that gets your number on an even more valuable list, the list of numbers it's best not to call. It certainly works for me as we get very few.