Ah, the famous “Fox News” defense of claiming you’re an entertainment medium but you should totally trust it.
Theo whole OS is garbage. Used to be at least functional, now it’s an ad infested AI slop fest.
(to Microsoft) So, you won’t be using your ai for vibecoding your updates anymore, right? …Right?
…checking Microsoft’s status page…
User impact: A subset of admins in North America may be unable to access the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Current status: We confirmed that an issue in a recent update introduced errors in the code path that facilitates calls to the Microsoft 365 admin center when encountered by admins, which resulted in their inability to access the Microsoft 365 admin center.
I guess Microsoft didn’t get the memo they released, then…
Someone finally listend to their lawyers
I do a few things at work that I use AI for. Work had a gpt enterprise key, now we’ve moved to claude. Through O365, I also have access to copilot.
Pretty much anything I ask claude or gpt about, I can be sure to get a solid answer or one that was at least on Stack Exchange or Reddit. If that fails, and I drill down a little more on a problem, adding details, they’ll both get a little better after a couple of questions and usually come up with a reasonable answer.
Not copilot. If you ask copilot something and it doesn’t come back in one shot with an authoritative cited answer, just walk away. It makes no attempt to ensure the answer is right or sane. It either hit in training or it didn’t. And if it didn’t, trying to convince it to strike out in a few other directions to solve it is absolutely a fool’s errand.
It’s like they bought into OpenAI, then never got any updates or made any progress. I
they probably had Copilot write the new TOS that included this line and since nobody who uses AI reads the final output, nobody caught it.
they never expected consumers to actually read the TOS.
Meanwhile, watching the NCAA game yesterday I watched multiple commercials from Microsoft stating copilot as something to use in your daily work place and work flow. And I didn’t see any disclaimer that AI was for entertaining purposes only and that they weren’t liable for killing your business.
I can see where an AI that fucks everything up all the time might be entertaining like a good slapstick comedy, but nah, Resident Evil Requiem is sufficient entertainment for now.
Topic aside: I want to play resident evil requiem. do i have to play previous games as well? I haven’t played any.
Nope, my wife and I watched a stream and I’m only vaguely aware of the plots of the other games. It didn’t take away from anything, and my wife clueing me in on the references really didn’t add much of value to the experience.
Naw, they’re tenuously connected aside from some specific moments and characters across the franchise.
Story wise it’s all pulp horror/scifi. If you want to play the highlights, the remakes of part 2 and 4 from the 2010’s are fantastic games and each stand on their own. 7 & 8 are a more modern style and really good straight horror experiences but not necessary to enjoy Requiem. The other entires can be rough as they were created with various elements of game design and language we’ve moved past and improved on since.
Resident Evil Characters wiki page can be a fun read for a little more context but not an absolute need.
Alternately if you want to get caught up without a 100 hour investment in play time, Noah Caldwell-Gervais does great long form essays on video game series’ and his resident evil one will get you up to speed for requiem in significantly less time.
I started playing them on original PlayStation release and have enjoyed them all for different reasons. The story is a hodgepodge of 30 years of writers and artists building a world that is both overly complex and charmingly simple. Each release can be seen as a reflection of the world it was created in and the horror and espionage tropes of the time. At the end of the day though, it is a very silly series that understands the ridiculousness of its characters and world and strikes a great balance between that and being genuinely scary.
Copilot: the Fox News of AI
Deploy everywhere, trust nowhere. Bold strategy.
Standard fart operating procedure
A salesman for an AI consulting company made the comment that we don’t expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI? He was smug about it, too, like it was his big gotcha. Joke’s on him, I’m the one that talked the bosses out of spending money with them.
“Is your AI accountable for mistakes? All these idiots are…”
That’s such a bad argument too. The whole point of technology is to help perfect the output of humans. Why would we buy technology that is known to not do that
“You can get pretty good results most of the time and save money on labor!” Not like our whole business model is focused on expertise and compliance or anything. Surely our clients won’t mind a few little mistakes here and there, as a treat.
Just like Fox news
If it works, it’s thanks to us. If it doesn’t, it’s your fault.
For entertainment in Excel…
It’s almost like it’s only a data harvesting tool. Why tf should they implement it everywhere for free?
