The AI-pocalypse

[Brett327]

If you're unfamiliar with Newspeak, time to dust off your old dog-eared copy of 1984. Double-plus-good, is the new Roger Ball, shipmates.

 

[Flash]

The USAF has tried for years (still?) to get folks to call UAVs/drones RPAs, no one except the USAF calls them that.

 

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

See Also: FRS/RAG & CVW/CAG. Changed in 1963.
Hell, remember when they took away rates for 5 minutes?

 

[Flash]

See Also: FRS/RAG & CVW/CAG. Changed in 1963.
Hell, remember when they took away rates for 5 minutes?

Ha! A longtime member here, less active now, was part of that.

 

[CommodoreMid]

I love how it changed back basically due to mutiny.

 

[HSMPBR]

Remember when they did this in the previous administration by changing the definition of NOTAMS? There’s a whole closed thread. Everything is stupid.

 

[Brett327]

On the AI front, I found this podcast to be fascinating. Ed Zitron writes about the house of cards that is the AI business model. Guy knows his stuff.

 

[WhiskeySierra6]

Remember when they did this in the previous administration by changing the definition of NOTAMS? There’s a whole closed thread. Everything is stupid.

Also, when they took away enlisted ratings for like two weeks. That was fun.

 

[RHINOWSO]

The USAF has tried for years (still?) to get folks to call UAVs/drones RPAs, no one except the USAF calls them that.

But USAF was successful in getting their people to not say "Box".

On the AI topic, I have found paid GrokBot to be far better than our company paid Chatgpt service - for whatever reason our Chat doesn't remember or learn from previous tasks, so it's only good for summarizing information or continuing length chats where you have explained everything to it already.