I posted this comment a week ago, but figured I’d share it here as well.
I’m an IT consultant and I had a meeting with AWS yesterday. My manager asked me to give the AWS team an overview of our solution so they could see what they could use for a new program they were pitching our clients. That’s all the information I had, so I started the meeting by saying “I’m not sure what you all are proposing, so I’m going to give you a high level but please let me know where you need more details.”
After I had finished giving my overview, I tried to get more info out of them about what they were proposing to build. I shit you not, their response was that they wanted to "build an app that allowed the business to run with AI and ML (Machine Learning).”
They didn’t say, “we want to solve X and Y problems” or “enable Z functionality.” Literally their entire goal was to build something with AI. I’m glad I wasn’t on camera or in person, because I literally face-palmed.
I had a meeting with a c-suite type from one of our clients about ten years ago. He had just read an article about APIs and wanted to find out from me how his company could start using them. His company’s back end was basically nothing but APIs. This made me lose the last modicum of respect I had for c-suite types, shocking because I don’t know why I even still had that modicum left.
You should be in the position and get paid their wage. Ask for a raise whenever possible.
TBF that guy’s primary responsibility was to look good in a suit (or a tech vest) and help secure the next round of venture capital funds. Not anything that I was good at.
Then you should get paid as much as he did
Literally their entire goal was to build something with AI.
Probably in order to replace workers ahead of their next round of mass firings.
The problem is that there’s too many employees drawing a salary brining down shareholder value and they want to get rid of as many of them as they can. /s
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Ok but i really hope we never fund attack insects
Not all uses of such weapons are prohibited by treaty. The present invention is capable of delivering lethal and non-lethal toxins, including any agent that can be carried and administered by a mosquito.
I’m sorry but WTF. This is a patent about using mosquitoes to deliver lethal toxins? How is this not prohibited by chemical warfare treaties? Only legal if you use it against your own citizens?
Depends who they’re attacking.
Doesn’t matter who they’re attacking it matters who they could attack
I’m sure DARPA probably already has research in this area.
Aperture science
We do what we must, because we can.
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.
Aperture (Science) Innovators
(The original name under Cave Johnson)
Those all sound like pretty awesome projects in their own right, though.
Laugh all you want, but Artichoke Infantry is the future of fully vegan warfare!
AIRBORNE ICEBERGS
Bring back Habakkuk!
Anus Implosions
The Datenelch (data moose) was actually a pretty good meme around 37c3.
