AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?
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M Power
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I think these companies waste their time and money trying to make these robots look human.
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Oh sure you're saying that now, but we'll see after you feel the cold steel of the HumpMaster-1000A base model. I bet you'll be upgrading to the skinsuit 1000B model in no time...
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Haus
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I have quite literally heard this in a serious meeting... with a serious customer....
"It's a distributed service spread across the cloud, that redundancy means backups are irrelevant. Redundancy between cloud data centers IS the backup."
Sheriff Cad
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You certainly would want to keep your mission-critical stuff in your own backups, like, always... not saying you don't.
But it could absolutely be part of a service package that the SaaS stuff does it's own backups/they manage that for you as part of the service, yea? You should obviously take a look and see if that meets your needs (or if they are actually doing it...) but I've had plenty of colos who pull backup images of your machine weekly/daily/whatever you are willing to pay for the space for.
Obviously just saying it's on the cloud and its distributed is crazy town, but I'm hoping they meant something a little deeper...
Khane
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Redundancy between data centers is a backup, very literally... did you mean to phrase this another way?