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...
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Khane
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Redundancy between data centers is a backup, very literally... did you mean to phrase this another way?
Haus
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When asked what they do against scenarios like we're hearing, where a rouge individual, or bad process, nukes databases/etc was the scenario. And having "distributed microservices based SaaS" continually updates data/code/processes across data centers because often they're functionally load balancing as regional demand demands. In that scenario the "Bad AI prompt deleted production database" isn't protect from at all by that.
Just like it's not functional backup of code for revisioning and rollback. For DR or for redundancy and HA that is a completely viable strategy. For bad/corrupt data , not so much.
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