I point and laugh at all you under-60s thinking you're getting old...until I remember that the 70+ brigade are probably doing the same to me! 😉 So many moments: my children not recognising a picture of a phone because it wasn't a rectangle with a screen... my young son commanding "pause!" during live TV... finding out when they were teeens they'd never heard _Stairway_ _to_ _Heaven..._ my daughter trying to explain modern slang in terms of older slang I still didn't understand!
I remember vividly when I first became aware of the inexorable passage of time: I was 19, talking to my sister (who is 10 years younger than me), and I made a _DuckTales_ reference. She had never heard of it. I immediately crumbled into a pile of dust.
The biggest shock to me is when I'm scrolling through Facebook and see a picture of someone that I think looks old. Then I see the name and realize it's someone I went to school with!
I was never much into popular media so the biggest thing that makes me feel old is when stuff from my childhood and adolescence becomes “retro” or “vintage”. The catch is, the cycle is getting tighter: stuff from 2000s or 2010s is apparently already retro…
44 going on 45 ? Youngster! But I can also really relate to this song - that happens to me all the time. I knew it was a good time to finish work when customers I remembered from coming in as a kids started coming in with their grand-kids 😖
Yes, there was a time when I’d make a TV reference, usually a comedy or catchphrase, and I’d get a screwed up face response with a shake off the head with “You’re mad, you.” These days young ‘uns just accept that I’m from the past. 😊
I'm 37 and teach university and I often enjoy asking the younger students what sorts of media is big now. It's fun to learn and sometimes it's stuff that I also know about so we can have a fun laugh about it or if it's something I know nothing about I get to ask them about it and I find it's often a good way to engage students more in the class.
Very relatable song. One thing that made me feel old recently was a colleague at work saying she got her first mobile phone 10 years ago when she was in primary school. I'm standing there thinking 10 years ago I started working at the shop im still working at today. 😂 When younger people have no idea what I'm talking about out when mentioning classic dial up internet, having to rewind a video tape or if wanting to phone a friend, their parents answering the house phone as kids didn't have mobiles, that makes me realise im getting older lol
A few years ago we went to the mall with my boss and his daughter, she saw a pay phone and asked him what it was. She did not believe us when we sait it was a phone. Also, after spending my 40th and 43rd birthday in physiotherapy because of back injuries, I dont feel young anymore
I'm right there with you... the first time I felt this way was about 10 years ago, watching a video (and I am not making this up) of millennials opening compact discs for the first time in their lives (in their 20's and 30's). They were genuinely surprised that there was a little booklet inside.... People in their THIRTIES who had never listened to music except by streaming it...... TEN YEARS AGO. Meanwhile, I was remembering turning my tape cassette collection into a CD collection.... into a digital purchase collection.... which was long ago made obsolete because I can stream everything I ever owned and infinitely more with a subscription. (long deep sigh). But you'll need to take my vinyl over my cold dead body.
... That seems strange to me, as a millenial who grew up with music still coming on cassette tape (and ten years ago I was still in my 20s)... Of course, by the time I was buying it for myself it was on CD, but still. Of course, the really fun bit is that music CDs predate PC HDDs.
@@laurencefraser You understand that these artifical names for "generations" encompass pretty wide age ranges, right? Elder millenials and younger millenials had vastly different tech upbringings. Hard Disc Drives predate Compact Discs by over 20 years in terms of when they were invented, and they both became widely available around 1983. Not sure what you are talking about there.
Please don’t get paranoid about the comments mate. Your “silly little songs” bring cheer and joviality to a bleak entertainment landscape. A Quintessentially British approach/perspective that frankly is so refreshing in a media market saturated with dark and/or angry messages.
I usually don't make more than one comment per video so please excuse me for a second comment, but I just thought about another angle of this topic. As I mentioned I will be turning 50. Anyway I have a couple of friends who have now passed the 70 mark and they laugh at me for thinking I'm getting old and they even call me "kido". The thing is that I knew them when they were in their 50's and you know what they did? They referred to themselves as old the same way I do now! So it's really all relative. I suppose when I'm 70 I will turn to the nearest 50 year old and call them "Kido" . That and tell them if I find just one more of their toys in my yard that I'm throwing it straight into the trash bin!
Not everyone needs to have grand children but they're quite wonderful at convincing you that being fragile and innocent isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I've started feeling old since quitting social media. I am no longer up to date with modern-day lingo. But I'd still take feeling old over... Well, the dread that social media made me feel
I think about this almost everyday. when I think back to what I think of as a "recent" memory, and realize it was 30 or more years ago! I will be 50 this summer and mindlessly think I will be turning 27. Question: am I alone in thinking that all real music made these days is underground and online only?
Eehhhh we're the same age! While I'm technically in Gen X I tend to feel a bit like someone Beta-testing being a Millenial, I seem to have more in common with that generation than mine. Also as a school kid, and student, I rode the bleeding edge of computer tech for years and to now be behind the curve on all that seems rather unsettling.
Tell me, just tell me, who the fcuk needs an AI fridge?! Otoh I fell over in Covent Garden last week and it still hurts to walk down stairs. On the bright side, as dementia sets in, my attention span will catch up with a 20 year olds...
Probably the same people who need 'smart' fridges... which exist basically entirely to spy on you and sell data about you to advertising companies (fi you're lucky)... or even 'dumb' fridges (or more comonly washing machines, apparently) which connect to the internet for any reason at all, which are pretty much universally designed to such low standards (while having sufficently powerful hardware because that's the cheap bulk option these days) that they instantly become part of bot nets.
My sister's husband is 13 years older than she is. They've had this issue their whole marriage. "Do you remember X from when you were a kid?" "Um, no, dear. Remember I was born the year you turned 13."
Blue Harvest is about 18 years old. There technically are adults now that weren't alive when it was released. Now excuse me while I shake my fist at the clouds and yell at the kids to get off my lawn.
I grew up hearing not bee-ta or bay-ta, but bet-ah, very similar to better (at least in the local dialects). No idea how that came to be a thing other than the existence of the word 'alphabet'.
I was born in 1966 and mostly I feel young but I'm dating a beautiful and stunningly intelligent girl who is 41 which mostly makes me feel young but sometimes makes me feel ancient . Life is funny like that isn't it. Cheers. I was aware of the "beta" divergence between British and American pronunciation. That's extremely interesting. I wonder what caused a drift in our pronunciations?
I'll be 30 this year so I've yet to feel that, but since i plan to work with kids in the near future, this may become my reality soon. (plus I'm an uncle to 2 Gen Alphas, God help me) I'm guessing you couldn't brush up on the current film trends to aid your teaching due to work overload?
As far as Gen Alpha rolling over to Gen Beta, all I could think of is Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD, where Alphas are the smart ones, Betas are stupider, Gammas are worse...and down and down...so I imagine the educational level of OUR society will line up with the generations, sadly.
Just to oblige your request........... If you pronounce Beta that way, how do you pronounce "beets", or as you call it, beetroot? Wouldn't that be spelled betroot? And at the bottom of legs would be your fet? And when you get tired, you take a set in your favorite chair? It's not just Americans. Greeks pronounce the e in Feta (cheese) the way Americans pronounce Beta (or close - theirs is a softer vowel, even further from your version). Lets remember that Beta is from the Greek - well, from the Phoenicians, via the Greeks. So I'd say modern Greeks would be the best source material we have on this. But if you have a good reason why a single e would be pronounced that way, bring it. We're all ears. Just remind me first how you pronounced the letter Z. Because I'm pretty sure that single e between a soft and hard consonant gets a completely different treatment.
Why you'd pronounce it the British way? Simple enough, if you treat it as an English word... that's how it's spelled! So if your baseline is how it's written, or how it's said by people whose baseline is how it's written, there you are. If you have two vowels seperated by a single consonant (and there's a list of 'single consonants' that are written with two characters, which still count, and at least one which is written with a single character which does not) then, unless the stress pattern indicates otherwise (of course, one of the biggest flaws in the English writing system is that the stress pattern is Never Indicated, it's just assumed that you will all ready know it and the spelling consequently only disambiguates between possible readings with the same stress pattern most of the time. How things ended up that way, I have no idea), or it's over-ridden by some other vowel interaction, the first vowel is pronounced as a 'long vowel' (which probably isn't actually long at all, but may be short, long, or a diphthong. The 'long vowels' Were all long before the Great Vowel Shift ruined everything. These days they're just the ones that match the names of the characters you write them with). How, and whether, the second vowel is pronounced depends on other factors. (turns out English spelling is not as inconsistent as most people think, but rather a lot more Complicated than they were taught. The continued existence of '-ough' in its current state really has no excuse though). So 'beta' and 'beet' have the same vowel in that first position, if you treat them both as native English words with no indication that you should do otherwise. The American pronunciation is, like many other divergent American pronunciations, a matter of Americans deciding to take a word that has been standard in English for years, decades, or centuries, and start saying it as if it were a foreign word for one reason or another. Sometimes it makes sense (I fully understand why the British call the rank 'leftenant' rather than 'leutenant' (or however you spell that). I am, however, utterly baffled by the fact that, despite continuing to Read/say the British word, they started Writing the French one...) Most of the time it doesn't (Herb has an H in English. There is no debate here. The practice of dropping that H in (some dialects of?) American English is borrowed from Yiddish (if I recall correctly)... English did not acquire the word 'herb' from Yiddish. It would not surprise me to discover that the word Herb was present in English before Yiddish was even a Thing. Mind you, linguistic drift being what it is, it wouldn't surprise me too much to discover that that last bit wasn't the case either), sometimes it's a bit of a coin flip (the ancient Greek alphabet)... The fun part is when this 'correction' is itself incorrect by the standards used to justify it (can't think of an example off the top of my head, but I do know it happens sometimes). Of course, then you get the fun of how I heard the word being said growing up: Not bay-ta or bee-ta, but bet-a ... You know, the same 'bet' found in 'alphabet'... Yeah, aside from a vague guess that that connection is relevant I have no idea how that came to be a thing.
@@laurencefraser But it's not a native English word. Funny you would spend that much effort and time and base it all on a faulty assumption. It's also funny that you treat the proper Greek pronunciation as a "divergent American pronunciation" when it is the Greek pronunciation (the original pronunciation) and is used the world over except for the UK. Which makes the British pronunciation the divergent pronunciation, by the literal definition of the word divergent. Again, it's not an English word. It's Greek.
We're the same age, weird...I thought you were older. I think it's the facial hair. I watched CES, but I missed the AI Refrigerator, now I have to look that up because...why? What does the AI do, that would be the worst AI job ever. Also, I had no idea you were saying Beta because of the pronunciation until you talked about the pronunciation. Silly Brits pronouncing things wrong... as of you created the language or something. 🙃 Best of luck for 2025.
The first thing to remember about current "AI" technology is that the claim that is in any way "AI" is a lie. Rather it is created using the current incarnation of what is believed to be some of the major precursor technologies to AI (as in, if we never developed them, AI would Definitely be impossible) which renders its functions something of a black box. And that's When the lable isn't just a straight up lie a second time over and used purely as marketing buzz. The second thing to remember is that 'dumb' devices connect to the internet when they shouldn't all the time (the 'internet of things) because it's cheaper and easier for the manufacturers in various ways... which results in them being hijacked into botnets All The Time because, again, the goal was entirely 'cheap' not 'good'. 'Smart' devices, in contrast, tend to have Slightly better security... on the other hand they are almost universally spying on you 20+ differrent ways, with all the collected information being sold off to who knows how many different parties (often the 'smart' devices are sold cheaper because the company that makes them more than makes up the difference in this way), and while smart Phones give you a lot of extra funcitonality in exchange, smart Televisions are almost universally inferrior to their 'dumb' counterparts (when there is a difference in favour of the 'smart' tv, it's never due to the 'smart' part, it's because the basic TV hardware has improved). LCD already necessitated extra computing hardware between the incoming signal and the display, which made enough of a difference that people playing certain types of games (and almost certainly for other uses too) still prefered CRT to cut down command loop lag, 'smart' tvs massively increased that lag for no actual benefit. That's also why you used to be able to turn on a TV and instantly have picture and sound, and now it can take a minute, or occasionally more, to get its act together and start doing anything other than display the brand splash screen)
I point and laugh at all you under-60s thinking you're getting old...until I remember that the 70+ brigade are probably doing the same to me! 😉 So many moments: my children not recognising a picture of a phone because it wasn't a rectangle with a screen... my young son commanding "pause!" during live TV... finding out when they were teeens they'd never heard _Stairway_ _to_ _Heaven..._ my daughter trying to explain modern slang in terms of older slang I still didn't understand!
I remember vividly when I first became aware of the inexorable passage of time: I was 19, talking to my sister (who is 10 years younger than me), and I made a _DuckTales_ reference. She had never heard of it. I immediately crumbled into a pile of dust.
Please release this as a song. I wouldn’t hesitate to download!
Kid looks at my shirt:
- It's a Delorean!!!
- YEEES!!!
- From GTA5!!!
- yyyeeeees....
I picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue. 😂
There's a sale at Penny's!!!
I'm serious and don't call me Shirley
You're still young, I can still remember when mobile phones first appeared.
Same. I'm going to put a CD on and relax.
I'm going to listen to my 8 track in my car😅
He is still young, middle aged, I am 62 this year...
@@SylvanApe Ahh New school, I have some bakelite records somewhere.
@@stuartfaulds1580 ^winner.
The biggest shock to me is when I'm scrolling through Facebook and see a picture of someone that I think looks old. Then I see the name and realize it's someone I went to school with!
Once again, lad, you hit the nail on the head. Hope you've had a great new years.
Always a gem. Love it.
I was never much into popular media so the biggest thing that makes me feel old is when stuff from my childhood and adolescence becomes “retro” or “vintage”. The catch is, the cycle is getting tighter: stuff from 2000s or 2010s is apparently already retro…
I remember when wireless was what you listened to - Light Programme and Home Service.
Wonderful song.Hope you had a gret new years!
I so understand.. i work with really young colleagues.. 20 years.. difference..I’m 53.. but I think you’re so on point 😊
44 going on 45 ? Youngster! But I can also really relate to this song - that happens to me all the time. I knew it was a good time to finish work when customers I remembered from coming in as a kids started coming in with their grand-kids 😖
I know the feeling. ^^
Yes, there was a time when I’d make a TV reference, usually a comedy or catchphrase, and I’d get a screwed up face response with a shake off the head with “You’re mad, you.” These days young ‘uns just accept that I’m from the past. 😊
I'm 37 and teach university and I often enjoy asking the younger students what sorts of media is big now. It's fun to learn and sometimes it's stuff that I also know about so we can have a fun laugh about it or if it's something I know nothing about I get to ask them about it and I find it's often a good way to engage students more in the class.
Ditto. Cheers, take care.
Very relatable song.
One thing that made me feel old recently was a colleague at work saying she got her first mobile phone 10 years ago when she was in primary school. I'm standing there thinking 10 years ago I started working at the shop im still working at today. 😂
When younger people have no idea what I'm talking about out when mentioning classic dial up internet, having to rewind a video tape or if wanting to phone a friend, their parents answering the house phone as kids didn't have mobiles, that makes me realise im getting older lol
A few years ago we went to the mall with my boss and his daughter, she saw a pay phone and asked him what it was. She did not believe us when we sait it was a phone.
Also, after spending my 40th and 43rd birthday in physiotherapy because of back injuries, I dont feel young anymore
I heard Soundgarden playing in the grocery store. 1975 here 🤦♀️
I'm right there with you... the first time I felt this way was about 10 years ago, watching a video (and I am not making this up) of millennials opening compact discs for the first time in their lives (in their 20's and 30's). They were genuinely surprised that there was a little booklet inside....
People in their THIRTIES who had never listened to music except by streaming it...... TEN YEARS AGO.
Meanwhile, I was remembering turning my tape cassette collection into a CD collection.... into a digital purchase collection.... which was long ago made obsolete because I can stream everything I ever owned and infinitely more with a subscription. (long deep sigh).
But you'll need to take my vinyl over my cold dead body.
... That seems strange to me, as a millenial who grew up with music still coming on cassette tape (and ten years ago I was still in my 20s)... Of course, by the time I was buying it for myself it was on CD, but still.
Of course, the really fun bit is that music CDs predate PC HDDs.
@@laurencefraser You understand that these artifical names for "generations" encompass pretty wide age ranges, right? Elder millenials and younger millenials had vastly different tech upbringings.
Hard Disc Drives predate Compact Discs by over 20 years in terms of when they were invented, and they both became widely available around 1983. Not sure what you are talking about there.
When you feel old you just need to “ruin it for the kids” as a friend of mine once told me. 😆
I hear that. Staring down 40 myself. But the aches and gray hairs have been around a few years already.
Your still young I remember atari and Nintendo being created.
Good God you're still lookin good!!!❤😊😊😊😊🤪💚😳😳😳😳😳
Please don’t get paranoid about the comments mate. Your “silly little songs” bring cheer and joviality to a bleak entertainment landscape. A Quintessentially British approach/perspective that frankly is so refreshing in a media market saturated with dark and/or angry messages.
I usually don't make more than one comment per video so please excuse me for a second comment, but I just thought about another angle of this topic.
As I mentioned I will be turning 50. Anyway I have a couple of friends who have now passed the 70 mark and they laugh at me for thinking I'm getting old and they even call me "kido". The thing is that I knew them when they were in their 50's and you know what they did? They referred to themselves as old the same way I do now! So it's really all relative. I suppose when I'm 70 I will turn to the nearest 50 year old and call them "Kido" . That and tell them if I find just one more of their toys in my yard that I'm throwing it straight into the trash bin!
Not everyone needs to have grand children but they're quite wonderful at convincing you that being fragile and innocent isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I've started feeling old since quitting social media. I am no longer up to date with modern-day lingo. But I'd still take feeling old over... Well, the dread that social media made me feel
I think about this almost everyday. when I think back to what I think of as a "recent" memory, and realize it was 30 or more years ago! I will be 50 this summer and mindlessly think I will be turning 27.
Question: am I alone in thinking that all real music made these days is underground and online only?
Eehhhh we're the same age!
While I'm technically in Gen X I tend to feel a bit like someone Beta-testing being a Millenial, I seem to have more in common with that generation than mine. Also as a school kid, and student, I rode the bleeding edge of computer tech for years and to now be behind the curve on all that seems rather unsettling.
Soon be VHS 📼 children
The fact to released this a week after I turned 30...
One of my coworkers at work is 16 and she really makes me feel old.
Im 21 every day in my head
I have a once a week shift in retail for the employee discount, and some of my coworkers are now so young that I get looks once I mention my age
I remember the first time this happened to me: I was about 20, mentioned something about Metallica, and the kids were all confused.
Tell me, just tell me, who the fcuk needs an AI fridge?! Otoh I fell over in Covent Garden last week and it still hurts to walk down stairs. On the bright side, as dementia sets in, my attention span will catch up with a 20 year olds...
Probably the same people who need 'smart' fridges... which exist basically entirely to spy on you and sell data about you to advertising companies (fi you're lucky)... or even 'dumb' fridges (or more comonly washing machines, apparently) which connect to the internet for any reason at all, which are pretty much universally designed to such low standards (while having sufficently powerful hardware because that's the cheap bulk option these days) that they instantly become part of bot nets.
My sister's husband is 13 years older than she is. They've had this issue their whole marriage. "Do you remember X from when you were a kid?" "Um, no, dear. Remember I was born the year you turned 13."
Blue Harvest is about 18 years old. There technically are adults now that weren't alive when it was released. Now excuse me while I shake my fist at the clouds and yell at the kids to get off my lawn.
I'm Gen X, born in 1968. We didn't even have pocket calculators until I was in my teens.
(BTW, it IS pronounced beeta)
I grew up hearing not bee-ta or bay-ta, but bet-ah, very similar to better (at least in the local dialects). No idea how that came to be a thing other than the existence of the word 'alphabet'.
@@laurencefraser Add it to the list. LOL.
I'm 56 and the 1980's are still like yesterday
And AI can take a jump well away from me
I am 31 and keep wondering how it is possible to feel like a child and feel old at the same time?!?!?!
I was born in 1966 and mostly I feel young but I'm dating a beautiful and stunningly intelligent girl who is 41 which mostly makes me feel young but sometimes makes me feel ancient . Life is funny like that isn't it. Cheers. I was aware of the "beta" divergence between British and American pronunciation. That's extremely interesting. I wonder what caused a drift in our pronunciations?
1973🎉.
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional...
Is it better to pronounce it 'beta' or 'beta'?
Neither. I always pronounce it 'beta'.
You don't have to worry when Policeman look too young to you, its when the Judges do that you really feel your age.
How old am I? I would buy your songs on 8-track tapes, if I could.
I'll be 30 this year so I've yet to feel that, but since i plan to work with kids in the near future, this may become my reality soon. (plus I'm an uncle to 2 Gen Alphas, God help me)
I'm guessing you couldn't brush up on the current film trends to aid your teaching due to work overload?
I have friends and a sibling that are about your age. They're sometimes considered Xennials because they have traits of both Gen X and Millennials
ZERO INTERNET..Through University.
OMG I’m dealing with this too. I’m 57. I don’t feel 57…
As far as Gen Alpha rolling over to Gen Beta, all I could think of is Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD, where Alphas are the smart ones, Betas are stupider, Gammas are worse...and down and down...so I imagine the educational level of OUR society will line up with the generations, sadly.
Just to oblige your request...........
If you pronounce Beta that way, how do you pronounce "beets", or as you call it, beetroot?
Wouldn't that be spelled betroot? And at the bottom of legs would be your fet? And when you get tired, you take a set in your favorite chair?
It's not just Americans. Greeks pronounce the e in Feta (cheese) the way Americans pronounce Beta (or close - theirs is a softer vowel, even further from your version). Lets remember that Beta is from the Greek - well, from the Phoenicians, via the Greeks. So I'd say modern Greeks would be the best source material we have on this.
But if you have a good reason why a single e would be pronounced that way, bring it. We're all ears.
Just remind me first how you pronounced the letter Z. Because I'm pretty sure that single e between a soft and hard consonant gets a completely different treatment.
Why you'd pronounce it the British way?
Simple enough, if you treat it as an English word... that's how it's spelled! So if your baseline is how it's written, or how it's said by people whose baseline is how it's written, there you are.
If you have two vowels seperated by a single consonant (and there's a list of 'single consonants' that are written with two characters, which still count, and at least one which is written with a single character which does not) then, unless the stress pattern indicates otherwise (of course, one of the biggest flaws in the English writing system is that the stress pattern is Never Indicated, it's just assumed that you will all ready know it and the spelling consequently only disambiguates between possible readings with the same stress pattern most of the time. How things ended up that way, I have no idea), or it's over-ridden by some other vowel interaction, the first vowel is pronounced as a 'long vowel' (which probably isn't actually long at all, but may be short, long, or a diphthong. The 'long vowels' Were all long before the Great Vowel Shift ruined everything. These days they're just the ones that match the names of the characters you write them with). How, and whether, the second vowel is pronounced depends on other factors.
(turns out English spelling is not as inconsistent as most people think, but rather a lot more Complicated than they were taught. The continued existence of '-ough' in its current state really has no excuse though).
So 'beta' and 'beet' have the same vowel in that first position, if you treat them both as native English words with no indication that you should do otherwise.
The American pronunciation is, like many other divergent American pronunciations, a matter of Americans deciding to take a word that has been standard in English for years, decades, or centuries, and start saying it as if it were a foreign word for one reason or another. Sometimes it makes sense (I fully understand why the British call the rank 'leftenant' rather than 'leutenant' (or however you spell that). I am, however, utterly baffled by the fact that, despite continuing to Read/say the British word, they started Writing the French one...)
Most of the time it doesn't (Herb has an H in English. There is no debate here. The practice of dropping that H in (some dialects of?) American English is borrowed from Yiddish (if I recall correctly)... English did not acquire the word 'herb' from Yiddish. It would not surprise me to discover that the word Herb was present in English before Yiddish was even a Thing. Mind you, linguistic drift being what it is, it wouldn't surprise me too much to discover that that last bit wasn't the case either), sometimes it's a bit of a coin flip (the ancient Greek alphabet)... The fun part is when this 'correction' is itself incorrect by the standards used to justify it (can't think of an example off the top of my head, but I do know it happens sometimes).
Of course, then you get the fun of how I heard the word being said growing up: Not bay-ta or bee-ta, but bet-a ... You know, the same 'bet' found in 'alphabet'... Yeah, aside from a vague guess that that connection is relevant I have no idea how that came to be a thing.
@@laurencefraser But it's not a native English word. Funny you would spend that much effort and time and base it all on a faulty assumption.
It's also funny that you treat the proper Greek pronunciation as a "divergent American pronunciation" when it is the Greek pronunciation (the original pronunciation) and is used the world over except for the UK. Which makes the British pronunciation the divergent pronunciation, by the literal definition of the word divergent.
Again, it's not an English word. It's Greek.
Sooo that is just a beta test?
What?!?!
Betamax children
You are only as old as girl touching
We're the same age, weird...I thought you were older. I think it's the facial hair.
I watched CES, but I missed the AI Refrigerator, now I have to look that up because...why? What does the AI do, that would be the worst AI job ever.
Also, I had no idea you were saying Beta because of the pronunciation until you talked about the pronunciation. Silly Brits pronouncing things wrong... as of you created the language or something. 🙃
Best of luck for 2025.
The first thing to remember about current "AI" technology is that the claim that is in any way "AI" is a lie.
Rather it is created using the current incarnation of what is believed to be some of the major precursor technologies to AI (as in, if we never developed them, AI would Definitely be impossible) which renders its functions something of a black box. And that's When the lable isn't just a straight up lie a second time over and used purely as marketing buzz.
The second thing to remember is that 'dumb' devices connect to the internet when they shouldn't all the time (the 'internet of things) because it's cheaper and easier for the manufacturers in various ways... which results in them being hijacked into botnets All The Time because, again, the goal was entirely 'cheap' not 'good'.
'Smart' devices, in contrast, tend to have Slightly better security... on the other hand they are almost universally spying on you 20+ differrent ways, with all the collected information being sold off to who knows how many different parties (often the 'smart' devices are sold cheaper because the company that makes them more than makes up the difference in this way), and while smart Phones give you a lot of extra funcitonality in exchange, smart Televisions are almost universally inferrior to their 'dumb' counterparts (when there is a difference in favour of the 'smart' tv, it's never due to the 'smart' part, it's because the basic TV hardware has improved). LCD already necessitated extra computing hardware between the incoming signal and the display, which made enough of a difference that people playing certain types of games (and almost certainly for other uses too) still prefered CRT to cut down command loop lag, 'smart' tvs massively increased that lag for no actual benefit. That's also why you used to be able to turn on a TV and instantly have picture and sound, and now it can take a minute, or occasionally more, to get its act together and start doing anything other than display the brand splash screen)