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Comment Re:That's OK. (Score 1) 122

Yeah, that and the companies who don't want to do "military applications" can just do pure research. Pure, ivory-tower research... which the DoD can just pay someone else to integrate into an actual weapon system. It's not like a machine learning algorithm knows or cares to what use it's put, once it is out there.

Dumb posturing; I also wonder if these people have considered what a world dominated by Chinese and Russian military AI will look like, and what effect it would have... I am not sure it would be the best of all possible worlds, exactly.

Comment Re:Of course you should merge the guts if you can (Score 1) 156

macOS and iOS effectively are merged already. iOS was born a fork of macOS. Non-UI code is basically portable between the two without any changes, modulo a few frameworks that only exist on one or the other for hardware reasons, and the UI code is similar, but slightly different because one is a windowed system for big screens with pointers and one is a full-screen system for small touch screens. Source: I've been an iOS developer for seven years, and had Mac OS X experience prior.

Comment Re:US robots are cheaper than African workers, but (Score 1) 90

Not if you take into account shipping to the US. If you want to sell in Africa, you'll produce in Africa, but if you want to sell in the US, you'll produce in the US. (And yes, you frequently need to ship the raw materials from somewhere, but producing at either the material source or the selling destination is cheaper than involving a third intermediary location for production.)

Comment Propose a ratings system! (Score 1) 498

The companies can tell Trump that his idea to have a rating system is brilliant, and they'll get right on that. Then, a week later they can tell him that they've implemented it and even labeled every game out there already, then Trump can brag about his amazing fix to this problem and how no one else could have gotten it done.

Comment Re:Are you calling USA shady? (Score 1) 206

And EVs are charged using electricity from coal which is a lot dirtier than ICE so the environmental argument fails too.

This is an outright lie. Here in California, we have exactly one coal-fired plant, providing 55 MW, or 0.2% of our usage. For the US as a whole, less than 30% of our electricity is from coal.

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