There seems to be widespread misunderstanding between notions of copyright and fairness. The two are in no way synonymous.

Imagine you spend a huge amount of time and money surfacing new knowledge nobody knew before. You spill the beans in a book and sell it. Someone else comes along, reads your book and blabs what you learned to the world for free or in a much cheaper book of their own.

Imagine you painstakingly compile a phone book of numbers that would be useful to a certain niche audience. Someone takes the book, OCRs all the numbers into a computer database and gives it all away for free.

Neither of these are copyright issues, you can have the opinion they are unfair or should not be allowed yet nonetheless not a copyright concern.

Copyright holders should be careful what they wish for because an AI trained on a known dataset that can be shown to be ignorant of a copyright holders work is an affirmative defense against claims of derivative works when someone publishes the output of the AI. Before this such a defense is absurdly difficult because the author would have had to prove a negative.

Corporations are also at risk from futuristic AI. If huge capital investments in human efforts are no longer needed increasingly anyone would be able to do "work" to command machines to do things that once required huge sums of cash and human labor to attain.

Nobody is going to pay a proverbial Microsoft for an office suite when a computer can design and implement a better product from scratch in a few weeks time.

Pitchfork revolution would be my first guess.

This is pure bullshit. They really stupid thing about your comment is if you actually watched the video all it was is throwing a SBC into a plastic case, plugging it into a TV, writing a JeOS image to a 128GB SD card and copying 23 gigs of media to that SBC over a wireless LAN.

You would think by the descriptions in TFA the video was about setting up a home media server or as someone else posted installing a NAS with hundreds of terabytes of pirated films when it was no such thing.

Kodi is just a front end media player with a bunch of plugins over a 10FT UI. Its purpose is no more or less pirating than VLC, SD cards, windows file explorer or the Internet. Anyone who has used Kodi knows there are a massive array of uses for it and they know Kodi has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to facilitating piracy.

This policy is site controlled, defaults do nothing to prevent collusion.

"It can technically rewrite code from an old language like Perl in a new one like Python".

Both languages are from the same vintage. Python is from the early 90s and Perl late 80s. Reminiscent of persistent belief JSON is new yet XML is old.

Drones were made in Russia and Russian mobile network was used for comms.

(Okay, I take that back: there's one version in which I'd be okay with them lionizing Sam, but it'd have to involve actual lions)

I just hope they're not going to lionize Sam. That's the last thing we need. He pulled a classic sociopath-style manipulation to retain his position in the face of legitimate concerns about his abuse of power in the company.

It's easy to call a whole nation "inadequate human beings" when their collective actions confirm the observation.

Would you also cry if someone called Nazi Germany "inadequate human beings" ... Nazi's after all friends and allies of the USSR so maybe you would.

LOL seems they got slightly more than touched.

What Russia says is a waste of everyone's time. They lie habitually about everything. In the next day or two there will most likely be more information released and independent confirmation.

If you want people to care about evidence free nonsense you peddle suggest first starting start with basic grammar.

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Nobody is talking about wiping out nuclear capabilities. This is however significantly less airframes available to lob missiles at Ukraine. If they are lucky at any given time half of the fleet is mission ready and the other half is undergoing maintenance.

Ukrainians claim to have video footage of two A-50s being taken out ... one of which there is independent satellite imagery to support. This is also a BFD.

I'm having a great time comrade.

Appeasement of tyrants only leads to more aggression.

This is like twice the cost of what I pay for fiber service.

Life is WAY better after the industrial revolution than it was before it.

People have this fantasy image of what life used to be like, thinking of picturesque farms, craftsmen tinkering in workshops, clean air, etc. The middle ages were filth, you worked backbreaking labour long hours of the day, commonly in highly risky environments, even the simplest necessities cost a large portion of your salary, you lived in a hovel, and you died of preventable diseases at an average age of ~35 (a number admittedly dragged down by the fact that 1/4th of children didn't even survive a single year).

If it takes people of similar social status as you weeks of labour to produce the fibre for a set of clothes, spin it into yarn, dye it, weave it, and sew it, then guess what? It requires that plus taxes and profit weeks of your labour to be able to afford that set of clothes (and you better believe the upper classes were squeezing every ounce of profit from the lower class they could back then). Decreasing the amount of human labour needed to produce things is an immensely good thing. Furthermore, where did that freed up labour go? Into science, into medicine, into the arts, etc etc. Further improving people's quality of life.

And if your response is "But greater production is more polluting!" - I'm sorry, do you have any understanding of how *miserably* polluted cities in the middle ages were? Where coal smoke poured out with no pollution controls, sewage ran straight into rivers that people collected water from and bathed in, where people extensively used things like arsenic and mercury and lead and asbestos, etc etc? The freed-up labour brought about by the industrial revolution allowed us to *learn* and to *fix problems*.

Meh, you do you. I'm rooting for the Torment Nexus.

Which of those things hit 800 million users in 17 months?
Which of those things hit such high annual recurring revenue rates so fast?
Which of those saw the cost of using the tech decline by 99% over two years?

Heck, most of them aren't even new technologies, just new products, often just the latest version of older, already-commonly-used products.

And re. that last one: it must be stressed that for the "cost of using the tech" to decline 99% over two years per million tokens, you're also talking about a similar order of reduction of power consumption per million tokens, since your two main costs are hardware and electricity.