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Comment Did this producer invent the color orange? (Score 4, Insightful) 78

I looked at the linked PDF of the legal complaint. It contains a couple of exhibits illustrating the allegedly plagiarized images. They show a man standing in front of an orange-hued urban landscape, not dissimilar from those that occur in reality during wildfire episodes

Claiming copyright infringement on generic images of orange skies would be akin to the producer of the movie "The Beach" suing anyone who prints images of a beach resort with white sands and turquoise waters.

Comment Google already does this (Score 3, Insightful) 31

When I search using Google an "AI Overview" panel appears at the top with a summary of the search results, including liks to the original sources from which the AI got its data. Most of the time it even produces useful results. Probably it's a feature I was offered to opt-in at some point. I don't even remember when, but it has been there for months. Perhaps what OpenAI will offer is better. We'll see. However, it's hard to see how this move is "opening a new front". It's more like they are playing catch-up.

Comment Re:pittance (Score 3, Insightful) 298

You base your estimation in one tax payment per cow. However, the article says the tax is annual. So if you keep the cow for another year, you have to pay again. Another quick google search shows that "American beef comes mostly from steers and heifers slaughtered between 18 and 24 months old.". If that's also true for Denmark, then the actual increase in costs would be between 6% and 8%

Comment Re:Harvest it? (Score 3, Informative) 99

Because co2 is a byproduct of human metabolism. So the carbon captured by growing the seaweed will be released immedialy if you eat it. In order to capture carbon, the seaweed needs to be deliberately sunk and kept in deep waters. My understanding is that even under these conditions it will eventually decompose and release the co2, but only after hundreds of years. So essentially we would be just buying time.

Comment Re:Google should be worried (Score 1) 33

But a fair comparison would be to enter that question in bard.google.com, which is Google's equivalent to ChatGPT, not in Google search.

When doing do, Bard's answer to "Can 2 + 2 = 10?" is

"2+2=4 in base 10, the most common number system. However, in base 4, 2+2=10. This is because in base 4, there are only four digits: 0, 1, 2, and 3. Therefore, 10 in base 4 is equal to 4 in base 10."

And then it goes on a long explanation on how to convert between base 4 and base 10

Comment Re:Just don't say that AI did the inventing! (Score 4, Insightful) 69

That's what a normal person would do. Just use AI as another tool. Except in this case that's not what the guy wanted. The guy didn't care about the inventions themselves. All he cared about was that his AI was officially rubber-stamped as "first inventor AI ever". So it's all a publicity stunt to promote his company.

Comment In San Francisco 7 months for permits is nothing (Score 4, Informative) 39

In San Francisco bureaucracy moves at a glacial pace. Having your project stalled for years while waiting for permits isn't unheard of. I once moved to an apartment in San Francisco, located in a food desert. The good news was that an H-Mart (Korean supermarket chain) was supposed to open a nearby store soon. I waited for that store for three years. Construction never started because they were stuck waiting for permits. By the time the store opened years later I had already moved to a different apartment. You have all the right to be skeptic about NFT anf crypto, but I can tell you that's not the main factor explaining why this project is delayed or never happening.

Comment Re:You are making life very hard for older, less e (Score 1) 72

A 70-year-old grandma was 32 in 1984, the year the Macintosh was introduced. It's likely she was already using a computer at work at the time. Sure, not everyone had the same level of exposure to technology in the early years of the personal computers and the internet, but those who had are perfectly capable of keeping up with an evolving UI. This idea of the elderly feeling overwhelmed by technology is becoming less and less relevant with the years.

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