Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 174
Then smash the champagne bottle on the side of the ship and she's under way.
Comment \o/ (Score 1) 174
But "Engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri,"
I vote for lawyers...
Comment Re: Maybe? (Score 1) 188
The arguments... You?
Comment \o/ (Score 2) 20
Can we take the courts service to court?
If this were possible, presumably they would be administering their own case.
If evidence were to go missing this might help - how convenient.
There's something beautifully circular about this like a time loop or arresting somone for resisting arrest.
Comment \o/ (Score 1) 96
Trump's election flipped the FCC majority back to ideologues who've always taken the broadband industry's side on this crucial issue
How awesome is it that not only are there people in the world who cannot make decisions for the greater good but that such people are in charge of things which affect others. W00t! for civilization - may we one day approach such a thing.
Comment Re:Maybe? (Score 1) 188
Maybe don't steal stuff from so many people if you can't handle the consequences?
Techbros want all the money so techbros gotta steal all the stuff
Comment \o/ (Score 1) 188
...but not so horrified that it acted as a disincentive to committing the world's largest copyright infringement.
Comment Re:ChatGPT is being interviewed (Score 1) 127
Next week they will be reading quotes from an AI-embodied twitter post.
Comment \o/ (Score 1) 127
A new plateau of creepiness - I salute you AltOne!
Comment Re:Drone Curfews (Score 1) 69
There'll be the drone equivalent of SWATting where haXx0rrZz use cloned cards to order 100 deliveries scheduled at the same time...
Comment Re:American drone dominance? (Score 1) 69
> Isn't that already the case. #BaristaSlam (Hah! Joking - joking - baristas.)
We need an app so baristas can track which coffees to spit in...
Comment Re:People will oppose this (Score 1) 69
Presumably this is going to clear the way for flocks of drone snoops to watch everything we do when away from a screen.
Comment \o/ (Score 1) 69
Why the fuck would I pay for a coffee from starbucks then pay to have it delivered by drone rather than simply walking over to the kitchen?
Y'all have investor-induced mania. Noone wants seventeen spoons of five different types of sugar with their coffee.
Comment \o/ (Score 1) 1
Frank Zappa had this covered.
Submission + - A.I. is about to solve loneliness 1
An anonymous reader writes: A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem
The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.
These days, everyone seems to have an opinion about A.I. companions. Last year, I found myself joining the debate, publishing a paper—co-written with two fellow psychology professors and a philosopher—called “In Praise of Empathic A.I.” Our argument was that, in certain ways, the latest crop of A.I.s might make for better company than many real people do, and that, rather than recoiling in horror, we ought to consider what A.I. companions could offer to those who are lonely ..
Some of these anxieties are perfectly reasonable. Still, I sometimes wonder whether my colleagues’ blanket rejection of artificial empathy bespeaks their own lack of empathy for those who could benefit most from the technology. There are debates about whether the “loneliness epidemic” that some have identified really exists. What’s undeniable is that loneliness is now being taken seriously enough to warrant government intervention—both Japan and the U.K. have appointed ministers for loneliness. Epidemic or not, it remains widespread, and impossible to ignore.
The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.
These days, everyone seems to have an opinion about A.I. companions. Last year, I found myself joining the debate, publishing a paper—co-written with two fellow psychology professors and a philosopher—called “In Praise of Empathic A.I.” Our argument was that, in certain ways, the latest crop of A.I.s might make for better company than many real people do, and that, rather than recoiling in horror, we ought to consider what A.I. companions could offer to those who are lonely
Some of these anxieties are perfectly reasonable. Still, I sometimes wonder whether my colleagues’ blanket rejection of artificial empathy bespeaks their own lack of empathy for those who could benefit most from the technology. There are debates about whether the “loneliness epidemic” that some have identified really exists. What’s undeniable is that loneliness is now being taken seriously enough to warrant government intervention—both Japan and the U.K. have appointed ministers for loneliness. Epidemic or not, it remains widespread, and impossible to ignore.
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