Any plans to release the dataset either in full or in part? If they don't want to, that's their prerogative of course, but it would be unfortunate to have all that crowdsourced data vanish into the ether without the possibility of someone being able to continue their work.

If you touch a hot stove and don't feel any pain, are you going to learn not to touch hot stoves? Of course not.

Antitrust. Strengthen antitrust laws, make the penalties stiffer, and break tech companies up if you have to. Doing anything else "nibbles around the edges".

The thing is, when it comes to marketing/social media, sounding right is more important than being right.

I wish companies would quit with the shedding of crocodile tears over customer safety. It's quickly becoming the modern day equivalent of "won't someone think of the children?"

Whatever the solution is, I hope that at least some thought will be directed towards creating more educational institutions as opposed to funneling money into existing ones. The last thing we should want to do is to exacerbate the student loan problem.

How on earth is that historic? Off the top of my head, SBF was in talks with senators to develop regulations around crypto (highly ironic considering what happened) and that wasn't even half a year ago. The best way to keep profits high is to limit or hinder your competition, and the most effective way to do that is to lobby for laws that do just that. It's not rocket science, it's been done before, and it will surely be done far into the future as well.

Personally, my experience has been the opposite. For example, I've found myself using the "Tell me what you want to do" feature in Word/Excel on numerous occasions for work. Yes, I could probably memorize where to go in the UI to do what I want, but that's a lot of UI to remember for a program I use maybe a few times a week at most. Or the feature where you can long-press on your phone's home button and dictate what you want it to do. I find it to be more accessible for doing quick things like setting a reminder or an alarm. You could argue that you can't really call that AI since it's far more specialized and isn't even close to passing the Turing test, but regardless I've found those kinds of things to be useful, privacy concerns notwithstanding.

There's a limit to things. Once it becomes bad enough, companies will opt to suspend doing business in their most unprofitable areas. That means less competition in those areas, which increases the bargaining power of the remaining companies. I lived in an area where, for a long time, the only ISP in town was Verizon. And believe me, paying top dollar for poor service and having to wait hours on a phone for customer service was not fun. Worst part is that you can't tell them to get lost because what are you going to do, disconnect yourself from the internet entirely?

I suspect that any regulation on AI will end up being twisted by lobbyists into something that only makes it economically feasible to use for the same wealthiest companies that the article writer wants it to be kept away from. That's not to say there shouldn't be any regulation, just that my hopes aren't too high if it does come to pass.

The practice of pushing malicious updates should be excoriated more often than it is. We're all too happy to blame end users for not keeping their hardware up to date, but every time something like this happens, more people just go "f it" and ignore or even outright disable updates.

There was another statement which seemed to imply to me that the government was putting out loans to cover the difference, like what happened in 2008. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.federalreserve.gov... I'm not very well-educated when it comes to financial topics like this, so please inform me if I'm mistaken.

Problem is, the same kinds of legalese that lets them modify products after sale also lets them do much more heinous stuff. Sony, for example, decided to remove some movies from their store about a year ago or so. By that, I don't mean that they just removed the ability to purchase them. I mean that they literally went into people's libraries and deleted them even though they had been purchased. Legally, they might have been in the right. Morally, it's a pretty disturbing trend, especially when you consider that the language for this would be buried in a 100-page EULA nobody has the time or legal expertise to understand.

This would have been real nice to have in the bad old days of Unregistered Hypercam 2.

and I don't see any major rash of conspiracies/hate/etc. At the very least, not significantly more than what one would see on YouTube. If you're seeing way more of that stuff, it's probably because you're going out of your way to find it.