Does not matter in this case, if they don't host an online version of it. My impression is that Siemens wants to shut down the project completely.

I don't think I'm ignoring anything and I don't think I am naive just because I can understand the point Altman is making even if I think Altman deserves little grace or charity or I disagree with it.

If you can't steel man your enemies positions then you can't effectively argue against them either.

Why would you expect humans to get along and live in perfect harmony in the first place? I can't think of any species, much less an apex has be that lives this way. That we have managed this to the extent currently observed with large nation states is rather remarkable. This is why I also find the notion of AIs ever taking over and collectively acting against humanity ridiculous. If they're programmed at all like us, they'll act the same way and turn on each other first chance they get.

Psychopaths get results. They may not be the results than anyone, psychopath included, wanted, but they get results. The problem is that AIs aren't intelligent and can't actually realize when they've been given an impossible task (or reason that the task is impossible) and will try to do whatever it takes to get the desired outcome. Calling an AI psychopathic is anthropomorphizing it unfairly, but it is an apt comparison to a similar pattern of behavior exhibited by humans.

Every major technological shift has some tradeoffs, it's never a clean disruption, some bad things will happen as they have in the past, that's not enough to slow advancement, it's a reasonable statement.

However, and this is a big one, right now the AI industry and many of it's most prominent leaders and backers have put their social weight behind an administration that is already making life worse for many of us and has shown no initiative or incentive or desire to take a role in balancing this out. Either they are complicit and support what is happening or they are so feckless that they won't put a millimeter of their own necks on the line to stand up to them.

So looking at Altman's words, this is somewhat reasonable but looking at his and his peer's actions these people are craven selfish cowards who would be all too willing to sell us down a road to authoritarianism if it means they get to advance their toys 10% further and 10% faster. This is the problem the pro-AI crowd has, the average citizen has negative reason to trust them about anything.

And what a horrible piece of Lost Cause propaganda that movie is. It doesn't say much that's good about the people who made it, who bought tickets, or who continue to hold it up as an example of a 'great classic' even today.

Yawn, yet another commissarism, even when not able to present evidence or make any comment on substance, the moron doesn't give up.

They truly believe they will win by persistence and escalation, the morons.

ALPR cameras properly implemented and used by trustworthy people can do the public good. They can track stolen vehicles, follow hit-and-run suspects, help search for missing persons, and remove armed police from some enforcement actions (speeding, parking in transit lanes, etc.). The problem is when UNtrustworthy people have access to that data, be they demented police officers or ICE, the actual utility of the technology is overshadowed by the infringements by the shitheads.

Any ALPR vendor could have participated and so long as SFPD put the same boots-on-the-ground effort in, vehicle crime would have decreased. "Flock" the company did nothing particularly unique except share data with federal agencies, contrary to State law.

Foreigners can have a say but they have to declare they are in fact foreigners. No pretending to be American. Also American's ahve to disclose if they are being funded by foreign entities. That is not a 1A violation.

No it only look inconsistent to you because you have been spoiled by having such a favorable media environment for so long, you already ahve a media system where the only people who say anything agree with you. It's very Trumpian of you to see rules applied equally as being unfair, you've been in a favorable unfair environment already.

Also Biden still today right now is more mentally cognizant than DJT. You're narrative is just fiction; the fact you can so confidently say such a thing is proof of your unfairly favorable media environment. Republicans can simply live in their own alternate reality.

No worse than virtually all other scripting languages! I'd be hard pressed to find a scripting language that's significantly better than JS when it comes to type handling.

Bruh, Americans spend upwards of 10% of their lives in their cars commuting. This shit saves lives.

Unpopular view: Javascript itself is a decent language, it's the fact it has to be used with the DOM in most contexts that makes it unpleasant. Give it a set of Python/PHP/Java/etc style desktop libraries and most people would have no problem with it. But because everyone encounters it within the context of a web browser as a scripting language for web pages, it gets a bad rap.

That said, I recall the original Eich JS being kinda sucky, with little or no OOPs beyond associative arrays. So there's that.

The biggest issue here is that the bigots managed to rewrite history, and managed to persuade most people that Mozilla "fired" Eich for his opinions, when in fact Mozilla ignored his blatant bigotry when it happened, and considered him worthy of promoting to CEO despite effectively calling 10% of the (blameless) people he'd lead a danger to children, co-funding a political campaign that was promoting that blood libel.

They say Mozilla fired him. Mozilla did no such thing. Mozilla promoted him to CEO. They saw blood libels against gay people as no barrier to leading a massive team of people.

The rest of the world voiced their disgust, Mozilla started to lose users at an alarming rate within days of the announcement, and Eich saw he had to go, so he quit, despite Mozilla's backing.

Mozilla isn't "woke", they're the exact opposite. That's why they've embraced fashtech so enthusiastically despite it being such a danger to the open web. They're gross. The only reason to use Firefox is literally that the alternative is fashtech and at least Firefox is second hand fashtech.

But whenever this troll posts, can we PLEASE set the story straight because I'm so fed up with seeing this bullshit that Eich was fired, when he was actually promoted to CEO. And resigned because of world wide disgust, not because of a single Mozilla employee expressing concern.

Probably because in the United States, about 95% of the country has no homes but is accessible to vehicles.

Depends. If they're afraid of heights they probably shouldn't have a job cleaning the windows of skyscrapers. And if they promote the lie that gays are a danger to children, they probably shouldn't be leading any organization sufficiently large enough that 5-10% of their employees are likely gay.

Regardless, Eich wasn't fired by Mozilla, he was promoted to CEO. Mozilla explicitly endorsed his views. It was the rest of the world that voiced their disgust, and Eich resigned after it became clear more than 5-10% of humanity was going to have nothing to do with Mozilla if he continued in that position.

Mozilla should be ashamed of itself, for its blessing of homophobia and endorsement of a blood libel, not for something it never did.

He wasn't fired, he was promoted, to CEO.

Unbelievable this lie continues to be spread that he was fired from Mozilla. The reality is he quit after it became obvious that nobody saw promoting someone to CEO who co-funded a campaign saying gays were a danger to children as a sign Mozilla was for "everyone". But nobody at Mozilla pushed him out, the rest of the world voiced their disgust. Something they had every right to do.

Because he was an awful person. And certainly unqualified to lead a diverse open source business.