The point is that the speaker isn't controversial at all, and the fact-checking that TED did in advance confirmed this. A group within TED tried to silence his message simply because they disagreed with him, not because he said anything verifiably incorrect. As to the rest of your comment, it's so completely bonkers, you should put it in a TED talk. Please come back to reality.

A private company issuing its own currency and selling it to us at a profit? Why, that's just like the Federal Reserve, which despite the name is a private company just like Apple or Microsoft. Imagine the government appointing the boards of those companies and you get the idea. Why do we need a company to sell our own money to us? Why can't the US Treasury just print it instead? JFK had the same idea and issued United States Notes. He was assassinated shortly thereafter. LBJ immediately ended the program.

United States Notes are collectors' curios today. My grandfather had some, along with rolls of silver quarters before the Fed turned them into worthless nickel-clad copper.

if all your customers hate it 10x more than humans?

India should protect its pool of human workers: when the backlash against AI hits full force, they'll be well-positioned to retake the market.

I never thought I'd say I find calling customer support and being greeted by this unmistakable heavy Bangalore accent refreshing and reassuring: at least I know I'm talking to someone who understands my question and not something that serves me the nearest matching boilerplate answer from the support knowledgebase in a sycophantic transatlantic accented tone.

Editing a spreadsheet with OpenOffice. It crashed and said it didn't have permission to write to some directory in C:/user. 30 minutes of work lost. I get it, fixing bugs is boring and open source developers prioritize new features because that's what gets them their next gig. Report the bug? Tried that many times back in the day. Gets marked notabug or wontfix and I was rudely toly told off to fix it myself or hire someone to fix it. Won't get fooled again.

Bad idea. When evil fights evil, evil always wins.

How else will I be able to feel that deep sense of dread when I call any company's customer support and I'm greeted by an overly polite chatbot that's so syrupy it gives me type-2, that doesn't understand my problem and refuses to let me talk to a real person?

Censorship is a big no-no for tech companies. Particularly when it doesn't make then any money.

I love the comments here. Any other /. story: "Follow the science!" This story offers a scientific study and conclusion: "that can't be right!" You guys are not super-smart nerds... you're humans with the same monkey brains susceptible to confirmation bias that everyone else has.

I'm talking about sites other than Wikipedia too, which don't change.

The worst part of AI for search, is when you click through to the linked reference page, you often find information that directly contradicts what the AI summary is telling you. Absolute garbage!

If you really want to see how lost TED is, take a look at the story of Coleman Hughes who did a very reasonable and interesting TED talk and then they wouldn't publish it on their site due to bizarre ideological capture. Here's his story on the negotiation he went through with TED to get them to actually put it on their site and not de-list it. Very strange stuff.

Do you really think Apple Computer was finished growing after the Apple II?

More dubiously, the AI sometimes doesn't spit back out what you trained it on. Sometimes it just makes stuff up, even when training data was available that it should have based the answer on. The technology doesn't really work, and experimenting on kids with it isn't a good idea.

To pay a fitting tribute to the man, I'd drop the coin into a dish of acid, but then instead of saving it while there was plenty of time left, I'd leave it to be slowly eaten away while occasionally dropping in healing herbs and drops of organic fruit juices, and then only try to rescue it once it was far too late

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