It's fundamentally stupid to equip a grunt with a 10,000 dollar AR/VR gaming helmet when a 50 dollar drone can kill him dead on demand.

This is just tech bros looking for government handouts, after the consumer AR/VR market basically evaporated. Product looking for a use case.

Before global warming: all the roads are snowed in, autobot cars can't figure out how to drive through that mess.

After global warming: all the roads are inundated, autobot cars can't figure out how to swim through that mess.

Sorry, the grass is not greener on the other side:)

Google was one of the instigators, back in the day, of the idea to use real names and identities on the Internet in the first place. In those days, they were one of the companies pushing for the single sign on concept to catch on. They consolidated this into the Google account and made sure Youtube was going to use it. This wasn't some oversight or mistake.

The SSO was never motivated by some altruistic radical simplification of web users login experiences, it was the next evolution of the portal craze where companies competed to be the entrance door to the web so they could monetize it. When you provide identity services to the world, you get to spy on some of what people do in private places that you wouldn't have known about otherwise.

...the tariff stock manipulation scam is making reliable, extraordinary, profits for those in the know...

You guys in America need to fix your laws, this whole idea that a click thru agreement prevents the software provider from any liability whatsoever for anything is counterproductive.

The obvious source of new training data for AIs are the private interactive sessions with users, but here's the thing: 1) there are less of them than there is existing data on the Internet, which has already been used (you can't use the same data twice) and 2) would you be ok with an AI training on your codebase tips and tricks so that it can share those insights in future sessions with coders employed by competitors?

In the absence of substantial amounts of new training data, then the public AIs built with the current technology (deep NNs are inefficient) have basically hit their limit.

Every single one of Amazon's hardware products is used to siphon your data and bilge pump ads and product placements to you.

You can argue that's true for all of Amazon's properties at this point.

They've become a behemoth of a company like Microsoft did in the 90s - starting in earnest about 2 years ago, based on what I've seen from those who work there. Their culture has changed and the leadership has all but abandoned the leadership principles.

I stopped reading after the first bullet point.

Why do you write in half-formed bullet phrases? Don't you know how to write a full sentence anymore? It's difficult to know what the point is that you are trying to make when you do this. It's difficult to know even which "point" is the more important, and which is subordinate. It's difficult to know how to reply to the relevant ideas or decide if there are any.

AI slop is real

Talk to the hand^H^H^H gemini, 'cause the face ain't listening!

Greedo Shot First = "dot"

No He Didn't = "dash"

Example Transmission, disguised as SW forum posts:

Fan1: Greedo Shot First!

Fan2: Yes, Greedo Shot First!

Fan3: Hell yeah he did @Fan2, Greedo Shot First!!!

Fan4: No He Didn't!

Fan4: @Fan2 No He Didn't!!!

Fan5: @Fan4 you're so right, No He Didn't

Fan1: Stop it you guys @Fan4 @Fan5, of course Greedo Shot First!

Fan2: Greedo Shot First! Greedo Shot First!

Translation of hidden message SOS (The Russians have me cornered, extraction required ASAP)

claiming substantial portions of someone else's work as their own

That is in fact what mimicry AIs are doing, quite blatantly. You can generate images with signatures from the works that were copied, without attribution. You can generate paragraphs from novels that were copied, without attribution.

By your own argument, AI companies should be fined for large scale commercial copyright infringement today. In fact, they are being sued for just that in multiple jurisdictions.

The AI industry is full of contradictory claims. On the one hand their raison d'être is that AIs are superior to human beings with none of the deficiencies of the latter, but on the other hand AIs should not be constrained by human constraints because it would be unfair and too difficult for the AIs to abide by them.

Here's a thought: why not create an AI whose job is to be really good at tracing the copyright tree backwards to find the owner of any work, and ask the correct person for permission. Such an AI should be built first, to curate a legal trove of documents for other AIs to train on. Obviously this is extremely difficult for humans, but surely our AI overlords with vaunted superior capabilities can easily do this? As the saying goes: put up or shut up, AI.

You might want to think again? A lot of large cities around the world have outlawed scooters again in the last year or two. They just cause too many accidents and inconvenience in crowded cities.

The AI *is* plagiarizing and infringing copyright for commercial use. According to the FBI, that's a federal offence liable to 5 years imprisonment and fines.

We currently lack AI prisons. But I think there's a startup opportunity in that, especially if we can set up AI chain gangs to perform public benefit work:)