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Comment Re:Car manufacturers are correct (Score 4, Insightful) 71

You're not wrong, but you are.

The laws ARE garbage. If a test can be rigged, it will be. This is the nature of how things are. China WILL win, if we continue to regulate ourselves out of competition.

The US has a similar problem, we have CAFE standards that were SUPPOSED to require car manufacturers to increase efficiencies to IMPOSSIBLE levels. The problem is, those rules only applied to "cars". Almost all US car manufacturers have stopped making cars, and the ones they are building are largely big muscle cars, and not fuel efficient ones. Instead, they are building SUVs that aren't "cars" but are classed as "trucks" and exempt, and a few Hybrids that really nobody actually wants.

The law of unintended consequences is undefeated

Comment Re:Someone is confusing copyright with trademark. (Score 1) 52

No, trademark is about using an image ot phrase to identify a specific brand as such and not an imitator. That is why trademarks do not transfer to types of good and services other than the one for which the trademark was originally issued. To use a famous example, Apple Records and Apple Computer do not infringe on each other's trademarks.

Comment Re: The people running the Archive are stupid assh (Score 1) 45

It was always said that someone should start pushing against the grotesquely unbalanced copyright laws by just breaking stuff and challenging the norms

Come on. I agree wholehearted that the current copyright regime is horribly broken, but the morons at the Archive didn't "start pushing against unbalanced copyright laws" they simply decided those laws were null and void because reasons. This did nothing to advance their mission and everything to undermine it, that's fucking stupid.

Comment Re:Executives believe the hype... (Score 1) 76

In a way, yes. The universe runs on narrativium. That's sort of the claim whenever someone makes claims about an area that they don't understand. And nobody understands modern AIs, not even those who build them.
OTOH, there are tightly reasoned narratives and wish-fulfillment narratives. They aren't the same. This *sounds* like a wish-fulfillment narrative, but he may be actually up to something more dubious. E.g. grounds for firing anyone he wants to.

Comment Re:Enlighten me (Score -1) 10

I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.

Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.

I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.

But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?

You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.

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