They have. This is old news. It has been reiterated many times for several years.

I avoid "AI" for moral reasons.

I don't support theft and plagiarism. (and no, the "it is just like a human is learning" argument is invalid and you know it)
I don't support people getting unemployed because their work is stolen, mashed up and resold.

I don't support massive data centres that draw ridiculous amounts of energy, when we are in the middle of a climate crisis.

I don't support AI technology being used for things where it does not belong: where wrongly applied it can do more harm than good. The IMF has warned about using AI to control supply chain management and high-frequency trading -- where when they get in a situation that they're not trained on, you will get actions based on hallucinations, which will mess things up royally.

I don't support economic bubbles for investing in AI, and pushing AI tools on people, where there are no clear good use cases. (hello Microsoft!)

I don't support pollution from gas turbines and oil furnaces powering AI server farms. I don't support power outages in communities near AI server farms. I don't support water outages in communities near AI server farms.

I don't support price hikes of computer hardware, because "AI" moonshots are sucking it all up. "AI" is the new "crypto". Many of the "AI-bros" today were "crypto-bros" yesterday. And I did not support cryptocurrencies because of many of the same reasons mentioned above.

I don't support using technology that is a dead end, and instead hoping that throwing more hardware on the problem will make up for it.

I don't support the search for "superintelligence" (what is it supposed to be for, anyway?) The tech giants have not solved the "alignment problem" by the slightest, and are actively ignoring the problem: people who worked on it have been laid off, or left by their own volition to warn us about it.
Like Geoffrey Hinton ("The Godfather of AI"), Stuart Russel and tens of thousands of other people, I have signed a petition against it, and you should too!

But are there useful applications of neural networks? Of course there are. Image upscaling. I use the neural network engine in my phone every time take a picture with its camera. Recognition of anomalies in medical images, etc. etc.
But those are not part of the bubble, and they are not commonly called "AI". Have some reasonable expectations!

If EA makes games from content that is a mash-up of copies from other people's artwork and meshes, then I'd take it that EA won't mind if I copy their games in return ...

My guess is that one person with power thought "My Co(pilot)" and then did not think any further.

The rest is arrogance.

> Does anyone remember Clippy fondly?

Since you asked:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v3...

There were rumours that Microsoft had a larger Surface Duo in the works, as a Windows tablet.
But Microsoft had decided to kill the small Windows tablet form factor outright, not making Windows available to other brands to pre-install on their devices either. They also discontinued their useful tablet apps, such as their PDF reader and Maps by having them update to apps that did nothing. (which was a really shitty move)

The two Duo models they did release were considered a flop, because they were Android phones. They were too wide and uncomfortable to hold folded as a phone, and many Android apps did not fit the form factor. The cameras were also really thin and the quality suffered.

BTW. Long before the Surface Duo., Microsoft Research had their Courier concept with a concept OS, which had been developed out from a prototype called Codex.
These showed how great the format could be if apps would have been designed to take advantage of the form factor and not crammed into being a phone.

Because a government's purpose is to serve its citizens needs. It is as simple as that.

Without the Social Contract, a government does not have legitimacy.

FamilyMart, Lawson and 7-11 are franchise chains in Japan.
Who made this decision to bring in the robots? Do the store-owner have a say in this or was it imposed on them?

I want the choice to buy from a store that is not involved in this or who has declined to have them.
If the robots' presence are a corporate decree, then I'd have to avoid all stores from the "big three".

That would leave Ministop, NewDays and Daily Yamasaki as unsullied.

It is not a simple issue. Militaries of the world, even the US military in particular, are very aware of how global warming lead to unrest and instability in the world. For example, rising food prices is what had triggered the "Arab Spring" in 2010 onwards, which had led to several wars.

Militaries have sometimes dissuaded politicians from building nuclear power plants from which radioactive material would be spread over a wide area if they ever got bombed.

Military have also sometimes protested against building of wind farms where it would interfere with radar, making it more difficult to detect incoming ships, planes, drones and missiles.

Yesterday, my non-techie mum asked me to install Linux on her PC. Apparently, one of her friends' husband had written a book about migrating from Windows to Linux, but she asked me first because she knew that I was using it.

I will need to get her a more user-friendly and Windows-like distro than the custom setup that I have been using myself.

Earlier today I had already selected Zorin for the first try. Let's see if she likes it. The runners up are Kubuntu and Mint.

> I want two coins.

Did you mean to write: "I want a two-dollar coin" with Woz on it?

(Context)

Before an AI-bro comes in and yells "Bwaaaa.... it is just fair use, bro.", let me just tell you that Japanese copyright law does not have any concept of "Fair Use".

There haven't been much performance increases or features since Haswell, other than increased core counts.
People have been perfectly fine with that for the things they have been using PCs for.

I suspect it is from the Israeli children's expression "Nana banana", which means something like "I don't care".

As in: "I am going to steal all these images for my generative AI tool, and I don't care about who owns them".

I want the EU to have an "Abandonware Institute". For any product that requires an online service, the manufacturer must first provide a package with sufficient information to the institute on how to unlock it and use it to a reasonable degree without the service. That could include free software, protocol specs, keys for unlocking it etc.

Then when the manufacturer discontinues the service for any reason then the institute would publish the information package they have freely on their web site.
That way, the consumers rights would be protected even if the manufacturer goes out of business. This should not just apply to hardware, but also to software-only products, such as video games in particular.

The institute would be funded by a fee, paid by the manufacturer in advance, as a condition to sell their products within the EU. If the manufacturer does not want to do the work to make this package and pay the fee then that would be an incentive for them to not make their product depend on an online service in the first place.
And once the product is discontinued, the manufactured would be absolved from any responsibility for the safety of what happens with their product (e.g. hate speech in live chats, or whatever). But each product's abandonware package would be required to fulfil a certain standard in the first place.

The institute's web site would be region-locked by IP. If any other country would like their citizens to benefit from this, then they could pay a fee and get a local mirror of the repository of unlocked packages.