So when Microsoft continually abused their monopolistic control of 90% of the PC market, they were let off the hook. But Apple which doesn't even have a majority of the smart phone market, is now a monopoly. This is more butt hurt users who would never even buy an iPhone complaining that it is a closed market. BUY A FUCKING ANDROID. You are not missing any functionality when you do that. As a matter of fact, you get the fiddly control you demand. Stop trying to force iPhone users play in the same play ground. We're quite happy. How about this, do a survey of how many iPhone users demand opening the app market. No? Because NO iPHONE USERS ARE ASKING FOR THIS. If they wanted this, they'd buy an Android. It is sheerest idiocy to claim Apple is a monopoly when Microsoft still controls almost the entire office computer market, but nary a peep is heard.

Do we really have to keep repeating "correlation is not causation" until people finally get it?

Once programmers wrote machine code and entered it with toggle switches. Then assembly code on cards. Then low level languages on terminals. Then high level languages on their PCs. Then bloated "4th gen" languages under virtual machines. See a pattern here? Just wrap the whole thing into an encrypted container, run it on your phone, and call it all good. Who needs fast code any more? /sarcasm

In 10 years, when the last big of corporate scamming subsides, we'll all have a laugh thinking "Remember when people thought AI was a thing? What a bunch of dupes."

I thought all the narcissistic sociopaths met up at the annual Narcissists Fuck the World convention in Vegas?

Anyone who looks at the demographics of people "living in the suburbs and working in the city" will quickly notice that any improvement in travel will, over the next 10 to 20 years, result in more people moving farther from the city, which increases traffic to the same commute time as before. In other words, this is why we can't have nice things.

Sherlock. Chatbots have been compromised since day one.

Searching for any real world examples of AI coding I came up with.... there is no such thing. What people are talking about is writing code to access large amounts of data in an AI (weighted data) environment. THAT IS NOT CODING. That is accessing a database. Again. THAT IS NOT CODING.

... because that one that DOES shut down is not seen again. In other words, you will only see the one that didn't shut down. It's like waiting for a bus in a busy city. You only notice the buses that you don't want. If your bus shows up first, you don't notice all the rest.

Any way, THERE IS NO AI. Are we done with this yet?

Who actually thinks that laws have any merit in the US any more? We have bigger problems than trying to regain some level of privacy that is never going to be returned, short of forcibly taking it back. The cow has left the barn. Laws? Legislation? Too late kiddies.

First, there is no AI, it's just today's marketing term everyone to espouse to bump their stocks, but we know that. So we need more CS skilled Americans? How about we start with all the CS proficient Americans who are OUT OF WORK DUE TO OUTSOURCING. There is as GLUT of CS skilled Americans, but there are few available jobs. When Google fires 5000 people in one week, are there 5000 jobs for them to take? Most have moved to different professions, paying much lower salaries. And the tech leaders know this. So why are they saying we must force kids to learn CS in schools? Sounds like just some part of the dialogue where they claim they have to outsource because there are no available Americans with the right skills, which they all know is a complete lie. So ignore this. They are not serious about it.

This is why the military spent millions of dollars to create a private secure "unhackable" computer network to link all military and political groups. I don't remember "put it on the internet" as one of the selling points.

The goal of fusion research is not to demonstrate fusion. We have that. Take a tritium and a hydrogen and zot you get a helium nucleus. What we are striving for is energy break even, that is, as much energy CAPTURED and USABLE versus the amount the energy put in. It's a question of scale of efficiency, re-usability, maintainability, reliability, etc. etc. etc. I don't see how this brings fusion energy any closer to fruition.

There is no AI. At the same time, contrary to all the hype of the last decade, 3D printing sucks. Look at the thing. Just like AI requires basically a complete rewrite/session of photoshop to get anything decent, 3D prints require significant clean up to be anything usable. OK, there is clean 3D printing if you are willing to use a hugely expensive printer and specific print materials to make basic shapes. Where's all that 3D printed world hundreds of posts here predicted? The only real difference between 2000 and now is your iPhone. That's about it. Hype away.

Every time someone writes an article about "AI," it's important to point out that WE DO NOT HAVE AI. Call it what you want. I prefer chatbots, image manipulators, and weighted random data. Nowhere in there is any "intelligence," only scammers jumping on the next great thing. So how are those NFT working for you? Or the Beenie Babies. Or your 800 sealed copies of the death of superman. STAHP. If you look at current job postings, many companies are looking for writer editors to "fix" their AI generated content. No shit sherlock.