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Comment Re:AI (Score 1) 73

There is nothing new about that at all.

I work for a company that would much rather sell product to end customers at full price than to keep a portion of our limited production output to ourselves for no revenue at all. It probably shouldn't surprise many people that we would rather keep customers happy by delivering on the promised schedule while taking in a lot of money from them for the privilege, and finding other ways to satisfy the internal need, such as sharing with other teams that might already have what is needed.

TBF I'm referring to our product that we only make about 3,000 of a year; and each one has been spoken for for a few years already and costs about a quarter-million per copy, so all things may not be equal.

Comment Re:sigh Users (Score 2) 15

Chicken Little effect.

In the standard operation of Windows, you are presented with so many stupid permissions dialogs for shit that isn't a problem, that you reflexively approve on things that could be problems.

When everything tells you the sky is falling, you don't pay attention when the sky actually falls.

Comment Re:This is a MAJOR problem (Score 1) 113

One bad data point was discovered. Isn't it possible that there might be more?

The Pentagon's $600 toilet seat was outed as cover for black project funding. Do you really thing that they were hiding their entire Area 51 budget in nothing other than invoices for plumbing parts?

Time to subpoena some client scientists e-mails.

Comment De-identified data (Score 1) 81

the researcher was told that Kohler's "algorithms are trained on de-identified data only."

What the hell good is that? Maybe for training. But eventually Kohler is going to want to provide a diagnostic service based upon this training. And then they will have to know who's poop they are looking at.

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