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Comment This is all so embarrassing (Score 3, Insightful) 28

What happened to a sense of professionalism? Hell, of wanting people to not laugh at your work? They expect people to pay money for this junk?

I have to imagine the C-suite at a lot of places feels intense pressure to have "an AI roadmap".

Fine. That doesn't mean you ship not even half-baked bullshit.

This isn't about jerking off to robot porn, it is about performance monitoring - the only thing that functionally matters is the accuracy.

It amazes me that so much simply non-functional junk is passed off as wizzbang magic technology.

Comment Any opportunity to fuck things up (Score 4, Insightful) 42

I swear that's Microsoft's unofficial motto.

The Copy-Paste mechanism has been a well-defined, widely-understood basic action for personal computers since at least 1984, arguably before.

The defining characteristics are either duplicating or moving one or more digital objects to a new position in a document.

Notice those verbs. Nothing about rewriting/translating/making different. The closest the mechanism gets to that is, for inter-application transfer, there can be content negotiation to deal with format issues.

Just waiting for the first time this "fixes" something in a mortgage or a sentencing memo...

Comment Re:AI in toys isn't always risky (Score 1) 32

> the companies that make and sell these toys are putting their stockholders at risk of a future privacy lawsuit.

Own 20 risky but profitable companies. 9 may go south and declare bankruptcy, but between the time the 9 were bringing in revenue and the other 11 that haven't puked (yet), you are still net profitable.

Privatize profits, socialize loss, the Plutocrat Way.

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