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Comment Re:Why compare to these schools? (Score 1) 26

transgender uighurs professors of different racial backgrounds.

Seriously, WTF are you babbling about? First off Uighur is a single ethnic group, they're not multiracial. Transgenderism is barely a thing in China at all, and since Uighurs were mostly Muslim for the last 700 years there would be even fewer among them. You appear to be absurdly poorly informed.

I suppose the alternative is you were trying to do some wokeism/racial slur. It that's the case your troll-fu is weak and laughable.

Submission + - White House Prepares Executive Order To Block State AI Laws (politico.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The White House is preparing to issue an executive order as soon as Friday that tells the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence, according to four people familiar with the matter and a leaked draft of the order obtained by POLITICO. The draft document, confirmed as authentic by three people familiar with the matter, would create an “AI Litigation Task Force” at the DOJ whose “sole responsibility” would be to challenge state AI laws.

Government lawyers would be directed to challenge state laws on the grounds that they unconstitutionally regulate interstate commerce, are preempted by existing federal regulations or otherwise at the attorney general’s discretion. The task force would consult with administration officials, including the special adviser for AI and crypto — a role currently occupied by tech investor David Sacks.

The executive order, in the draft obtained by POLITICO, would also empower Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to publish a review of “onerous” state AI laws within 90 days and restrict federal broadband funds to states whose AI laws are found to be objectionable. It would direct the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether state AI laws that “require alterations to the truthful outputs of AI models” are blocked by the FTC Act. And it would order the Federal Communications Commission to begin work on a reporting and disclosure standard for AI models that would preempt conflicting state laws.

Comment Then it's a good time to be a lawyer (Score 1) 56

What if your accuracy fetish is not shared by the majority?

Well, we've seen this before...sloppy startups launch with sloppy code, but a good idea. They get users. They get marketshare. They get revenue...with real revenue comes real responsibility...there's a data breach and now they realize they cannot be sloppy. They cannot write their core code in Python and port it to a real language. Now they need process and release engineering and backups and rollback....all the things that slowed down their competitors.

With Vibe coding, we'll see it all over again...although weirdly enough, are we even seeing it? Which vibe-coded startups have you heard of? It seems like all LLM activity is simply selling LLMs and LLM tools...where's the video game or data startup that leveraged AI to launch in record time and pushed their story all over the news?

I'm not personally familiar with any of them, but I think we saw this with facebook. It was famously written in PHP...until that stopped working for them...now it's written in a mismash of technologies. LLMs will be similar...maybe something to get you started, but unless you like lawsuits, you'll need to stop vibe coding and have serious professionals fix all the vulnerabilities you've introduced.

Submission + - In the AI Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research (nytimes.com)

An anonymous reader writes: When Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, unveiled the company’s Superintelligence Lab in June, he named 11 artificial intelligence researchers who were joining his ambitious effort to build a machine more powerful than the human brain. All 11 were immigrants educated in other countries. Seven were born in China, according to a memo viewed by The New York Times. Although many American executives, government officials and pundits have spent months painting China as the enemy of America’s rapid push into A.I., much of the groundbreaking research emerging from the United States is driven by Chinese talent.

Two new studies show that researchers born and educated in China have for years played major roles inside leading U.S. artificial intelligence labs. They also continue to drive important A.I. research in industry and academia, despite the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and growing anti-China sentiment in Silicon Valley. The research, from two organizations, provides a detailed look at how much the American tech industry continues to rely on engineers from China, particularly in A.I. The findings also offer a more nuanced understanding of how researchers in the two countries continue to collaborate, despite increasingly heated language from Washington and Beijing.

Comment Re:Too Simplistic (Score 5, Informative) 55

There is an honest-to-goodness definition. Johns Hopkins has a good article about what UPFs are: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2...

The takeaway is - "Ultra-processed foods have one or more ingredient that wouldn’t be found in a kitchen, like chemical-based preservatives, emulsifiers like hydrogenated oils, sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup, and artificial colors and flavors. UPFs undergo processing techniques like pre-frying, molding, extrusion, fractioning, and other chemical alterations that leave the final products bearing almost no resemblance to the original ingredients."

(emphasis is mine)

Comment Re:Websites "must" respect them (Score 1) 59

Why do the websites have the authority in the first place to tell your browser what cookies to store? This is 100% on browsers to restrict what websites can do with cookies.

Firefox has offered this ability for, like, 20 years. And, 20 years later, it is still the only significant browser to do so.

Safari does block third-party cookies by default - which is certainly a good thing, but still not quite there.

Comment Re:Fck the EU (Score 1) 59

There are already http headers for do not track and it is a standard. Just force websites to respect that under threat of enormous penalties, that is all that is needed!

Of course, they can make that as annoying as heck too. In fact, during the past few weeks I've visited multiple websites that have apparently decided it's a good idea for them to tell me (via a raised notification I have to manually dismiss) that they are honoring my browser's enabled "do not track" setting.

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