I imagine the actual point of this is the name scalping impossible.

Optional always becomes the default when it benefits the entity offering the service.

Right now AI is more like a compiler which turns natural language into machine code.

Soon, once the excitement dies down, people will realize that natural language is a bad way to specify the precise behavior of very large systems.

This will (if we are smart) lead to the creation of very high level languages which will still be a type of code with precise meaning.

If we are dumb, we will end up work mountains of inefficient high level code which will make each web page into gigabytes of JavaScript and one terabyte of memory barely able to run Chrome.

We will probably have both.

There are no dystopian uses for this tech. None. None whatsoever.

Anyone claiming otherwise is guilty of thoughtcrime.

I would like a future where every device has a physical power switch and maybe a trivially removable battery.

EMG based electrodes driving prosthetics are not new. How many electrodes? How many degrees of freedom does this enable? (Normally there are only two electrodes, enabling open and close movements, with co-contraction of two muscles enabling the user to go through a menu of sorts, mapping the commands to different movements. This is tedious.).

AI (neural networks usually) can be used to deduce user intent. The article could at least give the brand of the prosthetic so that we could look at the specs.

The article certainly does not say This step is well intentioned. Not sure how Slashdot has gone downhill like this â¦

Quoting:

It's a well-intentioned move but will not stop there.

  For responsible adults with decades of experience from which to draw their own conclusions, the idea that adults we have never met have the power to govern our online activities is a borderline insult.

Both the article and the company website are stupidly low on details. This seems like the vehicle would need some sort of after market modification before this tech can be used. How long does that take and how much does it cost? How does that affect the range of the vehicle or the warranty? Can it still be charged at home?

Something like this makes sense for an EV fleet but whether it makes sense for regular EVs depends on these details and on whether they can have this type of battery pack built into off the shelf EVs.

WTF kind of nonsense is this?

You respond to every article, I have no idea who you are trying to slander (not that I particularly care), but it is pathetic.

If you're a kid, do something productive with your time like learn Python or something. If you're an adult ... well I'm sorry.

I meant only three letters. I miss the preview feature and working quotation marks from the old Slashdot.

From the article:

Translation depends on which Remmyo letters are used by the sleeper and picked up by the software, which already has information from multiple dictionaries stored in its virtual brain.

Virtual Brain??? WTF are they talking about â" is this the 1970s or something?

The idea is interesting but there is no detail either in the linked article or the abstract or the paywalled journal article to tell us what this language is, or now one communicates using inky three letters.

While I agree that synthetic fuels are a promising tech (I even own stock in a synthetic fuel company), I think this will simply be a circumvention of the ICE ban. It would be trivial to modify a synthetic fuel burning car to burn normal fuels.

This is like clean coal in the sense that the real intent is to keep a polluting technology alive and hamper progress.

The author seems surprised that developers would rank AI highly while being distrustful of No Code when both supposedly threaten our livelihoods.

We are not distrustful or No Code because of this. We are distrustful because simply giving people the illusion that they can code does not eliminate any of the problems with code. It simply lowers the barrier to entry and allows the creation of code (disguised as something else) which is more difficult to maintain with our existing tools.

Bugs, complexity and need for configuration management/architecture will not go away. No Code will simply create a clusterf**** of code for coders to maintain. See the Inner Platform Antipattern: https://exceptionnotfound.net/...

Itâ(TM)s like someone came up with a Most Ridiculous Tech Idea challenge â" and this was the winner.

The winner of the challenge at Spotify just got presented with a $20 Napster gift card.

On second thought, perhaps they should use this AI programmer to fix Slashdot's handling of quotation marks ....

Actually â" what heâ(TM)s really saying is that everyone will be a user, which is nonsense.

In a sense, we are already there â" very few people understand machine architecture or deal with assembly. But _someone_ has to ⦠otherwise we canâ(TM)t create anything new. More stuff will be automatically generated â" and weâ(TM)ll get to a point where Hello World compiles to a terabyte in size â" but no one will care.

Still â" _someone_ will have to understand how things really work. And those people will be the highly paid computer scientists. The people he talks about will be data shepherds or machine whisperers or something â¦