Comment Nintendo is doing a good job... (Score 3, Insightful) 56
...of making everyone hate them
...of making everyone hate them
The list would contain billions, maybe trillions, of items and would be impossible to compile
Very few images on the public web have embedded copyright information
I would guess 1% or less
One of the reasons that windows is popular is backward compatibility
For users who simply browse the web and read email, this is not a problem
For others who have expensive packages that only run on x86, it's a BIG problem
A lot of older software is what is is. It will never be updated, either because the maker lost interest or they are out of business
After reading a lot of similar stuff, people kinda turn into robots, especially if what they are reading is bad or uninteresting
It's plausible that actual robots can be more fair and consistent
Of course, today's AI is very immature and may do a really bad job
SpaceX vastly outperformed every other global company, organization and national lab, racing past them like they were standing still
Once-great NASA has turned into a jobs program for career bureaucrats and the politically connected, wasting vast sums on awful programs like SLS
Instead of congratulating the winner, the government wants to punish them
Although I have no doubt that AI will eventually become useful, the stuff available today is nothing more than amusing crap generators
It will be deployed early and perform poorly, resulting in a huge backlash
Evolution into something truly useful will follow, slower than the hypemongers, pundits and futurists predict
But the problem goes much deeper
Amazon may add a bit of plastic waste when it packs a product, but the product itself often is packed with a LOT more
I just got done filling a trashcan with styrofoam and plastic after my wife bought a bookshelf
None of it was added by Amazon
...solve really hard problems like finding tricky bugs in complex software, analyzing every physics experiment ever done and finding patterns that physicists missed, developing effective drugs with no side effects, predicting the real world effects of proposed laws before they are passed and helping us solve many other previously intractable problems
Unfortunately, all the AI companies have released so far are amusing crap generators
It was one of the easiest predictions my crystal balls ever made
...for research and fun
It should NOT be used for serious work
...that government funded projects like this often just enrich the politically connected and waste a lot of money
I'm slightly hopeful that some chargers will be installed, but they will be compromised by all of the roadblocks put up with bureaucrats who care more about providing jobs for their cronies and getting headlines than actually accomplishing the goal
What happens if future tech does not require giant datacenters?
Placing huge bets, based on current tech, in a rapidly changing landscape is risky
AI chatbots will give excellent customer service
Unfortunately, today people fall for the hype and put crappy, preliminary prototypes into service
But WHY do the AI companies keep releasing stuff that allows evildoers to more easily do evil?
We need tools for drug development, xray reading, automated software security scans, improved analysis of physics data and lots more beneficial stuff
Meanwhile, the AI companies seem focused on making tools for scammers and worse
If the tech is ever developed to the point where it's safe to eliminate safety drivers, the requirement should be dropped
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