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Comment Bad, bad, bad, bad, no good, terrible idea (Score 3, Insightful) 147

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

Comment Punish the successful (Score 1, Insightful) 222

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

Comment Fantasy speculation (Score 3, Insightful) 89

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

Comment I want AI that can ... (Score 1) 162

...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

Comment The sad truth is... (Score 2) 120

...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

Comment In general, I'm a fan of AI (Score 3, Insightful) 24

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

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