@%#&^@ FTC not FCC..sigh Today is my birthday, I'm really old and beginning to feel it...

No not at all but the FCC is not the straw pumpkin to be leading the way. This should be FBI/NSA led and criminal in nature. The other folks are correct though, it's all hype and talk, our Orange President is all for AI and he couldn't care less who else gets hurt in the pursuit.

Well, it's been a good run but if the US military is going religious it's soon to be all over.

"Google is reportedly testing a program that pays around 100 publishers based on how much their content contributes to its AI-powered search features."

That's like me reading a book and paying for based on how much I enjoyed it. I don't see publishers going for it. I guess it is better than the current alternative which is nothing for getting your entire catalog fed to an AI. I wish I could get away with what the AI's manage. Operating in total denial they have everything but aren't responsible for anything.

I came to post this but you did it well. Nice sense of history there.

OK you have a point. But I say the last one really needed worked for Xerox at the Parc research facility, and was involved in Xterm.

UX designers don't have anything to do. Standards have been established and nothing has changed enough to warrant new ones. They just keep dicking around in circles because they have low self esteem knowing their job is frosting, and not the good cream cheese kind but the high fructose garbage.

THIS !!!! We created a whole new job...UI engineer, but they were not needed to start with and things haven't changed. They HAVE to redo UI every time or they don't have a purpose, imagine that. They make arbitrary changes based on worst taste case.

A OLD modified Russian ICBM launched a satellite into orbit. The ball bearing payload could go the same way. It's high fantasy but I can write what I want. No one reads the shit anyways.

When does a "terrorist" organization release about 4 tons of nylon ball bearings into orbit ? It would clean out the skies of nuisance satellites while being very difficult to track or clean up. I've been working on a short story with that theme.

The market for drone deliveries is not large. The item has to be small, light, and balanceable, while also being worth enough to deliver via drone, while the population has to be dense enough to warrant it, but not to dense as to pose a flight hazard. This is silly hype.

Just watched Wiley vs. Acme. The SUPER GENIUS in the White House ordered some SUPER INTELLIGENCE from the ACME catalogue. It will work out well as always.

Email would be totally secure if not for the retard users who can't NOT click on ANYTHING. You can't secure an environment populated by entitled morons. All you can do there is clean up after them and move on.

damn that's a lot of work. I prefer driving to ColdStone and getting a milkshake, but thank-you just the same.

we've not even seen a hint of AGI. I am sure the LLM's will get better and faster, but will they ever be intuitive ? They are already great at taking huge amounts of data and making direct connections. When they can include the mystery factor that is free-will matched with stupidity, we might have something to worry about. I am an old man now so I worry less for me than for my 14 year old nephew. Luckily he reads, and plays pen and paper RPG's.