I feel like all of this "let AI make decisions for you" is eroding our autonomy. We will gradually lose our ability to self-direct and plan while being expected to execute what ever AI has committed us to. The elites will be able to have others work AI for them or use it to drive their lifestyle choices so their businesses do not interfere. Or they can completely ignore it. Because the more money you have, the less it matters how much any use of it impacts your decision making. The elites don't need AI to buy them time, that's what they have money for.

Several news outlets have reported on this in some fashion very recently.

The U.S. military has spent billions of dollars on very high tech weaponry, but they don't have enough of them for a sustained war, and they don't have enough good mid-grade stuff to compliment for a sustained war. The hubris is evident; the U.S. will quickly win wars with high tech weapons.

e.g. If the U.S. has 10,000 99.999% accurate anti-drone missiles that cost $100,000 each but Iran has 20,000 drones costing $20,000 each, who has the advantage?

Did anyone else picture the opening scene in Ace Ventura where he poses as a UPS driver playing soccer with the package in the apartment building hallway?

If you haven't seen it, here it is: https://youtu.be/7YrpmZFixp0?s...

The OEM can deny liability, provided they can prove your actions caused the problem.

Magnuson-Moss Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I thought M$ was moving everything to "web code" so they would only have to maintain a single app architecture across the entire internet to feed their cloud data mining machine and somehow sucker most users into paying for Windows desktop as a thin client for web access.

The idea of returning to real development of native Windows applications means that corporate customers were very unhappy with the results of web/cloud first push.

Obligatory questions to Microsoft, in this order:

How can I stop it from happening?
How can I remove it?
How can I disable it?
How Can I turn it off ?

What if I want to be the agent of my like and my communications? Where is control of my agency in this scenario?

I want robots to do menial tasks like mowing my yard quietly at night, doing the dishes, cleaning the floors, self-driving cars etc. Not deciding for me what groceries will show up at my door and, consequently, accept what meal I've been assigned to eat.

Some humans like making decisions and coursing their own lives, but maybe that is soon to return to the realm of the power elite.

Feels good, doesn't it? Having control over something. No one tell you when you can and can't use it. Or today it's and extra $2 for access. You can even charge others to use it or freely share it. The choice yours.

Corporations really don't want us to own anything anymore, because ownership is power.

U.S. law puts a heavy thumb on the scales of justice when it comes to property rights.

This U.S. administration is turning out to be the most successful mob racket of all time.

Unless you mean teaching the software in your English class (days of instruction), you are very mistaken.

Not having to hand write papers is a god send! I handed in a typed rough draft to my high school English teacher (which she didn't much care for; I was confused about that). After her review, I may have spent 10-20 minutes fixing the paper and printed it out.

I saw much of this roll out first hand and predicted it wouldn't end well for most students, schools and communities. Some schools even cannibalized their own student population, teachers and finances to present a single, successful, high achieving school/program to game state reporting and lure back parents who sent their kids elsewhere.

1. The personal computer revolution of the 80s and 90s was real and a bunch of motivated individuals interested in it made a lot of cool things and a lot of money.
2. The foreseeable future will involve computers, especially for the college track.
3. Early 2000s, success stories come out about low/under performing schools finding success with 1:1 or very low student to computer ratios.

Here the problem with point 3: The test/pilot schools functionally had unlimited money and resources in the forms of grants and/or vendor subsidies to ensure their pilot programs succeeded. Additionally, the pilot schools were cherry picked to increase the likelihood of success.
1. The teachers and staff were well trained to use the tech
2. There was no shortage of tech for the pilot program
3. The curricula was customized to incorporate the tech from the outset
4. Teachers and staff were trained on the new curricula
4. Computers were only part of the "fix"

Many schools believed if the could get close to 1:1 with the right pieces of educational software and analytics, it will fix their core educational problems which were due, in large part, to historical poverty and lack of equal resources. For most schools, it is/was unsustainable.

Then there came "keeping up with the Jones". "The school district up the road has better tech, so we need better tech."
Enter even more budget cuts to staff (fewer aids, kitchen workers, janitors etc.), facilities (HVAC, furniture, plumbing etc.), books, buses etc.

Other issues:
1. How can you charge a couple hundred laptops at a 20-50 year old school with inadequate electrical infrastructure? Charging carts with fancy timers = $$$$
2. Early 2000s, not all schools had adequate wi-fi. Wi-fi network build out = $$$$
3. On hand spare laptops, ready to go? $$$$
4. Lost, damaged, stolen laptop replacements? $$$$ (don't even try to argue insurance or holding the parents accountable)
5. Are students staying on task on the computer? Monitoring/lock software = $$$$
6. Managed student accounts? $$$$
That's the short list.

If you don't have the full community buy-in and the money to fund it for 5-10 years, you don't really have a chance and your messing with our children's education.

From what I've read across nearly all end user AI stories are 2 main things.
1. AI is meant to replace a certain type of previously human only task
2. AI supplements a knowledge worker's efficiency

To focus on point 2, you can't be truly efficient with AI if you are not knowledgeable enough in the source material to cut through poor or incomplete AI output or input proper iterative prompts. Without that, your likely spending more time cleaning up after AI and doing actual research/data gathering when you probably could have done it yourself from the outset.

It's so cute you thought "property rights" were meant for you and me. The ruling class has always had a desire to own everything and return to feudalism or slavery. Capitalism is/was a modern way to amass wealth and property, while providing scraps and limited opportunity to "climb the ladder" for us plebs while the ruling class figures out the next government/religion/financial method to stay in control.

I also want the online/network openess, not only "if you manually transfer files". Not just one feature, but all features.

If I'm going to have a 60" black mass on my wall, I'd rather it display art.

That being said, I want it to display what I want it to display and not require someone elses infrastructure etc. It needs to support local storage option (USB storage) as well as an API to call photos from what ever service or host I chose that supports free or cheap API access. Random pictures from a local NFS server. It should never require calling the mothership or an account to simply use baked in features; all such features should be baked in.