Here let me google for you

https://www.sciencedirect.com/...

Have you actually used these? I am not convinced by your examples that you have.

I hope it is one of those fancy engineered septic systems, with pumps, timers, floats, dose controls etc. In which case yeah ... I often wonder if the engineers and the health departments understand them either. AI is probably great diagnostic tool there.

On the other hand the conventional ones really are just a hole in the ground for the most part; if you need AI for that we are in real trouble.

I think it is more simple then that. It is about protecting the status quo.

Nobody is really happy with US education outcomes. It is painfully obvious that places with the NEA/AFT enjoy the most influence, is highly aligned with the poorest performance.

You have similar orthodoxies in the higher-ed pedagogical programs where application of current state-of-the-art classroom and instruction theory continue result in only a long year over year decline in student performance..

So how do these entrenched groups remain so and prevent a revolt from parents and students, well one way to wave some flashy new tech or radical re-conceptualization of what being educated will mean in front of them like (you don't need to do math, you need to be able to code); then plead you just need to give us another decade and you'll see how this current crop of students turns out to be the most polished ever!

When it does not happen - repeat.

 

Yeah, exactly.

NPR may think it's possible to wave a magic wand and say "no weapons in space, my dears!" but it's not.

lol, even the NPR article admits (in its NPR-ish, passive aggressive way, of course):

China and Russia have already been doing this stuff.

But you know that ... in that double-think, "I'm not allowed to know this" way.

I guess people who believe in magical "weapons free" incantations will work down here, also believe those incantations will work for ... most of the universe?

The cynic in me can't help but notice how both of the companies doomsaying here also happen to be the ones with the most to lose:

1) Openai has about a trillion dollars into it, and every product it has produced at this point is either outclassed by competitors (chatgippity) or just plain dogshit/pointless (everything else it has produced, including the donut)
2) Anthropic has a very good product that is also not worth anywhere near what it actually costs to deliver

These are literally the only two major players here that don't already have another profit generating business to fall back to.

Facebook is the only one without an actual business strategy in the AI space while pretending to be a major player. But that's a topic for a CEO from another metaverse.

The only thing the gulf is aligned against is low oil prices, and the US squabbling with Iran is better than anything they might have hoped for. All the Gulf states are perfectly happy to continue being spectators and losing the occasional airport hanger or pipeline to a flying pipe bomb from Iran/Yemen, as long as that means $100+/bbl oil.

Trump sought out the biggest, wettest pile of shit on this entire planet and jumped into it with both feet.

Seriously, if you put a Harris/Waltz 2024 bumper sticker on your car, you aren't really trying to keep your politics a secret...

The problem is, another company, perhaps named "Floke", rolls in with the same surveillance, and everyone smugly assumes because they blocked flock it's A-OK.

No, DT is completely responsible here. Let me remind you of the history. Obama negotiated a nuclear deal with Iran-- the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action:-- in which they would agree not to continue working on isotope enrichment to develop a nuclear bomb, and they agreed to an international team of inspectors who could examine their nuclear facilities at any time, without prior notice. When DT got into office in 2018 he pulled the United States out of the Iran deal, and, guess what, the Iranians restarted their isotope enrichment program. In his second term, trying to get headlines to distract from other failures of policy, DT attacked Iran, saying that he needed to stop them from developing nuclear weapons. It is now pretty clear that there is no possibility of Iran EVER agreeing again to inspections; there is no way that we will ever get an agreement as good as the one that DT tore up. And Iran's attitude now is that they need to develop a nuclear bomb,

We should have quit while we were ahead, and let Iran go to hell in their own way. But that might have allowed Obama to take credit, and one thing DT can't stand is anybody other than him taking credit for anything.

Right. The increased price of oil is pure profit for the oil companies in the US. If you don't have to ship through the Straits of Hormuz or the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, you're selling your oil at double the price.

Ok, name some other plausible use of these glasses? In my opinion, even Silk Road had a better alibi.

People ranted about the Epstein files during the Biden administration, now politically opposite people are ranting about the Epstein files during the trump administration.
The Epstein files are a combination of Hitler, Bigfoot, the Moon Landing conspiracy theory and Pedophilia all wrapped up into one giant excuse for everything someone currently thinks is wrong. It's like cooties for adults.
"Hey, you, you've got [epstein files]! Ewwwww"