As my relatives put it: Not until they get the morons like Farage, Robinson, and a whole host of other hate-filled nutjobs relegated to the dustbin of electoral politics. There's far too much going on in the EU right now to start adding open Russian assets into the parliament as MEP's.

Clearly you think everyone is treated equally. There are a few decades worth of precedent you could use to disabuse yourself of that blind spot.

The question isn't if it's collected the question is if there are procedures in place to hamper it's use as much as plausible and to create actual jeopardy for misuse. As one of my friends put it, the question isn't if they're going to have CCTV cameras, it's:
1) Will those cameras be somewhat limited in placement? (e.g. major roads, monuments, et al.)
2) Will you be able to have your own cameras not plugged into the network? (no compulsory "Search Party" integration of home / business security)
3) Will you require the data stay local to the municipality / county? (no central clearinghouse like Axon Fusus or Flock Nova)
4) Will you require a state/county warrant to access the cameras? (more judges who might as questions)
5) Will you make it a felony, with a MINIMUM 5 years in prison, to access the data without a warrant? (the threat of actual prison)

You want the person accessing the cameras to face a real consequence. They are the first line that must take a pause. The fact you're doing it on the state level means no federal pardons apply. That's not a guarantee, but it's a dang site trickier to start saying you'll get off without a hitch if someone breaks the law.

This is similar to the radiology argument.

Company builds "AI" (it isn't AI but let's pretend) that can "read" images. Company goes to sell this to a hospital CEO. They say it will do the work that radiologists would do, and it only costs (X) tokens per scan. Imagine the savings! Hospital asks about liability, and here's the kicker: The AI company says just have one of the remaining human doctors the hospital has on-site to review the scan.

Now skipping the part where it says it can do the work, it's dumping liability on the human who now not only has to review their own work but also the AI. The AI doesn't have to be perfect... the human has to be perfect. In a logical world the CEO would tell the company to go sell their hokum elsewhere until they're willing to put their own reputation AND finances on the line to stand behind their work. However if the average CEO can sign a contract to pay the company 15% less than a human overall, then add that 15% to the bottom line, they'll get a bonus, so you'd best get to work doc.

When the mistake happens, you'll get sued... instead of the "AI" system and it just sucks to be you person who went to school to become an actual SME. We've already seen them blame software devs/engineers when AI writes crappy code that causes problems. You think they aren't going to dump other bad crap on humans when the tool breaks?

You really believe that line of horse shiat?

Keep drinking that flavor aid.

Had it not been for Ronnie Ray-Gun and the Republican Party. Heck, we'd probably be the world leader in solar panel engineering and wind turbines had that old cuck, and decades of center-right / far-right politicians, not fellated the fossil fuel industry for cash. GM's EV1 might have just been the first in a line of American EV's from the Big 3 - and Japanese auto makers - decades before Tesla.

Republicans really do ruin everything.

I think every mall I've been in, from the US to EU to Singapore's Changi airport the general rule is counter-clockwise.

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They'll scream about various things the BIG EVIL GOVERNMENT is taking away your rights and privacy. At the same time they do stuff like this that strips it away without a whisper.

AI can't take jobs because AI can't even code reliably after the training models are fed every coding shortcut in the book. I mean, look at the AI coded browser that couldn't open most webpages, or the fact Claude really couldn't even compile Doom without help. Rinse and repeat that multiple times then start adding nightmarishly bad security. Let's be real: There's a reason why they effectively rig the tests for these chatbots.

Dario Amodei and Sam Altman desperately need people to be afraid. They need to sell that AI can do ANYTHING white collar. The problem is that it's crap. What AI is good at is making people feel smart, in particular idiots who don't know any better. The problem, of course, is provable results. None of them really have any results that add up to the multiple trillions in CapEx blown to support this crap by the tech broligarchs.

In the end a lot of the money poured into this furnace will just evaporate. Of course if AI can get enough people afraid they might be able to use it to drive labor costs down.

They're selling this as the paradigm shifting, but it's just a wet fart. These IPO's are just a way to get VC and other insider money out.

Now if I had a supplier that sold a "fake it till you make it product" to my company... and I put my reputation on it at a major show... to say I'd be pissed is an understatement. I'd probably be more in line to threaten a lawsuit and publicly excoriate them to protect my own reputation.

Now I don't know what's going on here behind the scenes, or contractual stuff, so there may be stuff at play preventing what I described. I'd still be M-A-D as all heck at the damage it would do to my company and the threat to my employees.

Honestly you don't need a LOT of power for a long time... but it's enough that it's probably going to limit actual use.

As noted above GPS signals are very low power. That's why Lightsquared bought spectrum next to GPS dirt cheap and tried to blackmail the US government into swapping them to much more expensive spectrum after they applied to broadcast at high power.

I won't disagree completely, but there is a secondary effect: This keeps the hype train running. "AI so good it scary! Ignore bad news starting to come out about AI costs and ROI."

Of course that could be primary and yours secondary, I can't say for certain. I will that Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are probably beginning to feel the heat with some major companies already announcing they are pulling back on spend BEFORE the launch of any IPO's. That statement from Uber was just brutal because they knew it would cause a (likely temporary) stock hit, but did it anyway.

Stargate has one of the best "current era" sci-fi toys: the stargate itself.

However that best toy is also it's bane, with bad writing. That being said we see plenty of bad writing destroying series. Parts of Earth: Final Conflict were written extremely well... with other parts being trope written stupidity.

Star Trek's various series is often at odds with itself over the quality of writing.

The entirety of Alien and/or Predator has often had writing flailing.

In the end a well written Stargate series would be a wonderful show. They need to try something different. Different is scary to entertainment executives, and if you don't believe that you don't understand why so many cookie cutter sequel movies are greenlit.

Do you only hire entry level positions locally?

My hiring manager says thank you.

Are you not hiring any entry level people?

Again, my hiring manager says thank you.

My worry is not about the companies, it's the regular employees. We're going to see Andreessen and Softbank get paid if these IPO's go forward like SpaceX.

Worse: We're going to see average investors in retail funds are *forced* to buy SpaceX (and Anthropic, and OpenAI) at the top. This will hurt many for the benefit of a very select few.

Unfortunately it looks like AI companies are trying to use retail investors, along with pension funds and other retirement accounts, to bail out all the VC money.