I'm sure some people will find this patent to be deeply upsetting, but Walmart having patented it hopefully ensures that no other stores will be able to use it. It's been years since I've shopped at a Walmart so them doing this doesn't affect me at all. Perhaps this patent could be granted in perpetuity so that other stores are unable to use it after the usual 14/28 year period.

I would have to imagine that if it proved lucrative they'd be licensing this tech in a heartbeat to any other store/company that also want to use it.

I also have a hard time imagining that using AI to help pricing if designed internally in a white room for a company would be hit by this....??

What percentage has to be AI to get the label?

I mean if someone take AI generated art, for instance, and opens it in Photoshop/Affinity....and alters it...is it AI then?

Or reverse...start with human generated and sent to AI to finish it?

What does it take to be AI label required?

Just as predicted, Trump now says he doesn't want the strait of Hormuz open anyway [google.com], last seen taking his bat and ball and heading home...

Well,, to be fair....having it closed won't affect the US THAT much....it's the countries he was asking to help that depend on oil from that region....

'Our' Internet was destroyed by the greed of the upper class, they bought it and now they use the Internet and all the top level sites to steal from us, cheat us, lie to us and manipluate us.

Welcome to economic slavery, yes boss, no boss, right away boss

Have you not yet come across the concepts of "sense of self", "backbone", and "free will"?

Since when has the internet overcome all of that...?

Are the masses truly THAT helpless and unable to think....?

Even as bad as some people are, I just cannot think that is the overwhelming majority....

I find that just not joining or using social media in any fashion really helps keep the mind clear....for coming up with own conclusions about the world.

Ok I can't get past the paywall.

What the heck is a "Bloomberg Terminal"...and what makes it so special than any other computer terminal?

Well Eddie and Dan came into the floor....waited a bit....and I think started buying....or was it sellling?

anyway...I think at the very end they were buying....so, how did they make the money AND Ruin the Dukes?

I've watched it over and over and never quite have understood where they got all the money (what they gathered from the butler a Jamie Lee couldn't have been enough to fund all they did....and not quite sure how they ended up ahead.

I felt the same way when I first read "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"

Is this a book or an article, etc?

Sounds interesting but never heard of it before....

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what happened in "Trading Places with those OJ futures....."

but you know Obama said you could keep your doctor

Yep...another thing Obama lied about....just didn't work out that way for most Americans on 'the plan".

If you want to have an AI agent manage your local filesystem for you, would it be safer to run a local agent like OpenClaw vs cloud-based like Perplexity?

If you run local models only....then yes MUCH safer, in that you also likely have much more control to limit the agent(s) to the degree you are comfortable with....

You can isolate the agents, limit their access to anything on a system and limit it to little if any external access.

It all comes with trade-offs....you get less of that whiz-bang automation it can do for you, but you risk privacy, fiscal loss, etc.....so you have to strike the balance you can live with.

It shouldn't be difficult to make it so existing files can not be modified by the AI. Read-only access for the AI would take care of a lot of this, then make it so you can change the stuff that the AI generated also be read-only to prevent the AI from breaking stuff you have decided to use and don't want it to be modified further by AI.

I've been looking into the OpenClaw agent thing...and a lot of what I'm reading indeed points to at least starting out with read only and least privs approach,,,so yes I can't see why it can't be done.

Too much history of AI just data grabbing to feed the AI

I don't know about this commercial offering...but with the open source "OpenClaw" set up, you can use local models running on your own hardware and with guard rails, keep your data private.

With the Apple silicon boxes...it's amazing what you can get to run these days....as far as local models.

This aspect of home AI computing is getting quite interesting....especially if it keeps progressing where you can do this more and more locally and depend less on hooking to commercial AI cloud servers/services...

For those who use Photoshop, you can't really argue with the results, but when looking at the "CPU performance", comparing in-program or in-game benchmarks on different operating systems.

And, if you really want performance at a price that can't be beat (free)....

Take a look at Affinity...the photo tool there does what PS does, but with newer designed engine...faster and cheaper.

Most of the keyboard shortcuts are the same and you can change those that aren't...and most functions are the same way, or you might have to look at a different button of function name, but that's no big deal if you try and use it for a couple weeks....

I dunno why anyone bothers with Adobe still.....but hey, if. Nothing else, give it a try...don't cost ya nothing....

So...basically this is a Commercial OpenClaw offering, eh?