Who indeed..
According to the press release, volunteers will be placed in Peace Corps countries that are part of the American AI Exports Program, which was created last year from an executive order from President Trump as a way to bolster the US' grip on the AI market abroad.
Would anyone like any toast?"
The permanent damage has been done and
That is the administration's goal. "You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride" as the saying goes.
They can do anything, and it will take months or years to tell them "No", by which point the action is already done. We have seen this with deportations (and later courts saying "No, bring them back..."), with National Guard deployments (and later courts saying "No, you can't do that..."), with military strikes on foreign nations (and later Congress saying "You should not have done that..."), with tariffs (and now the Supreme Court saying "No, you don't have that authority...") -all well after the fact. And all to no real effect. The damage has already been done.
Solution: dismiss with prejudice any complaint which includes such falsities.
... and then the person files a lawsuit, alleging that HR ignored their complaint. That becomes expensive.
Section 230, a provision added to the Communications Act of 1934, that says internet companies are not liable for content users post.
This lawsuit is not about user generated content. It is about the design and behavior of the site/app. The inclusion of psychologist designed dark patterns created specifically to be addictive. This goes beyond the general business desire to have an appealing product that people want to use and into the realm of willful negligence. They knew that certain features would trigger an addiction response in susceptible users and chose to include those features, even to make those features central to the product design.
Who built these EVs without thermal management for the batteries? Lack of thermal management causes many problems with batteries (too hot = bad, too cold = bad). Thermal management systems are a standard piece of kit included in all but the cheapest crappiest EVs on the road. A warmer is standard kit on diesel trucks for cold weather regions since forever... even a company with no EV experience should know better.
Was this a "lowest bidder" design? A cost saving decision?
NPR is like BBC radio. Government funded radio programming without government control. Some good stuff, some bad. Underpaid staff making do with old equipment because they believe that doing the work is more important than fame and wealth.
Generational divide.
Younger generations don't drink alcohol like the older ones did. They consume other drugs, or no drugs.
Younger generations don't go out as much as the older ones did. They stay at home and socialize via their phones.
etc.
Read past the first paragraph of the fine summary.
They are not proposing "FREE for bots". They are proposing that rather than a flat rate charge per Seat license, they charge by Time of Use or per Query. Each bot doesn't need a license, but the company does -and it gets billed for usage.
Sony's AI says "Pay Sony royalties... because you may have learned something from something that Sony owns copyright on."
Copyright is a limited right to profit in order to reward/encourage creating things of value to culture/science/art. Learning is fair use. Training an AI is a transformative use akin to human learning.
After the Civil War, our parties switched sides. The liberals went to the Democratic Party, and the conservatives went to the Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
An accelerating feedback loop? That is incon.. er.. umm... as predicted.
Three. I will give them a three.
*Scale to be determined.
Isolationism cuts off the ability to benefit from others advances, but what choice do you have but to become self sufficient when your greatest ally and largest trading partner becomes hostile?
The company has also partnered with Flock, a surveillance firm used by thousands of police departments, and launched a beta feature called "Familiar Faces" that identifies known people at your door.
That didn't last long. Today Amazon announced that it was canceling the partnership with Flock.
What this country needs is a dime that will buy a good five-cent bagel.
