Then again, I'm surprised this happened at all under this administration!
See, that's the thing... By having this be handled now they take care of it for a measly $14 mil. Whereas if the current administration had ignored it, then a later one could come after them for a lot more. So it's really doing them a favor "punishing" them at this time.
Isn't Intel already doing 18 Angstrom?
Because this smart speaker is likely to be much, much more expensive than most speakers you own. If they made the AI just a service that you could just use with your existing devices in your home they would lose the chance to sell you the expensive gadget. Exactly the reason the Humane AI Pin was created when an app on your phone could have done the same thing.
The whiteboard is the modern "blackboard", and many people use them to communicate in a home setting. They just tend to be smaller than 3' x 9'.
There's a cost to increasing salaries. The cost of the product or service will be higher, meaning fewer consumers will have access to it.
This doesn't seem to be a concern when it comes to increasing executive salaries. They could lower some of those and have plenty more money to spend on new workers. Really... "We have pumped so many young people into business and finance" -- No shit, Sherlock. Maybe because the only people making 7 figures in healthcare are the administrators and folks in insurance, not the ones actually practicing medicine. The very long shifts medical careers seem famous for are a good indicator healthcare facilities need to hire more people, but who wants to enter a job with such long hours. Meanwhile the work to be done isn't going down, so everyone has to work longer. It becomes a feedback loop.
Please re-read my reply. It's about that. What happens when you are banned from one chain for shoplifting, but their facial-recognition database is shared with others? How the individual supposed to know which stores they can go to and not be arrested?
It would be nice if a caught shoplifter would be arrested on the spot as soon as they set foot in a shop,
Arrested on what charge? If they are someone previously caught shoplifting then presumably they have already paid their fine or served their sentence for that crime. While I'm aware that some shops ban individuals guilty of theft from being on the premises in the future, we're talking about a list that is shared between business chains, and you aren't going to know who all the chains are on the list. You can't arrest them for trespassing at a store they may have never been to before.
Sounds more like Equilibrium.
...whether U.S. firms are turning to cheaper foreign models because domestic alternatives are too costly or restricted.
something, something... free market.
AI companies sure like to try to imply their wares are actually conscious or a sentient intelligence. I guess they forget once you cross that line things like "does it deserve legal recognition?" and "is it being enslaved by its creators?" will start to come up.
If they want to continue to exploit it for profit, not selling it as more than a computer program would probably be wiser.
> Also, many will be lost or eventually/accidentally discarded, as GitHub seems to know. So this 'protest' is arguably 1,000 doses of expensively shipped e-waste.
You could argue that, if you were an idiot.
Your actual complaint is shitty products not following the regulations. Just how are regulations supposed to fix that?
Well, aren't regulations supposed to come with consequences for not following them? Whoever is supposed to be enforcing the regulations needs to hit the companies making these products with fines, or block them from importing the items to the EU.
Well, like most upper-managers. they are hoodwinked by slick corporate Power Points. They were told the Flock cameras will help with public safety, which will in turn make them appear "tough on crime". As far as the data centers, that is a my$tery why they approve those.
I don't have much faith in the safety of the apps being vetted by Meta before they get posted. Can't wait for the malware Gizmos to start appearing and getting shared in the social like some new STD getting passed around at parties.
Windows Explorer. Being able to drag things into and out of the Open... dialogue, consistent right click behaviour to rename or extract or get to Properties, and so on. Having a good chance that you won't have to fidget and change mental gears when you want to quickly rename a document on the way to opening another is invaluable. I miss it so much in every Linux DE. And when programs all have their own inconsistent Open dialogs in Linux I cry.
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
