Um, no. AI was founded as an academic discipline in 1956, at the Dartsmouth Workshop. The term has been in widespread use for seven decades.

Also, AI != ML. ML is an AI technique. Most AI today is ML, but it wasn't always that way. Symbolic AI, Rules-Based AI, etc used to dominate before NNs advanced enough to push them aside. Expert Systems are a classic example of non-ML AI.

Per TFS, this is specifically a study regarding "50 top research universities"

That could be literally any field, though.

Some firms will still employ people who can think, because their leadership can think well enough to know computers can't. They will no doubt reap the rewards of keeping humans in more loops. But in the meantime, a lot of people are going to suffer a whole lot.

Digging more into RxScanner:

As far as I can tell, 100% of the information out there about its claimed efficacy comes from the manufacturer itself, with zero independent studies. Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Nigeria+ USAID + Bloom Public Health initiated a RCT that was supposed to be evaluating it against lab tests with results to be published in April 2025, but as far as I can tell, the results were never published.

From a technological perspective, if it is what it says at all, one would expect that it could be pretty good at confirming something as genuine and in pristine condition but pretty bad at telling if something is counterfeit. E.g. a generic of the same drug, or a slight formulation change (such as the binder or coatings), or some meaningless degradation during storage, will give a different result. Sounds like they're trying to bypass this by using AI to tell what differences are meaningful or not. But without third party validation.... *shrug*

Also, the manufacturer initially marketed itself as a hardware and SaaS company, but has now been broadening out, making e.g. a B2B marketplace where the sell drugs to pharmacies (RxDelivered) and a financing and point-of-sale software service for those pharmacies (RxPay). So as far as supply chain auditing goes, i's a red flag when the "independent" quality tester also operates the marketplace selling the goods (something that they try to spin as a "trusted network"). Because they obviously benefit from any biases to detect their goods as legit but flag competitors as fake.

As it stands, I don't think one can say it's an outright grift, but on the other hand, I wouldn't put too much trust in this company as it stands.

There's no start of the year of the linux desktop because that started ages ago and will continue gaining ground gradually until either a new thing comes along or Windows dies in fire and it becomes the de facto choice for people who don't want to buy Macs.

On the other hand, it is quite logical to believe that SCO is being reanimated again for the benefit of Microsoft, because there has never been more interest in replacing Windows with Linux.

What's left of SCO exists solely for the purpose of attacking Linux for the benefit of Microsoft's shareholders and at the expense of everyone else, so that's still pretty evil.

They also unified copyright law among those signatory countries to a significant extent, so at least your suit is likely to succeed in any of them.

IBM actually creates things. SCO created a few things, but most of them were weird. Like SCO Open Desktop, which was slightly after CDE, and had no real reason to exist since everyone was going to CDE at the time. Or SCO UUCP, of which I have no real complaint, but why write another one with so few changes? OTOH SCO UNIX was really solid before any other x86 UNIX (or Unixlike) was. You could count on it.

This is not fuzzy string matching. This is a vector database. Please learn the difference.

Vector databases return conceptual matches, not fuzzy data matches (such as fuzzy string matches).

Also: "The results of drug sample scans are recorded and stored on the blockchain", which isn't something that affects the choice of AI models, but does make me immediately suspicious that this whole thing is a grift / scam.

What are you talking about? You generally run inference on the GPU. Sometimes in RAM. Almost never on swap. It is certainly possible to run a model without being able to load the whole thing into memory, but it's comically slow.

He used autopen for his jan6 pardons. Every accusation from the reich is a confession.

0. 0 seconds, microseconds, picoseconds, or any other division of time. Because that's how they are operating right now.

Microsoft is actually more evil than they used to be. They used to make software for your hardware, now they tell you to get your hardware for their software. Their OS is the most egregious spyware ever created and has a license to match, allowing Microsoft to both practically and legally lift any data they want from your machine and show it to anyone they want for any reason they deem fit.

When I was completing my hort sci degree a few years back we had a lecturer talking about how they were using AI to control tomato production in test greenhouses in the Netherlands (e.g. making decisions about when to vent, what to set the thermostat to, how much to water, what eC, how much light, when to prune, when to harvest, etc etc), and how it was trouncing human operators in maximizing yield * quality / cost.

The only complaint they were getting was the fact that they didn't factor in worker comfort into their model, so it was e.g. scheduling labour during times it also had the heat and humidity cranked way up ;) Disadvantage to a small bespoke model vs. a generalist.

Dumbest take ever. Xbox runs Windows. Xbox games are sold for Windows. Xbox can not be separated from Windows, period.

This legal system is a shit joke.

It's designed to fail under the weight of its own bullshit.