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Comment Re:Enshittification continues (Score 1) 45

so an AI assistant is DEFINITELY what everyone wants in a fucking tv.

What everyone wants is a user interface that just does what the user wants, without forcing the user to figure out which remote-button or unrecognizably-abstract onscreen icon to push to make it happen.

If Samsung's AI can implement that, e.g. by listening to free-form English commands and reliably acting on them in a useful manner (a big if, but not inconceivable), it will be popular.

Comment Re:Tragedy is not a sufficent reason for liability (Score 0) 111

"This is slashdot, there's no room for nuance on AI"
WTF are you on about?
He wanted to kill himself, was told to seek help & deliberately found a way to bypass the safeguards.
I don't see this being OpenAI's fault. At most I would require them to flag some convos as concerning.
What's to be done after is something for the company & the authorities to decide.
However if he was using the same profile, the AI should refuse to help with his "book research" based on previous convos

Comment Re:They will never forgive Musk (Score 1) 70

there's credible evidence that Musk has a lot of government data uploaded via Starlink to god-knows-where.
if he hadn't so blatantly stupid & aggressive about dismantling agencies that were investigating him, he could have done a lot more damage & stolen many more secrets.
it was likely only his attempt to sit in on Defense Department meetings that caused Trump to even try to rein him in

Comment Re:Its been the cheapest power for a while (Score 2) 103

Starting from about 2012, USA should have deployed solar everywhere below roughly the 38th parallel as quickly as possible & worked to have better interconnects between the various grids especially to be able to shunt power across the southern latitudes from FL to CA and back, including & especially through TX

Comment Official Digital Mailboxes (Score 1) 78

Physical letter services can be replaced though. In Scandinavia, we have official digital mailboxes for important documents (government and businesses). It's not email, but another type of service.

Only certain types of private businesses (banks, insurance, etc) and government agencies can send you messages. Spammers and scammers are not able to send messages at all.

The mailboxes are free, but operated by private companies. You can only read the messages on the Web, or in the official app. You must use an official digital ID (with two-factor auth), but there are several digital ID platforms available. You're free to pick your own provider, but there are only two or three. There are fees for sending letters, but not for receiving them.

Comment Re:Government should not own businesses..?? (Score 1) 104

The GOP made Dubya disappear pretty quickly. I don't think he was in attendance at the RNC after his 2nd term ended nor was he mentioned.
They'll rely on the terrible short-term memory of the voters & will try to make all of this seem like ancient history.
Will it work? I really don't know.

Comment Re:Government should not own businesses..?? (Score 1, Insightful) 104

What you "like" or don't like doesn't matter or even what you call yourself, only how you VOTE.
There's not much difference between the person who enthusiastically voted for Trump or who scorned his lies, hypocrisy, cruelty, etc but held his nose & voted for him anyway - both of them contributed equally to handing the reins of power back to him

Comment Re:Four years? (Score 1) 113

Plenty of us wanted Biden to honor his pledge to be a 1-term / transitional president.
But even if Sleepy Joe was entirely mentally absent his admin ran very well, especially compared to the clusterfucks of both Trump's 1st term and what happened so far in this one.
Some of us also remember when Obama was supposed to have the military rounding up people & surging into cities. That would NEVER happen under with the GOP in charge, right? RIGHT??

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