âoeThe number of AI related regulations in the U.S. has risen significantly in the past year and over the last five years.â

Once it is clear just how small government can be made by replacing Betty Catlady (she, her, hers) in the Dept. of WTF with AI Betty, expect important Betty protections to fill the regulatory pipeline.

is like getting nutritional tips from cannibals.

One guess why they want to fatten you up.

Relax. You may have lost your Kardashian drip feed, but the CIA can still see you.

There is nothing "dying" or "stagnant" about the sector, which has seen explosive growth in the past ten years.

In fact, economically healthy centers like Denver and the Twin Cities are now overcrowded. There's been hypertrophic growth -- a very sharp and necessary correction is on its way.

Amazon's role in what will transpire is much more complex than your surmise about appy-fappy excitement to come.

By leveraging its clout and market-backed power (if not its own broken business model), Amazon may exercise vast power over distribution. That in turn has significant implications for the bottom lines of farmers and particularly for the types of smaller natural and organic growers who supply Whole Foods. Walmart has already beaten it in this area, but in a business with the thinnest margins there is always room for more degradation of labor.

By moving toward AI-driven workerless stores, Amazon can accelerate the pace of job loss that will soon swamp the retail sector with far-reaching social consequences. Even a public subsidy-dependent utopian like Elon Musk worries about what that will bring.

More generally, Amazon will be in a position to introduce to our food chain the types of values that have made it a hellhole for its domestic employees as well as a prime mover in the sweatshopping of the world. It's hard to imagine a more Stalinist corporation in the west, though Google
certainly competes.

And lastly, expanding monopoly power will lead inevitably to more regulatory capture. One day, that free cantaloupe of yours may be swimming in carcinogenic pesticides yet be called "naturally grown" (and heartily recommended by the in-house food writer at Jeff's WaPo).

Eat up. I doubt you'll know the difference.

"Because the little baby tyrants" *snip*

Brave words in defense of a social media platform that sees fit to disappear ideas and expression that it arbitrarily doesn't like.

You might give a little thought to the way Valley media platforms now shape public discourse along narrow lines and for what reasons; that is, if the Kool Aid is not too strong in you, young Jedi.

Only known moral uses of advanced AI (aka the GeorgeCarlin9000):

--deactivating the evil cyborgs on the "Presidential Debate Commission"
--time-traveling to 1972 to make the paddles shorter on Pong (Butterfly Effect: population-wide striving uptick!)
--reverse-engineering the Kardashian derriere for mass roll out

Otherwise, beware!

Also reminds me of the Coca-Cola image generator that had a big blacklist of words you couldn't put in the captions. Here the AI is writing the captions, but seems a similar blacklist idea.

Report from consultancy recommends enterprises adopt best practices by hiring best-practice consultants.

The airplane aisle, or what?

There was a rash of people submitting jobs to Mechanical Turk and then not paying anyone. The person paying can rate work as unacceptable and not pay, and there's no real oversight if they just do that all the time (and Amazon doesn't police this at all, or even provide a reputation mechanism). So some academics put together a third-party site, Turkopticon, that people use to rate jobs, payers, etc., which has made it a lot easier to avoid the people on the site who won't pay. Seems like a good idea to extend it to "the real world".

True, that's not far off. I think I last installed Linux in 2008. At the time, suspend/resume was very flaky, which was kind of a dealbreaker for a laptop. (It would often appear to work, but then various things would be broken in mysterious ways after resume.) It could well be reliable by now. But still, lots of Unixy people use OSX on their laptops, even when their preferred work environment on a VPS or remote server is Linux.

I see them pretty commonly in tech. Some people go all-out and run Linux or a BSD on their laptop, but for those who don't want to deal with the hardware-support issues, OSX is often the next choice.

When courts are encountering an issue that's been decided before in another court, they often at least consider the other court's rationale, even if it's not binding precedent for them. That's termed "persuasive precedent". It's especially useful when several decisions going the same way pile up; then a party in a subsequent case can say, "every previous court to consider this issue has decided [x]", putting the onus on the other side to explain why the case here should go differently.

In my case I don't really have a choice of either unless I quit my job, since my employer chooses them. The pension fund is particularly problematic because even if I quit my job, I couldn't move my investments to another manager for at least 5 years, when everything vests, so I'm stuck with this one for a while (and they aren't good at data protection). So yes, there is a sequence of choices that could lead to avoiding them, but they're a lot of choices awkwardly tied together with cross-linked contracts and various constraints. Which is also a little bit like how government works: I can avoid governments by not living in their jurisdiction, but there are a lot of cross-linked complications. With both, the difficulty gets higher as the entity gets bigger, with small businesses and municipal governments the easiest to say no to.

I'm all for abolishing prisons too, but I don't see how that's very relevant to a discussion of data privacy. But hey, if an anti-prison candidate like Angela Davis runs for president, no objections from me.