The only way I'm giving AI access to that level of personal information/interaction is if I own - and retain EXCLUSIVE access to the data.

Basically, the AI and data are mine and no one but me ever has access. No spying. No viewing. No data mining, anonymous or not. ZERO access during normal use unless I intentionally share something with a specific person or company. Think zero-knowledge encryption, but for my 'personal AI'.

Granted, companies want you to use AI largely so they can mine your data and it's gotten so expensive all the advertising/data-mining can't pay for it anymore...so they want to charge now. Nope. No thanks.

It costs next to nothing to bring on a new customer since there's no widget to make and ship.

Growing marketshare is *the* priority. Give it away for free. Pay people to use it if you must.

Then once they're hooked, start charging licensing fees. Just a little. More for bigger customers. Maybe keep a free tier for personal use. A little times a huge userbase is enormous cashflow for a little bit of nre.

It's great cuz the customer supplies his own platform, pays for training his own people, and even pays for the electricity to run your product on premises.

Now about this building full of expensive and power-hungry silicon needed to deliver the ai hotness...

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Yes. I remember, years ago, writing a program where I reversed the standard meanings of TRUE and FALSE, not to obfuscate the code (although it did) but so that I could write the one test central to the program in the way that looked right to me. It's a tiny change from what you'd normally use, but most people reading over the code wouldn't even notice it at first and end up completely misunderstanding how it managed to work. To me, at least, that's what the judges should be looking for, rather than odd formatting and other typographical legerdemain.

Incorrect. Computer misuse within the US, regardless of where the individuals who are doing the misusing are located, is under US jurisdiction. This is long-established. Laws dealing with multi-jurisdictional issues (such as patents/copyrights, illicit interstate commerce, sex tourism, computer misuse) are old-hat.

Attacking US servers located in US territory is an attack carried out within the US, regardless of where the keyboard warrior is.

Now, if the servers attacked are in Ireland, then they're also covered by EU jurisdiction (no matter what the US likes to think).

The law is the law, and nobody, in any nation, is immune. A fact a lot of nations like to pretend they're somehow immune to. They aren't and there will always be a price to pay for such cavalier attitudes.

If a place is cheap to live, then your life is just as cheap to those running it.

In the end, there's a certain minimum cost for running things effectively and if the taxes don't reflect that, then as far as the corporations and politicians are concerned, nobody there matters.

Even amonst the rich clients, the malpractice incidence rate in the US is between 2-3 times that of the rest of the civilised world.

Worse, doctors struck off in one State for malpractice can simply move to another and get a fresh license. It happens.

The system is really bad.

I take it, then, that you're completely indifferent to the fact that the Islamic radical's publicly stated goal is to drive all Israelis into the sea?

This creates a covert listening device, which a crime to operate it in many places and a crime to own in some. That includes the US under 18 U.S.C. 2511. But rest easy, the maximum penalty is only 5 years in federal prison and a $250'000 fine. Nothing to worry about.

You are missing a nuance here in the Federal law.

This is with reference to INTERCEPTING conversation / communication. Federally, it is considered a one-party consent rule situation....as long as one person in the conversation knows, it's ok....so if YOU are recording it is presumed YOU know you are and consent is satisfied.

This law is primarily considered for wiretaps, bugging places, etc.

Legal to do covert, hidden recording? I doubt that.

Happens all the time in the US my friend...please do research this, it isn't like in EU.

Many if not most states in the US have the one party consent laws....so if one person in the conversation knows it's being recorded, no problem.

How do you think all these undercover news stories and blogs get these undercover footage and audio to back up their stories of corruption, etc?

Anyone can do this...and no, there is not a "special carve out" for being a news reporter. There's no special "news reporter license" over here in the US, anyone can report what they want.

For a simple example...how do you think all these undercover footage citizens over here get away with ring cameras and the other myriad of cameras set up to record their property and anything within view of their property?

Please believe that is is true, that in the US, you are largely able to record anything almost anywhere in public without consequences.

I was about to say "Fuck the Moon".....we need this tech for riding a motorcycle in summer here in southern Louisiana area (New Orleans)....

It's barely June and already sweltering....80+F by 7am these days....

Hardly new, sloppy police work has been around for at least 800 years (Magna Carta) and will persist so long as the drive to punish outweighs the costs of error.

This being egregious, and CA, I do hope the falsely jailed wins supersized compensation to caution others with a higher than zero cost of error. A feature (not bug) of the American system (McD coffee scald).

I don't get it. Governments require many things, and most of them are to be bought privately.

I never had any issues handing my children a lighter. None of them became an arsonist, not even an accidental one. Make lighting a lighter the most boring thing to do, and they will use one only to perform some boring task.