Comment Re:So AI Finances dependant on Chinese accounts? (Score 1) 86
And.... look what pile of crap they scraped, distilled, and the output will be... crap.
Sure, this is about income, but little of this stuff works, even now.
Despite exhortations that New Advances Are Made Every Day and Look AI Employment Is Actually Up!, it's still highly-paid marketing people babbling BS about the power and integrity of their advancements.
Let the Chinese scrape! More is better! Why? It's like the old game of Telephone. The further away from cogent source material, the worse it will inevitably be. Rinse, repeat, and you'll need to rinse a LOT.
Comment Re:And yet ... (Score 1) 107
Comment Re:Why would they use a 'Big Brother' example? (Score 1) 107
Due to incidents like the Floyd murder, some earlier ones that lead to Seattle Police Department's consent decree and others, the public demanded increased surveillance
Primarily (if not entirely) of cops, which is not the same as wanting these Flock cameras, or the Flock system.
Comment Re:Still on the doors? (Score 4, Interesting) 185
Cars last longer because of engineering competition to drive quality in vehicle design and assembly.
The ODB2 standard congealed a lot of emissions hassle, and ultimately forced prolonging service life in many product lines.
Although many shade tree mechanics of an older era are gone, there are many new ones that mod their cars, or simply repair them without the need of expensive dealer service costs; this is also part of the Right To Repair movement, where secret sauces hidden in the CANBUS. connected, multi-system firmware present in most cars.
Hackers have figured out what's what for many models.
And while convenience features are nice, any engineer will tell you that more features means more things that can go wrong. Owning some vehicles is like death-by-a-thousand-cuts as desired features slowly decay. Common parts become rarer and rarer.
The no-button approach also means a single point of failure-- the all-important console.Features become combines, all in a race to the bottom.
Increasing compliance costs and the need for profitability push car makers to make unwise choices. Button-based vehicles required ten seconds of familiarity to drive safely. Console-based devices require far more, and also cause visual distractions instead of intuitive look-and-feel controls.
It's just not as simple as you describe. Worse, international-market focused vehicle makers, especially the Europeans, make a center console because they must adapt to a left of right side steering basis-- it's cheaper just to build holes in the chassis and move the steering column left or right, thus not having two different dashboards and assemblies.
Consumers will choose among the offerings that suit them. The auto industry used to use specs to drive vehicle sales. Now, the motives and marketing are lifestyle-appeals.
Comment Re:I want to say no... (Score 1) 118
Comment Re:All these years... (Score 1) 46
And... so.... why the need for extra memory, rumored GPU support, and etc.?
Comment Re:All these years... (Score 1) 46
Um, no, the whole model isn't on the phone. I didn't suggest that. Instead, each app will grow into blimp-sized monstrosities, load phones down with MCP traffic, and drag phone performance to a crawl, all while increasing net traffic meteorically.
Prove me wrong.
Comment Re:Windows (Score 1) 111
Even if Windows was open sourced tomorrow, stem to stern, who would even want it? It's full of immensely cobbled code, patched 200x, and still barely works.
You can't see the code today. Open source at least give you that. You can only poke an amorphous code base, or alternately, pray.
Prayer never helped me much.
Visible code did.
Comment Re:Gaslighting (Score 1) 17
It's for this reason that most models should be treated as a malware worm vendor looking for a spot marked X, where X is your turf.
Comment Re:All these years... (Score 1) 46
No one wants this. AI on your phone is one of the worst ideas I can imagine. You have a 4K screen-- and now you're trying to do pixel edits on animation?
You want to find your way through Manhattan traffic at 4pm on a Friday in your Jeep? Imagine wickedly insane requests, seemingly unlimited by token costs, barraging your phone. Remember metered minutes and texts?
These models aren't compact. 5G traffic, which is sort of tenable in most areas now, is going to MCP'ing fifty requests a minute to answer simple questions. Have fun, folks, when your call gets interrupted because of model flow request on TOP of concurrent streams from fifty of your friends nearby. Even 6G doesn't cure THAT.
Comment Re:Not confusing at all (Score 1) 111
Comment Re:Standing on the shoulders of giants (Score 1) 115
One is commercial, the other is non-commercial.
How is that relevant in terms of making the comparison to learning (regardless of if the analogy itself is still faulty or whatnot?)
One competes in the market with them
"Compete" in what sense exactly?
Comment Re:Copyright reform needed. (Score 2) 115
Comment Re:user consent (Score 1) 86
Or they'll sell the "anonymized data", including calculated bra sizes.
This is a pretty invasive move on Comcast's part. Only the lawyers will win this one.