The "thing" is that this is useful for repetitive or similar work. With a well written context, skill and agents, you can simply ask the AI to start a new project and it will already know what to do and how do you want it to do it.
I understand Ford is trying to gloss over this story, like they're some sort of humble and benevolent company, but the reality is transparent:
"We fired senior, experienced engineers, tried to substitute them with AI and it didn't work. Now we're rehired some of them to train AI more, so we can fire them again in the near future."
Let's be honest... The steam ran out a long time ago. What was the last relevant thing Zuck really did since Facebook?
All of his projects since then were:
1) A copy of something that already existed
2) Buying something that already existed
And, still, most were failures.
This!
I find appalling how many Americans think US foreign agencies and international aid was done purely on compassion.
In their heads it's always "ooh, we're so kind helping those poor shitholes!"
All of US money spent abroad has the objective of a) preventing shit to hit the country, b) projecting soft power or c) both.
They continue to bet.
Coincidentally, this popped up on my feed last night: https://www.dw.com/en/conflict...
There were 65 conflicts involving at least one state recorded worldwide last year, a new high since 1946, according to a study published Tuesday.
I completely understand your pov and think it's perfectly valid.
Curiously, this article appeared in my feed just tonight: https://www.dw.com/en/conflict...
Sure, but then we never really had a WW2, or even a WW1. It's all just a continuation of the wars for the succession of Austria.
I get what you're saying.
But IMHO, with such - veiled or open - conflicts happening right now between US, Russia, China, Ukraine, EU, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, i'd still argue that we're witnessing a de facto world war. Great part of the world is already involved, or dealing with serious consequences of current affairs.
Also - and this is just an educated guess - I see the UN "imploding" in the near future, which could be a repetition of WWII.
Your first indication of WWIII will be when the internet suddenly goes down and your GPS stops working.
WWIII already started for some time, now. The first indications were the resurgence of ultranationalism, fascism and colonialism around the globe.
The question is: will it remain in its current state of cold war, with conflicts erupting here and there, or will it eventually escalate into a wider, full-fledged conflict?
This is a very ignorant take.
First of all, we still have our papers. Digital IDs are used to access public services on a much easier and secure way.
Secondly, your extreme scenario absolutely doesn't depend on digital IDs to happen. Actually, it's already happening for many immigrants who are having their visas/authorizations revoked.
No, it's not.
We have digital IDs in Brazil and it's mantained by a state-owned company. This situation would never have ocurred here.
Not only US. Almost all new cars today, from any country (US, Japan, Germany, France...), are connected. And very probably, all have some Chinese software.
Even understanding this, it seems evident to me that:
1) This is not the reason why this bill is being proposed.
2) Pure and simple protectionism is not the best way to deal with the situation.
The side effect of this attitude will possibly only be to dissociate US industry from the rest of the world, setting it back technologically.
In my view, it is necessary to define very clear objectives, create the necessary conditions, and demand strategic alignment from companies in order to promote a return on public investment. Unfortunately, this is the opposite of what the US is apparently doing currently.
HOST SYSTEM RESPONDING, PROBABLY UP...
