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Comment How it probably went down (Score 4, Insightful) 31

PHB1: "We have to do something AI-ish, everyone else is!"

PHB2: "Here's one, have bots compile podcasts from our news articles."

PHB1: "Brilliant! Make it so."

[months later]

PHB2: "Um, the podcast bot has been making silly errors. Should we keep it?"

PHB1: "How is our competition doing with their AI?"

PHB2: "They suck also."

PHB1: "Okay, let's keep it so we can have AI on our brochures and resumes."

Comment Real world similarity on the data side (Score 1) 60

I worked with a sociopath I'll call "Bill" who we strongly suspect deleted and sabotaged many things. Mayhem had a long history of following Bill, as we asked former colleagues to make sure we were not losing our minds. We learned to back-up and document stuff like crazy to work around it. Bill seemed to have a lot of experience covering his tracks, such as knowing which systems didn't keep logs.

Comment Stupid distraction. Focus. (Score 1) 28

There are too many companies vying for the auto-drive business already. It's a long learning curve with the potential for glorious PR disasters. Ya don't want to go there.

Maybe Rivian are afraid China is commoditizing EV's such that they have to find a value-added niche or die.

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