However, I think you'd be a lot less smug and confident if it was your car that was stolen
The police aren't going to find your stolen car with or without flock. That's not what they do.
They also don't stop thieves who steal catalytic converters.
There is definitely room to ask, "What exactly are the police accomplishing?"
To be clear I'm not pretending they are the same. I believe in gold as a store of wealth. Bitcoin mystifies me.i don't understand what the fuck any of it rests on.
Everything has a supply curve and a demand curve, including gold and bitcoin. Where the curves cross, that is the price. This is economics 101, which you never took.
Air is more "innately valuable" than gold, but you don't pay money to breathe.
"protect public safety" from what? Low voltage coax or fiber? WTF are these people on about?
If that's their argument, you know it's bullshit.
filing by Minnesota cities
Oh kay. Found yer problem!
Trump's FCC is likely right on this one. That is, if you actually want anything built-out. Whatever the sclerotic hippy boomers in MN don't want is almost certainly the best policy.
I am fully expecting him to propose renaming America into Trump Land at some point, so he did miss a trick. It should be T & A.
Well, there have to be correct incentives for someone to be in software, I got into it because I liked the idea of being able to control a machine, to be able to tell a computer what to do and it would do it.
Would I have the same interest in it 40 years ago if controlling the computer meant writing in human language that is imprecise and nuanced and receiving back code that I couldn't start to comprehend? Maybe, maybe not, I am not sure actually. If there was still a way for me to do this without the AI I probably would have gone that route but how many people today would do it? I mean people are telling Agents to write their letters for them, not code, just letters. People are telling agents to do all sorts of things, all of which probably saves some time, make some errors, creates some problems while solving others, it is just that none of it is actually understood by the user.
How many AI users understand how any of it works? But that was the point, to understand how the thing works to be able to control it.
It is similar to car mechanics, people who like to tinker with cars, how interesting is it to tinker with a car where you are not allowed to understand half of it and you cannot fix most of it, if something breaks you have to order an entire replacement part because it has a built in computer interface.
Mechanical engineers build weapons; civil engineers build targets.
Take it from someone in the business. Aerospace ain't exactly a magnet for peaceniks.
Personal shoppers etc are a thing; but what is different here is the scale.
If Amazon's experience is so bad, that is what that is maybe the market will move to walmart.com; not really the point.
The point is that letting the AI Boys become an intermediary between every enterprise and most people will NOT be a good thing. I am not saying Amazon isnt a bad actor or isnt hypocritical here on a broader context. I am saying that shop keeps of all stripes should be at least free to post a "No Robots Allowed Sign" and have it respected.
Because I don't think we will much care for the outcomes when we have a world where Coca Cola and slip Meta half a a couple hundred million to make sure the next model generally chooses their products when someone asks the AI to ensure the fridge has colas in it. The consequences for the market where there are six or so middle men everywhere won't remain 'free' long.
At least the retail arm of Amazon is um a wait for it a retailing operation. The individual candy bars, and $2 for 20z chilled sodas are up by the checkout line where you are standing around waiting at the grocery for a reason.
At any large retailer (an some small ones) quite a lot of thought goes into what is on the end caps and what gets less prime real-estate. I actually don't think it is unreasonable Amazon should seek to control the shopping experience to a degree even if to the point of using so called 'dark patterns' to drive some impulse purchases or steer customers toward higher margin items in the category.
That is consumer selling and has been since probably some ancient farmer bartering with his neighbor suggested he'd take fewer animal skins if the other guy agreed to accept some of the squash that had already gone a bit soft over the fresher merchandise.
Does big tech, take that probably way to far - I think the answer is likely yes, but how far that is and how they should be restrained is really a different conversation.
The separate question is should Amazon have to let Meta (or anyone else) step in and completely separate Amazon's own customers from interacting with the store front Amazon wants to present to them? I think the answer to that really should be no.
The reason it should be no is not to protect Amazon but because as much influence as they have in the retail space (maybe to much) think how much influence a handful of frontier model AI providers might get in terms of determining product selection etc if shopping via AI bot becomes the nominal consumer expectation.
Like I said they might try to incorporate in another state in order to do bad things to people
Do you
Just a little nagging, uneasy feeling, that perhaps things and people are not all good or all bad?
The article notes that California attorney general Rob Bonta still said "I don't think these two companies should merge"
Well, that's nice.
Fortunately, we're still a sorta free country, so they are doing it anyway. Regardless of what you think, commissar.
User: I'm thinking of getting a new car.
Muse: Ok... I have sold your current car and have purchased a new one. I have also resigned from your job and applied for a new one with a better salary so that you can afford the repayments on the new car. I have also taken the liberty of sending flowers to the woman you talked to yesterday at the supermarket. She is quite wealthy. I calculate that if you can marry her within the year your financial problems will be further eased. She is already married, but I have sent suspicious letters to their address to prompt a divorce... Is there anything else you would like me to do?
Yeah, exactly. I definitely don't need or want an "agent" to do things in my life.
Research and organize some info, maybe. Write some code, maybe. Draft something that won't piss people off as much as something I would say off the cuff, maybe.
Buy things for me, or do personal communications for me in non-draft mode? Definitely not.
Badges? We don't need no stinking badges.
