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Comment Sometimes, technology also changes the culture (Score 3, Interesting) 109

Limitations of computer technology have taught many Chinese people how to read their language left-to-right, or at least right-to-left, rather than the traditional top-to-bottom, right-to-left. There is still a lot of software and web pages out there, where the developers didn't put the extra effort into making the text flow the way the Chinese traditionally arrange it. Rather than do without software or web pages, the Chinese have adapted.

Texting email has changed the way people write letters or messages to each other. Nobody says "Dear Sir / Madam" any more, they just start saying what they want to say, and if you're lucky, there's a stock signature at the bottom.

It could be that AI may begin to reshape the cultural norms, even such as Persian etiquette. It's neither good nor bad, just interesting.

Comment So make sure you use your challenges (Score 1) 13

Teams that run out of challenges over the first nine innings will be granted an extra challenge in the 10th inning, while those that still have unused challenges will simply carry them into extras

So teams that don't use their challenges, are penalized compared to teams that do use them. Of course, the other side of that coin is, if they use their two challenges too soon, they might wish they hadn't.

Comment That threat will not be evenly distributed (Score 0) 43

Yeah, lots of "AI" companies will fail. Their future is threatened, to be sure. But AI future *in general* is not threatened. Just as with the internet bubble of the 1990s didn't threaten the internet itself, this bubble isn't going to threaten AI, just those who don't figure out a way to harness it profitably.

Comment Re:12 weeks instead of 10 (Score 3, Interesting) 106

So my quote from the article was a hallucination?

Why did you even bother to respond to my statement, if you had nothing useful to say about it?

Are you saying that the 12-week number is incorrect?

If you can't explain in what way I'm wrong, I have no idea what it is that you're trying to convince me (or anyone else) of. What *is* the truth that I'm not seeing?

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