They won't want to touch the other side of it either. If what Flock is doing is fine, so is the creeper snapping photos on a public playground and creating a giant database somewhere.

That seems...undesirable.

Agency is just it's ability to act upon it's conclusions. While there is a great argument that AI should not be given agency, it had it.

If you're trying to say it had no sentience, I'll agree with that.

In the same sense that a gerbil has agency but not sentience. It too might escape from a cage.

As with many metrics, it's easy to collect data, is reasonably accurate and most importantly, repeatable to identify trends; and of course totally useless except to see where you are burning money.

As hardware improves, local AI models will be much more common. Specific tasks, at TFA points out, don't need powerful LLMs. Local models that are much more task specific and can have defined rules can met the needs of many users; with an added benefit of keeping data local and private. Local AI isn't as fast or powerful, but will suffice for many tasks at a fraction of the cost. Of course, that means the days of free model d/ls may be numbered, since that would mean giving away the IP and reducing the use of paid cloud models; I suspect d/led models will at some point be history and replaced with subscriptions.

The whole bury it for 100,000 years seems to be FUD anyway. That figure leaves the waste less radioactive than the uranium rocks the fuel came from ever were. If we applied the same standard to natural sources we'd be up in arms about banana peel disposal.

a typical case of American blind justice,

Replacing garbage trucks burned by angry villagers can get expensive.

On the other hand, it is actually common to make the duress password VERY similar to the correct password so it looks about the same when you enter it. Especially on something like a phone where you can generally re-load the data later if you want. The consequences of an accidental wipe may be quite small.

Other posible explanations include the defendant remembering the wrong password under pressure. The defendant having any history of mis-typing is irrelevant.

Or actually tried to answer the question.

Yea, our local high school has told teachers not to fail anyone. Maybe I should teach as a retirement job - at the start of the semester, tell teh kids homework is optional, two tests, pass everyone with at least a B and collect a check. Seems taht what the administration wants the teachers to do.

He was definitely right when he said the iBook looked like a Hello Kitty purse.

Or Fat Fingers McSpellsbad typoed the correct password and landed on the duress password instead. We'll never know since in the process he destroyed any evidence of what the passwords might have been.

Fortunately for the defendant, it's up to the prosecutor to PROVE that that isn't how the data came to be wiped.

Running on WinARM could open up silicon Macs with a VM as a market as well.

I do the same unless I need it faster and the price delta is small enough.

Since there is monetary value attached to the account, yes they are.