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Comment In other news (Score 2) 85

The descendants of Ogg have renewed the ongoing lawsuit against the descendants of Zogg alleging that Ogg dropped a rock on Zoggs foot in a cave one fine day and it was really ouchie! Anthropologists are working around the clock trying to restore the cave paintings documenting the original complaint made to the tribal chief in 30,001 BCE.

Comment Re:when AI fails (Score 1) 59

The key is to use the AI more sensibly. Let it find things in code. Even let it look at possible bugs in the form of where does it "describe bug". Even let it propose changes. DO NOT let it make the changes, just show them. Do not just take it's word for it, take the shown code as a starting point but re-do it for maintainability after sanity checking it.

THEN it can be a useful tool.

Comment Re:Wow, that's America for you (Score 1) 53

Imagine thinking 4 days leave from your job is some kind if incentive. Most of the rest of the world would consider that a reduction in their legally mandated leave.

Military personnel get 30 days annual leave and can bank up to 60, plus federal holidays. Of course, depending on your unit taking it can be challenging.

Comment Re:Hope Rockstar doesn't miss the release date (Score 2) 53

So, sign up for two years of military service and get authorized leave for 4 days to play a video game? I guess if that really is the deciding factor to enlist, you probably are just the kind of person the army is looking for.

Nah, it's just an added Bennie that costs nothing; they'll still get any other incentives, which, depending on the specialty, can be thousands or tens of thousands of dollars.

Comment Re:Can't wait for a story about failed anonymizati (Score 1) 50

Even if it would be truly anonymized, once combined with th other vast amounts od data Google has means it is possible to tie the anonymized data to specific, or a plausible group of people.A bad anonymizing process would be a far more likely culprit, but by analyzing patterns, something AI and computers are good at, could yield interesting results.

It has already been studied and accomplished. Too many studies to name here, but for example, in 1997 a Massachusetts researcher succeeded at converting zip code, birth date, and gender info from voter-registration lists, into links to someone's medical records.

It certainly isn't anything new, it's been used for a long time to develop information; computers have just gotten more powerful so it can be done faster and by people and companies, not just government agencies who could through lots of people at the task. Pattern recognition with computers goes way back, Johns Hopkins University, for example, was doing research on it in the 70's.

Comment Re: Correct alert? (Score 1) 121

BOTH screwed up. The system shouldn't have made the match and the human should have done a better job seeing that the match was wrong. I'll go one larger and say the people who created the procedures screwed up because they didn't make allowances for the possibility of the first two screw-ups.

Comment Re:Can't wait for a story about failed anonymizati (Score 4, Insightful) 50

You know it's going to happen - someone in charge of replacing/stripping all the names and replacing them with numbers, or whatever, is going to fail at some level. A bunch of PII will go into Gemini, and they won't be able to sue Spirit, because they won't exist, and Google will definitely make sure their contract excuses them from any liability.

Even if it would be truly anonymized, once combined with th other vast amounts od data Google has means it is possible to tie the anonymized data to specific, or a plausible group of people.A bad anonymizing process would be a far more likely culprit, but by analyzing patterns, something AI and computers are good at, could yield interesting results.

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