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Comment Re:Deeper than food safety (Score 3, Insightful) 209

Well the entrenched concerns don't want to even give you the opportunity by straight up banning it before you get a chance to try it. If it truly sucked they'd let the market take care of it and billions of venture would evaporate. But all the free market, small government "don't tread on me" types are quick to go after this as fast as possible because certain donors got their feathers ruffled.

Comment Re:What to do with infinite music? (Score 1) 56

Subscribe to Spotify for a month and use its algorithms to find music you like and build playlists off those likes. Download playlists, import them to your local player, boom.

Rinse/repeat as your tastes change, or until they pirate the spotify source code in which case just run the whole thing off your smart watch in 2042.

Comment Re: just wait for it to try to drop someone off in (Score 1) 28

I think its projecting an opinion they know is misinformed - so not outright lying but staying put on the facts "the cars will never work, they're all remote controlled and are going to mow down toddlers left and right" despite knowing that there's real world data out there the contradict what they're saying. It can also come from a place where they have an agenda in that while the cars could work, they would take away jobs and therefore are railed against no matter the technical feasibility.

Comment Re:Do you complain about salads at steakhouses too (Score 1) 59

Not sure why people expect the same thing every time when the formula for taking the setting & concepts and applying a new genre was shown to work immensely well with Aliens. For me this series was the best thing to happen to the franchise since the first two. Prometheus has been the only one since that was interesting, but it really felt like things got chopped to hell in that movie, and there were some terrible decisions/motivations not explained, etc. The series delivered on the same old "alien in a ship hunting people down" trope while a "human/synth/cyborg" fucks everyone, but also built out the world more, added the concepts of the synth transference, and gave us a little more variety in the types of creatures that inhabit the universe. I'm for sure looking forward to season 2.

Comment Re:Obvious questions (Score 1) 60

Isn't the point that there's not a place where that expense slows - that we reach "good enough" and the training stops or subsides dramatically like a railroad? Look at a related industry in chip fab - these companies need continual investment in R&D and expense building out new equipment to make the next generation of chip - they extract the value they can from the equipment but then need to refresh to keep up the revenue stream. I have no idea what that cycle is, but I think we can agree AI is much much shorter right now, and its hard to see the ROI on the build out for more models. I'm not an AI naysayer by any means, but its not really clear what the endgame is in terms of revenue and paying back all this investment, or how long this level of investment needs to be maintained. which is why its being labeled a bubble.

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