Interesting, GRC (Steve Gibson, IIRC) used to have something like that for Windows way back when.
It was nice to be able to keep tabs on what apps were doing, but of course, it was a different era, one where you ran "programs" and they were mostly self-contained and offline.
Nowadays you run a stripped-down web browser and everything you do is backed by some remote API or another.
Is it just me or are these three platforms the arena of bad decision making in startup businesses? When somebody tries to lure me off of social media into one of these three platforms, alarm bells start ringing in my mind. If you're leading your business with communications on Signal or Whatsapp, just know that I for one will not be taking your business seriously.
I was actually in college in the 1990s, but yes, a middle schooler today with python on a raspberry pi and a pretty simple GPS module could do this.
I didn't say it wasn't abhorrent or alarming. I'm presenting the scenario that this task of "defend this three dimensional coordinate box" doesn't require AI.
Yes, it did. The beacon signals weren't that good back then, neither were the sensors. I had the same problem in the fake robot battles I was involved in.
The answer turned out to be a solution not from Defense industries, but from Genie Garage Door Openers.
The robot doesn't care. The robot's job isn't foreign policy. The robot's job is "here's a box defined by this coordinate cloud, defend it"
Like I said, I programmed it for a fighting robot back in the 1990s. It ain't that complex, and with today's drone factory ships, the Navy can now output this level of AI in killbots at a rate of 10,000 a day.
Kill decisions are simple in comparison: Stay within your predefined geofence, kill anything that moves that isn't transmitting Friend beacon. We don't need AI for that, I coded a form of it in both Basic and Forth back in the 1990s.
And if they don't, some other startup will.
Or time literacy. Permanent!=3 years
Don't be so sure that Republicans aren't Communists and Democrats aren't Fascists.
And apparently "Faster than ever before" is limited to a data set less than 4 centuries old out of 4.5 billion. It's science reporting like this that makes people distrust science.
And the total number of layoffs of American tech workers in 2022-2025 was in the hundreds of thousands.
Far fewer after October 1 when you basically needed to pay an extra full year's salary to hire an H-1b over a citizen.
Is he willing to hire the over 55 and under 30 software engineers who can't find a job to save their lives?
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
