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Comment Agreed (Score 2) 39

... a portion of the profits and tax revenue derived from the artificial intelligence boom "should be structurally returned to all citizens. ... the economic gains from AI are based at least partly on industrial infrastructure built by the country over five decades.

AIs were trained on information generated by people. Where's our (collective) dividend? What's our benefit? And being made redundant, after training our AI replacement, doesn't count. Granted, some people created more information than others, but everyone played some part. For example. the guy cutting a researcher's lawn allowed the the latter to spend more tome and concentration on his work.

Mr Kim wrote. Memory companies, core engineers and asset holders are highly likely to receive substantial benefits, while much of the middle class may experience only indirect effects.

That's going to work out for the former only so long, before the rest of the people tire of cake.

Comment Not really a new idea - hardware-wise anyway. (Score 1) 46

But a GPU with nine cores ...

Or any number of, now obsolete, general-purpose, vector-processor systems, like the Cray 2 or even parallel systems like the Myrias Parallel System - both of which I was an SA on *way* back. Parallel operations can speed certain type of workflow.

Vector supercomputers
Vector processor

Comment Re:hmm (Score 3, Interesting) 177

You'd think an experienced speaker would be able to adapt to the crowd.

I'm guessing people like her are used to the crowd having to adapt to them. It's the same logic driving the Trump/GOP mid-cycle re-redistricting efforts.

"Oh, what happened?" Caulfield said, turning around with her hands out. "Okay, I struck a chord. May I finish?" Someone in the crowd yelled, "AI SUCKS!"

Her response seems to indicate that not only did she fail to predict the room, she failed to respond to it well after it got read to her.

Comment Sure, but ... (Score 1) 177

graduates of University of Central Florida's College of Arts and Humanities and Nicholson School of Communication and Media

Where those graduates actually expecting to find (well-paying) jobs, in those fields, now - regardless of AI?
Definitely Ark Fleet Ship B candidates -- oh, wait ... :-)

/sympathetic-sarcasm

Comment Re:Sad. (Score 1) 94

since manual transmission has become uncommon.

Yup, that's why I'm keeping my 2001 Civic Ex (135k miles) and 2002 CR-V Ex (62k miles), both manuals, as long as I can. I think there are only about 6 vehicles available with a manual transmission now, and two are Hondas - the Civic Type R (basically a $45k race car) and the ~$35k Civic Si - but both my cars are in great shape and run well and I like them. Automatics feel "mushy to me and I'm not sure CVTs are reliable enough yet.

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