This has existed for a while at https://skipit.ai/

Don't have the bucks? This "author" is "BlackRock, the investment giant that manages about $10 trillion." Agreed I'd be very interested to see how this forecast is (or isn't) reflected in their investment strategy.

The New York Times drops the word 'fetus' from its Wordle answers. Surprised it took this long.

No, that's charity that also serves other purposes. Should it only count as charity if it's a bad PR move?

If petroleum is made from dinosaurs, and plastic is made from petroleum, does that mean that plastic dinosaurs are real dinosaurs?

This is a really interesting point. If AI-created work is copyrightable, then I create a music-generating AI, buy a bunch of capacity in the cloud, and create a gigantic and every-growing library of copyrighted music. Then for every new song created, I find the most similar thing I created previously, If I create enough, there will be some close matches. Some will be associated with artists with deep pockets. Many will settle when I sue them. . . . . Profit. This is one of those unforeseen consequences things, except the parent post foresaw it.

Case Law, Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary: The law based on judicial opinions (including decisions that interpret statutes), as opposed to law based on statutes, regulations, or other sources. Also refers to the collection of reported judicial decisions within a particular jurisdiction dealing with a specific issue or topic.

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, double-blink, blink = contact lens god-mode.

Only because he was addressing his binary friend.

And they were cleverer and funnier, too. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/g...

Wait. TFA says they discovered this on July 29, and that their "private investigation into the breach is complete." Only now are they going public with this? How much damage could have already been done in the month of August? The breach alone creates a huge liability for them. This delay makes it worse, because they can't blame that on some other bad actor.

Intel didn't "unveil" anything -- they accidentally posted a "product change notification" that listed model numbers for upcoming Skylake Xeon processors, then quickly took it down. What we've learned is that the model numbering system will change, maybe in a way that keeps a similar organization but renames things, and maybe in a way that means substantive changes. We can't tell. In other words, this is semantics. If there's more to be gleaned from the leak, I haven't heard it here.

Whoa whoa whoa.. back up a bit with the gender mud, I'm pretty sure Obama wants to be called he.

Doesn't matter. They'll just be calling us all "cucks" since we don't beat our wives or espouse genocide against people of color.

The camera "sees" the user and even knows which user it is seeing. The camera then locks the screen immediately when the user is not present.

How long before the computer "sees" the user and notifies the police that they can pick up their known dissident. I mean, really, given the kind of governance we're about to enter into, this (not to mention Alexa-like audio surveillance "features") are the last thing I'd want on any equipment in my home.

And no, I don't have anything to hide. But conversely, I also don't use the restroom in the middle of 5th Avenue. Privacy is a thing, even in a world full of morons who think it isn't.

Yes, quite carried away. Your exposition is quite naive in thinking that people think in the scope you think they do. The failure to respond has been repeated historically quite a number of times.

And I think your timing of off by 50+ years, nothing will happen until people are really starving.

Nothing will likely happen until the 0.1% are starving, by which time it will be too late to do anything. The only reason to even hold out what little hope there is, is that people like the grandparent are at least thinking about, and worrying about, these things. If enough do, then real change can happen. Like the outcry that forced the Republicans to back off (at least for now) gutting the House Ethics committee, when the masses do voice their concern, they are heard. Unfortunately we all feel too weak, and too powerless, to make much noise unless things really hit the fan (by which point it is often too late). This is not an accident, and there are very specific reasons we as citizens are constantly made to feel powerless (hint: it benefits those running the show, on whichever side of the aisle).