Back in the 20th century some power companies would put your hot water heater on a "controllable" meter that could be turned off during periods of high demand. The rate on that meter was lower than the rate for the rest of the house.
Industrial customers who are willing to be "turned off" can also get cheaper rates from many utility companies.
The work this agency is or will be doing has probably been done for decades. This may just be a re-organization to bring people together under one agency.
I now am dependent in part for my livelihood on paypal. Going to check my contact info there now.
... that wetware has vulnerabilities too?
Or to put it another way: "Oops, I didn't mean to do that, sorry."
The use case I envisioned is experts who COULD do the work by hand use AI as a tool to be more efficient. This assumes they are expert-enough that will recognize if their AI of choice is giving a false-positive rate that makes their work harder, not easier. It also assumes that since they are being paid for their time (but perhaps only a pittance or not at all if they are students), they will be paid by their employers or funders as much for reviewing the AI's output as they are for the other parts of their research.
They make you change the sheets, do laundry, and take out trash?
For what you pay, the hotel should be doing this.
... the usual caveats apply: An expert human, or team of humans, needs to look at what the AI is suggesting, understand what it is suggesting, test it with the same or more rigor they would give to the same suggestion if a human had come up with it, and not "sign off" on it until they are satisfied that it is what they say it is.
It's the humans who are putting their professional reputation and, in some cases, their professional licenses on the line if they get it wrong. The AI is incapable of caring if it's correct or not.
I love the idea of Facebook money being used to teach kids how to block advertisements. $25B should be enough to teach every single kid in New Mexico how to do it, going forward forever, as a permanent addition to public school curriculum.
I was going to suggest that maybe we could even use a tiny portion of the money to establish a state DNS server that blackholes the adservers the way pi-hole does. Then kids stuck running proprietary "apps," instead of accessing things through their Manifest-V2-compatible web browser, wouldn't have to install their own DNS server.
But then I realized the aforementioned ad-blocking curriculum ought to have resulted in every kid building their own pi-hole at school anyway, so a state pi-hole is unnecessary.
Only if you upgrade to goldtooth.
I remember the old days when you had to setup TCP on machines just to access an internet with no pictures.
You are young. I remember the older days when you had to set up an external modem to connect to a university mainframe that MIGHT have internet. With no pictures.
No ftp or telnet from your actual home computer. If you wanted to download files, kermit, xmodem, and the mainframe's equivalent of 'cat' were your friend.
An AI that can parse my query and give me a useful result faster than me reading through several pages of documentation is a good thing. But this means the AI and its training data have to be suited for the task. There also needs to be two "escape hatches" - one to give me the pre-AI way of doing things and another that will get me to a human being, at least during business hours.
As for how Google runs its support pages, I don't have enough experience to comment. If the existing documentation is poor, I wouldn't expect better from an AI.
"Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it." -- Alex Schure
