What would have happened if we did this with the car companies? Or the internet related companies?

Would be a heck of a model and not sure I would trust it with so much ability to tweak the variables and make it say anything, but have we tried? Even if just in theory?

I am not opposed to a sovereign wealth fund. That seems to be how countries are going to gain power, influence, and financial stability going forward and I think we need to hop on the bandwagon.

I also think AI is very unique in its capability to hurt many people. More than cars and the internet. So I think this is an appropriate industry to look at requiring social responsibility.

But is it a good idea? I don't know.

I agree. The idea that 3d printing is the be-all, end-all of manufacturing is quite short-sighted. There's a reason a modern, complex machine will use many types of manufacturing methods. Injection molding, bending and forming metal, forging and casting, CNC cutting metal and plastics, then all the finishing techniques, and of course some 3d printing. Each has its place for both price and quality.

Reminds me of another billionaire that thought carbon fiber was the best material for any use.

Kids need to be ready for the world they are going to enter, and it is going to contain AI. In the late 90's we taught kids about computers, the internet, and programming. At the time there were many jobs that didn't use a computer daily or at all, including in the office. That was very good instruction and prepared me for what I was going to work on when I hit the workforce in about 5 years.

If they are just adding instruction on what AI is, how to utilize AI, including that it isn't always correct and that we need to be careful with the implementation, then I see no reason schools shouldn't cover this topic.

I even think middle schoolers should be taught about social media. They could use /. to illustrate many important points.

The devil is always in the details. I haven't read the bill or TFA.

I was about to make the same comment. There is a very valid discussion about what happened and it is pretty concerning that a non-profit takes money from private parties, probably got grants, probably didn't pay taxes, and then once it's profitable, "oh, yeah, we didn't mean that whole "non-profit" stuff, lol."

And people wonder why this site has a sad average of 50 comments and at least 1 is dinkypoo saying something dumb.

I put in a request for work on a freelancer site recently. For an amount that would have got a good response pre AI, probably 100-200 submissions.

This time I got over 3000. Almost all AI - and almost all were botted responses that I bet the "designer" never even knew were submitted.

Fortunately a few people still know how to use photoshop.

And computers rarely have a life longer than 10-12 years. Unfortunately this is what people need to expect.

My wired Bose speakers will still be blasting in another 10 years however!

You can't go a single day without using something that required manufacturing. The food packaging was manufactured. The service person sat in a chair, at a desk, working on a phone and computer, talking over miles and miles of infrastructure and every single bit of that used manufactured products.

The ability to turn raw materials into finished goods is a core competency of any society and economy.

Manufacturing has higher pay that many other industries. Besides, we need assembly line jobs because that's all some people can do. But they also need tech and engineering to support them, managers to manage, sales to sell, accountants to count, etc.

It is very short sighted to think manufacturing is not beneficial to our society.

Uh, the Trump administration is staffed by a bunch of people with openly anti-democratic views and they have strong opinions on how other countries should run their affairs as evidenced by J.D. Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference. From a non-US, non-Chinese point of view, while China is anti-democratic, it is still better than the US in that China at least leaves you alone as long as you don't step on it's tail while the US will without any provocation try to force you to run your country the way they think you should, or outright annex your country like your orange king has threatened Canada and Greenland. For most of the world China is bad but the USA is actually becoming worse and that took some doing on the part of the US.

Salesforce Says: AI Customer Service Saves $100 Million Annually.
Salesforce Customers Say: Salesforce AI Customer Service is utterly, utterly useless.

That depends entirely upon whether US companies stand to benefit from EU anti-trust laws or not in any given situations. This is a far easier and more agile process in the US, you just keep buying Trump's meme-coin until he does what you want.

They do have a point about new players having trouble competing against abusive 'entrenched giants' but in the particular case of OpenAI I've got to say this is the pot calling the kettle black because OpenAI wants to become an abusive entrenched giant and if the way they have run roughshod over IP and copyrights to get where they are today isn't enough to convince the public of this then the public needs to be beaten over the head with a clue stick.

Charging stations are built and operated by profit making enterprises. One would think market forces would fix that problem. I'd be far more worried about political ideologues banning BEVs and charging stations because the are 'woke' technology, which is of course just an execute to artificially prop up oil companies and the dying ICE car industry instead of letting that fail which the market has already decided is doomed to failure.

The real question is what proportion of a day are nozzles actually occupied. I expect that number is extremely low. Chargers may take 30 minutes but they are just being used for a greater proportion of the day than gas nozzles. Furthermore, if there is twice the number of them than gas nozzles, tons of people also just charge at home overnight rather than using public charging stations and battery charge times are constantly decreasing I don't think a dearth of charging stations is going to be a problem unless Orange Palpatine declares electric transportation 'woke' passes a federal law banning charging stations and/or electric cars and then sends out police and the military to enforce it.

As long as they are license manufacturing chassis, plan to replace the software with domestic products and not buying knock down kits from China that should work out well for everybody ... except Americans, they'll be stuck with gigantic pickup trucks that start at 80.000 USD and underwhelming and overpriced ICE powered passenger cars due to protectionist import restrictions.

Unfortunately for every one of you there are at least ten others that behave the exact opposite way.