Just creepy crawlies looking for their 5 minutes in the spotlight while the audience is ooh-ing and aah-ing the destruction and opening their wallets to buy trinkets.

Them's there alternative facts meester! I gots plenty! It's see-ent-tuffic, y'see!

AI has been running at a big loss to get the users hooked. It was inevitable that prices would start climbing. That process is nowhere near done, running AI is expensive as hell.

Once the market starts reflecting the actual costs, you can bet the cost/benefit will not be nearly as rosy as it looks now. But some customers will already have gotten themselves between a rock and a hard place and will be sucked dry, then discarded. Those "expensive" people that are getting dumped will start looking like a bargain, but they will have already been snapped up by smarter companies by the time management that can't see past their own toes figures that out.

All of this makes me remember a short story reading assignment in the 5th grade. It was about kids growing up in a society where machines did all of the intellectual work. To them, writing was 'squiggles'. They managed to disable a filter on their "bard" (a story teller for children) and had it tell them a tale of machines ruling over Man.

Nobody expects prophesy from a 5th grade reading assignment.

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They might have launghed then, but they're not laughing now.

Driver response time doesn't increase at all. The rest of stopping distance is determined by physics and doesn't increase much, at least not in good conditions where any old tire and any sufficiently strong brake is going to perform about the same. It CAN decrease a lot in bad conditions, whcih is also where most of the technology is useful, but most speed limits are set for good conditions with a law that says you should decrease your speed appropriately. Driving around at the speed that's reasonable for the worst possible conditions would really drive people nuts.

Not murdering people isn't a law either. It's a general characteristic of a social species (with a legal basis, because people are dumb and cannot take advice).

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There's no overarching EU law. There are EU regulations and directives, and the member states (who each have their own state laws) must fold those directives into their own state laws in a way that fits. The regulations tend to be very targeted.

So in a manner of speaking, it's all state laws, no "federal" law, just local interpretations of "federal" directives and some common standards. And contracts in each state have to follow state law. If someone objects that a "federal" directive is broken, then they can sue the state in an EU court, etc.

A big difference with America is that a legal precedent in one state doesn't mean anything in another state. It often doesn't mean anything in the same state either. The judges interpret the legal texts, but do not create new case law. You can't refer back to some judge such-and-such who said something was ok in a similar lawsuit, so therefore it must be ok going forward in all future lawsuits.

That's a meaningless statement. The politicians frame the engagement, but that has always been the case in all wars everywhere. Read Clausewitz. There are parameters and objectives. If a general can't deliver within these parameters, it means he's not good enough.

Same if your boss is telling you to build some accounting software, and you complain that it's impossible and he should let you build a flight simulator instead.

The US is not the best military in the world. It's the best *on paper*, if the metric used is heavy on equipment and light on strategy/tactics. There's a reason the US has been losing most wars since WWII. It's not the politicians. It's guerilla warfare, which the US military is not nimble enough to handle, with its heavy emphasis on equipment and process.

Go back through history and you'll find that the generals we remember and celebrate are those who thought out of the box, it's never been a pure game of technology.

10B/1M = 10,000 per "engineer" (*). I don't know about you, but I don't get out of bed for that kind of value. Moreover, it's Microsoft money, meaning it's probably just vouchers for time on the cloud, as if that's real money.

(*) it's actually less, the budget is likely going to pay for advertising and events etc.

How do you think the AI-embracing businesses must feel, when the three employees who are left realize that their AI collaborators are all offline?

Contract law works differently in Italy. American companies who decide to do business in Europe (any country) often get caught up because they don't do their research. The only exception is the UK, whose legal system is pretty close to the American one. It used to be that the UK was the gateway to Europe, the Brits were able to translate American ideas into the local business equivalent. But they are no longer European, and they've been shut out of the common market for several years now. Ireland is now the closest equivalent for Americans.

Not even close. First, ignore the totally optional, extremely easy to cancel, no contract required part, it's irrelevant. There is a contract, it was agreed by two parties, and the terms must meet the standards of Italian law.

(for Americans who have never visited Italy, the laws over there are highly codified and complex. Italy doesn't follow the English/American Common Law, it follows the modern European standard based on Napoleonic Law. Anything you think you know about the law based on American customs, you should unlearn).

The issue for Netflix HQ is simple: 1) stop telling the Italian subsidiary what to do, they know better than you. 2) pay the fines, unless you want to leave money on the table by leaving the country. 3) if you leave Italy, you will have to leave all of the EU countries too, because the way that the common market works it's all mixed up.