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Comment Clean Room? (Score 1) 47

One can contemplate that it would be possible to do some sort of "clean room" implementation where you input some source code (or even an executable) to one AI system that then outputs a specification, and then feed the specification to a different AI system to produce a new source code output. However, the result shouldn't be copyrightable at all because it is not the result of human authorship.

Comment Re:And if that had been a human driving... (Score 1) 167

A human should understand that in a school zone, especially at pick up and drop off times, you can't just pass a parked vehicle without paying attention to the possibility of someone small walking out into the road. This is why school busses have those little stop signs that swing out. This is exactly the kind of subtle detail that you can't make an A.I. system anticipate. 17MPH is too fast to be going in that situation.

Comment Hallucinatory History (Score 4, Informative) 36

A hallucinatory AI Journey:

Search: "twelve monkeys hugo award"

AI: "The 1995 film 12 Monkeys was nominated for the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, recognizing its significant contribution to science fiction cinema, though it didn't win, losing to Apollo 13."

Search: "Apollo 13 hugo award"

AI: "Apollo 13 (1995) was nominated for the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, a prestigious award in science fiction, though it did not win, losing to Babylon 5 for "The Coming of Shadows"."

The second result is actually correct.

This is an improvement from a few days ago, when you could search for "toy story hugo award" and it would say 12 Monkeys won, if you searched 12 Monkeys it said Apollo 13 won, and if you searched Apollo 13 it just said it was nominated but didn't win.

Everyone who is bullish about AI should search Google for a few things that they actually know about.

Special thanks to the Babble On podcast for bringing this particular nugget to light.

Comment Re:Sigma BF = $2000 simple camera (Score 1, Troll) 15

Sigma BF has a full frame sensor, so much better image quality than a cell phone camera. It's also very small and compact. Price isn't completely outside of the range of the full-frame mirrorless category, especially considering materials. Not sure how comfortable it really would be to hold and shoot with, and wish it had a Foveon sensor, but that would make it even more niche.

Comment This is Silly (Score 2) 24

Look, I'd understand if this was something Apple was exempting their own apps from but they are following the same rules, only they don't do cross-app tracking so users never see the pop-ups form Apple apps.

The regulator here is arguing that by abstaining from cross-app tracking they are giving themselves an unfair advantage.

Other developers have the option of not doing that kind of tracking which would result in not having the pop-ups.

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