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Comment Re:Zoe Kleinman ?! WTAF ?!?! (Score 1) 62

First, many knowledgeable techies can't write for the general public. I'd say most can't. The general public doesn't need "intelligent technical articles" by the techies. It needs it explained in their terms.

Second, it is absolutely insulting to judge someone solely by their degree after 25 years of professional experience in the field of tech reporting for the general populace.

Comment This has been around a while (Score 4, Interesting) 112

The DOD/DOW have been working on this for a while. They discovered, early on, that the device had a propensity to cause permanent nerve damage.

It's very unlikely the US have fixed that, as they'd largely sidelined the work as a failure. However, at 36%, Trump needs something he can call a win, no matter what the long-term consequences.

Comment Re:Traffic is traffic (Score 2, Interesting) 78

you're missing a point about the AI bots. There are thousands working in parallel scanning your stuff compared to, well, just one person (or even just one visit from google's spiders). The big sites are one thing, but the small sites can't take their internet traffic costs going from $800 to $3500, with all of that traffic being AI bots scraping your pages over and over, and of course none of those pages seeing the advertising that's supposed to pay for that traffic.

The AI bots are not playing 'nice'. They're costing websites a fortune to basically replace the front ends already there.

Comment I helped change his column once... (Score 2) 22

Some time in the middle of the year in the 90s, I looked back at his January predictions for that year, and tallied up which ones I thought had come to pass by that point (I came up with 6 so far, with 1 a total not happening, and the other 3 still had time). Bob responded privately thinking it was more like 7, but regardless, at the end of the year, he did his first recap of last year's predictions before moving on to the next's.

He made that a column and blog tradition for at least 15 years until his writing output reduced.

Comment Re:prosecute OpenAI for this (Score 1) 55

Except there is a public history of the "idea" of AI. Yeah, we know when we used terms like that for how our programs behave, we're just using metaphor.

But the general public, and the media, and politicians, don't know that. Instead, they have been fed more than 60 years of the idea that AI means 'sentience' or whatever other term you use for 'life'. We talk of programs like that, and they see Tron's programs and the "Master Control Program". They think of HAL. They think of NOMAD and the many other corrupt 'reasoning' and self-acting AIs from the first Star Trek series. They think of Joshua from WARGAMES.

They do not think it is a metaphor. They think when those who speak for technology companies (including their CEOs) use those terms, they mean what they say, literally. Because that is how AI has been presented in the media for the past 3 generations.

Comment Re:Shocked (Score 1) 86

but in theory, the human can explain the code they wrote, even if it is 'wrong'. i find there are times the human who submitted the AI code didn't understand it, meaning we have code proposed that truly NOBODY understands. That should be considered unacceptable, because when the inevitable bug happens...

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