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Comment Re:shocking (Score 1) 76

And let's not overlook that this is yet another attempt by the AI lobby to convince the public that AI "thinks," and even has the same concerns that human workers do. Which it doesn't. But the more the public believes that these algorithms are comparable to human intelligence, the better it is for all the people who keep pouring money into this bubble.

Comment Re:Synthetic (Score 1) 76

An AI has no capability to have feelings

And what is a feeling? Based on Wiki:

According to psychologist Carroll Izard, feelings are best understood as the conscious experience of emotion, arising when an affective state reaches awareness.[4] William James similarly proposed that feelings result from the perception of bodily changes in response to external stimuli, thus forming part of the emotional process.[5] More recently, affective neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp hypothesized the role of subcortical brain systems in generating core affects that underlie both feelings and emotions.[6]

In other words, a feeling is a reaction to an external stimuli. Since reactions are nothing but the neural connections in our brains responding to the external stimuli, there is little reason to say an AI, with its digital connections, can't respond to external stimuli in a similar fashion.

Comment You can totally trust criminals (Score 1) 82

- it received "digital confirmation of data destruction"
- it had been informed that no Instructure customers would be extorted as a result of the incident
- the agreement covers all affected customers, with no need for individuals to engage with the hackers

I'm 100% sure criminals would never lie. It's bad for business. I'm also 100% sure they didn't create any additional means for future compromise.

Comment Re:Symptomatic of US decline (Score 1) 214

Different areas I guess. Around here almost everyone I know owns a 4x4 SUV or Truck that is the 'winter beater'. You don't want the salt and potholes ruining your nice car and often the fact it's a car at all means you are going to be high sided on the streets that almost never get plowed before you need to go anywhere. Hell it's already May and I still can't take the motor cycle out because the roads are just hole after hole.

You can call it a winter beater or the 'work vehicle' that you use for towing, trips to the gardening supply, dealing with winter, and general hauling. I see it with my friends who live on way less than 100k a year and with my friends who live on way more. It's not a status or wealth thing. I'd say it's much less likely to be seen with wealth. Thats why I get to laugh at the guy trying to drive a maserati in our winters wondering why he's stuck on the road.

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