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Comment HUGE FOR HUMAN DEV EMPLOYMENT (Score 1) 84

This is important because what it does is it shows that hiring a human software development engineer is going to be required for that to be considered a business asset or to have some kind of lack of liability from it, Because a non-human won't have the same rights and therefore cannot sign off on transferring those rights to a company.

It also means that code written by AI has Liability that code written by humans does not, Because code written by humans is free speech but code written by AI is not.

Clearly separating human freedom of speech from AI software output also allows us as humans to differentiate between the human that can be hired to do the work legally and the robot that the company bought to maintain profits by not having to hire a human being considered a corporate liability; And it shows that hiring humans to code gives your company rights you don't otherwise get from an AI because an AI is not creating free speech.

It also carves out a dedicated place for professional tech people in a world where you can buy a version of C-3PO or JARVIS to code for you.

Comment Why a pop star who uses autotune over a scientist? (Score 3, Insightful) 132

I think one of the most frustrating aspects of this isn't even the fact that it's an all female team because I could be totally cool with that if they were all scientists that had earned the position but for me I think the biggest imposition of this is the fact that people who have dedicated their entire life to engineering and science and have competed and earned that place were simply tossed aside so that a pop star that uses auto tune - aka they were not even dedicated enough to be able to sing well - can actually take the spot instead.

Some people are going to be against the fact that they're all women, and they're probably going to make jokes about that plane crash or whatever, but from my perspective as a scientist I'm looking at the value this gives human civilization...and I honestly think that Jeff Bezos just projecting that his current relationship won't end well because he's already attracted to other women so much he's going to allow them to ride his rocket.

Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 72

I just had this experience. It can't even summarize or use data from prior conversations if you ask it to, but it will try to lie to you and claim otherwise Until you explicitly call out the fact that it's not working and then it will thank you and admit that it actually can't read prior conversations, Or at least that's what it just told me 5 seconds ago.

Comment Most Theaters Banned Phones, though (Score 4, Interesting) 102

The last theater I went into had explicitly banned phones because they created light during the movie and were a distraction for other moviegoers to the point where they literally set up a system where they would kick out people who had their phones out in the middle of the movie.

So I don't think the theaters themselves will like this much and if they try to get them with the idea of more revenue this way it's just going to backfire I suspect, Because I would never want to go to a movie theater where we had to use our phone for something; people go to these places to get away from all that.

Comment Re:Illegal in WA, CA, others. (Score 1) 56

Not all true. This was my entire life for a long time because I did a lot of consulting and contracting in Washington.

In Washington it's actually a lot more complicated than just one law; in Washington state - because of things like the equal opportunity act, The laws on who owns what IP based on ownership of hardware hardware used (The company doesn't always clearly own the IP for your code made as a work product if you own the hardware it was created on, this is why every big tech company in Washington and California will generally issue you a laptop if you're a tech worker it's not just to make sure that you have something to work on it's also to make sure that there's a chain of ownership that they can call on in order to own the final work product of your output) and other things, they're just generally considered illegal/unenforceable, and while they do technically exist, having them actually be enforceable is the tricky and hard part that most companies can never make stick, Especially since the courts are generally finding any agreement that doesn't cover the employees needs with garden leave as simply unenforceable.

I've talked to several lawyers about this because I was in a tricky situation at one time I needed to learn all about this, and I was literally told that these kind of things happen all the time and it's mostly just companies blustering and threatening people with non competes that will never ever ever ever ever be seen by the court as legitimate because they were not being paid during that time (Garden leave is a strict requirement in WA for non-competes to be considered legit, even if they fire you, So if they say you cant compete with them for 18 months and cant work anywhere else, that's a lie, your allowed to work, your allowed to feed yourself, if they don't pay you garden leave for the duration of your non compete, then it's not enforceable)

In Washington state asking somebody to do a non compete is a great way to have them tell you that don't ever want to work for you; But there is also section C of the actual law at https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/def... to worry about, as it sets up companies for large sudden payout risks if they try that, especially at scale, since a non-compete is not actually enforceable in WA if they have to lay off somebody and can't pay them for the entire length of the non compete for garden leave.

Needless to say it's not as cut and dry as one single law and if you're saying that non competes are legal in Washington then I would say that I have never ever seen one be actually enforceable, and the few cases that my lawyer has said that they were enforceable were specific special cases where the person was getting garden leave in full because otherwise the courts generally find that non competes are not enforceable in Washington if the company is not paying garden leave for the full duration.

Comment The risks are easy to define. (Score 1) 36

Every possible risk you could have with a person is the same risk you could have with AI.

Why? Simply because of the fact that most people consider it to have the same agency or whatever as a human, and often mistake its output for one.

Once it passed the Turing test, that didn't matter anymore. Companies decided they were going to treat it like a human naked stamp out and justice create workers to do things as needed and once they started doing that it didn't matter if that was the correct way of doing it or not it became the way they did it so people have to adapt and humans adapt very well.

Everything that they're going out of their way to act like they invented are still things that we as humans are fully aware of as risk already, because we know that humans can be dangerous. The difference here is that humans can be thrown in jail or go through a legal system while an AI has absolutely no accountability.

Comment It never sounded like her (Score 0) 241

This is just a publicity stunt. It didn't sound like her at all, but that movie didn't do well, so she's trying to get some kind of redemption arc out of it.

They literally spent $23 million to make that movie, and they've only made at most 48 million which basically means that they've made their money back, but it wasn't considered a big success. And that's only when you consider the international stuff, domestically, it barely made its money back.

She's literally just censoring open AI because she wants to try to make money from this drama.

Comment So demo it on earth. (Score 2) 259

All you have to do is show me that you can have something pop up of its own accord and Get tugged out of a power Jack because it's thrust is so powerfully that it loses its power once the plug is pulled.

Do that in front of a bunch of reporters and VCR will be begging you to accept their money.

This sounds fishy because he won't even do a half-cooked demo that shows thrust in a lab environment.

Comment So most music (Score 1) 229

Ambient, 60-90 BPM
Blues, 60-80 BPM
Classical, 40-200 BPM (very wide range depending on the composition)
Country, 80-140 BPM
Disco, 120-130 BPM
Drum and Bass, 160-180 BPM
Dubstep, 140-160 BPM
EDM (Electronic Dance Music), 120-130 BPM
Folk, 70-130 BPM
Funk, 100-130 BPM
Gospel, 75-105 BPM
Hip-Hop, 60-100 BPM
House, 115-130 BPM
Jazz, 120-125 BPM (can vary widely)
Metal, 100-160 BPM (subgenres like death metal can be much faster)
Pop, 100-130 BPM
Reggae, 60-90 BPM
R&B (Rhythm and Blues), 60-80 BPM
Rock, 110-140 BPM
Salsa, 150-250 BPM
Techno, 120-150 BPM
Trance, 125-140 BPM

So yeah, Russia is insane.

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