Systems like facial scanners, fingerprint scanners, DNA, etc. do not and cannot tell you that a scan matches one person out of many.
  What they do tell you is at what confidence level you can reject the null hypothesis that a random persons' random scan matches a specific persons data.

So in a scenario where you have a identity specified separately from the scan, like fingerprint unlock the account on a computer or the electronic passport gate line at an airport, it is at least statistically plausible to make a functioning system.

However, if you are trying to select from identities based on scans, given enough scans and identities something will match by dumb luck, possibly multiple matches.

There's also the question of whether the system would be allowed to not reject the null hypothesis or would the demand come to change the confidence level until something could be declared a "match".

"Acts of rebellion like this can clearly expose vulnerabilities of using AI"

It exposes the vulnerability of expecting that just "reading the code" catches things, since the comment included ANSI escapes which overwrote the displayed text.

The original reporter caught it with an AI.

'Not everyone else in government was Secretary of State... "server in a closet."'

Why do you hate Colin Powell so much?

"more like negligent homicide when you don't take proper care when wielding a weapon or driving a car without due regard for safety"

In practice, the email at State was provably breached while the private server was not.

" You don't have to intend to violate the espionage act"

You don't have to intend to help a foreign government to harm the US to violate the Espionage Act, but your disclosure does have to meet the "willful" standard or "reason to believe" standard, depending on the section.

Pardons were $1million in 2001. I can't believe Trump would make such a bad deal!

The one in prison? Maybe not a good advisor.

Counterpoint: If NVidia is certain that PRC will prevail, there is a first mover advantage to be seen as willing to deal with them..

Not every instance of raising rival's costs is regulatory capture.

Large corporations will favor even regulation which they have not captured since the costs of compliance do not scale.

Microsoft US has no choice but to comply with the US subpoena. Microsoft EU has no choice but to comply with Netherlands privacy laws.

The fact that the two entities of their own accord got themselves into a position where either one or the other will not be in legal compliance is not the problem of either the US or the Netherlands. They could have just kept track of what jurisdiction the data was in. Microsoft desperately does not want their customers to know that they fucked this up AGAIN.

All communications seem one way to someone that no one else is listening to.

Coordination problems seem irrelevant to someone that no one else wants to associate with.

"When the AI bubble collapses, their stock will absolutely crash."

They are not adding capacity beyond the long term non-AI trends. Either a) AI bubble collapses and they'll go back to serving their normal customer mix, or b) the long-term trends will eventually justify adding capacity faster.

Sure, they're cashing out profits in the face of a windfall but *that's the reasonable thing to do in the face of a short term windfall*.

There has to be some acceptable action to take in thew face of a bubble induced by someone else. You can't just call every alternative wrong.

"All these people are on a list of designated marks now."

To be fair, they were already designated marks before this. It's just that now they are available to a wider ecosystem of cons.

Phone companies hate telephones like railroad companies hate railroads.

Fun fact: Sprint was originally Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telecommunications.

Thank you, I picked the wrong example because I was just thinking "Vanguard something something".

(I actually have FXAIX in my 401k.)

"won't last longer than the current administration"

Someone concerned about the outcome past his own administration would not be in favor of any of this to begin with.