Sure. And normally that's handled through zoning laws. From the fine summary, I take it that swaths of Ohio don't have any zoning laws.

(And, IMHO, good for them. I'm not a huge fan of zoning. But I don't live in Ohio so it's none of my business.)

So, and hear me out, perhaps pass some zoning laws first?

Technical question for the nerds in the crowd.

Where exactly does the real-time translation run? I assume part is on the headphones themselves, my guess would be tokenizing the incoming sound. Is there something running on an iPhone (which I assume is a required accessory)? What runs on an AI back end service?

Anyone know the details?

I'm with you in this case. Part of the art is that the artist is anonymous.

As others are writing, he has no legal or moral right to privacy. But I think we live in a better world if we don't out him.

No doubt. And hopefully the Canadian government is less heavy-handed than other governments. I wouldn't assume that's the case but maybe it will be.

What I'm most comfortable with is there being lots of models, created by lots of organizations, funded by a plethora of sources, produced in different societies, and freely (as in speech) available to all humans. That way, if one is too biased, people will ignore it in droves.

That and "national emergency".

I'm hoping the silver lining we'll get out of the debacle of the last ten years is a renewed respect for federalism and separation of powers. I'm not holding my breath. People are stunningly resistant to realizing it won't always be your friends and allies wielding that power you want to hand out. "We can let the President use his judgement, surely he'll use it with restraint and for the good of the entire country; if he errs, how bad can it be?"

Very, very bad, as it turns out.

Ditto. Time was we coded in assembly. Then compilers came out but people didn't trust them. I, for one, would have occasion to review the generated assembly to double check what got generated matched what I thought the C code should do. By the time I was doing this, it was virtually always me misunderstanding C semantics, not a compiler bug.

AI feels like the next iteration. I code in reasonably specific English. I may or may not carefully review the code, depending on how familiar I am with the toolset and whether the result is a toy, a throwaway tool, or production.

I'll give you yesterday's example. I'm working on a REST API which presents telemetry from a brand new hardware device. There's a lot of uncertainty in how the hardware, control software, and my processing work. In the past, if I wanted to understand what's going on, I'd run a bunch of queries and pore over the output by hand, or maybe copy and paste into a spreadsheet, or write a Perl/Python script to analyze the output. Today I get an AI to create a browser browser app (took maybe 20 minutes if you count bug fix iterations) to fetch the data and render it in a chart. Do I know how to write a good React app? Not in the slightest. Do I care, as long as I can see the shape of the resulting curve? Also not in the slightest, this is a throwaway. Does it help me do a better, faster job on my real work product, the REST server? Oh my God yes.

When I hear "nationalized", I hear "government takes ownership of privately owned organizations." I don't think this is what they're proposing. Without just compensation, that would be wrong.

I don't see the Canadian government shelling out, say, $400 billion to buy Anthropic or whoever but maybe they would. It sounds like what they want instead is for the Canadian government to create an entirely new LLM and AI apps using nothing but government funding. That's not a cheap undertaking.

However, if that's what canucks want to pay for this with their tax dollars, knock yer socks off. Make sure you include some metrics to tell whether this is succeeding and when to pull the plug. I'm skeptical that works if the California high speed rail project is any sort of precedent. We voted on all sorts of guidelines and the state government is blithely ignoring them.

Being an American, it's not my business. Having seen how effectively the US government spends money on technology programs (*cough*Artemis*cough*) I wouldn't endorse my government working on that project with a three meter pole.

Are you sure of that? How in the world would you measure and audit that?

IMHO, bias is in the eye of the beholder. What one person might call biased another might call obviously correct. Forget AI, every human is biased to every other human. When I talk to my 20-something daughter, she (lovingly) thinks I'm a biased anarcho-capitalist-libertarian, I (lovingly) think she's an indoctrinated progressive feminist wackadoodle.

Sure would be a shame should somepin' to happen to it, like being banned in the US.

No mafia don was ever as brazen as this administration.

Except that's not exactly what happened. Anthropic and the DoD signed a contract with explicit terms. Both sides agreed to the terms. Anthropic was perfectly willing to deliver services which meet the terms of the contract. It's not like Anthropic suddenly declared "you're about to attack Iran, we're going to disable our services because we don't agree." That would be legitimate grounds for a grievance.

Declaring a company a supply chain risk is a nuclear option. It should be invoked only after DoD has exhausted every other option to remedy the situation, including finding other suppliers. To me, that would imply the supplier is providing something like spyware or trojans or intentionally defective munitions, something surreptitious which undermines the ability of DoD to wage wa...er...sustained combat operations. Something which can't easily be detected ahead of time. Not something you were told about months ago.

What's really going on is DoD has a lot of leverage and this administration gets their jollies throwing their weight around. "Nice AI business you got here. Sure would be a shame if something was to happen to it, like being declared a supply chain risk."

That's the thing. As soon as POTUS gets his fingers into company operations, that's when I, as an investor, start looking for the door. The one thing I'm sure of is Trump won't use his influence to boost shareholder value.

It would be an interesting research project to see whether that's actually happened to Intel, US Steel, and the other companies Trump has demanded stakes of.

Some might cheer the nationalization of AI companies. They should be careful what they wish for. I doubt investors would continue to pour unlimited billions into AI if they knew they were going to be run by and for the government. I doubt governments will pour the same billions into the same parts of AI deployment.

If you think AI is dangerous and want to slow it down, that's a feature rather than a bug. If you want rapidly advancing capabilities (to pick a random example, to run fleets of armed, autonomous drones), perhaps nationalization isn't really what you want. Not that I expect many politicians to recognize this tradeoff.

I disagree. As long as the money winds up in the hands of someone, anyone other than this larcenous administration, that's a win.

No, it's not fair that the importers will likely keep it. It's also not fair that other prices rose to meet the higher market price and that people got fired. Neither of those last two will be made right. But IMHO, the important part is to keep the ill-gotten goods out of the hands of the evildoers so they aren't rewarded for their evil doing.

It wouldn't surprise me if they meant wall clock time, especially if there's human review and intervention in some large number of transactions.

That came up a few times here on /., regulators and politicians wanting to mandate that cars sold in the US must have AM radios so they could receive emergency broadcasts. My expectation was this was much more about preserving talk radio than emergencies.

If podcasts replace talk radio, will we see a mandate to include a 5G radio and Spotify subscription with each new car?

(Obligatory plug: listen to Bay Curious for all sorts of fun stories about the SF Bay Area!)