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Comment That's small stuff (Score 4, Insightful) 29

The real invasion of privacy -- aside from traffic cams, three letter agencies hoovering up everything that passes through fiber, parallel construction, abuse of the interstate commerce law, permanent emergency bills -- Nevermind. Another invasion of privacy is id.me, wherein to access government services people are forced to send their identity to an unaccountable non-government third party operating under rules not restricted by the constitution.

Comment Google is the new Jeeves (Score 1) 30

Its search function was simple — type in a question, get an answer. But the quality of its responses was uneven, and the website was quickly eclipsed by Google and Yahoo as the world's go-to search engines.

That's sort of what Google does now. You try to search, it gives you some AI-generated overview of the topic before providing links. It's occasionally handy but most often infuriating.

Comment Re: Another tool in the toolbox. (Score 1) 82

"Me or you on the street can tell if a car is speeding through "that light", and we can make a decision split second... pull over or slam on the brakes or any number of things."

First of all, it's "You or I on the street", not "Me or you on the street." Second of all, someone should invent self-driving cars!

You are trying to play a semantic war of wits but you are unarmed. You want to define "thinking" as "something only a human can do", then claim computers can't "think." It's a strawman based tautology.

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