I have no mod points, so here, have an "I agree". On all points. It's one thing to say "I didn't like it" or - even better - "I didn't like it because...", but dropping random "it sucked" - or worse - "it really sucked" is... lame.

I found it entertaining, which is what my primary criterion is for entertainment.

There's (probably) a fundamental difference, even if you want to equate AI recombination and human inspiration.

Human artists - in theory - used legal means to hear what inspired them. Could be listening to it on broadcast radio, where the right to hear it was arranged through ads. Could be listening to it on a mix tape from a friend, which many countries have laws for. It's not assumed, suspected, or proven that the musician who cites Sting or Ozzy stole the albums they're inspired by.

The tech bros pretty openly did exactly that.

If they ever could've, they would've. That should tell you they couldn't, and the above is the reason, I think.

Almost without fail the people doing that are working within legal rights, doing parody. Comedians or sketch comics. There has been a legal carve-out for those types of activities. Even Elvis impersonators have to be very careful; their actual performance doesn't invoke legal liability but any merch or an Elvis-themed Vegas wedding facility does trigger royalties. It's very different to have a comedian performing "wouldn't it be funny if Famous Person was in this situation" than "we're making more Die Hard movies and Bruce Willis can go ahead and stop us from using his likeness if he can... oh... right... he can't... so eat a bag of dicks."

Electronics are not necessarily required. You're discounting the many recalls for ICE vehicles that resulted from leaked fuel or other flammable liquids combined with hot exhaust manifolds or other ignition sources.

From OP:

the front power-seat switch could overheat and ignite the seat

Dolly Parton playing Miss Mona in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas:

You know what burns my ass?

I guess it is true that the exact wording of the amendment says that states can be as restrictive as they want on alcohol, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they can be more lenient than the feds.

While your general argument has merit, alcohol is a bad example because states' control over that particular substance is explicitly granted in the constitutional amendment that repealed prohibition.

It's August 24th right now. "February or March" is around 5 months away. Which is not a year.

Due to weather, yes, plausibly. This is literally rocket science and weather can absolutely merit a scrub.

Again, this is rocket science. The rocket scientists seem to think that visible light is somehow helpful to the landing's odds of success. It passes the sniff test to me; voluntarily sacrificing such a useful spectrum seems unwise to me.

Indeed, yes. Do you have some grounds for your doubt?

That's interesting but drum machines and synths are still instruments in a human's hands. Think about some of Pink Floyd's early works where they used tape loops and whatnot. The automation became an instrument to incredibly ground-breaking effect. Think about the entirety of Depeche Mode's discography. Huge amounts of artificial instruments but the arrangement can be very good, and they have made new arrangements throughout the decades when touring, just like purely accoustic bands. Then there's Michael Cretu's band, Enigma, which is literally a portable sound studio, yet his stuff is quite influential and complex.

The difference in my mind is that AI isn't any of those things. It's recombinant, not creative. It will never invent... until true AI in the sense we used to use the term exists.

Task Manager is for application performance. It tells you what resources a given task/PID/application is using. It tells you what memory usage is, CPU usage is, GPU usage is, per application. Extending this to NPU hardware is very much the purview of Task Manager.

While that is true, it is also not what this is about.

They're expanding Task Manager to give you insight and monitoring capabilities for when AI is running. They're not injecting AI into Task Manager itself.

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I created my twitter account when the service was practically new and only used it a handful of times - so I might not be the target audience. Even so, I miss the original idea of it.

I never demanded perfection.

Worse, your qualification is meaningless. A 100% failure rate would be good enough provided additional measures that compensate for it.

This thing screws up one in every 5,000 visitors. Look up Sainsbury's. Three million customers per day. That's 600 failures per day. With around 1,500 locations, that's an average failure at every location every two to three days. Maybe that's happening when your best manager is on-hand to take a look and conclude "huh, well, this looks a lot like the known shoplifter but... well... maybe not". Or maybe that's happening in the middle of the night when your minimum-wage student decides to not serve a lawyer, doctor, or garbageman who deserves it.

A screwup once a year per location would be high. Once or twice a year for the entire chain... maybe. Maybe acceptable. But you go ahead and set your personal bar wherever you want. Until you get the cops called on you.

"Sainsbury's head office apologised to Arnold the next day and has paused use of its AI-assisted Facewatch technology in the store while an investigation takes place."

What investigation? It has a 0.02% failure rate, which is very, very high. End of investigation. Discard the tech.

"The incident was caused by human error, not the facial recognition technology. Customers can be reassured that the Facewatch system has a 99.98% accuracy rate, and every match is reviewed by a trained manager."

Every match may or may not be reviewed by a trained manager, but customers cannot be assured of anything except that they - per factual evidence - be wrongfully accused of wrongdoing. The incident would not have occurred had the facial recognition technology incorrectly targeted the wrong individual. The technology is the only place where blame should be assigned except for the executives who authorized its use and continue to make excuses for it.

"A Facewatch spokesperson said their technology was not at fault in this case. 'A correct alert was sent to the retailer, but was subsequently subject to human error in the way it was handled in store,' they said."

Facewatch is incorrect. Again. An incorrect alert was sent to the retailer... unless they are insisting Matt Arnold is in fact a shoplifter. There is no human error if there is no incorrect alert.

I do understand that lacking this technology, we would be solely relying on humans to notice things like repeat offenders. Same for automated license plate readers... we'd be solely relying on humans to spot, recognize, and act on suspect vehicles. But the sheer bulk of hits makes all the difference in the world. Humans will rely on the machine's judgement and the onus then shifts to the target to try to override that. If a store manager just randomly mistakes a legitimate customer for a shoplifter, it's much easier to convince them they've made a mistake.

Even if they don't pollute all the time, consider when a "power emergency" will be most likely. One common situation is when there is a stagnant heat dome sitting on the area forcing everyone to crank up their A/C.

Then the data centers will fire up their gas and diesel generators with short exhaust stacks, and with no wind all those fumes will just linger in the general vicinity.

Gee, if a counterfeit lithium ion battery peddled by Amazon burns your house down, you get to sort it out in small claims court.

Or else let some guy whose salary ultimately comes from Amazon decide whether they're liable.