Posts by simonb_london

Driving at 22 mph in a 20 mph zone could make money for the local council. And they are even worse than North Korea.

If they try and use any of that Microsoft source code in their weapon systems then we have absolutely nothing to worry about. No point having hypersonic missiles if they take four hours to finish installing updates before responding to anything.

What? Half-inched trade secrets!?

The scoundrels! It's enough to make your blood boil. Or at least become deficient in oxygen just thinking about it.

The only one's really worried about AI are the ones with the most to lose if a high intelligence can suss them out.

I'm so relieved that the Chinese or Russians are controlling our nuclear reactor. For a moment I thought our own government was controlling it. Now that would be scary.

Correction:

"This landmark law sends a clear message to OTHER criminals...

Privacy vs safety

It it was possible to monitor every thought, word, movement of every person then think of all the crime that would be prevented. Or any undesirable behaviour or point of view. Or anything at all we don't like.

AI enables judges to hallucinate judgements with complete certainty.

What? It was an outage? I thought it was just the response time.

Well I'm glad that it is only the Russians that would ever do any propaganda, bots or fake news.

Countering?

When governments talk of "countering" cyber-crime, money laundering, terrorism etc I've learned that they simply want to establish a monopoly for themselves in the same.

Downfall

Affects sound devices and GPUs to overdub German with unrelated English subtitles on any video resembling a WWII bunker.

Evil or enlightened

What would be the result of highly intelligent self awareness? Psychopaths aren't exactly known for being the brightest bulbs in the box in terms of having a fully functional brain with no parts suppressed and shut down. Why would a super-intelligent AI want to emulate such a disability?

Perfect excuse

"I'm a bumble bee. I defy the laws of physics. I can still fly!"

AI

If extreme data centre use is a problem then I wonder how long it will be before AI becomes a tax target?

'government-run "fact checking" unit'

Years ago, when I first started seeing "fact checks" I actually thought they were a neat idea. I would now like to go back in time and slap myself around the face with a trout. Its pretty obvious what this whole concept of "fact checking" is turning into.

So basically they want Artificial Intelligence to not have any intelligence.

Symmetric surveillance

Public officials that want to watch our every move should be prepared to wear body-cams 24 hours a day so that we can keep an eye on them too. I'm sure a lot of crimes would be solved if we could see everything they say and do while they are pretending to serve us.

Expired

I did a quick search and apparently it has already expired. So does that mean that patent cases can apply to infringement retrospectively?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6389473B1/en

Strangulation

Is the picture indicative of what he intends to do to tech in the next two years?

Potentially dangerous

An AI that has been trained on every episode of East Enders that ever was would be an immediate threat to humanity. It would be drunk, argumentative and a perpetual source of drama.

False alarm!

"Stockpiling and deploying vulnerabilities" is just Microsoft's way of saying "writing and selling software".

Company won't stop until you need a NEW Phone to operate every facet of your life

Corrected. I believe this is how the headline should have read.

Only governments and banks are allowed to launder money. And they hate competition.

Then I got to the comments...

I don't normally comment on the other comments I've seen so far, but there seems to be a consensus that Internet shutdowns on a whim are justifiable and desirable because there are exam cheats in existence. I certainly wouldn't want someone monkeying with Internet availability where I live/work! Not for any reason.

Its up to the exam venues to police the students within their own boundaries.

So those Career Builder dot com adverts were true

They really do base their business on buying lottery tickets!

I can see where this is going... "We must ban non-state-owned crypto and all sacrifice any notion of privacy and anonymity so that countries like Iran don't have any either".

Net zero?

Wouldn't it be better to aim for a healthy planet and healthy life on it? Obsessing over one of the most abundant elements on the planet is probably going to cause more problems than it solves apart from being a massive distraction.

When I was at school...

I remember everyone was quite liberal with hurling insults at each other face to face. Being sensitive was not really an option.

Rising above the insults and developing self-confidence is part of growing up.

Its a bit like the highway code being changed to give pedestrians who don't look, and are therefore "vulnerable", priority over vehicles because teaching them to look before crossing at junctions is too much effort, apparently.

Every automated car will become a police car

If you have loads of delivery vans everywhere, driving automatically, covered in cameras and sensors and connected to a network.... the ultimate totalitarian temptation!

Benign?

"Apple argues the monopoly is benign..." - Enough ROFL to cause a whole herd of wildebeest to collapse in hysterics.

Who will the AI serve

Will the AI serve us, the government or the manufacturer? Looking at the recent trends to control everything we say and do recently I'm not sure I would want a car that decided where I could or couldn't drive to on the basis of "saving the environment" or, as the more often the case these days, for no clearly explained reason.

About time

Why did this take so long? Of course I don't want a VM to randomly die one day because of something I forgot to do, or hadn't yet learned I needed to do.

Easy on developers. Tough on users.