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AI Tailors Can Wait (bloomberg.com)
Bloomberg Businessweek: Original Stitch has all the trappings of an e-commerce success story. The pitch is simple: Original Stitch uses computer-vision software to review photos of your most beloved dress shirts uploaded to the company website, then delivers perfectly tailored copies. We tried it -- the only problem was that it didn't work. When the first shirt arrived too tight around the chest and too long in the sleeves, we figured an editor's sloppy photography was to blame, but the problems persisted with a second attempt. A third shirt, ordered under a different name to make sure we wouldn't get special treatment, could barely be buttoned up. The sleeves felt like tourniquets. "We tried to push the envelope," Original Stitch founder Jin Koh acknowledged after we confronted him with the results. "Obviously, it's still in beta." In December, three months after launching the service, Koh quietly pulled it down. He's returned to asking users to fill out a questionnaire with their own measurements while he works out the bugs.
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It's a form of A.I.
It's not strong A.I.
Strong A.I. could be an extinction level event for humans. I think limits on available power will slow it down enough for us to have time to react. But there's a significant chance for a failure of friendliness combined with superhuman intelligence and superman manipulativeness. And people researching strong A.I. don't appear to be taking sufficient safeguards to me.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
"We tried to push the envelope, ... Obviously, it's still in beta."
This needs to be printed on a t-shirt. I would wear it everywhere.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.