A police officer called the behavior "reckless," adding that autopilot controls like the ones on Teslas "are in no way a substitute for a competent motorist in the driving seat who can react appropriately to the road ahead."
Maybe 'autopilot' should be called 'driver assistance' to avoid further confusion?
Even car insurance here costs up to 15% less if you need it starting in 20days time verses next day. - which is a piss take.
Pro Tip, business will exploit any opportunity to increase costs to consumers without delivering additional value.
I'm particularly fond of the "persuade government to create legislation to make your product mandatory; collude with the rest of the market to ensure there's no real choice then continually increase prices" approach.
Everybody jump through hoops to give us their best ideas. We'll siphon up the results of their efforts and several will 'win' which means they get to generate cash for us going forwards. Win win win, for us.
I guess FB annoyed the wrong person - now, there are daily attacks on FB when for years they've been using the same dubious 'business' practices without issue.
Just put Alexa in a robot, or in a self driving car. Done now it's a person, and any accident it gets into is the fault of the, er, person, not Tesla. Makes a lot of sense to indemnify a corporation in this way.
[ ] By purchasing this car you agree to bear full responsibilty for the actions of our half-assed implementation of an autonomous driving 'assistant'; which was (a) placed there solely to incentivise you to purchase for our benefit and our competitors detriment and (b) developed with zero input from you at any time. Back in your barrel fishie, *loads shotgun*
Oh wait, sorry no - unacceptable; the person most 'responsible' also has the greatest ability to escape the consequences of their actions. Hmmz; what a conundrum.
who should bear the ultimate responsibility for the actions by a machine: the machine itself or the humans who made them?
Responsibility should go hand-in-hand with control/choice.
If the robot chose to act in the manner it did, fine, blame the robot. Until then, blame <generic-low-level-developer-scapegoat-ala-vw-emissions-gate> or applying the same principle again, blame the person who had control over the direction of the development of the robot.
* The military want to weaponize *everything* and * It's not defence, it's attack.
Even though I don't like the idea of weaponize with AI, what you said is not true. Have you ever heard of "Make them believe, that offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only... means of defence." (George Washington, 1799)?
Uhh, I wasn't familiar with the quote until you mentioned it but reading this with a little context...
It is unfortunate when men cannot, or will not, see danger at a distance; or seeing it, are restrained in the means which are necessary to avert, or keep it afar off. I question whether the evil arising from the French getting possession of Louisiana and the Floridas would be generally seen, until it is felt; and yet no problem in Euclid is more evident, or susceptible of clearer demonstration—Not less difficult is it to make them believe, that offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only (in some cases) means of defence.
...leads me to believe that he's saying that people naturally favour addressing threats closer to hand and steps sideways into the idea that this same failing leads them to not see that the best defence is attack.
Lujan: It's been admitted by Facebook that you do collect data points on non-[Facebook users]. My question is, can someone who does not have a Facebook account opt out of Facebook's involuntary data collection?
Zuckerberg: Sure, they only need to sign in with their Facebook credentials and check 'do not collect data on me unless I'm a Facebook user'. Anyone who leaves the box ticked is assumed to be happy with collection.
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Fortunately, investors don't care about the simple stuff.
Today's Anti-Facebook news draws on previously unexplored territory.
Nice to see that this assassination is getting creative.
Fortunately we have fake democracy. If we had real democracy we would be REALLY screwed.
Maybe 'autopilot' should be called 'driver assistance' to avoid further confusion?
Pro Tip, business will exploit any opportunity to increase costs to consumers without delivering additional value.
I'm particularly fond of the "persuade government to create legislation to make your product mandatory; collude with the rest of the market to ensure there's no real choice then continually increase prices" approach.
Amazon should make a web based tool which allows disgruntled customers to whip their employees over the internet.
The part where the seller increases the item cost by the amount of the delivery charge if you opt for Prime delivery?
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Everybody jump through hoops to give us their best ideas. We'll siphon up the results of their efforts and several will 'win' which means they get to generate cash for us going forwards. Win win win, for us.
I guess FB annoyed the wrong person - now, there are daily attacks on FB when for years they've been using the same dubious 'business' practices without issue.
Only USA USA USA may compromise communication devices sold in the US?
ftfy
Trump trump trump, anyone?'
We go for three levels deep whilst reporting one of Linus' burps.
Trump trump trump
[ ] By purchasing this car you agree to bear full responsibilty for the actions of our half-assed implementation of an autonomous driving 'assistant'; which was (a) placed there solely to incentivise you to purchase for our benefit and our competitors detriment and (b) developed with zero input from you at any time. Back in your barrel fishie, *loads shotgun*
Oh wait, sorry no - unacceptable; the person most 'responsible' also has the greatest ability to escape the consequences of their actions. Hmmz; what a conundrum.
Responsibility should go hand-in-hand with control/choice.
If the robot chose to act in the manner it did, fine, blame the robot. Until then, blame <generic-low-level-developer-scapegoat-ala-vw-emissions-gate> or applying the same principle again, blame the person who had control over the direction of the development of the robot.
Noone? :P
Is Curing Society's Ills a Sustainable Political Model?' Slashdot User Asks.
Uhh, I wasn't familiar with the quote until you mentioned it but reading this with a little context...
Maybe every question sounds like "tell us what we need to know so that we can make your life more difficult." ?
* The military want to weaponize *everything* and
* It's not defence, it's attack.
Thanks :D