Sure, to take the analogy a little further: you can hunt with a dog better than by yourself, even though the dog has a fairly narrow set of skills where it is superior to you. An AI could remain largely inferior to a person in all but a few ways but still be a big deal in the scheme of things when wielded by a human.
You don't need an awesome AI to make it a destabilizing influence. Think of what all you can do with a spreadsheet that is hard to do otherwise. Now instead of making Mr. Data, you make a smarter hybrid of Siri, Wolfram Alpha, and a webpage price adjustment bot and game the stock market with it. It by itself isn't going to go all Skynet, but how long can finance run as-is if people are running up bubbles with automated trading tools? It'll go all "humans with dogs outcompete the Neandertals" all over again.
I think this is partly because they probably don't care about a certain amount of slacking off if you're productive enough overall. Alternatively maybe they know then you'd just use your phone if it was blocked so this way they get you to hang yourself...
I don't disagree with your concern, but this action is with third party sellers. It'd not be too hard for them to just use a different online storefront like leaving eBay for Etsy and so on. Amazon only has an advantage so long as their webpage and customer service is the best. Hop on over to Sears.com... the customer service is nearly fawning if you buy something, and pickup at their store when you want something fast is super easy, and they even have some Amazon Primesque service, but that webpage is an abomination and half of the third party stuff must be for money laundering at those prices. It doesn't seem impossible to me that someone else could come along to out-Amazon Amazon with any more difficulty than they did in Sears and (perhaps) Walmart.
If 42% of customers are considering it then it'll be a bigger success than I would've guessed. I'm weirded out enough by the idea of the Echo without having Amazon let people into my house, but I guess this appears to have more value than I'd have guessed. Maybe urban folks would find it useful since packages might grow legs more easily?
In this instance, though, they're nominally supporting third party vendors that they are just a payment processor and business aggregator for... it'd sort of be like if Walmart backed coupons for other stores in the same strip mall.
Well maybe we only looked at a narrow market segment when we were shopping last. The other car is over a decade old. None of the trim options for a Chrysler Pacifica included it except for the several highest ones that have all the checkboxes filled. I did a quick google search and there was an article from 2013 which stated that Chevy and Chrysler/Jeep have mostly done away with them with Mazda and others following suit. I'd guess Honda still has them.
I think it is for selling a physical object at shows for novelty. Cars don't come with CD players anymore either, so I'm less sure the playability is strictly the foremost issue compared to a physical token that nominally is functional. Then again if this guy is making the best stuff ever as he says then maybe it is undergoing a renaissance like vinyl..?
So how do you monetize your viral videos into something that is a comparable career to a reporter? Is it from youtube ads or do you need the big media to buy them off of you?
Keep some for making papier mache or firestarters... but yes, for the most part, conveniently the free paper usually is waiting for me on the curb next to my freshly emptied recycle bin. I recall being shocked one day when using the newspaper to cover the kitchen counter so the kids could paint when I saw a former high school classmate on the editorial page as an editor. How long had he been an editor there? How old was the newspaper I'd grabbed from the small stack in the garage kept for these purposes? Does he still work there? The world may never know...
I'd like to see Amazon take on Gene Wolfe's solar cycle if they're going to blow a wad of cash on a tentpole series. It'd be pretty hard to get right, though.
Aren't PC sales pretty flat now that they're just commodities? Windows 7 worked well enough, and the newer OSs don't really allow you to do anything you couldn't before, so no reason to pay money to upgrade.
I almost feel bad for them, I get these fliers in the mail for a massive savings discount on bundles of services that I don't need or want. Maybe it'd be nice to have a home phone line for the kids to use, but at the prices offered I'd be better off getting them their own cell phones.
With sufficiently advanced cancer treatments you wouldn't have to worry about the downside. You might need nanobots or a periodic cyberknife style cancer eradication but it'd be doable.
I'm not an academic but from looking at their job postings I can only assume they don't work for the salary so much so as it pays their bills while they get to work in academia: their BS positions pay what you can make at fast food and their MS and PhD positions pay what you can make with a BS in contract research.
Agreed, I could tell BR2049 was going to be worth the big screen given my personal tastes. Something like Geostorm cited in the summary? I doubt I'll even watch that in 3 years when it is on Netflix.
The Total War series simulates those sorts of things to try to make combat more realistic (ie, you can break morale of the enemy and route them more easily than killing them to a man as in StarCraft). No reason they couldn't put in parameters like that here.
That was a fun game, but I do remember when it devolved into running and diving for cover immediately upon the match starting to avoid the grenades.. seems like it'd have been easy to patch out either via temporarily disabling the grenades or protected the spawn area.
Brings to mind the scene from Arrested Development where one of the characters realizes he's been piloting drones and bombing actual people not playing a video game as he'd thought. Which I guess was just a play on Ender's Game...
So these little breakaway regions would likely still depend on the EU, right? Between stuff like this and the UK/Scotland thing, are we witnessing the breakdown of the 'old' nations of the EU as they dissolve into something more like states are in the United States? The US federal government relative to the states is more powerful than the EU relative to its countries in my understanding, but if Spain breaks up then its constituent nations no longer form a voting bloc and are less powerful in swinging their weight in the EU, yes?
On the one hand, you're right that maybe this means that the specs aren't up to what was advertised... on the other is it different than having a lithium battery say its 0-100% is the 'safe range' subset of capacity rather than the actual physical/chemical capacity of the cells?
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Sure, to take the analogy a little further: you can hunt with a dog better than by yourself, even though the dog has a fairly narrow set of skills where it is superior to you. An AI could remain largely inferior to a person in all but a few ways but still be a big deal in the scheme of things when wielded by a human.
You don't need an awesome AI to make it a destabilizing influence. Think of what all you can do with a spreadsheet that is hard to do otherwise. Now instead of making Mr. Data, you make a smarter hybrid of Siri, Wolfram Alpha, and a webpage price adjustment bot and game the stock market with it. It by itself isn't going to go all Skynet, but how long can finance run as-is if people are running up bubbles with automated trading tools? It'll go all "humans with dogs outcompete the Neandertals" all over again.
I think this is partly because they probably don't care about a certain amount of slacking off if you're productive enough overall. Alternatively maybe they know then you'd just use your phone if it was blocked so this way they get you to hang yourself...
Next thing you know they'll be on Slashdot and click a link to goatse!
I don't disagree with your concern, but this action is with third party sellers. It'd not be too hard for them to just use a different online storefront like leaving eBay for Etsy and so on. Amazon only has an advantage so long as their webpage and customer service is the best. Hop on over to Sears.com... the customer service is nearly fawning if you buy something, and pickup at their store when you want something fast is super easy, and they even have some Amazon Primesque service, but that webpage is an abomination and half of the third party stuff must be for money laundering at those prices. It doesn't seem impossible to me that someone else could come along to out-Amazon Amazon with any more difficulty than they did in Sears and (perhaps) Walmart.
If 42% of customers are considering it then it'll be a bigger success than I would've guessed. I'm weirded out enough by the idea of the Echo without having Amazon let people into my house, but I guess this appears to have more value than I'd have guessed. Maybe urban folks would find it useful since packages might grow legs more easily?
In this instance, though, they're nominally supporting third party vendors that they are just a payment processor and business aggregator for... it'd sort of be like if Walmart backed coupons for other stores in the same strip mall.
Well maybe we only looked at a narrow market segment when we were shopping last. The other car is over a decade old. None of the trim options for a Chrysler Pacifica included it except for the several highest ones that have all the checkboxes filled. I did a quick google search and there was an article from 2013 which stated that Chevy and Chrysler/Jeep have mostly done away with them with Mazda and others following suit. I'd guess Honda still has them.
I think it is for selling a physical object at shows for novelty. Cars don't come with CD players anymore either, so I'm less sure the playability is strictly the foremost issue compared to a physical token that nominally is functional. Then again if this guy is making the best stuff ever as he says then maybe it is undergoing a renaissance like vinyl..?
So how do you monetize your viral videos into something that is a comparable career to a reporter? Is it from youtube ads or do you need the big media to buy them off of you?
Keep some for making papier mache or firestarters... but yes, for the most part, conveniently the free paper usually is waiting for me on the curb next to my freshly emptied recycle bin. I recall being shocked one day when using the newspaper to cover the kitchen counter so the kids could paint when I saw a former high school classmate on the editorial page as an editor. How long had he been an editor there? How old was the newspaper I'd grabbed from the small stack in the garage kept for these purposes? Does he still work there? The world may never know...
Speaking of book series that appear to have lost the author's attention...
I'd like to see Amazon take on Gene Wolfe's solar cycle if they're going to blow a wad of cash on a tentpole series. It'd be pretty hard to get right, though.
Aren't PC sales pretty flat now that they're just commodities? Windows 7 worked well enough, and the newer OSs don't really allow you to do anything you couldn't before, so no reason to pay money to upgrade.
You can try making a Windows 10 recovery disk on another system that should be able to finish things up.
I almost feel bad for them, I get these fliers in the mail for a massive savings discount on bundles of services that I don't need or want. Maybe it'd be nice to have a home phone line for the kids to use, but at the prices offered I'd be better off getting them their own cell phones.
With sufficiently advanced cancer treatments you wouldn't have to worry about the downside. You might need nanobots or a periodic cyberknife style cancer eradication but it'd be doable.
I'm not an academic but from looking at their job postings I can only assume they don't work for the salary so much so as it pays their bills while they get to work in academia: their BS positions pay what you can make at fast food and their MS and PhD positions pay what you can make with a BS in contract research.
Rachel looked pretty good in BR2049, though... much better than the efforts in Star Wars. The way the scene was lit may have helped, though.
Agreed, I could tell BR2049 was going to be worth the big screen given my personal tastes. Something like Geostorm cited in the summary? I doubt I'll even watch that in 3 years when it is on Netflix.
The Total War series simulates those sorts of things to try to make combat more realistic (ie, you can break morale of the enemy and route them more easily than killing them to a man as in StarCraft). No reason they couldn't put in parameters like that here.
That was a fun game, but I do remember when it devolved into running and diving for cover immediately upon the match starting to avoid the grenades.. seems like it'd have been easy to patch out either via temporarily disabling the grenades or protected the spawn area.
Brings to mind the scene from Arrested Development where one of the characters realizes he's been piloting drones and bombing actual people not playing a video game as he'd thought. Which I guess was just a play on Ender's Game...
So these little breakaway regions would likely still depend on the EU, right? Between stuff like this and the UK/Scotland thing, are we witnessing the breakdown of the 'old' nations of the EU as they dissolve into something more like states are in the United States? The US federal government relative to the states is more powerful than the EU relative to its countries in my understanding, but if Spain breaks up then its constituent nations no longer form a voting bloc and are less powerful in swinging their weight in the EU, yes?
On the one hand, you're right that maybe this means that the specs aren't up to what was advertised... on the other is it different than having a lithium battery say its 0-100% is the 'safe range' subset of capacity rather than the actual physical/chemical capacity of the cells?