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  1. Re:We should be sunk in unemployment on In Banking, 70% of Front-Office Jobs Will Be Dislocated By AI (americanbanker.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Meanwhile in the real world, AI is limited to playing Go and Chess and image recognition and the US has a 3.9% unemployment rate.

  2. Re:Does it work... on Google Assistant Will Call Businesses For You Via 'Duplex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks to the Directors Rules and progressive Seattle government, Seattle enjoys some of the highest Internet access speeds on the planet. 1Gbps is common. There are over 28 ISPs in Seattle offering high speed Internet.

  3. Re:So many things wrong with this, where do I star on Google Assistant Will Call Businesses For You Via 'Duplex' (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Avoiding people who lack interpersonal skills doesn't help either them or you. Insane.

  4. "Swiping up from a flatter button at the bottom of the screen will now display a horizontal (not vertical!) list of your recent apps, with icons for five "predicted apps" placed underneath them. Swiping up a second time from there will display the all apps screen, effectively allowing you to access it from anywhere on the phone. You can also slide the home button sideways to start scrolling through recent apps. The icons for those recent apps appear to be larger than before, and Google showed off the ability to highlight text within them. The back button is still there, but not as a global key; it instead appears to only show up in certain contexts, such as the new recent apps screen."

    Great stuff. The innovation is real. Things appear and disappear based on "certain contexts" and the same action produces different results based on the previous action. Genius!

  5. Re:Skynet on White House To Host Tech Giants For AI Meeting (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    In real life it goes like this:

    Skynet learns how to play Chess really well.

    Skynet learns how to play Go really well.

    People realize that AI programs are just programs trained to do one thing really well and don't translate to other problem domains.

    Next hype cycle begins.

  6. Begging for money on White House To Host Tech Giants For AI Meeting (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The "AI" media push by the tech companies has failed and now they are going to start begging for taxpayer money to fund "research to keep us in ahead of China". This AI nonsense needs to stop. There is no such thing.

  7. What does this have to do with a browser? This is Excel. I can write a JS program that will erase your hard drive if I am running it in a shell.

  8. How is JavaScript designed to run relatively safely on your PC?

  9. Prototype on Uber Shows Its Flying Car Prototype (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Apparently in 2018 a prototype is a 1:100 scale model and a badly rendered CGI video.

  10. Re:"Edge Computing" on Edge Computing: Explained (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoosh

  11. Re:VPN via EU and I'm privacy protected? on New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "Do the NSA + GCHQ have to comply with the GDPR?"

    Please tell me you are joking.

  12. I'll never get why people are so hung up on self-driving cars. Either drive yourself or hire a taxi. We should focus on making computers do stuff that we can't do ourselves.

  13. I am not surprised. Autonomous driving is a joke. Sure you can build a system to get about 80% there as long as it has high resolution maps.

  14. Re:Significant improvement. on MIT Invented a Tool That Allows Driverless Cars To Navigate Rural Roads Without a Map (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. I would imagine it senses the edges of the road (probably based on texture differences between the road and the grass) and keeps the car in the road. How is this significant? It also uses openstreetmap data to help with the navigation prediction (I guess).

  15. Yeah, you would never find anything like that anywhere else in the planet. Only Canada.

  16. Re:When it comes to criminals and esp terrorists on UK Police Say 92 Percent False Positive Facial Recognition Is No Big Deal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure. But I am talking Benjaman Franklin, not Benjamin Franklin.

  17. Re:Intermediate false positive rate on UK Police Say 92 Percent False Positive Facial Recognition Is No Big Deal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The article is supposed to cast doubt on that 0% figure by suggesting that the police are lying about their claim of no one falsely arrested. That is why they put "no one" in quotes.

  18. Re:When it comes to criminals and esp terrorists on UK Police Say 92 Percent False Positive Facial Recognition Is No Big Deal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve Safety." - Benjaman Franklin

  19. Re:That's worse than polygraphs on UK Police Say 92 Percent False Positive Facial Recognition Is No Big Deal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm mystified. Which law did they break?

  20. Re:They get into the US phone system somehow... on Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Too bad. That is Google's problem.

  21. Re:Invest or reproduce stolen tech on China Plans $47 Billion Fund To Boost Its Semiconductor Industry (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't stealing because there is no law against it. Information wants to be free.

  22. Re:Walking across the street is a risk. on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 0

    Very true. Millions of people die of cardiovascular disease every year. That is why children should be allowed to play in traffic.

  23. Re:And you think space flight is without risks? on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 0

    Rockets built with corporate profit in mind are definitely better. Plus, you need to realize with software upgrades and tweaks to the design the SpaceX rockets will just get better and better. Just like the Tesla auto pilot: sure, people die on the first few iterations of the software, but eventually the bugs get fixed and people start getting killed at a much lower rate.

  24. Everything is a risk on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: -1

    Musk is trying to get us all off this rock stuck in a gravity well. If a few people have to be sacrificed in order to do it, it is fine. It is for the good of the human race. After all, we cannot live in this rock forever. I cannot wait to be living on Mars soon.

  25. The real reason they want to do this is to stop the secondary sale (or transfer) of tickets.