In fairness, knowing how stupid the public is doesn’t mean your aren’t too stupid to take advantage of it.

This seems so on brand for Texas lately.

“Come on down, we got no need for fancy regulations that just get in the way of good old-fashioned American business. Leave those hippy eco-terrorists in California behind. We’re not going to let their irrational fears limit innovation.”

“Sweet, I’m going to explode contaminated…

I find it hilariously appropriate that Elon’s reputation has gone from real-life Tony Stark to a guy who likely cribbed a pretty childish joke in “bidet for rockets” from an underling or toady because we don’t believe he’s clever enough to have come up with it himself.

Except you want the “artificial people” to be allowed to plagiarize in ways real people cannot. The problem isn’t with artificial people learning. It’s that someone either sells that “artificial person” or the products created by that artificial person without compensating the person who created the original.

Unlike a human, the algorithm is nothing without the data. It doesn’t just lack “creativity”. It would be absolutely incapable of doing anything without the data. In your example, you compare it to a search engine. Without data, it’ a search engine that has never mapped the internet, making it totally useless. Though…

Most nations are pretty bad about honestly acknowledging and sincerely apologizing for their mistakes. I think Germany is the only nation that takes truly reckoning with their past seriously. It only took starting two devastating World Wars of conquest and irrefutable documentation and photographic evidence for the…

Or we can treat intellectual property seriously and not limit it to people who can pay for lawyers. The kinds of “AI” that are “creating” art right now are just using really advanced copying and pasting. The databases they use to train these AIs are not incidental. If anything, it’s the algorithm that’s incidental. By…

The best hope for creatives would be class actions targeting all these companies for using their work without compensation. Don’t focus on the creative output, focus on the training data sets. I already think those are starting now. Even if they don’t win, those are the kinds of regulations that places like the EU…

One tactic I could totally see a studio pulling is taking a submitted screenplay and secretly using it as a prompt for an AI script. The output would be a convincing enough retread that studio legal teams could avoid penalty. They could deal with any jankiness in the output by paying someone for rewrites, a much…

I think this episode is a great demonstration of how the utopian Federation really is fundamentally different than our world. We saw plenty of evidence that ambition, competition, and misplaced anger still exist in people, just like with us. Despite that, Pike trusted the training and character of a mere Ensign and…

I think the over-emphasis on investors is why markets don’t follow any sort of logic these days. Why focus on fundamentals when cost cutting, a few million bucks in targeted presentations, and capturing the whims of a handful of gullible trust-fund babies will have a greater effect on your short-term stock price?…

I’m interested in this movie only because I’m holding out for a twist that the AI isn’t malevolent and that the LA nuke was either a false flag or determined as necessary by the AI to stave off something worse. It would be really interesting if the AI is fighting on BEHALF of humanity and that human soldiers are just…

This picture isn’t a selfie. It’s a bunch of people standing up in the middle of a show, blocking an aisle (even if a lounge setup, I’m pretty sure people have seats) with a bright enough flash to illuminate them when backlit by the stage. It also looks like the kind of situation where people take multiple pictures in…

We have an annual car tax in Virginia so judging by the tags, DC borders Virginia, Maryland, Vermont, and Florida.

Counterpoint: we’ve polarized and lost empathy to the point that large portions of America reflexively side with corporate interests. Not because they trust them or have better experiences but because they have the shortsighted attitude of, “Tough shit, my work treats me like garbage too. Stop whining and get a real…

The most frustrating thing about this series is they haven’t used Skrulls as anything more interesting than people who do the same kind of infiltration we’ve seen Black Widow do before. The entire setup is totally glossed over because it makes even less sense than most movies, especially for a “grounded” spy thriller.

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I would like to point out you’re reading entertainment news on a for-profit website that is trying to report on an absolute nothing-burger statement by an incredibly popular actor. If they don’t editorialize there is literally nothing there but a single quote.

Given that they want more clicks, what better way to…

That’s what makes this the worst timeline. We’re rooting for Zuckerberg because the alternative is the more embarrassing of TWO rocket-ship-owning real-life Bond villains. Bill Gates is the world’s most respected philanthropist. We think Warren Buffett is the lesser evil because he just runs his business like a 20th…

The internet is just an enhanced humanity delivery system. One giant neural network of our uncensored thoughts and emotions. It’s all the grossness of knowing people completely without the filter of self-denial.

Getting rid of the internet to solve the problem is like avoiding an oncoming train by closing your eyes.

This is why I don’t understand anyone who can accept anything any company shill says without question. Companies, their spokespeople, and their CEOs routinely tell obvious lies and evasions when evaluated with even the smallest amount of common sense. Yet people still act like anyone who got rich that way makes them…