Epic complained bitterly about having to fork (knife) over money to Apple and Google for using their infrastructure. Now they're trying to use JEJ without paying for it not to mention Lucasfilm (did they get the rights to Darth Vader?).

Does this include political surveys? I mean, we all consider political polls to be suspect especially when they don't agree with our own views. Is this charming little stat going to call into question every political poll now? And how do we know that the statistics are accurate? Aiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!!!

Fundamentally, I have no problem using AI to do research as long as you verify the results. I regularly use AI to research things like programming questions or to check somebody else's claims about something. I look at it as a far more efficient google search. Instead of wading through a lot of search results that are often very dated, I get something pithy. But I test the results. If the AI gives you a result that should in theory be correct but isn't because the programming language doesn't have the function the AI thinks it should have, I tell it that it's wrong. I half hope that it would correct the model but who knows if that happens. It would be cool if the people who wrote the programming language did this so they could add functionality that should really be there.

In this case, a paralegal should have been dispatched to go look up the citations. Not that complicated. AI is the natural progression that started with a physical library and then to the internet. AI accurately (not correctly) incorporates human "expertise" into the information. It doesn't currently have a good way to check that the human "expertise" is bullshit or not. We still need to verify the information.

Not to mention that the UN can pontificate all it wants but the security council is the only group that has any power and even then it only take one nation to torpedo any resolution. The place is a waste of valuable real-estate.

Are we at the point where an FDM printer can make production-quality parts? Everything I see is some organic shape like everybody's D&D character that only needs to sit on a shelf. SLA printers are better but in my experience you need SLS technology to really make sturdy parts and the surfaces aren't smooth like you'd get from injection molded parts.

Apple and Google are providing the "infrastructure" that allows mobile commerce to exist. Surely, you're not against having to pay to support infrastructure.

Test the thing in New York City or Boston and then get back to me. I want to see video with sound so I can see how often it gets honked at, cut off, and given the finger.

Every single story of this type has the same premise. The assumption is that the "science" is pure and unadulterated, that there are no redundancies or inefficiencies in the organization, and there are no paper-pushers who don't contribute to the work product. All of that exists everywhere in government just as it does in the private sector and all of those people get a paycheck with guaranteed raises every year and a pension and carry significant overhead costs. The difference is that the government just magically gets more money and doesn't have to convince people outside of government that the work they do has value. Government has no sales people who have to produce.

Way back in the mid 80s, I had an original IBM PC and a friend had a Mac. We decided to see what would happen if we pit them against each other in chess. (The Mac won likely due to the higher clock speed). I would totally love to watch a pair of AI's duke it out in an AI court (with both an AI judge and a human judge).

If it doesn't look like a fountain, I'll be disappointed.

Who wants to bet on the conclusions:
1) There are not enough trees despite the lack of a baseline
2) First world countries are to blame for the state of the biomass
3) Third world countries are being forced to cut down their trees so first world countries have to subsidize their governments.
4) China and California are not to blame for anything.

Nope. Sorry. Deal breaker.

Potentially, yes. But any transient magnetic field onboard the vehicle or not accounted for in the environment is a potential problem. How does this system distinguish between the earth's magnetic field which is fairly weak from high current wiring or a motor with an armature that has it's own magnetic field and changes orientation?

Now pay up or come up with another term.

Make a lot of noise over here so that over there you can get all sorts of intelligence.