Can I just get a punch card?

Tech that reads the mind is very interesting. I don't think general public scanning is possible or likely, but I imagine the early tech to allow you to use your brain to control things like your phone and stuff will be the first risk point for corporate abuse.

It's a very exciting future if the tech continues to develop. Not having to touch devices will be very useful and interesting in the future.

It doesn’t function now unless a party has filibuster proof senate except for a few things. And it’s impossible for democrats to ever get that due to how stupid senate distribution is.

Why would you use Bing? I seldom get what I want when I do, surely that would hurt their result accuracy.

Um, both why? And, no thanks. Wtf?

It occurred to me the other day that while art is the dumbest possible thing for us to have ai pursue, it makes a certain amount of sense.

Art is subjective. When put to objective take machine learning algorithms tend to do poorly. They don’t mind lying, or rather they don’t have anyway to evaluate and value true things. A subjective task is perfect for a thing designed this way.

We don’t need AI art. It’s pointless. It just turns out that making pointless art is probably what this tech is best suited to. Ask them to do anything that can be objectively evaluated and you will be disappointed.

I could be convinced that the whole thing is a smoke and mirrors grift. The “art” seems impressive right what an expression of individuality!! But, it is actually just covering up that this entire line of research has led to systems that can’t do anything functionally useful. Since most people (myself included) are not really equipped to evaluate art. We don’t notice that it isn’t very good at art either.

You mean free credit monitoring for a year and a 5$ class action settlement check is not enough for you?

We implemented these in a health care system so patients wouldn’t have to use SS numbers. It freaked people the fuck out, had to pull every one of them in six months

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Oh I have heard of cops doing that stuff. I think a lot of adults would balk at it but it’s easy to get a kid to just go along with it.

20 years ago, saying that in the future you would have had an entire industrial complex made of private companies and government agencies spying on your internet behavior sounded like a conspiracy, too.

Yet here we are.

Weren't McDonald's touch screens shown to be covered in germs, including fecal germs? So why would anyone want to press their entire hand onto something before eating?

And what's wrong with just scanning a barcode or entering a phone number like they do now?

I think you'd struggle to find anywhere in China without 5G - it's pretty universal.

You think Disraeli could wrap his mind around urbanization?

Always thought that there would be a reboot of robot wars 😅😅

Article sounded like she is high on conspiracy theories.

Correct. For example, the nuclear facilities that I used to work at had palm scanning biometrics. We can all conclude why that is a good idea. Now for Panera bread...... they can just down right go fuck themselves. They are not getting my kitten print just to be released later on in a data breach.

Boundless greed, entitlement, and outright fraud rebranded as "Effective Altruism."

Once the question is settled in court, it will be easier for smaller companies and individuals to defend themselves. Possibly not easy enough, that's true.

Microsoft uses Google search results, but blocks Google from using Bing search results. From this you draw the conclusion it's not anticompetitive?

With this 6g technology right now it is not even certain it has no negative short-, mid- and / or longterm health effects on humans, animals & nature; any idea why they step over this obstacle so easy?

Only because mr. Xi his “credit” & the claim he, Xi Jinping is a god; he thinks he can do this? That is no reason.

Because there are likely more Gods IF there is one.

Or is it just another “mistake” of another “world leader” being “used” to make society even increasingly ready for more & more robots, without (traditional) leaderships knowing what this entails exactly .. sailing along with presented (new) technology .. clearly (?)

Accepting big amounts of cash, promises & goals without really thinking about the side-effects of certain (6g) development, just wanting to be the first / most powerful on Earth.

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Why you don’t like plain white or solid colored walls everywhere devoid of any artistic expression?

Well based on the lawmakers in most countries we'll get watered down borderline useless laws roughly a decade after the point where they would have actually stopped anything.

> They seem to think they should be allowed to grow more rapidly than we've ever seen before, make billions of dollars, but have no accountability for the social chaos they cause because that would moderately impact the huge sums they make.

You describe externalities in capitalism quite nicely - not only tech.