Microsoft strokes UK's ego by pooh-poohing EU approach to AI regulation Microsoft chose a UK parliamentary hearing as the venue to slam the EU's efforts to regulate the development and introduction of AI. Hugh Milward, general manager, corporate, external and legal affairs at Microsoft UK, told the Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday that the EU presented "a model of how not to do" AI …
Scientists have been researching the Cabinet to determine if its actions are due to AI (Actual Intelligence) or merely the results of applying ML (Meatbag Learning, 'Aping') techniques trained on poor quality datasets such as the Daily Mail.
Commenting on the research, our correspondent XTron3000 is dubious: "There's no evidence at this time that the UK Cabinet is displaying Actual Intelligence. And even if it were in some small, limited areas of activity, that's not the same as thing as Self Awareness, which in any case even our most optimistic projections suggest is at least a decade away."
Indeed, a similar headline might read 'Car thieves poo-poo EU regulators insisting that car doors must have locks. The International Federation of Thieves explained to British MPs why insisting on locks or any other similar mechanism, stood to stifle innovation in the car sharing economy. '
Like they had it right shoehorning the rule into banking regulation, that you have to enter your pin every five contactless payments or when sum of transactions go above £125 or so?
This means it broke contactless payments and made contactless on the phone more convenient - aka more personal data for Google and Apple.
It seems to me that EU sabre rattling is just a negotiation of how many brown envelopes the corporations wanting to use AI can slide under the table.
In a typical corrupt EU fashion.
"Like they had it right shoehorning the rule into banking regulation, that you have to enter your pin every five contactless payments or when sum of transactions go above £125 or so?"
so you want your bank draining more than £125 when you get your card stolen. just so you don't have to type a pin, what a lazy twat.
seems sensible to limit it.
you must be the king of couch potatoes if your too lazy to type a pin.
so you want your bank draining more than £125 when you get your card stolen. just so you don't have to type a pin, what a lazy
Did you think this comment through? Now that you have to enter pin for every 5th however big transaction, you are increasing the attack surface.
It's now super easy to look over one's shoulder when they type their pin in for that latte and with a pin they can steal much more.
Furthermore if bank sees that you revealed your pin, then they don't need to pay the stolen money back to you.
If anything this is just to cover bank's arse and ensure people migrate to phone wallets so big corporations have more of your data.
It's not a larger attack surface.
having to follow someone to shoulder surf on the 5th transaction, followed by finding an opportunity to steal the card is a smaller attack surface than just stealing the card.
Not having to do fuck all is a bigger attack surface.
the rest of your post is just tinfoil hat bollocks. Mr big brain.
Contactless is supposed to have a range of a few cm. Enthusiasts with a Pringles tube have got that up to 30cm. RF engineers have reached 60cm - the width of a door. I asked my bank for a card without contactless so I could walk through shop doorways without given them my ID. If the EU has banned authorisationless payments the please lets rejoin the EU.
Microsoft cynically realising that you can play these fools like a piano if you want to avoid regulation by saying "the EU are proposing it" and watching them demand the opposite. Then I presume they'll move on to Brussels and warn them that the British might outcompete them if they dare to impose the regulations. Hey presto, they end up free to Bingify everything into a dumb AI plagarism hell and make tons of money regardless of the harm it'll cause.
The "Brexit Supporting MP" i(Stephen Metcalfe) s on record (Hansard) as saying that he is "passionate about inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers.". If he were, perhaps he wouldn't have supported Brexit, which makes collaboration (and sales) more difficult for us scientists and engineers. For example, you will usually need to have an office in the EU to supply consulting engineerring services into the EU. Not so many years ago, we had that with our UK office And if the muppets in westminster get their way and cause the UK to mis-align with EU regulations, we'll have to do design work to one standard, and to sell it in the "other" market, do extra paperwork to confirm that the design meets a second standard, assuming the westminster muppets haven't made the two standards incompatible.
Of course, if we just wanted to minimise extra work and focus on the bigger market, that would be the EU, *not* the UK....
Bag of popcorn in the free world about £1. Bag of popcorn in the cinema about £5.
Anything you want in the free world about £very reasonable. Anything you might still find on the shelves in the UK £very unreasonable.
Welcome to the post brexit lock-in. It served generations of UK businesses very well pre EEC days, with a 25% markup on everything compared to mainland Europe. Those are the glory days of fucking the population over that the conservative government are eager to get back to.
@Rol
Damn those lying farmers complaining about cheaper imports from the ROW than our EU regulated products (still need to scrap some of those laws). Or that some of my EU friends are really struggling now their more expensive food bill is even more expensive while here is far cheaper.
Or as I read your comment I hear 'waaaaaaa'
M'Lord may I present the ongoing situation in East Palestine, Ohio, USA.
Evidence is growing that the crash was made far worse by Trumpo rolling back an Obama regulation that would have required the upgrading of the braking systems on freight cars that carried hazardous materials.
A car derailled due to an overheated bearing on one of its bogies. The inertia of the train behind the faulty car caused the wreck. If the USA had a properly regulated railroad, especially in the area of brakes, the crash would have been orders of magnitude less severe.
With an almost network wide lack of 'Hot Box' detectors, the crappy braking systems, and a 2 mile long heavily overloaded freight train, it was a disaster waiting to happen.
There is a wonderful video of Trump 'cutting regulations' with his Transport Secretary, Elaine Chow (Married to Moscow Mitch) grinning broadly.
Case proven M'Lord?
"Evidence is growing that the crash was made far worse by Trumpo rolling back an Obama regulation that would have required the upgrading of the braking systems on freight cars that carried hazardous materials."
The train was not classified as carrying hazardous materials and so would have been unaffected by that Obama era policy.
The train wouldn't have had brakes even if Trump hadn't repealed it. Lobbyists watered down the law to only count trains with >20cars of murderously toxic cargo.
The railroad claimed this train wasn't hazardous because the chemicals weren't harmful (unless they caught fire) so the rule wouldn't apply anyway
So if all the conservatives that think anyone black/gay/unmarried+pregnant should get an a free"camping" holiday somewhere, and all of labour who think all landlords, bosses and intellectuals should be sent to SiberiaLancashire, formed their own parties - then pro-Europe young educated Labour voters and Conservative voters that don't froth at the mount could form a new central party and bring together their socially democratic and liberal ideas ?
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