It's not capitalism that's the problem. It's patent law created by governments.
Posts by Robert Grant
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Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death
Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months
Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
Keir Starmer tells regulators to chill as Microsoft exec takes wheel of advisory council
FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused
Domo arigato, Mr Roboto: Japan's bullet trains to ditch drivers
Research suggests more than half of VMware customers are looking to move
AI bills can blow out by 1000 percent: Gartner
Re: Customer service is not a place for AI
> People are there for when the pre-programmed bits aren't enough to sort the issue automatically
Well, yes. But that doesn't mean some of those non-automatic things couldn't be automated. It's just that the current systems haven't automated them. There'll be some things that aren't automated but could be, and some that aren't automated and (probably) can't be. The former exists.
Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI
Google slashes maps API prices in India – weeks after a competitor emerged
Google: We're still working to defeat Microsoft's 'anticompetitive' cloud policy
IT consultant-cum-developer in court over hiding COVID-19 loan
UK unions publish AI bill to protect workers from 'risks and harms' of tech
> AI is rapidly transforming our society and the world of work
Is it? To be honest I think the idea of regulating the setting and not the technology is right. I don't care if the kill order is given by an LLM or by a ball falling in the wrong hole in a pinball machine. It's what people do with its output that matters.
Cybercriminals threaten to leak all 5 million records from stolen database of high-risk individuals
> Sources speaking to The Register at the time claimed HSBC also may have closed the mosque's account because of a donation made to an unspecified Palestinian org during its 2015 war with Israel. In 2021, the mosque won a libel case against the news agency, which had to pay unspecified damages as its wrongful placement on the list caused banks to refuse to accept the mosque as a customer.
For anyone else who couldn't follow who "the news agency" was, it's Thompson Reuters, mentioned way up higher in the article.
AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy
US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans
Microsoft claims it didn't mean to inject Copilot into Windows Server 2022 this week
Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout
I'm no Oracle fan.
But:
> "Members are of the opinion that they were not being given the full facts," the report said.
The members wouldn't know what to do with the full facts. They won't understand them, any more than most of us would be able to judge the results of surveys on the land they were going to bore through to make a new Tube line. They just won't say it.
Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash
Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again
AI to fix UK Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets
Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff
Elon Musk can't wriggle out of SEC Twitter fraud inquiry
> however you believe we can do 4 things, it's just the 5th one that is a problem
It might be a problem - anything can be a problem to someone - but it seems not on the same scale of things as the others. I don't think 5 is a problem if anyone does it. I think it's particularly distracting when large, unnatural steps forward can be made in multiple areas.
Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes
Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss
IT needs more brains, so why is it being such a zombie about getting them?
Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late'
SQLite creator crucified after code of conduct warns devs to love God, and not kill, commit adultery, steal, curse...
Aspiration to deploy new UK nuclear reactor every year a 'wish', not a plan
Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment
Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama
Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim
Ariane 5 to take final flight, leaving Europe without its own heavy-lift rocket
Multi-tasking blunder leaves UK tax digitization plans 3 years late, 5 times over budget
This is all entirely unsurprising, and why no one should want the government to handle any more things than the bare minimum...
But...
I will say this: the less time businesses have to spend on fake activity like tax affairs, and the more time they can spend on doing useful things for their customers, the better off we'll all be. So the estimates on the benefits might be under-egging it.