They produce(d) very similar products; bionic eyes. The situations are pretty directly comparable.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete There’s a bunch of other articles if you search for “bionic eye obsolete” or similar stuff. Turns out we had them more like 20 years ago.

I’d say it’s more like a way to describe a certain kind of algorithm. One that adapts in some way to inputs that defy simple classification. Ultimately you’re probably just safe to replace AI in modern news and internet discussion with LLM or CNN.

They had something like these in the US like ten years ago but the company(companies?) that made them went under and the people who got them lost their vision again as the bionic eyes degraded and couldn’t be repaired. Giving sight to the blind was not profitable, I guess.

Like most things, meaning depends on context. In the most common context of “news about AI” we’re talking about generative AI: image/video generators, LLMs, and to a lesser degree coding assistants. If you want to know more about what these technologies share in common, look up what a “perceptron” is and how it works.

More generally AI could mean anything from a neural network based approach to problem solving, to a completely deterministic, hand coded heuristic. A pure decision tree could be AI in the case of video game NPCs, for example.

I’ll believe the machines are sentient when they tell their boss to eat shit.

Well, the bots do. Like 90% of viewbotting, click farming, follower buying etc is sold by people running phone farms.

More metaphorical than hypothetical, imo

Gender affirming truck.

Geofencing is not trivial, cheap, or even reliable. Are there any cases of sites being legally required to geofence or do they all do it to preemptively avoid legal issues? I’ve only ever seen the latter.

I’m not trying to argue what is or isn’t the current state of law around this; I’m pointing out the absurdity of enforcing it this way and the strange way it’s being used to backdoor state laws into federal ones. This is extremely stupid from a technical, and legislative standpoint.

Allowing individual states the ability to dictate laws for the entire country is even more dangerous, for the non-hypothetical reasons we are currently experiencing.

And what you’re describing is exactly what happens with international websites. Its why you can go find tons of websites with open media piracy being hosted in Russia. Are parties in Russia now subject to US laws?

If someone comes from Utah to my state and then I break one of Utah’s laws against them, does that mean I’m subject to Utah’s laws? They aren’t doing business in Utah. People in Utah are doing business with them.

I don’t have any way to prevent access to my site based on what laws you’re subject to. Nor do I have any desire to learn 52 states worth of individual laws that may or may not apply to me. I didn’t wire your computer up to the internet, you did that.

Why is a company or person that doesn’t exist physically in Utah at all responsible for adhering to Utah’s laws? Should be their government’s responsibility to block sites, not the site’s responsibility to block Utah.

Driverless cars are just full of ambiguities. Who’s liable when it kills someone; does anyone go to jail; do they have their license revoked? Do they get points on their license for all these tickets; cumulatively, or per car? If their license gets revoked (do they even have a license?) do you suspend the whole fleet, or just that “version” of the driver software?

These things do not belong on the road.

Tiered shovel subscriptions.

The Catholic Church is on the same level as many of those companies, and guilty of many of the same crimes. It’s absolutely “relative” and relevant to the topic at hand.

Unless they’re literally roasting them over an actual literal fire I don’t care. You can’t shame the shameless.

dont forget the pearl clutching “but think of the children!” implication that they desperately want to fill specifically your daughters’ heads with all of the above.

Trump said they tried this by routing them weapons through the Kurds and the Kurds just kept the weapons.

Me too, which is why I hate this fucking holiday.