dominikhoffmann

Even knowing that it was AI-generated, we will not have a sense of what the biases in training the AI system were. It will sound so real that we will instinctively give it credence. Already we see in the film-making of historical movies, which pay great attention to visual details, that such an approach can sneak mere historical opinion past us as fact.

What I find most annoying is that these types of spam email messages are like Legionnaires’ disease. Legionnaires’ disease is a bacterial disease, which has not been eradicated, because there is a reservoir of the bacteria in soil and water. Even, if we achieved herd immunity at any point, newborns from then on would be able to catch the disease.

The political spam I receive contains Unsubscribe links, which, I believe are legit. But, because of the external reservoir of email addresses, which is held in my case by the RNC, I am put on new subscriptions all the time. That’s what you get for registering to vote under a specific party or making a donation to a political candidate. Of course, the law will never change, because a majority of politicians would have to vote to deprive themselves of a source of funding for their next reelection campaign.

As for Google, in principle, it’s a matter of not getting in the way of political free speech protected by the 1st Amendment. Whether there is some other calculation behind it, like that they did the statistical analysis of which party this would benefit more, I don’t know but would suspect there is. 

What technology would be necessary for the Home app to know, which room exactly I am in, so it knows, which fan to turn on, when I say, “Hey Siri, turn on the fan!”?

I am sure a more or less accurate house floor plan stored in the Home app would help. Hopefully, it would be protected like other personal data.

The benefits of Brexit are many. Not being subject to unelected bureaucrats and technocrats making decisions with plenty of unintended consequences is just one of them. Even in the U.S. there is far too much regulation.

With streaming we finally have the equivalent of a-la-carte cable TV. I do not think, however, that consumers really save money, if they choose a selection one streaming plans that would duplicate what they typically watch through their cable TV provider.