larryjw

I’ve never seen this discussed here. But I wonder why Apple has been seemingly focused on glass.

It’s general properties, availability, easily recyclable, it’s certainly better than plastics for various reasons. 

It's not against the law to "steal" an idea. Ideas are not protected by any law. Trade Secrets on the other hand are protected only while it remains secret. Divulge the secret and you're toast. Embed the idea in a document then the document itself is protected by Copyright but the idea expressed by the document can be used by anyone. 

Fairness might suggest that others ideas be acknowledged, but there is a vast gap between an idea and its implementation in a legally protectable form. 

foregoneconclusion said:

Hmmm...so the device falls somewhere between "underwhelming" and "blows you away". That's certainly covering the bases. 

No. The claim is the iterations of the the device has gone from underwhelming to blown away. The first iteration is probably still underwhelming, if the report is correct. 

Since Reagan, the super greedy c-suite have been outsourcing product creation to other countries. The last I heard, the US cannot produce clothes, silverware, chips, hospital fluid bags, most critical care cart drugs, many vaccines. The whole c-suite logic was to transform US companies into shell corporations solely for the c-suite suits to pocket all the money earned. They buy yachts, mansions and politicians. 

The US has lost 2 generations of productive workers while blaming China and other "eastern" countries of "taking our jobs". 

No, China and the other countries of doing the work Americans can no longer do. We no longer even have older workers who can mentor younger workers. And it's the US's fault -- no one else is to blame. The government didn't control the Corporations and let them rape the taxpayers for the c-suite sole benefit, leaving the US with little in the way of productive capacity. We've got a lot people getting rich off of money manipulation, but few doing anything useful. 

There's no quick fix for this collapse. The US doesn't have the infrastructure to rebuild.

For a less optimistic view of the ability to fix the problems of AI, see Survey of Hallucination in Natural Language Generation in ACM Computing Survey, 55, 12, Article 248 (March 2023). This is a comprehensive review of hallucination, mitigation attempts.