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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. 

flydog said:

Wow so many clowns who claim to know somethign about copyright law.

camber said:

The document itself contains no Copyright—the word Copyright does not appear in the document nor the © symbol, no date of copyright and no individual/company who owns the copyright. These are three more impediments to a successful copyright suite against Apple. Furthermore, although Apple has deep pockets and is therefore a 'good' target for such a suite, copyright provides the least protection of all the intellectual property laws. He can threaten all he likes but a successful suit is highly unlikely!

Wrong. It is not necessary to include the (c) symbol to sue someone for infringement. Including the symbol is beneficial to the copyright holder because, among other things, it precludes certain defenses.

spliff monkey said:

because an unused sample white paper appeared in macOS? FFS Attention seeking, fame fucker. Even if he had proof he was the author it would still be a very dubious case. Without proof it sounds like a grift from a former president who's about to be a convicted felon. Humanity really needs a reboot. 

What makes it "dubious" if he can prove he is the author?  What element of a copyright infringement claim is missing here?  

AppleInsider said:

Although Wright has yet to file a formal lawsuit against Apple, it's unlikely he will succeed since he still has to provide irrefutable evidence that he is indeed the creator of Bitcoin. Given the nature of the document, it's also unclear if any copyright law applies.

No, he only needs to prove he is the author. Fictious names and pseudonyms may be used, and the author is still entitled to copyright protection.  

He also doesn't need to prove that he invented Bitcoin. All he needs to prove is that he wrote the article. 

Copyright law applies here. Clearly, the article is copyrighted by default. It needs to be registered to bring a suite. But this article has been out in the wild for 15 years. We’ve all copied it by now. A successful suite must be brought within 3 years of infringement. It think that has passed? 

badmonk said:

Pulse-oximetry technology is so long-standing and defined (50 year anniversary of the technology was last year) that it is hard to imagine they have a case.

Since it's old tech, it must be the case that the litigation turns on subtle details. Well, at least the case is not being heard in Texas.