Comment Re: hohoho (Score 1) 60
One AI to read the code and make the spec, then several other AIs to create a new AI.
Soon you'll see Daleks
Submission + - UFC-Que Choisir Takes Ubisoft to French Court Over The Crew Shutdown (reuters.com)
Elektroschock writes: When Ubisoft pulled the plug on The Crew’s servers without warning, players were left with a worthless game they’d already paid for. Now, consumer watchdog UFC-Que Choisir is fighting back, demanding gamers’ right to play regardless of publisher whims. Supported by the “Stop Killing Games” movement, this landmark case challenges unfair terms before the Créteil Judicial Court (Val-de-Marne near Paris), and aims to protect players from disappearing games.
Submission + - AMD says it will buy Intel (techspot.com)
ZipNada writes: In a move that feels less like a corporate transaction and more like the final punchline to a 40-year industry rivalry, AMD announced Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Intel, the company it has spent decades chasing, imitating, undercutting, suing, licensing from, and lately outperforming.
The all-stock transaction, which AMD described as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to unify x86 innovation," would combine the two companies under a single umbrella just a few years after such an outcome would have sounded ridiculous.
For most of modern computing history, Intel was the empire and AMD the scrappy survivor, the perpetual second source that somehow kept finding ways to stay alive. Now, after a bruising run of manufacturing delays, product stumbles, strategic resets, and a historic reversal in investor confidence, Intel is poised to be absorbed by the smaller company it long treated as a footnote.
The all-stock transaction, which AMD described as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to unify x86 innovation," would combine the two companies under a single umbrella just a few years after such an outcome would have sounded ridiculous.
For most of modern computing history, Intel was the empire and AMD the scrappy survivor, the perpetual second source that somehow kept finding ways to stay alive. Now, after a bruising run of manufacturing delays, product stumbles, strategic resets, and a historic reversal in investor confidence, Intel is poised to be absorbed by the smaller company it long treated as a footnote.
Comment Re: I've seen this movie (Score 3, Interesting) 148
The book Altered Carbon also uses this theme.
Comment Re: How to actually verify? (Score 1) 114
I foresee a new black market for ID cards or cloned debit cards that are used against an account with no money for the sole purpose of fake age verification.
Meanwhile scammers will now have a new path to hack into for their scams to drain your bank accounts.
Comment Re: One thing that would be interesting (Score 2) 41
I see that AI can find bugs that are tedious to find and only exists in corner cases that normal humans usually don't test. For every successful positive test case there can be a large number of negative cases with subvariants. That's where AI might be helpful - create all those test runs.
But to write code that's maintainable, with high performance and stable - that's a different thing.
Test code that doesn't work - just generate a new batch, it won't damage the product you deliver but it might have some flaws.
Hackers often utilizes corner cases when they breach into systems.
Comment Re: What did he expect? (Score 1) 122
We are in the Max Headroom world.
Only way out would be a nasty way.
Comment Re: AI is becoming more "human" every day (Score 4, Interesting) 72
"This bot has performed an illegal action and must be terminated."
In reality though the laws of robotics that Asimov defined might be what we need.
Comment I thought it was the DG Eclipse (Score 5, Informative) 39
I thought it was the development of the DG Eclipse that the book was about.
In any case it was a great story, with the machines named Coke and Gollum. Originally the idea was Coke and Pepsi, but one of the machines was temperemental so it got renamed.
Comment Re: $500 (Score 1) 182
It would be fun for US companies to try to start up domestic manufacturing on a short notice.
This restriction might have worked around 1990.
Comment Re: Priorities (Score 1) 116
Make sure that the ids don't have any race idenifying data. Everyone is a mutt, there are no pure bred.
Comment Re: Microsoft accounts are ransomware (Score 2) 114
The catch with that is that every corporation that has transited into the MS accounts no linger have any internal competence left.
Comment Re: fer fuck's sake (Score 2, Interesting) 194
Price changes can be done by the hour, and some shops may find a way to abuse them. I have discovered that Media Markt tried that stunt - one price on the tag, e,g, 399, and then 499 when you check out.
Comment Microsoft accounts are ransomware (Score 4, Insightful) 114
With the Microsoft accounts they can hold every company and person and demand ransom to release them.
An US government directive can also lock out a whole country.
This is the way to make themselves 'Too important to fail'
Comment Re: Maybe, just maybe (Score 4, Insightful) 102
You pay just to get served ads.
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