In addition to the environmental issues, surely a wide disparity in dialects and speech patterns must have played a role? ML/NLP models largely be trained on clear, precise - and predictable - English language must struggle when you add in an accent, slang usage and age/geo-specific language choice?
Also... McDonalds isn't in the business of selling food. It is in the business of owning real estate and selling "inputs" to its franchise holders. It makes money by selling equipment and food inputs to franchisors. It can't grow revenues if it doesn't find new things to sell to franchisees.
I think the biggest issue with the decentralised crowd is they think their target market is their (technical) peers. Web publishing was a cul de sac until it went WYSIWYG. Dialup internet didn’t take off until the likes of AOL dumbed it down.
Until the decentralisation experience becomes AOL simple, it will remain a backwater.
I think the key language here is pause "commercial use". They're not asking for a pause on R&D - just not making the tech/products available to the market (to quote: "temporarily pause commercial use"), until such time as agreed guardrails can be applied. This is a much more pragmatic solution than the "open letter" calling a halt on R&D.
I've seen an increase in strangers messaging me on WhatsApp. When I ask them how we know each other, they tell me a friend passed on my details and said I was a good person to know, they're new to the city etc. If I press on the details, they eventually say something along the lines of "Oh, I mistyped the number I was given - I was meant to text someone else" (in some scenarios they go straight to this line when I ask how we know each other). Invariably they then say "you sound like a nice person, let's chat". Classic scam setup.
>>The actual human connection features of Facebook turned out to be a novelty<<
I don't agree. FB play(ed) an important role for me: helping me keep my extended family across the goings on in my child's life (they all live elsewhere). It was quite good at making grandparents/aunts/uncles feel connected etc.
But that utility is largely buried beneath a growing list of 'features' with little appeal - I don't need prompts to add people I know. I don't need yet another marketplace. I don't need short-form videos from complete strangers.
Today, 80%+ of my newsfeed feels like irrelevant content - and that's what's killing FB.
Personally I am curious why no one is exploring the M2M applications of crypto.
If we look forward to the time all (most?) vehicles are autonomous, I can see a need for a ‘market mechanism’ which allows vehicles to request/cede priority.
Driver A wants to get to Point B in a hurry, so has an incentive to request Drivers C and D to allow their vehicle to pass. If Drivers C and D have no rush, they accept the incentive. Crypto (or a similar token), handled by the vehicles, enable this.
My take is that it is a leadership skill weakness. It is an outgrowth of the (poor) management principle of: if you can't measure it, you can't manage it.
A lot of executives have little experience working with/managing staff - in real time - they cannot see. I've certainly worked under CEOs whose default mindset was "If I cannot see X at their desk, they are not contributing" etc.
Yes, these execs can look at monthly productivity/output reports and do the math retrospectively, but on a day-to-day basis, they lack the skills/tools to manage what they cannot see.