The call centre AI anecdote that amuses me is the Air Canada chatbot that made up a policy that didn't exist, resulting in them losing in court when they tried to deny the payout: https://www.bb… (View Post)

Is representativeness actually a requirement? It's a "right to trial by a jury of your peers", not "by a jury of a statistically balanced sample of your peers". And in practi… (View Post)

I'm reminded of the way stately homes became simply uneconomic in their original setup at the beginning of the twentieth century, as the cost of labour rose and it wasn't possible to have a… (View Post)

It's not just in the air, it's in the House of Lords, isn't it? Gove's Leasehold and Freehold Reform bill doesn't make super drastic changes here, but judging from some brief… (View Post)

I'm against it for reasons including but not limited to the certainty of guilt problem. I wouldn't want it even for apparently very certain and very awful crimes, on the "hard cases ma… (View Post)