The Telecom Digest
Sunday, January 22, 2023
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| Volume 42 | Table of Contents | Issue 22 |
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| e& buys up more of rudderless Vodafone | ||
| FCC Creates The Space Bureau | ||
| Some states challenge FCC broadband map | ||
| How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy | ||
| Message-ID: <tqbi7o$1i0uh$5@dont-email.me> Date: 19 Jan 2023 08:57:16 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: e& buys up more of rudderless Vodafone by Mary Lennighan e& has acquired another tranche of Vodafone shares taking its stake in the troubled international telecoms group to 12%. The United Arab Emirates-based operator made the purchase on Tuesday, it revealed in a brief statement to the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange. As such, it now holds 3.27 billion Vodafone shares and has upped its stake from the 11% it claimed after a similar purchase in December and the initial 9.8% holding it acquired for US$4.4 billion back in May. https://telecoms.com/519450/e-buys-up-more-of-rudderless-vodafone/ -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies) |
| Message-ID: <tqbmo8$1jan9$1@dont-email.me> Date: 19 Jan 2023 10:14:20 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: FCC Creates The Space Bureau by Laura A. Stefani With a metaphorical sweep of a pen (actually, a 4-0 commission vote), FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel moved to eliminate the agency’s International Bureau and create a new Space Bureau plus an Office of International Affairs (OIA). This decision moves all satellite- and space-related work to the new bureau, while placing the agency’s long-standing international telecommunications policy work into a smaller office within the agency’s organizational structure. The agency’s goal is to “promote a competitive and innovative global telecommunications marketplace via space services.” https://www.mondaq.com/article/news/1271278?q=1803232&n=673&tp=3&tlk=1&lk=22 -- (Pleae remove QRM for direct replies) |
| Message-ID: <tqbi0p$1i0uh$4@dont-email.me> Date: 19 Jan 2023 08:53:33 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Some states challenge FCC broadband map States have already submitted more than 300,000 location challenges since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened the door for them to request corrections to its new and improved broadband map. But as a deadline for availability challenges looms, some states said they’ve encountered issues with the submission process. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/broadband/fcc-broadband-map-challenges-near-350k-deadline-looms -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies) |
| Message-ID: <20230121173128.GA1330028@telecomdigest.us> Date: 21 Jan 2023 06:31:20 +0000 From: "Marco" <mo01@posteo.de> Subject: Re: How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 04:28:56PM -0500, Monty Solomon wrote: > How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy > > ... for all the consternation over the potential for humans to be > replaced by machines in formats like poetry and sitcom scripts, a far > greater threat looms: artificial intelligence replacing humans in the > democratic processes — not through voting, but through lobbying. > > https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/15/opinion/ai-chatgpt-lobbying-democracy.html Business and society are changing all the time. Letterpress revolutioned information distribution. Electricity replaced fuels for light, computers and networking (partially) replaced paper in the office. E-mail and instant messengers replaced snail mail letters in many circumstances. Now AI ([which is] just software) replaces certain activities, like doing (very) basic research. If I need to find something out, I don't go to the library, borrow some book and the try to find it out. That is [my] grandparent's way to deal with that, I use search engines for that. AI software is able to handle basic customer questions, maybe not in the intended quality yet, but it might be improved. It is there - like cars are there - and will be used. We need to deal with that - there is no other way. I know that it can be abused - but almost anything can be abused. Is this “Chat” engine mislabelled? Is it an “AI-based response system,” or something else entirely? I don't know much about it - AI is a term that is widely used for many aspects. In some circumstances it saves time and money, like computers did in the last 30 years. Government, at least in Germany, is very, very slow. There are people who don't want to change anything, because there is no market with competition for government tasks. Ai software is also used by the big players in the internet, e.g. for suggesting content or finding answers to questions the customers ask, e.g. Amazon's Alexa. People are free to use it or not. The disadvantage: More data will be collected. I don't think that this is different from other communications. The internet is being used to influence people, TV and radio broadcasts are being used for that, since the 1920s. Did that create so many problems? |
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