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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Agreed, although for a different reason.
Amazon's arrogance, I suspect, will eventually be the company's undoing. And this move, in the long run, will help make clearer to the general public how arrogant Amazon is.
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I can't see .book sparking mass outrage.
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And I certainly hope they abandon plans for drones piloted by artificial intelligence, as these could kill people (for example, by downing power lines)*. But if Amazon wants to do something that's pretty harmless, like buying the .books domain, thus making visible its will to dominate the book trade, I like it.
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My guess is that AI drones will prove far safer than drones piloted by even the best humans. Also far safer than the delivery trucks that are being used now.
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* Could expensive drones remotely piloted by skilled humans -- one human per drone -- be reasonably safe? Yes, but even Amazon couldn't afford the loses from that delivery model. Could drones piloted by artificial intelligence ever be reasonably safe? Sure, but not in the next decade or two.[/QUOTE]