The technological singularity is a mental construct, based on flawed assumptions. The first such assumption is that intelligence is a thing. It's in reality many different things. The second is that if you are intelligent, you can design something more intelligent than you... Well, you are intelligent, can you?

We already have machines more "intelligent" than us. In some aspects. What's really the meaning of a human-level intelligence? Something that understands the Universe as we do (as we do being the elephant in the room) but can process it faster?

I'm sure that the more we advance in artificial "intelligence", more will we realize that we are just trying to build a human simulator, nothing else. You know what? For that we already have humans. Take autonomous driving: it would be faster and cheaper to breed a chimpanzee smart enough to drive. But we don't want that, we want magic.

And magic with a low CO2 print, too.

I'm sure that will bring a whole new set of vulnerabilities. Remote typing with powerful magnets, anyone?

Countdown to that personnel escaping custody too...

What I find funnier is that AGI is now what AI used to be. They'll need a new name for the next not-quite-AI thing they'll try to market.

I just hope that they have better speed limits maps than the Opel Mokka I drove yesterday, that tells me I'm driving in a 30 zone when it's a 50 zone, or the WV Id.3 that insisted I was speeding when we went under an overpass in he highway, taking apparently the speed limit of the overpass road.

That criminals won't keep their word... colour me shocked!

About the ID-3, you are right, I just drove another and noticed the volume buttons right by my right thumb. Not liking the haptics too much but they worked. I stand corrected. Anyway, everybody should try the

Also, the Chinese. I'm not really sure it was a Lync, just sure it was Chinese. I rented it just once and remember telling the company about how uncomfortable it was, but it was some months ago and perhaps I have constructed it into being a Lync as I have seen so many on the rental company.

I rent cars a lot, and so I'm plagued but this new "Tesla" mode of putting everything in a touch screen. It's probably the most dangerous and in any case uncomfortable trend. The worst offender in new cars, is I think Volkswagen (my experience is with the electric ID.3), with some "sliding finger" controls but most of them set into the touch screen. My goodness, even volume is not a rotating knob but a sliding finger touch control.BMW seems to have gotten it mostly right, as have Toyota and Hyundai. The Chinese are of course terrible in so many ways as to have you not caring about the touch screen. That's of course a broad generalization, as I have tried just one Lynk & Co (horrid) and one Opel (passable, but you can see details, hits of the Chinese manager mind behind the possible German engineers remaining)

I haven't tried American brands so I cannot speak about them.

I have used ChatGPT just once. I wanted to find a story that I had read a long time ago about a boat race somewhere in Britain. Nice story. I had tried goodreads, but no bacon. So I used the same description with ChatGPT and the Skynet-to-be answered with no doubt that the story in question was "The two rowers", by none less than Alistair McLean. I wondered that such a know author had remained obscure to the goodread members. Cue to the loss of one hour of my life till I learned that Mr.McLean had never written such a story, the concoction was completely invented from the too-avid-to-please AI.

I think that the main mistake is calling these things AI, they are not intelligent at all, they are more like search on steroids. Steroids that can make them hallucinate, apparently.

Well, if you develop a Power App for Android, for example, it kind of nudges you, by making your path much easier, towards saving the data in SharePoint. I'm sure that if you are into the MS ecosystem, many more examples will appear. Of course Sharepoint is trash, but, if you want to follow the road of least resistance...

Many companies I have worked with are completely Microsoft sold, even if they don't use the cloud. Starting with Windows-only, even for servers, then Office, database is of course Sql Server, and now web services like SharePoint too. They would even use Windows Phone if it existed anymore. They don't even want to look to options outside MS, it's like MS is a helping hand, guiding them in the dark.

Of course if they migrate anything to the cloud they are not even looking at alternatives to Microsoft. They are in any case already completely locked-in, so that's not a concern for them. Bottom line, if you want to compete with Microsoft, you have to offer a similar range of software, not just in the cloud, but outside it. Good luck with that.

Well, I came to say that I couldn't make head or tails from the headline for a long time, so I guess that makes me old :-)

Will they take 30%?

Why is that news? Are we expecting absolute perfect, no-accidents-ever driving from autonomous vehicles?

The main problem with this solutions is not the cost and is not the technical feasibility. It's the fact that from the moment it's implemented, every single blizzard, every cold wave, every hurricane even, will be YOUR fault. Every time somebody is freezing their feet, they will be thinking "And they have a frickin' giant umbrella giving us even LESS SUN!". So, nobody want to be that "they"