Have fun hoping. They said it "makes music"; they didn't say it "makes good music". They didn't even say it "make music good". I hope they studied Randy's Marsh's musical procedures in Southpark when he created all those Lorde songs, because THAT's how to make music good.

Yes, it's a typo - "markets" instead of "markers". But I challenge that assumption. I think it's the perfect title, and least for the cynics out there. Seldom is a medicine brought to the mass market if there's no way to profit from it.

30 years ago, I thought I had lost my mind the first time I asked someone to take a picture with their phone. I still remember how weird those words felt in my mouth. And then 10 years ago, I saw a new-in-the-box sewing machine with "Runs Windows!" plastered on the side. I thought then I had truly lost my mind. Were there device drivers for sewing machines baked into windows? Should I search for my windows directory for "bobbin.dll"?

But today is a new day, when my toothbrush runs windows and my roomba is a supercomputer. I buttered my toast with a smart-knife this morning but it blue-screened half-way through. I got a half-buttered slice instead. My smart-pillows have started to whisper advertising into my ears in the middle of the night. My smart-toilet is measuring my poop, and when it blue-screened a couple of weeks ago, well, I won't disgust you with the details.

Why do I feel so helpless when I'm surrounded by so much "smart" ?

I agree that migrations to on-prem will happen - some already have and I read about one every couple of weeks. But I was thinking about another similarity to the mainframe environment recently. Back in 1980, when I first wrote Cobol on a mainframe, we'd submit our compile/link/run jobs, and wait for the printout with the results. Since this was a college environment, that wait was often a couple of hours, unless it was the end of a semester, in which case you may have to wait until the next day.

All my work is in the cloud these days, usually involving AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, etc. I do consulting work for large corporations, and they usually have a build pipline. So when I'm working on code, I get compiler or linter errors locally, but then I have to give my code to the pipeline and let it build and deploy it. The wait is usually 15 to 30 minutes, but it can be longer if the pipeline has insufficient resources. I've waited hours for a deployment to complete on on occasion.

In the hey-days of the 90's and early 2000's, most things ran on your local workstation, which was a low-latency heaven. Unfortunately, I fear we've come full circle!

I can't. And neither can this AI.

This inspection idea is good, but here's another one: Check all Boeing planes that have issued a pressurization warning in the last year or two, since the only thing Alaska Airlines did when the warning buzzer went off was reset the buzzer and tell the crew the plane was good to go, as long as it didn't fly over water. If they've been doing that as a matter of course, it makes sense to pull any planes that issued such a warning out of service until they can be checked.

Robots have been in factories for decades. These robots will be shaped differently. Yawn...

Geeze NASA, next time just call me. All you had to do was run it under hot water for a minute, and then tap the lid a few times with the heavy end of a butter knife.

Finally, China steals something they're actually allowed to steal, and our knee-jerk reaction is the punish them for it. I guess we're just accustomed to that. And I'm ignoring anything ARM Holdings says on this one. I pretty sure RISC-V is going to eat ARM's lunch one day, and they can see it coming.

In 2000, I remember reading about the disasterous consequences of the merger that had occurred a few years earlier. The author lamented the exit of highly skilled engineers and tradespeople as the business people squeezed out the technical people, and outsourcing became the norm. In 2010, I met a young man in a nearby pub who told me his grandfather left him a bunch of Boeing stock. I suggested he move into a different stock since the writing was on the wall for Boeing - and he ignored my advice. As I look at the stock price history of Boeing this morning, it seems to have risen from about $30 in 2000 to about $200 today, with a peak in 2019 of over $400. I don't really have a point, but that sure looks like a great return, despite their sloppy execution. Oh wait, I do have a point: Don't take stock advice from a well-meaning rando in a pub.

"...to perform their own due diligence and quality assurance to validate the "accuracy and completeness" of the chatbot's output before using it for work"

Isn't that the same way we treat our colleagues? Sure, we trust they're giving us correct info, but occasionally we find out they didn't, and it's our fault for not checking with more sources.

I don't see how this chatbot is different. Folks are going to have to verify anything that sounds fishy, whether it comes from a chatbot or a blood-bot. Compare those, and we have something to talk about.

Yes, I play two games that use that key.

"...where I can float 360 degrees around the stage..."

I have no interest in peeking up Bono's skirt

This is nothing. The rich will get REALLY cranky when golf courses turn brown because it's too hot, and water is too expensive.

Unfortunately for you, you're wasting your time smacking down someone whose thoughts you regard as irrelevant. You might actually be stupider than the ones "not being paid by big oil".