In my view, religion has often been used as a convenient excuse for committing atrocities when it has served the perpetrator's purposes. But those purposes have not stemmed from religious core itself.

For example, the crusaders raped and plundered their way to Jerusalem, paying little heed to which religion their affected had, including the sacking of Constantinople (which was Christian) in 1204.

North American slavers found entitlement to own slaves from some Bible text wherein some important figure had had a servant with dark curly hair.

It will hurt to pop the bubble, but it will hurt more the longer we wait.

Remember: Microsoft always lies. Microsoft does not even speak the same English as regular people.

Driving is a social activity.

You stop for someone who wants to cross the road. You don't just follow traffic laws and keep traffic flowing.

This requires a small amount of direct communication. Eye contact. Hand gestures.

As a bicyclist and pedestrian, I have often had to wave cars along when they've stopped for me. I can't do that to a self-driving car.

You also have to assess potentially dangerous situations, that are out of the ordinary.
AI is notoriously bad at being useful at handling situations they have not been trained on.

Ferrari is working with Italian fintech Conio

The name checks out ...

Last time these rumours went around in June, it was said that the SoC would have been an A18 Pro. It supports 8 GB RAM and 512 GB storage.

But we'll see.

No. We are in the middle of a warm period of the current cycle.
Anthropomorphic global warming is only making things worse.

It is not normal for ice caps to completely melt.
Ice-age cycles last around 100 000 years, and this has been seen in ice core samples from glaciers that are multiples of 100'000 years old.

Santa Claus is a blend of the legend of Saint Nicholaus -- a bishop, and Father Christmas -- from English folklore.

Each has been depicted in many garbs and colours throughout the centuries, including red, before the traditions blended together.
In the Dutch Sinterklaas tradition, he is definitely a bishop wearing red with gold trim, with a red bishop's mitra and staff.
When people have dressed up in the English tradition specifically, they have often chosen other colours, such as green, to as not be mistaken for Saint Nicholaus or the more modern Santa Claus.

So, no, Coca Cola did not make Santa Claus red. But their image of Santa Claus has been the most influential.

This was yet another of a myriad cases where police had trusted the image-recognition software without any manual review of the footage.

This can't go on. Would legislation have to be necessary for preventing it from happening again?

Even if this was actually useful and did not mess up people's code, this comes from a company that has no credibility for not doing so.

And BTW, there is already an AI project named Aardvark, used for predicting the weather.
You'd think they could have done a simple google search before announcing it...

OK. Now the bubble is definitely real ...

"... hasten the coming of Christ's return,"

Holy crap. You know what that means, don't you.

I suspect part of this is why Intel has moved so much of itself to Israel.

Gates is into "AI" now. "AI" consumes enormous amounts of energy at the expense of the climate.

So he has chosen to become a climate change denier, because it serves his interests.

Profited off the cryptocurrency boom. Energy wasted at the expense of the environment. Garbage "investments". Crazy schemes. Scams and frauds abound.

Profited off the AI boom. Energy wasted at the expense of the environment. Circular garbage investments. Crazy schemes. Scams and frauds abound.

They have. This is old news. It has been reiterated many times for several years.

I avoid "AI" for moral reasons.

I don't support theft and plagiarism. (and no, the "it is just like a human is learning" argument is invalid and you know it)
I don't support people getting unemployed because their work is stolen, mashed up and resold.

I don't support massive data centres that draw ridiculous amounts of energy, when we are in the middle of a climate crisis.

I don't support AI technology being used for things where it does not belong: where wrongly applied it can do more harm than good. The IMF has warned about using AI to control supply chain management and high-frequency trading -- where when they get in a situation that they're not trained on, you will get actions based on hallucinations, which will mess things up royally.

I don't support economic bubbles for investing in AI, and pushing AI tools on people, where there are no clear good use cases. (hello Microsoft!)

I don't support pollution from gas turbines and oil furnaces powering AI server farms. I don't support power outages in communities near AI server farms. I don't support water outages in communities near AI server farms.

I don't support price hikes of computer hardware, because "AI" moonshots are sucking it all up. "AI" is the new "crypto". Many of the "AI-bros" today were "crypto-bros" yesterday. And I did not support cryptocurrencies because of many of the same reasons mentioned above.

I don't support using technology that is a dead end, and instead hoping that throwing more hardware on the problem will make up for it.

I don't support the search for "superintelligence" (what is it supposed to be for, anyway?) The tech giants have not solved the "alignment problem" by the slightest, and are actively ignoring the problem: people who worked on it have been laid off, or left by their own volition to warn us about it.
Like Geoffrey Hinton ("The Godfather of AI"), Stuart Russel and tens of thousands of other people, I have signed a petition against it, and you should too!

But are there useful applications of neural networks? Of course there are. Image upscaling. I use the neural network engine in my phone every time take a picture with its camera. Recognition of anomalies in medical images, etc. etc.
But those are not part of the bubble, and they are not commonly called "AI". Have some reasonable expectations!