I distinctly remember people recommending use of a tablet with external keyboard as a substitute for entry-level subnotebook computers when the latter were discontinued in fourth quarter 2012. This despite that major tablets ship with operating systems locked down not to run the sort of lightweight software development environments that could run on the desktop operating system of a netbook.

I disagree, this effectively outlaws chatbots.

This isn't merely semantics. Training is a radically different operation from programming. The pretraining of LLMs is simply throwing vast amounts of text at them. The model is able to generalize what was learned from its pretraing and apply that experience to its context. There is no explicit programming.

You claimed the chatbot was programmed to manipulate people. What did you mean by that? When I hear statements asserting such and such was programmed to do something it carries with it a presumption of intent on the part of programmer. Is this an unreasonable interpretation of your words? If this is not what you intended to say what did you intend?

AI is not executing anything. It is merely passing code to an interpreter which executes the code outside of the model.

Random examples of things AIs are able to do without having been programmed to do them:

- Language translation
- base64 decoding
- Solve simple ciphers
- Adding fractions
- Writing code in a variety of languages

If riding in one of these driverless cars would cost less than riding in a conventional taxi or Uber, I would definitely use them for the rare occasions when public transport won't work.

This is why browsers should not launch apps without first prompting. Steam, Discord, Roblox, GlobalProtect VPN, and BeyondTrust, Office 365/Teams, and gzillions more work this way. You should never click the "[ ] Don't prompt me any more for this application" button. This allows any arbitrary web site to get out of the browser sandbox and chain to security flaws (or even direct features like "subscribe to podcast") that are in the application.

I seriously doubt any streaming provider is actually going to invest in the kind of quality Australian content that really should be made and instead will invest in more of the same cheap junk that infests our free-to-air networks.

This is comically incorrect.

The point is, its possible to drive on roads in NZ that are not maintained by the government, so the tax ostensibly being paid per mile in fuel tax isn't going to maintain the road you are necessarily on...

And when driving from the UK to France, the ICE drivers are using UK road-taxed fuel, so the counter-point is the same :)

It doesn't even have to be linked to the car tax.

NZ uses "Road User Charges" for diesel - it does not have the tax built in at the pump (petrol does), so all diesel cars have to buy blocks of kilometres as tax. The government get updated when your annual vehicle inspection is done, but between those inspections its up to you to make sure you have enough spare kilometres left for your trips. If you get stopped by police and they check, being too far out is considered to be tax evasion and a criminal offence.

Who are already required to record mileage on UK roads for other reasons, so thats a solved problem.

And in New Zealand you can easily drive miles and miles on private roads, which are not maintained by the government...

I doubt it. The elites have capital to invest in the means of production. Absent this they have no real power or purpose.

When you no longer need to pay countless thousands of people to perform a task this is a double edged sword. It not only means you can make do with less it means anyone else can step in and accomplish the same tasks without you.

Chatbots are trained not programmed. If you have evidence OpenAI's chatbot was explicitly trained to manipulate people then FFS please don't keep it to yourself.

Every byte transmitted over the Internet goes over a telecommunications provider therefore telecommunications providers are responsible for everything.

They have no such thing.

Selling guns to a five year old is itself illegal under the gun control act. Walmart would be breaking the law.