If you're referring to the Carlin quote, he recognized the difference but had to deliver the line to an audience made up of a goodly portion of people who were already drunk and/or stoned.

If you're referring to what I wrote, the IQ test (which I recognize is not actually accurate because of cultural bias, but it's a phrase that everyone understands) then an IQ of 100 is designed to be the midpoint, with half the population above and half under. Unless it's changed in the last quarter century, it was intended to measure the mean.

Nooooo! I'm still paying off my 3D television set, you insensitive clod! It makes movies look so real!

Oh, carp. Posting to fix bad mod.

And what about the half of the population which has an IQ lower than 100? Dumb people need to eat too, and if they can't they pick up pitchforks and torches (metaphorically). When robots run by AIs are washing dishes and picking strawberries the people who previously did those jobs are not going to be doing things requiring "human creativity and judgement".

Indeed, so the more the insurance cartel can charge the more profit they can suck in. That's not a hard equation. Perhaps if there were actually some minimal amount of competition allowed in the business prices might be lower, but that's just crazy talk . . .

Yep. There are ultrasound wands that can plug into your phone, and AIs that can analyze the scan, for under $3000.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mems...

Don't mistake ChatGTP as representative of all types of AI, because it's not. And you shouldn't mistake "highly-trained jobs" as being only ones requiring extensive education, it takes years of training to run the largest heavy equipment but China already has fully automated open pit mining. AI is automating drafting of building plans, logistical planning, and purchasing, all fields where 'hallucinations' would be catastrophic and yet it doesn't occur. The lack of education about this exceedingly important field, even among those who one would expect to be more technologically knowledgeable like SlashDot users, is appalling.

Nonsense. It takes years to train up a radiologist. It's supply and demand. Nothing to do with AI.

Why would they want more fuel-efficient vehicles to be built?

Follow The Money.

Dementia is not the problem you think it is.

As long as it gets investigated starting in about 40 years, the Warner employees will be fine.

I'd worry more about Netflix. Didn't AOL buy Warner previously? I don't think that went well for AOL....

It's monkeys with typewriters,

All the way down.

I'm still trying to figure out how that's possible.

Easy. Let's say the NYT article says Trump is a thief. The AI reads the article, regurgitates it to one of its users with hallucinations, like Trump is the antichrist. Now the user thinks the NYT article said Trump is the antichrist because the AI said so, and goes postal with a shotgun.

I don't know what you mean by "free"? But on the off chance you mean "free as in beer" I will point out that the owner of said beers has the right to offer the beer free to one person, while not making it free for another person or even AI for that matter.

Just because the NYT allowed someone to see an article for free does not mean, ipso facto, that *you* are entitled to see that article for free yourself. In particular copyright is not transitive.

Thanks for pointing that out, far too many people think that ChatGPT is representative of all AI. There are a LOT of exceedingly important uses AIs of various types have been put to, this being one one of them. Robotics for example relies on it completely, the days of writing thousands of lines of code just to get your robotic quadruped to walk in a straight line on a level floor are gone (thank goodness). Atlas can do a backflip and Picklebot can unload a truck of random boxes because they are controlled by a properly trained AI.

Are you talking about "American courts" by any chance? Because there are plenty of courts out there with vastly different standards.