So, why was the AI necessary here (besides to hype up potential investors)? The smoke detection or thermal sensors can locate a specific zone the fire is in and turn on the countermeasure directly. Is there a reason we can't just dumb-flood the whole room with the sound suppression (the same way the sprinklers we're trying to replace would)?

Most people don't want to live in a house made of dirt. Besides perceived concerns about the durability of the structure itself, it's just a matter of public perception. Living in a house made of earthen materials brings to mind settlers in mud-brick homesteads. That's not the modern living folks want. Many people buy homes with the idea of it being an investment they will resell in the future. If people don't find your home desirable you'll have a harder time selling down the line and wont get as much in return. Same reason people don't paint their house exterior hot pink.

I have a book somewhere around here from the '70s about building your own home by building into a hillside essentially (so the majority of the structure is semi underground). This style of building has obvious benefits when it comes to weather resistance and climate control. But the home you end up with is somewhat a cave with little natural light. The couple in the photograph on the cover could pass for many a neckbeard of today and his wife was shown sewing like some survivalist bride trying to maintain a home where commercial electricity isn't a thing. This is not the image people want emulate.

I'm curious how the 2016 platform managed to get it so right but everything since then has failed. Would be amusing if models are actually getting worse as they are hyped more in business.

Lots of sellers on eBay are operating storefronts for the same merchandise on Amazon and selling on Walmart and NewEgg's sites as third-parties, too.
Sellers go where the people are and the products are the same even if the prices are varied according to platform fees. Most "unique" content on eBay is individuals selling single items and not running a small business, just like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace.

Nuclear power stations take decades to build. The customer base knows this whole AI thing isn't going to really pan out even as they sell it. They need to make their money as soon as possible before the curtain falls, and that will be much sooner than this power solution will be ready.

Did you miss that lousy feature-length film they paid $40 million in distribution rights for, and almost as much again in marketing?

They'll have sand trucked in from other states to make up their shortfall, and then complain when free sand is supplied to kids' sandboxes.

That's just a way of opening the door for the developers to bribe the select people who get to decide instead of the citizens.

I might check my custom filters, as I had a few set up for Slashdot to remove the ads that were still there even after normal uBO went over it, and maybe they have changed the layout code in some way where the story is in the same element as an ad section I'd removed.

Nope. New anti-adblock measure I guess. Literally turned it on while I was browsing.
Now when I go back and look at the last story I was reading on and refresh it disappears, too.

The editors forgot the entire Slashdot story.

The browser funded by Peter Thiel? No thanks.

Suddenly the fact we keep flying jets referred to as "dinosaurs" age-wise makes sense.

I found my front door lock was not working.
I called a locksmith to come repair it.
Now it is working.

I didn't fix the front door. The locksmith did.

The headline and the summary don't seem to quite agree here. The AI analyzing code to identify vulnerabilities is not the same as fixing i.e. writing new code to patch those vulnerabilities.