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

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.

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

Huh? That does not compute. OP talked about AI. You're talking about humans. Apples and Oranges. Regardless of your attempted point about piracy.

Yup. Americans are weird. What else is new?

I'm thinking very very stupid. No sprues for casting.

Don't be silly. Trump hasn't experienced any ethical decline.

boils down to security and being able to punch through firewalls and NAT... Really there should be a protocol to solve this problem that is industry wide.

There is. It's called IP forwarding. Your router almost certainly supports it because without it and its auto-configuration friends UPnP and NAT-PMP you wouldn't be able to play lots of online games.

That's not the problem. The problem is, how do you tell your phone what your home IP address is? That also has standard solutions but ISPs don't like giving out static IPs and dynamic DNS requires that you have a domain name. Used to be you could get a free one, but those services seem to have died off so now it's $15 a year.

Agreed. This is all stuff that at MOST should be accessible over the LAN. The ESP32 is cheap and provides the WiFi and enough power to run a simple RESTful web app. If I actually need/want to access it remotely, it'll be through a well protected integrated web servie on a jump box.

A cheaper manufacturer could probably make the ESP32 do double duty as the primary micro-controller with a suitable interrupt routine.

Like it or not the cloud is a necessity for anything that extends beyond a few meters from your home.

It's not a necessity, but it certainly makes it a lot easier.

There is a problem with things that are not a few meters from your home requiring cloud access though. Like a garage door opener. Optional cloud integration so you can control it remotely, fine, but the base functionality should be local. The problem with cloud stuff is that it's an ongoing expense. If you're not paying a subscription eventually the provider is not going to be able to keep it going.