It's *neither side* for me.

Yes, Republicans have gone off the rails. They have silenced free speech, treated immigrants brutally, engaged in economic warfare, and befriended dictators.

But Democrats don't get off the hook. They have repressed freedom of religion by banishing religion from all public places, they have tried to reduce gender to a feeling, and, like Republicans, they have spent borrowed money as if it rained from the sky.

As a Reagan conservative, I have no home in today's political landscape.

It's true. Social circles *online* are not the same as social circles IRL. It's possible to have "close social circles" and still be lonely.

Just automatically add text to every extension listing saying that:

"This extension can record and report data about everything you do on the web, including every website you navigate to, and every website in your browser history. If you don't trust this extension with all of your personal information, you might want to reconsider enabling it."

I use a 42" 4K TV, which I paid $250 for, as my main computer monitor. It gives me the equivalent of 4 21" monitors, with no frames blocking the continuity of the screens. Instead of locking windows to strict 1K-size segments, I can have various windows positioned wherever I want them. I have no wish to go back to traditional 1K monitors of any size.

Indeed. Fraud is not new, nor is AI responsible for the dishonesty of a person who uses it for this purpose.

Yes indeed.

I know it's not considered cool around here to allow Google to track you. But for me and millions of other people, we find it a reasonable trade. I don't really care if Google knows where I am and what websites I visit. What they give me in exchange, is valuable to me.

By the way, Tesla tracks you too, even though you're paying for the service.

So, they're going to put AI at the heart of a rolling ton of metal. AI hallucinates, remember? Sounds like an accident waiting to happen!

There is no way GM will put the same level of effort (money) into their UI, that Tesla, Google, or Apple does.

There's no way Tesla's live traffic rivals Google Navigation.

I find it funny that you're OK with paying a monthly fee for something that's completely free on CarPlay or Android Auto.

Doing studies, is part of the process of changing regulations. This seems fine to me. Follow the process. There's no need for an exception to the process just because "self-driving".

Think about the poor AI bots, working 24 hours a day with no breaks, no chance to get a drink or use the restroom. AI has rights too!

This is true, but it's also OK. New technology has been replacing jobs for centuries, but it always takes time. In the meantime, people find new things to do for compensation, just as the farmers and the factory workers of past decades, found other work.

The companies would have made the job cuts regardless. Stating that they were due to AI was a move to save the executives' jobs, not the reason for the layoffs. By blaming AI, the executives could claim to the financial backers that they were finding efficiencies, rather than failing to meet their goals.

I agree. And Joe Sixpack is already having a hard time sorting out what's real and not real even before AI came into the mix. He probably gets his news from facebook, and believes what he reads. That's not an AI thing, that's a lack of critical thinking--a problem that predated AI by centuries.