OpenAI got out ahead but really, how do you beat google at this?

Technology-wise, they've had top researchers all along. Want more? Just hire them, not hard when you have infinite money.

And google has access to everything. They serve about 1/3 of the population on earth every day. Not just search but webmail, texts, maps, word processor, TV (youtube), transportation (Waymo) everything.

Google is on almost everybody else's webpages too, through Google Ads.

There isn't much about your digital life google doesn't know about, and almost every potentially productive use of AI can be deployed to billions through their own services.

Reference please. Adam Smith and Andrey Markov were  2-nd cousins ...

You should not be building on/in/about wetlands or beaches or  old-growth forests. Live near other people where children populate K-12. . Don't enshittify the environs with your old grubby human finger-prints where brook-trout or red-fish might reproduce.

Don't worry, we're all Homo Economicus by default. Perfectly informed, perfectly rational, perfectly selfish. Otherwise the whole system would be a broken farce! So each buyer will independently source their own perfect climate risk data, obviously.

You sound like a seriously disabled person, envying your  hyper-productive  betters. Perhaps liberal pedophilic billionaires fed off family trust-funds, but the wealthy in my extended family bootstrapped from poverty. So either you are mentally/physically too weak to produce anything of value, or you are a professional poor-person/parasite sucking the financial blood from any metabolism close-by. In either case I certainly hope our gene-pool avoids your contribution , noting that in a civilized culture you would already live in a barb-wired, stone-breaking gulag. 

If there is a three party Presidential race, the US House of Representatives makes the decision as to who wins.

No they don't unless none of the candidates manage to get a majority in the Electoral College, and that's not a sure thing by any means. Remember, Ross Perot tried that in both '92 and '96 and didn't carry a single state in either election.

Indeed, Trump is a "Kennedy" Democrat. Post-mod DemoRat leadership has moved so far Dadaist-left that thoughtful pork-chop (de)mocrats have jumped ship. Now, call us MAGA for upholding a Western/nationalist cultural meme ( Kennedy/Buchanan/Perot/Moynahan/Trump/Manchan ...) . If the Bush family neo-cons succeed in retaking Republican leadership we will drop them like a rabid pig.

Right, what the free market wants to do is levelize our standard of living with our low-cost competitors, or import all the chips from them (with the security and supply risks that entails).

Simply shaming Intel for seeking government handouts does not solve our problem - how to maintain a domestic industry including internal competition rather than government choosing the winners and subsidizing incompetence.

I really hope that Waymo's cars aren't relying on their Nader-beepers to avoid killing people. They should be (and AFAIK are) relying instead on their video cameras, LIDARs, and other sensors to stop the car before it hits the wayward kid/technician.

Yes, they should have done it the right way instead!

Err, what was the right way? It's not obvious to me, given that Microsoft doesn't have design control over the hardware its software runs on.

At this point, my biggest fear is that she will -- and then call me over to debug the AI-generated codebase, when it inevitably doesn't work quite right.

They're apparently active recalcitrant nuns. Odds are at least one lives to 100.

Life expectancy for an 85 year old woman is 7-8 years.

Given 3 of them, I'd bet at least one lasts a decade.

In return for the United States providing a safe haven for Flock ( and other companies ) , Flock preferentially hires USA citizens for their workforce, It's called the social contract ( or hemlock-cup for the Randists ). Pork-chop eating workers allow caviar-noshing C-Suites and investors. You say otherwise ? Then a just king would feed Flock executives to the palace lions ... gnosh gnoshgnosh ... gawd don't ya just hate it when feeding lions leave only the feet ...

"even one time"

Unless you never use a password, in which case, you log in via all the other available options BUT password. You don't notice it missing. Passwords are so 1980s, get with the program.

I don't use biometrics because .. lets just say they are their own version of compromised. You cannot be compelled to give up your Password (legally) (hammer method is still valid) but a fingerprint, face ID etc that doesn't require you to speak can be compelled. I have no idea why people think it is "more secure" to use biometrics.

Why is this labeled "flame bait".  Engineers build ... MBAs destroy. It's absolutely true. Must be a sect/nest/cult of MBAs hovering about /. ( or Chi.com disinformation agents ) to destroy any useful insights presented. Or mebby stooges for  slimy  big-4 consulting companies ...