FTA: "Samuel Sparks Fisher, who became the Commissioner of Patents in 1869, pointed out that “it must soon become a serious question to determine what disposition is to be made of the models.” The next year, Congress passed new legislation, dropping the requirement for models."

Re-read the post you replied to: "The USPTO will grant you a patent on your perpetual motion invention if you submit a working model."
If you can submit a working model, then I think you've got credibility (and have apparently discovered an error in known physics).

Also, by definition, a rejection for lacking utility would be inappropriate if the perpetual motion machine does work.

Yep. Want to use the Amazon app or watch Amazon Prime movies? First, please install the Amazon App Store. Want to watch Netflix? There's a Netflix TV and Netflix Movie app, both available from the Netflix app store. Facebook? Oh, you want the Meta Store for that. It's your one-stop shop for all your Meta product needs, but not anything from other companies.

Eventually, your first several screens of apps will all be app stores to support the few useful apps you did install.

Interviewer: "Uh... hello, Mister Job Seeker, I guess. You realize that this is the Grace Hopper Celebration right?"
Mr. Job Seeker: "Yes, but they can't keep men out!"
Interviewer: "Sure, but... Well, let's start with question one on my list: what does Grace Hopper mean to you personally and how have you experienced discrimination as a woman in tech?"

That's what this was. FTA: "The nonprofit says it believes allyship from men is important and noted it cannot ban men from attending due to federal nondiscrimination protections in the US." The short-sighted part for the men overruning this is that the recruiters who were there were specifically looking for female candidates, since that was who the fair was being actively promoted to, and this reduced their ability to meet with those candidates. I would not be surprised if many of the male candidates' resumes went straight into the trash at best, if not into a "don't ever hire" folder.

You know that trademarks can last forever, right?

That kind of is the current rule. Once filed, you cannot change anything in your specification or figures. You can amend the claims, but only to the extent they are supported by the original specification and figures. Any changes in the spec or figures is considered new matter, and you lose your filing date.

Though you are, of course, correct, the important part for this article is that you still need to get that registration, and the copyright office will not register works naming an AI as an artist or author.

Copyright is automatic, as soon as you fix an original creative work in a tangible medium, but registration is required as a prerequisite to suit. In other words, you can't enforce your copyright until you register it. You don't need to register it immediately (though you lose rights to statutory damages and attorneys' fees if you don't), but you need to register it at some point prior to filing suit for infringement.

See 17 USC 411(a): "Except for an action brought for a violation of the rights of the author under section 106A(a), and subject to the provisions of subsection (b), no civil action for infringement of the copyright in any United States work shall be instituted until preregistration or registration of the copyright claim has been made in accordance with this title..."

I asked it to remind me of various movies, songs, and books based on short descriptions. It absolutely nailed the movies and songs, got the better known books, but on the more obscure ones, it created books that don't exist, saying something like, "I believe you're thinking of '[book title]' by [author], ISBN [numbers], which includes [features I asked for]." But if you look up that book title, author, and ISBN, they don't exist. It's very confidently incorrect.

I've used it to:

• -write a short sympathetic email to a colleague whose parent passed away.
• -write a short email to a former client asking how they were doing and seeing if they had any work for me.
• -suggest titles for a blog article on AI.
• -write the opening paragraph of th blog article (which I used as a start, but then rewrote).
• -suggest songs with singers in particular ranges for my wife to sing for karaoke.

It's at the level of a very dumb admin assistant, but for admin assistant level things, it's not bad.

Unless they're from a different team. Say your 4-person team is in at a 4-desk cube on MWF, and another 4-person team is in using the same cube on TR. Half the real-estate, still in-person collaboration, if that's important to your organization.

That's like saying that condoms don't offer any advantage over abstinence.

Yep. It made a difference when a 30" television was considered "large", but I can get an 85" Samsung television for $3700 at Best Buy that will fill the same amount of my vision from my couch as a theater screen from the middle of the room, and I can put my feet up and have a drink.