I'm in web development. I haven't seen that AI can produce code that is much better than Microsoft FrontPage from 1996.

Frontpage did not kill web development as much as the fearmongering said it would.

And never have trees or shadows.

There is technology to turn translucent glass into solar panels, but the efficiency is so low as to not be useful, especially for the needs of the car.

Ultimately, this is the problem with this solution. Even if you covered the entire car in solar cells, they wouldn't be efficient enough to generate enough electricity to be useful. Yes, it could charge your car a little bit, but it's far easier to have large static solar cells and transfer the energy to the car.

I have a cable modem sitting on my desk next to a router. The router plugs into my wall. It then travels to different rooms in the house, where I have televisions hooked up to the wall, because 4K over wifi is daft. Downstairs, next to the TV, I have a NAS containing digital movies.

All of that is easily within 100m and would benefit from that technology.

No, it's essentially admitting that they're no better than average, for an industry that's been plagued by a terrible work environment and marches of death for more than twenty years. They're trying to put a bright face on a bad number. A smart HR department would recognize that they're not compensating people enough for "merely average" and work to fix those numbers, but that seems to be rare in today's market.

That's not how taxes work. Taxes are based on a percentage, not a flat cost. A well to do area at the same tax rate as a poor one will get more tax revenue with the same amount of people. In order to fund education with the same dollar amount, the poor area would need to tax their people at a much higher rate than the rich one or else the tax money would need to roll up to the state level and then be distributed evenly.

They don't even need to examine the source code. Sometimes it's obvious just from common bugs. If a particularly nasty bug is present (and fixed by the original developer), seeing that bug or an eerily similar one in another product is a sign that that code has been lifted from your copyrighted product.

Except the law doesn't say that you can't sell packages. It says that you must offer them individually. That means if I only want the Science channel, I shouldn't have to buy the Super Ultra Mega package of channels that I will never watch because Science is only in that package. I can just buy the Science channel on top of basic service.

Cable companies already do this with movie and sports channels.

Yes... when inhaled or ingested. Do you think we're going to burn or eat solar cells?

If the houses that have them on their roofs burn down, yes.

(not to say that's intended, but it should be a concern with houses that commonly burn down)

No, I would like low latency and fast internet, please.

Serious question: How do you find out about new products that are relevant to your interests?

I regularly browse the web with my adblocker turned on. The TV I watch doesn't have advertisements (i.e. binging shows on Netflix) or is completely irrelevant (i.e. my kids' shows that advertise the latest crap toy or game). I will occasionally see something on social media that my friends share, but honestly, they don't have a lot of the same interests that I do.

The only way that I can really find out about new products passively is if I control the Facebook ad stream to provide products relevant to me. Because I can control that ad stream, the products are relevant, and not random crap from Wish or Taboola.

I regularly visit my ad preferences to remove and even add things that make sense. This way, I get advertisements for things that I actually want, like new book releases, offers from cloud computing companies, and sales on education classes.

Sure, they're 'advertisements' from those companies, but if I'm going to see ads, I'd rather see ads for things that actually interest me and keep me informed about new products that I can research more information about later.

You can have different link text than the url it goes to. For example, you can have a link like this: Google.com In other words, someone put in an advertisement that looked like the actual Google advertisement, but changed the URL to their malware site set up to look like Google's.

You've actually proven my point. With AlphaGo Zero, the programmers gave the program inputs (the action space and the rules) and the desired output (winning the game) and used a learning algorithm that they made.

That doesn't mean that AlphaGo Zero can suddenly decide it wants to lose for whatever reason. It has been programmed to win and it will try to win every time.

The human mind has a tendency to personify inanimate objects. It's how our brain works. The trick to autonomous AI isn't to make an AI actually think for itself, but to trick the human brain into thinking that it is. That's why chatbots that have won the Turing test competition fool the human judges and don't actually think for themselves.

No, that isn't Autonomous AI. That's programming.

AI today is just math. It's a series of statistical probabilities and programmed actions based on those probabilities. AI doesn't "think". It calculates the probable 'correct' action, as determined by the programmer, and is programmed to act upon it.

The difference between now and 50 years ago is that we now have the math and CPU power to provide less and less information up front to more complicated math problems so that they'll determine the correct output that the programmer wants without having to provide exactly the right inputs. We're at the point now where we can determine data 'close enough' from real life that it's usable for the average person.

I don't know that we'll ever get to the point where true Autonomous AI will exist because, as programmers, the more we understand about what the AI is doing, the more we understand that deep down, it's just programming that the developer made.

To the end user, the fact that you can summon your car from across the parking lot in the rain or drive across the country using autopilot seems like the car is thinking for itself. To a programmer, it's just a simple bot AI that controls a car from point a to b.

They actually gave him an offer of 419, but he rounded up to 420 because the 420 reference amused him.