EVs are excellent for urban & suburban driving for homeowners. They simply do not appeal to rural people who commonly drive long distances or need heavy duty vehicles for work. I have been a happy Tesla owner since 2013 and I know full well how awesome they are except for use cases that don't make sense.

The solution is obvious and this is how it will go down - plug in hybrids. My SUV from Ford goes 25 miles on a charge and almost never uses gas unless I drive cross country. Moreover it puts much less strain on the grid and works fine with a 110V outlet.

Somehow people assume that it will be 100% EVs or nothing and this is silly. Market forces overwhelm everything but in order to meet government mandates forced by climate and health realities, plug in hybrids will be the obvious choice for those who don't want full EVs. Yes, many will be dragged kicking and screaming about Dems taking away their freedom, but once they have one they will love it.

>There are literally no other people in the world capable of doing this.
A quick Internet search is in order here for you. There have been many examples of implanting electrodes into brains.

That said, if this research focuses on those in need with minimal impact on innocent lab animals, it is commendable. If the end goal is to turn healthy humans into cyborgs, there have been many fictional explorations on how that can go wrong...

To the person who down modded me redundant: you owe it to yourself to watch Naked Gun :-)

What is the point of pessimism, especially when unlike 1929 current macroeconomic indicators are positive?

I don't know how you assume I claim that all immigration is good. I do however believe that with common sense immigration law, close to 100% of immigration can be good. What I see clearly is that the US Republican party is backing a racist policy that hinders economic growth, violates international law, is immoral and obstructing corrections to immigration policy simply to chase a minority block of brainwashed voters.

The US economy is not trashed and is in fact outperforming nearly all other developed countries in the world. https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
Real wage growth is outpacing inflation https://www.statista.com/chart...
Cherry picking data is a common way of making false arguments. Qualifying layoff data in a specific sector doesn't necessarily provide a true indicator of overall economic health. It actually shows that capitalism for all its flaws is working as expected.
And finally, the age old "let's blame the immigrants" trope. How ironic the same people who complain about inflation run scared of legal immigration. When are people going to remember that not only are they the offspring of immigrants, but that it is also what made America great?
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/02/immigration-taking-pressure-off-the-job-market-us-economy-expert.html

We've got plenty of problems, but let's get the facts from something other than a campaign year pile of propaganda. Let's make an effort to think for ourselves.

Don't call me Shirley!

>There's nothing unintentional about it. To wit, there's obvious bias deliberately programmed into it.

There must be intentional bias. Google trains it's model from data it scrapes from the internet. They have a legal and moral obligation to filter out things like child porn and hate speech. Where to draw the line to everyone's satisfaction is impossible. As publicly traded companies, they have a duty to their shareholders and therefore must balance the needs of promoting engagement and not angering their advertisers as well as violating laws on the entire planet. In fact this is the crux of the matter before the US Supreme Court now deciding if social media platforms have the right to curate what is expressed on their platform.

The SC decision is critical as it may decide whether these LLM AI platforms express protected free speech or must simply regurgitate the unvarnished opinions of everyone free of any moderation..

They may be liable for slander, libel and copyright violations but IMHO, I don't think the US Constitution demands that they not curate to whatever arbitrary guidelines they choose.

You are seeing the truth through the fog in your comment IMHO. Currently, there are three big Gorillas in the ring, OpenAI/Microsoft, Google and Facebook. Their LLMs are trained on different sources.

Google is using data scraped from the internet. Can you believe everything you read on the internet? How can you say it not offensive to anybody or unbiased and how i s that determined?
FaceBook uses publicly available information on it's platform to train the various Llama models. Nobody will claim that this is a carefully curated unbiased source of information.
OpenAI seems to lean heavily on curated sources on information, e.g. NY Times, Wikipedia, peer reviewed scientific papers, etc. Will their models disintegrate when copyright lawsuits force them to replace great training data with junk?

LLMs can seem almost magical and came on quickly but the quality of their output might soon plateau with a long slog to clean up and curate training data. Where the next major advancements are likely to occur is in the area of agents and machines that empower LLMs and their descendants to actually do things both in the digital and physical world.

With more than 80% of internet search market share, something that dominates human behavior, Google has excessive market power. Microsoft has less than a quarter of the cloud computing market and Google should have a gigantic lead in AI.

Let the market decide and stop asking corrupt government officials taking campaign contributions to tilt the scale for your monopoly.

...espionage is more about spreading misinformation than the sneaky and violent stuff we see in the movies.

I'm glad to stand corrected - I like Devo.

Google says "Devo had three songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1980s: “Whip It” (No. 14 peak in 1980), “Working in the Coal Mine” (No. 43, 1981) and “Theme From Doctor Detroit” (No. 59, 1983)."

Yea, pretty much a one hit wonder. Too weird for mainstream. That video really cracks me up though, definitely a great son IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

LOL, if I had mod points I would award you a funny. In the unlikely event you are serious, if all the cars in Norway were electric 100% of the failures would be electric cars. I suspect you are interested in a better question about comparing failure rates. This requires knowing the number of each kind of car in Norway. If all cars that had calls was 34,000, given the 13% proportion there were calls for 4420 EVs and 29,580 ICE cars. An unvetted search says there are 817,509 EVs and 2,099,935 ICE cars in Norway. Dividing the failures by the total numbers and multiplying by 1000 yields a failure rate per 1000. In this case EVs under these Norwegian conditions had a failure rate of roughly 5.4 per thousand and ICE cars at 14 per thousand. This of course is beside the point. Iâ(TM)ve owned both types of vehicles in Chicago when it was below -10F. If you keep you car charged and plugged in when not in use, the EV always works. ICE cars, preparation doesnâ(TM)t always work. In Norway people know how to prepare for the cold.