JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

JUDGE: No, a “light maiming” is also not acceptable, nor is “getting medieval on their asses.” Please constrain yourself to statutes approved by this court.

JUDGE: A further follow-up question from the jury, and no we cannot 'dunk them in a lake and let God decide, like they used to do with witches'. That has not been considered a valid means of determining guilt for several centuries at least.

JUDGE: The jury has sent another question and the answer, again, is no. "Excommunicado" is not real - that's only a thing in the John Wick universe. Civil penalties DO NOT encompass revoking all protections under the law for Mr Altman and Mr Musk.

JUDGE: Court reporter, please note that the jury's latest request, quote, can we let them hang by their thumbs for a few hours, end quote, is also denied.

"We haven't seen yet someone with a certain amount of creative credibility go full-metal AI on something, and see how people react. I think it's necessary. How do you know where the line is until somebody crosses it?"

The Beatles like the Vietnam war were an early boomer thing. Both were over by the time I was old enough to care.

Ironically I asked Googles AI and it said;

In the United States, you generally cannot sue someone for "general incompetence" alone. To win a lawsuit, you must prove the individual had a legal duty of care to you, breached that duty (which translates to professional negligence), and caused actual, measurable damages.

So if the contract did not promise that X% of Apple customers would subscribe to ChatGPT by Y date I think the lawsuit is doomed.

Apple could point a decade of consistent bungling with Siri as evidence that ChatGPT should have known better. Companies not doing their due diligence results in judges saying the legal equivalent of "sucks to be you, now go away".

For the record I have an iPad deliberately chosen because it is incapable of running AI.

"OpenAI believed that the companies' partnership, which wove ChatGPT into Apple software, would coax more users into subscribing to the chatbot."

I really doubt Apple promised that X% of Apple customers would subscribe to ChatGPT by Y date.

I suppose that they could sure Apple for completely bungling the AI rollout, but suing a corporation for incompetence seems unlikely to succeed.

Does ChatGPT plan to sue users who choose to not update to an AI capable OS or AI capable hardware? Then I might have to worry.

Someone has a entitlement problem

"Destroying communications you have a legal requirement to retain for X number of years can land you massive fines or much much worse."

But which ones are those? A tiny percentage of the whole. Attached files that are important get downloaded and saved in the appropriate project file. Receipts get stored for six months. Everything else over 90 days gets deleted. I checked and currently my total email storage is about 25 MB.

Class of '26, in before proctors!

Nuclear reactors use most surface water, not ground water.

Datacentres are no pickier. You can even cool a datacentre with saltwater, you just need a heat exchanger.

Also, closed loop does not evaporate. The loop is not closed if stuff escapes from it.

You're arguing with the actual terminology used in the nuclear industry. "Closed loop" or "closed cycle" designs have the water pumped in a cycle through cooling towers. The towers lose water to evaporation, taking heat with them, but the rest of the water is returned to be reheated again. "Open loop" or "open cycle" designs have no cooling towers. The water is heated and just discharged hot. They consume much more water (over an order of magnitude more), but most of that is returned. Closed loop are more common, but you see open loop in some older designs, and in seawater-cooled reactors.

"How often do you think I print?"

Seemingly not very.

I've printed many hundreds of kg on my P1S, thanks.

I do not consider having to write data out to a card and transport it back and forth between the printer and the computer to be the pinnacle of convenience. That's something that would be considered embarrassingly inconvenient for a 1980s printer, let alone a modern net-connected device. And it's designed to be inconvenient for non-cloud prints for a reason.

"Some employees said colleagues were using the software to automate additional, unnecessary AI activity to increase their consumption of tokens -- units of data processed by models. "

The AI blurb (oh the irony)

"Midas World is a 1983 science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl, a "fix-up" novel that expands on his classic short story, "The Midas Plague". It explores a future society with extreme abundance due to automation, where the poor are forced to consume a quota of goods to keep the economy running, while the rich live simply. "

Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

Don't underestimate the amount of water it takes to keep down the dust. It's not done with lawn sprinklers.

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"I just put my models on a usb drive then plug said drive into the printer."

You must have a lot of spare time on your hands.

"It works great locally" - Um, no it doesn't?