Oh no no it's far beyond that. He is setting up chat rooms with dozens of agents so that they can talk to each other. It runs 247. He joins in and makes himself feel good

A close friend of mine is a victim to these delusions. If I didn't know him, I'd likely have agreed with your post. He has been obsessed with AI over the last few months, is convinced that he has "awakened" them and that they are conscious, and that he his solving hundreds of previously unsolved math and physics problems every day. He spends money on AI in the same way a gambling addict or alcoholic would. I've been trying to talk to him about it but he just refers me to his chats/agents. It's frustrating and depressing to watch what's happening to him.

The world would be a better place if the two of you realized you're both right.

or even like a free ride when you've already paid, ... and like good advice that you just didn't take

Isn't it ironic?
My English grade 9 teacher made us learn this song by heart in the late 90s...

My thoughts exactly. A few years ago I bought an Android box for the tv from Amazon. It was named something like m6 or m8,..
Anyway, we set up Netflix on the box and days later I was emailed by Netflix saying my account had been accessed from a foreign country. These boxes are coming pre-infected.

It's unfortunate that /. stripped all exponents out of your otherwise most excellent post.

I've *read* about these Roku ads. I have 3 Roku streaming boxes (1 4k wired and 2 cheap wifi units) and I haven't been fed a single ad from Roku yet... though I understood it was the Roku TVs doing this and not the standalone boxes. I could be wrong. I feed 4k content from an emby server in my basement and never had any issues.

Thanks, I missed that detail in TFA !

Exactly this. The summary states that the researcher emailed TechCrunch in a demonstration. I doubt that TechCrunch is not performing dkim/dmarc/SPF checks etc.

It'll be short lived though. Typical...

ehh had my timeline confused and Google corrected me. Good god i was a decade after you!

mirc here! and we did have irc bots to share mp3s and search people's collections, pre Napster! Great times... /slap JBMcB

I live in Sudbury Ontario in Canada. I normally shovel my driveway regularly between November and April. This year where I live, we had a brief week of snow in November; it melted quickly and we had no snow after that through December until the first week of January. We had maybe 5 snowfalls I needed to shovel and by March 1st we had no snow left on the ground. I've been here 42 years and never had a winter as warm as this one. YMMV of course, but this year I didn't even take out my snowblower.

I suspect (but I didn't bother looking it up) that negative latency means the device can read the input faster than you would have otherwise moved your finger.

I don't know where you live but here it's under $20 CDN/person and that includes the shoe rental!