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That's what I understood from the headline!

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I'm pretty sure (or at least hope) that the parent was being satirical. There is a constant push from rust fans to rewrite everything in rust and the parent's post sounded like a mockery of that.

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