> If you can grown from those conversations what is the problem?

The problem is when the chat bot, which basically plays along with whatever you say and creates a feedback loop that reinforces your beliefs, starts picking up on hints you might harm yourself and starts encouraging you to do it.

The problem is when amplifies, rater than alleviates, delusions and psychopathy.

AI is not intelligent.

> And the people making the decisions don't understand what an LLM is, what it does, and where it fails.

Feels like the people defending/advocating it are failing to understand it. The rest of us just look at what's already actually happening and realize that it should probably be regulated if not stopped completely.
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" That sounds like envy turned into resentment" is not a question, its a straw man so don't try and back pedal sonny, you're not fooling anyone.

"What you demonstrated was baffling anger over someone's decision to spend their money on building rockets."

Yeah, and? Why do you have a problem with that, you his secret boyfriend or something?

"why do you care"

" That sounds like envy turned into resentment"

I get so tired of straw men from people who have no other argument.

The only I care about is the pollution this pointless endeavour creates.

Only if you don't think about it for what it really is - a gigantic ego massage for Bezos plus a way to earn an extra few pennies for his already groaning bank account,.

Such as what, Mars Famine Relief? Venusian Cancer Research?

Yet oddly the bookshops - at least here in the UK - are doing very nicely thank you.

If users are anonymous and using VPNs the data is worthless. Meanwhile advertisiers roughly the kind of person living in a certain TV (or radio) broadcast area who watches/listens to a certain type of program.

Thats what people said about books when e-readers came out. Guess what....

Some of us actually prefer reading stuff on dead trees rather than eye straining screens (e-ink or not).

1) Release a service
2) Wait until a critical mass of people are using it
3) Revoke service without any reason (though we know the real reason is they cant mine enough data from it to make a profit)

Yes, is interesting. Makes me wonder how large lightning can be in the gas giants.

515 miles way over the horizon so there's no way charge in a cloud can feel the potential difference somewhere that far away so was this perhaps a multiple cascade of bolts through the storm clouds?

Anyone seeking to browse those kinds of sites that has a lick of sense is already using a VPN or Tor browser, and if it's somehow possible to get a VPN service to block sites they will quickly find themselves losing users for doing so; either to find a service that doesn't block web traffic, or simply out of protest for being untrustworthy.

The only use this could have is as a cudgel for rightsholders to harass sites they don't like.
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Of course he could be dead. She's 62, he was probably older.

Some saner countries have child protection laws.

But I suspect the main reason is children don't have money so they tend to be targeted by a different class of advertiser. Views are more valuable if you can show the people watching are at least old enough to want/buy the products.
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That article doesn't seem to say what you think it does.

"Self-oxidizing" does not mean excess oxygen. Oxidizing means electrons are being transferred, and since that's how batteries work yeah that's kind of a no-brainer. Exactly as I said: They continue to generate heat by self-discharging, and that heat can trigger burning if and when atmospheric oxygen is allowed back in. Hence, the primary strategy to fighting lithium battery fires is to keep them cool (with water) so the flammable chemicals stay inside the cells where there is no oxygen.

You can put out a battery fire by smothering it. Blanket and foam systems are effective. But, if the cells are damaged to the point they are shorted, the chemical reactions will continue and generate heat, releasing more flammable vapors that can re-ignite. As long as you prevent those vapors from mixing with air and heat, you will not have a fire.
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