"Bill of Rights 1689"

https://www.parliament.uk/abou...

Thanks heaven we don't live in one of those horrid dictatorships where the government can do anything it pleases.

"This is public, and because Apple is based in the United States, they are likely taking guidance from our intelligence on how to traverse this".

This is public, and because Apple is based in the United States, they are certainly taking instructions from our intelligence on how to traverse this.

FTFY.

This was basically how DEC went out of business. Remember them? Like HP, started as a high quality company that put customers first.

It became so successful the ship was boarded by thousands of mediocre rats - who sank it by focusing on cash and nothing else.

(Glances at printer... Oh, it's a Lexmark).

Oh, and... if the customer is cut off the company is fined $1,000. Each time.

Economics 101, long ago, said that all suppliers would compete to lower prices, improve quality, and increase customer satisfaction. Or else they would be forced out of business.

Economics 101 didn't mention that the process works equally well in reverse - and with much less trouble. All suppliers simply agree to increase prices, reduce quality, and antagonise the customer.

"What are they going to do - buy from Mars?"

"The outlet added that it anticipates "more countries could be added.""

I anticipate that no more HP products will be bought.

There is an obvious parallel here:

https://imetatronink.substack....

"Van Riper was also the iconoclastic Red team commander for the infamous 2002 Millennium Challenge war games, during which his forces (patterned after Iranian capabilities of the time) sank the entire US naval fleet in the Persian Gulf by employing methods and capabilities the war game planners failed to consider in their rigid calculations. (I wrote about the Millennium Challenge 2002 debacle here: Lessons Never Learned.)"

Stop being so bloody stupid and arrogant, child.

No. It is still manipulating symbols in the various ways open to it. The trouble is that its human owners are failing to notice all the symbols open to it.

A lot depends on the interpretation of "cheating". Presumably the model was taught the rules of chess, so it would not attempt to win by making an illegal move. Moreover, such a move would not be allowed by the game software.

So why was it possible for the model to interfere with other computer files? Very sloppy experimental design - unless the actual outcome was the desired one. And simply appalling security.

Forget "consciousness" and "intelligence". Just ask whether it can defeat us. Already it seems that it can.

I wonder if Homo "sapiens" will be ended by software or pathogens? Either, of course, self-inflicted.

That's clever. But it isn't wise.

Or the ending of Robert Harris's excellent novel "The Fear Index".

And everyone else can choose not to consult Google. If it deliberately displays a name for a large and well-known geographic feature which is different from the name that feature has always had, it is not a reliable source of information.

Some time ago there was a politically-initiated move to call the Persian Gulf the "Arabian Gulf" - obviously in order to make it less obvious that it is a body of water that has traditionally been associated with Persia (Iran). That seems to have died a natural death.

If Google purports to provide accurate, objective information, it must not try to make such changes simply at the instigation of temporary political influences. Otherwise it will find that (even) fewer people trust it.

Most of what a good LLM says can be trusted - but everything it says may possibly be completely wrong.

Not quite the profile of a good research assistant.

Many Americans avoid strong past tenses. Count your blessings it did't say "spitted".