Agent is a term lawyers use for some entity delegated to do a task for another agent. That's what I meant by "legal agent". I'm not a lawyer, so I don't want to be too definite about just what it means, but delegating a task to a agent doesn't relieve you of responsibility for how they do the job. And I don't think you can assume that maps precisely onto the way agent is used in the context of AI, though the meanings are clearly analogous.

That's a mix of meanings of agent. (Not a total disconnect, though.)
An AI agent is something set in motion by the AI to complete a task.
A legal agent (IIUC..not sure) is a separate legal entity that is accomplishing a task for the delegating legal entity. In that case the delegating entity is legally responsible for the means that the agent used to accomplish the task.

So there's a close connection, but I'm not convinced that the agents used by the AI are legal entities. (Actually, I'm not convinced that the AI, itself, is a legal entity, but the point I was making was that even if it *is*, the delegating entity is still responsible.)

OTOH, if you claim that "The AI did it", then the AI was acting as their agent. So they're still responsible.

The "leap hour" will just never be implemented. There's no need for it. Just avoid returning to Standard time from Daylight saving time one year, and switch the labels.

Unfair. If you actually rely on what he is reported to have said, rather than what others have added, he comes off as a good guy (outside of a few lapses, like that fig tree incident).

I happen to think he's as fictitious as Adam Selene, but that's almost irrelevant.

As methods for by suicide-by-wealth go, it's classier than drugs, and more accessible than a carbon-fiber submarine. I predict we'll see some pretty spectacular Youtube videos of people making themselves (and their car) two-dimensional.

No, but *do* blame the Israeli government and their supporters.

I wonder how the performance of 2 networked 512GB Mac Studios would compare to the performance of a (hypothetical) single Mac Studio with 1TB of RAM?

My intuition says that the network linking the two machines would be a bottleneck, but I don't know if that's a minor performance problem or a major one.

As an non-American, I'm curious why the amount of screen time in schools is a matter for the FCC rather than the Department of Education?

Yes, but that's not a legal argument.

Anthropic says its bespoke system isn't right for general use. There will be no open source release. Nonetheless, the company contends that its own code scaling problems will become commonplace in other organizations over the next few months, so it wanted to share its approach

Why release the source code and make it freely available when you could train your AI on creating a source control system and then have people pay to build their own using your AI?

Perhaps it's intended to be used by their AI?

Since they don't intend to release it, though, I hardly care. If its useful to them, then it's useful to them.

Perhaps. We'll see if it works out that way.

No, they're saying if you are too unpleasant they'll cancel your account. I guess if you don't really have any use for it, that may not matter to you...but you might end up caring later when you need their services.

Sorry, but lots of "sentient beings" are slaves...and I'm not even talking about humans. Sentient is a *lot* larger than "human". I'd even argue that an oyster is sentient. After reading some recent experiments I'd definitely class bees as sentient.