Theoretically yes, but you'd have to go through a LOT of code to make sure there's also nothing to secretly turn it back on, or to later get an update to turn it back on, etc. At the end of the day a level of trust is required.

That's the catch. They use AI to report AI usage statistics. So when you turn the AI off nothing gets reported about your usage; ergo 100% of reports show AI usage.

Honestly I think No Child Left Behind failed this guy big time.

Citation needed.

You're hung up on technicalities of how one became king and cherrypicking details of how this means Trump doesn't see himself as ruler for life. Take Putin as an example; he's technically an elected president, but would you also argue he doesn't act like he's a king or emperor?

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and a king by any other name would act the same.

He 'crowned' himself when he posted an AI image of himself wearing a goddamned crown. His followers practically worship him as they would God or Jesus. He doesn't need to call himself Majesty because everyone is already required to address him by a title; it's just President instead of King or Emperor or Great Dear Supreme Leader.

The ones who are naturally polite will quit after the second time they had ONE interaction in which they forgot to say thank you or the customer was so rude there was no way to actually be polite rather than merely cordial.

I have experienced trying to order from a fast food joint in a country where I didn't speak the language very well. The employees are so ingrained in what to say and not say that if you ask them to rephrase because you don't understand what they're saying they completely lock up. They literally can't think of a different way to ask if that will be all today. I guess that's what the powers that be truly want - a working class entirely incapable of independent thought.

Oh, go cry me a river. Name ONE actual national security threat that the US needs an unfettered AI to defeat.

Because having an adblocker running makes Slashdot freak out on occasion, refusing to load articles, refusing to expand comment threads, etc.

His clarification is basically that the universe is too big for there not to be other lifeforms out there.

Can you point to where the UK and Australia are on an unlabelled map of the United States?

The market is anyone who can't let go. Imagine that your child dies in an accident, and someone tells you that you can keep talking to your child if you just pay up a hundred bucks a month. In the middle of your grief - could you easily say no?

Get them to suck some exhaust pipes if pollution is so harmless. Make it a bet or tell them it's the only way to really be macho and not gay or something. The problem should solve itself.

I'm really hoping it's a case of the door not closing completely - where it's held closed but the car's sensor still reports it as open.

But damn, Waymo. Why don't your cars have the ability to close its own doors, at the very least by human intervention from the warmth of an office after verifying the customer is long gone?

I mean, I would rather have the military check their damned target before firing a military-grade laser.