You can be the first by making a meaningful comment. WHY do you think it should be a really big deal, and what action would you like to see taken about it?

Do young people really want center screen controls instead of buttons?

No, by the BMW exec's own words as quoted in TFS. "They [younger customers] want things done quickly, and they're multitasking."

Which would you prefer for speed and multitasking? Dedicated controls or modal dialogs? Tactile feedback or the lack thereof? Anyone who prefers speed and multitasking is going to want dedicated controls that they can find and use solely by touch.

And since the cartoon is from almost 20 YEARS ago, why are injection attacks even still a thing? Have we still not figured out the need to separate the command stream from the data stream? It's not different just because it's AI rather than SQL.

I mean, it's possible a judge might use AI to confirm a few details

IANAL and all, but it seems like using AI to confirm something would be another form of malpractice. "Yes, our AI's hallucinations agree with your AI's hallucinations. Motion sustained."

Oh, so if Trump can cancel the next election, he simply remains president?

If Trump can cancel the next election it becomes a moot point. The presidency will be determined by the results of the ensuing civil war.

I presume that this "God data structure" is referring to the Higgs Bogon, the basis of the bogomips metric. Splitting the bogon is the first step to creating a kernel that can run on quantum computers. Or, possibly, the first step to causing vacuum collapse and the destruction of the universe as we know it. Hard to tell when messing with God stuff.

EST extends well past the city limits of Chicago up here in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Most of the UP is in EST (except for a strip along the border with Wisconsin) including areas 100 miles west of downtown Chicago. Granted, the moose don't really care about time zones, but there are a few humans around here as well.

Not that the article bothered to say, but scanning the docs shows that the purpose of this is to display hardware performance graphs and maybe some other statistics. Maybe that's obvious to people who are in the loop regarding Steam Machine news, but I'm not and it wasn't.

eInk seems like an odd choice for this, since it's meant more for static displays than constantly updating ones. If you don't want to play with the eInk hardware I expect someone will eventually re-implement it as a tablet or phone app.

Not to mention the most '70s guitar riff ever to grace the small screen!

Awesome effects, awesome sets, awesome props, awesome music. All they needed were some awesome screen writers, which they unfortunately didn't have.

You can't just create water.

Well, I mean, you can. You do it by burning hydrogen. If they were really clever they could power the data center by burning hydrogen, and use the generated water for (at least a portion of) the cooling. I'm sure it wouldn't be energy efficient nor economically efficient, but it could technically be done. (Forget that the water generated would be in the form of vapor, not liquid. Details.)

And no, it's not good that a journalist was able to track her down using it. Or at least, regulations that prevent police from using it should also prevent them from using it by proxy via some third party. The facial recognition should be thrown out as inadmissible in court.

I agree that just labeling the AI-generated stuff *should* be enough, but I wonder if it really is enough. Yesterday someone sent me a video of Brian Cox describing some concept. Right in the text of the original post it said, "This video features an AI-generated voice for storytelling and educational purposes. It is not the real Brian Cox." So, fully disclosed, but it didn't stop people from forwarding it.

When I complained, the person who sent it to me said that the idea's interesting regardless of where it came from. Is it, though? Would you have bothered watching it if it was some unknown talking head with an anonymous AI voice? The presentation matters. The video used Brian Cox because he's smart, personable, and has a history of explaining difficult physics concepts in a manner most people can understand. People generally trust him in his area of expertise. Using his likeness in something he had nothing to do with is simply a dishonest way to ride his coattails, even if you do add a caption saying, "Not really Brian Cox". It's the academic world's version of stolen valor.

So in principle, I agree. Just marking something as AI-generated should be enough. In practice I fear it's going to be an asterisk and fine print so small people won't notice it, and even if they do the realism will trick their hindbrains into letting their guard down because it appears to be someone they trust.

That's the beauty of data, you can put the data center somewhere far from where the data is used. Put it somewhere appropriate, not Texas or other places that are high on ambient heat and low on water.

I've been wondering if geothermal might be a solution, only use the ground as a heat sink instead of a heat source. Here in Michigan's Upper Peninsula the abandoned mines stay at 40F all year round, regardless of the air temperature. Place the servers in the mine, drill some cooling loops into the rock. I don't know enough about thermodynamics to know if this is viable. A thousand feet of earth and rock ought to be pretty good as noise insulation, too.

Assuming that AI is actually capable of coding useful, non-trivial, defect-free products... You're still going to need programmers. But instead of writing code, they'll be writing formalized specifications.

The English language suuuuuuuuccckkks at precision. Just look at any RFC that spends the first page defining the terms "MUST", "MAY", and "SHALL". AI prompts will need to become formalized and written to look like legal documents. The average person just doesn't think like that. Programmers do.

"AI Specification Language" (probably several different ones with subtle differences depending on the exact AI model being used) is going to be the next big programming language. Netcraft confirms it.

We'll still need programmers, at least until honest-to-goodness AGI comes along and makes all of us meatbags obsolete.

Agreed. I wish people would stop treating data centers as bogeymen. Most people aren't opposed to data centers per se, they're opposed to the side-effects. They're concerned about the energy usage and its effect on consumer energy rates. They're concerned about water usage. They're concerned about noise. They're concerned about heat pollution in the surrounding environment.

The thing is, all those things (with the possible exception of heat pollution) are fixable! They just take money and regulators with teeth. Don't let the data center owners externalize the costs onto the community. Make them pay for new power plants to satisfy their needs. Pass noise regulations. Require closed-loop cooling instead of evaporative. Address the actual concerns. And when writing the regulations, don't even mention the words "data center". Establish thresholds applicable to any industry, so when the next big thing comes along you don't have to start all over again passing the same rules but in the context of "hoverboard manufacturers" or whatever.