King George III? The civil war?* Actually, characterizing our revolution as a "civil war" isn't entirely incorrect. But then we went off and had another one about a hundred years later. Over some woke GOP agenda. Perhaps it's time for another. To keep the Left Coast from falling under foreign influence.

*Almost as funny as as Belushi's remark about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. You probably had the same history professor.

True. So true.

I guess this is why they say the left can't meme.

... expose those two genetic groups to micro plastic free drinking water as well? And then do an analysis of their relative cognitive abilities? Because it would seem to be difficult to seperate the effects of the two independant variables without doing so.

The ghost of Enron.

... switching the company to Linux.

... slave labor?

I can't speak for PP, but in my state, one will recieve a failing grade for denegrating communism in a school writing class.

There's nothing wrong with that technology, per se. It's the training corpus that dictates sucess/failure. Was the plan to blindly crawl the cesspool that is the Internet for that raw data a bad business decision? Most decidedly so.

It turns out that the most expensive part of AI is training. Both in terms of resources (power and equipment) but also the labor involved with validating the inputs. I did some fiddling around with semantic nets a few decades ago. But I was restricted to a library of engineering documents (at Boeing) that had been vetted to some extent by groups of experts (for a rather loose definition of that term) before release. The results worked well, but had no hope of advancing to the status of AGI. And of course, the tools built had no hope of reaching outside markets due to the inclusion of company proprietary knowledge.

This last point raises another problem wiith today's AI. Why should I allow my expertise, which I depend upon for a competitive edge, to fall into the hands of my competition? The AI bots won't find much useful stuff on my public facing web site. And I'm not stupid enough to host on cloud services. Owned by outfits with interests in AI services.

So true.

That will require raising the cooking fumes to very high temps. And even then, ventless fireplaces work with a vary limited fuel source: Natural gas or propane. I don't even want to think about what bizarre compounds the catalyst will produce when processing the miscellaneous organics from cooking food.

IMO, it didn't deal with these very realistically. But if they are your pet issues, then everything is a foot in the door to discuss them.

"Breaking Bad" is issues of the day? IMO, that would be the news.

He's still here?

I'll believe that AI works when he's standing in front of a Home Depot.

Which is a good idea. But only for gas stoves? Have you ever seen the air inside an all electric kitchen when someone forgets to turn on the fan? Forget the relatively small amounts of CO2, CO, NO2 that come from a gas flame: Take a look at the stuff that comes off the food. An assortment of burned, partially burned or just vaporized organic molecules. It's doubtful that any of this stuff is healthy to inhale. And only the largest grease particles stand a chance of being trapped by a recirculating filter fan.

Thought he was going to ban wifey for a moment.