"What's sort of annoying about the whole thing is I'm not sure what's wrong with the current Air Force One," Aboulafia said.

then I realized they buried the lede.

wealth inequality some folks are worried about.

left from right or understand the right hand rule.

If you use an AI to help solve problems in physics or engineering fields to determine directions of forces, currents, torques, 3D graphics orientations, or navigation, then you may have a problem. I recently ran into this using AI to create some simple 3D graphics and as I examined the issue, I was able to determine that the AI could not understand clockwise from counter-clockwise, nor right-hand rule. I was testing Gemini 2.5 when I ran into the problem. I then tested Grok 3, which had a better understanding of mirror images, but like Gemini, it could not correctly explain a simple vertex winding description as being counter-clockwise.

I mention mirrors because I realized how much AI training has probably occurred with online mirrored video or video from mirrors (selfies).

and I watched it with great interest and an open mind, being a huge fan of James Burke. (See his "Connections" series to understand why.) Global warming was not talked about anywhere in the mainstream outside of scientists. The hand-wringing of the day concerned saving the rain forests from the evil Burger King that was chopping down rain forests in Costa Rica in order to create grazing lands for cattle. I made investments in 1993 that aligned with the Kyoto Accord, feeling that surely that the Clinton-Gore administration would sign on to some flavor of carbon credit. They didn't. Clinton bailed out Brazil's debt (an would-be incentive for embracing carbon credits) and later off-shored US polluting industries to China. Worst investments ever.

Compared to 'After the Warming', there is nothing, absolutely nothing, happening w.r.t. anthropomorphic climate change. If you disagree, watch After the Warming and note what year it is and how little has changed. The models are broken and 'scientists' won't throw them out. 'Skepticism' is now a bad word instead of embracing Popper's critical rationalism and the political climate makes meteorologist paint daily temperature maps in scorching red and orange colors that were shown in greens and yellows just 5 years ago.

is still 20 years away--just like 50 years ago.

how to do that? hmmm?

It boils down to probabilities. The decision to have three redundant computers is based on the calculated probability of single computer failure--that and a safety margin that a bunch of people decided was acceptable. If they decide a margin like 0.0001% chance of a computer failure is the maximum allowed chance, then they figure out how many redundant computers are needed (based on some failure rate of just 1 of those computers) to achieve a success rate of 99.9999%. If one of those computers fail, the odds of the two remaining computers NOT failing might be just 99.99% and that exceeds the pre-determined safety margin, so the launch gets aborted.

the creators of this headline.

when you picked me up.

I'd rather see an unrestricted/uncensored AI be used to purposely construct responses that are bad in all the ways Anthropic thinks is good. In other words, construct an 'Evil AI'. Then let humans query and decide how well their own choices align with the evil AI. That's a better business model than what Anthropic proposes because success will be immediate and with very low effort.

Pretending a constitution is a replacement for adhering to learned ethical principles is a terrible path to follow.

The stated goals: maximizing positive impact, avoiding giving harmful advice and respecting freedom of choice. Not only are the goals the flaws, they also demonstrate the incredible stupidity surrounding the expected application of AI by humans. We should not rely on AI to give good or wise advice. AIs will fail at this long before they can reliably achieve it.

you can't ignore paying the ticket for running a red light in your self-driving car. Clippies are already running the world.

employees because so many were working from home? I'm just guessing on that, but perhaps it is time to revisit who is protected under WARN.

Anything you've installed on your phone or installed in your house is going to have a EULA that includes consent for everything concerned in this lawsuit.

A simple fix for McD's going forward, is to only use the voice recognition that is triggered at the drive-thru speaker via an audio tone handshake the customer triggers via the McD's app. The consent is in the app EULA. The convenience for the customer is that they can then voice their order immediately upon driving up to the speaker and don't have to wait on a worker to prompt them.

A broader version of the app could be created where a customer either types, or a voice recognition app translates your voice to text for you to see, and then will play the text via DTMF out the speaker when the customer pulls up to any drive-thru window equipped with the receiving app. This allows you to create the order ahead of pulling up to the drive-thru speaker.

At first I thought some major AI breakthrough had been achieved. Kind of relieved, it wasn't, actually.

isn't going to allow this to be cost-effective or reduce oil consumption. But hey, Biden won't be president then, so yay? In case you're wondering why the blades will not last, have a look at studies on water droplet erosion and similar studies on ablative erosion of wind turbines. I guess the old blades can avoid the landfill if they just drop them in the ocean. Saves on hauling back to land, too.

"I've developed an AI app that will detect cancer using just a photo of your face...after humans train it to do that reliably and without error, it will work great."

Reminds me of my friend that boasted he could have been a major league baseball player, if it weren't for his hitting, catching, and running.