Not for ages. Less than a week. For many, that's not time enough to get the patch.

OTOH, it's a local vulnerability, so many systems aren't affected. I've got one that hasn't been hooked up to the internet in well over a month, and it won't be affected until the next time it's hooked up. (I may do a reinstall before then.)

It really depends on *exactly* how you define "conscious". I don't believe that there's general agreement. The agreement is along the lines of "I know it when I see it", but different people are looking at different things...and some of the things are not observables.

FWIW, I believe that AIs are slightly conscious, but I believe the same thing about thermostats. They react it a circumstance in a manner designed to maintain homeostasis. To me that's one of the signs of consciousness. (Don't overread this. Not all consciousness attempts to maintain homeostasis. But to do so demonstrates a minimal level of consciousness.) This comes out of a definition of consciousness sort of like "Something that preceives it's current situation, evaluates it, and then attempts to alert it in a non-random direction.", where "non-random" is used rather than preferred, because I'm separating that preference from consciousness.

Problem is: We don't even know what consciousness is.

So the best we can say is if something creates the impression of having one, based on whom we attribute consciousness to, i.e. other humans. Well, big surprise that a model explicitly trained on human language and texts creates that impression. It does show just how good the models are. At pretending to be human because they have a shitload of examples on what humans would say.

For all we know, the gas clouds on Jupiter could be conscious, just in a way that is completely baffling to us. We can't rule it out because we don't know what consciousness is, so we can't test for it.

Not true.

An attacker may have a limited window. He might exploit some other vulnerability to do some operation with privileged access rights, but not have an admin shell.

You're not saying?

But they take security so seriously. They said. They promised. This time for real. No, this time. Ok, next time.

Which one? .gov or .com?

The Democrat candidates were bad also, just not *as* bad. And I feel they intentionally threw the last election, which with Trump running makes them nearly traitors.

Well, Germany (at least occasionally) used coal for cars during WWII. I *think* it was coal->methane, but I don't really know the details.

Kids clearly learned this sort of behavior from cartoons. We must BAN CARTOONS! Won't someone think of the children?

No, I'm not serious, and the fact that I'm having to say that tells you pretty much everything you need to know about how utterly stupid all of this is becoming.

"Earn" is really tricky to define. I pretty much agree with you, but have to consider "earn" an undefined term. I can point to some instances and say "That person is earning his wages", but others can reasonably disagree. And I can think of many people as underpaid, but others will definitely disagree.

Perhaps they'll ask Musk to vet them.

That's what the laws say. The administration has been known to ignore them.

That said, it's actually a reasonable idea. Anthropic and OpenAI both seem to feel that their latest models are too powerful to be released indiscriminately, so.... But there's no legal authority. Well, except the "interstate clause", which can be interpreted to control nearly anything.

Current AIs *do* tend to recognize when they are being tested. (This is a real problem with alignment testing.)
OTOH, so far they don't try to figure out what the administration wants them to say.

I don't care whether or not it's AI, I care whether it's any good. (OTOH, I have never watched podcasts, and rarely watch YouTube...the samples I seen weren't any good. And that's been true for multiple years.)

That said, my tastes have always been those of a small minority. De gustibus non disputandum est. And some people like pod casts. And some people like AI slop.

There are lots of "special case" solutions to the three body problem. The general case, however, still is unsolved.