> AGI is a theoretical form of AI that supposedly would be able to perform complex tasks without each step being prompted by a human user -- the point at which machines become autonomous, like Skynet in the Terminator franchise.

Thank you VF, without that razor sharp analogy I wouldn't be able to grasp the concept of artificial general intelligence. Or even natural general stupidity. Which is most people

“Have you seen that guy speak? [Zuckerberg] He’s like a lizard man”

OK, that got a chuckle.

ClippyAI calls the article sci-fi doom porn /s

Brazil's Roswell: The Varginha UFO

“This story of alien visitation in Brazil from 1996 claims to be the most convincing proof we have .. the Varginha UFO story .. is the most compelling example of a case where literally nothing at all happened that was remotely unusual, and was magnified into a case considered unassailable proof of alien visitation by many. To those believers, I would suggest recalibrating where you set the bar for quality of evidence.”

The real Reddit problem is dysfunctional power mad super mods with hundreds of subs under their control. I think they're pushing crypto currency now :o

Cyber technology not fit for purpose. An unstable spaghetti mess built on top of another unstable spaghetti mess.

Darth Vader: Lennart Poettering
Death Star: SystemD
Emperor Palpatine: The Linux Foundation
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Richard Stallman
Wayland: Kylo Ren

> The development marks the first publicly documented abuse of an ICP canister for the explicit purpose of fetching the command-and-control (C2) server, Aikido Security researcher Charlie Eriksen said...

An ICP canister (on the Internet Computer Protocol) is basically a self-contained app that runs on a blockchain.

The bigger picture. A software supply chain attack hit the JavaScript ecosystem (npm):

* Attackers compromised tools related to Trivy (a security scanner)

* Then infected 47 npm packages

* They embedded a self-spreading worm called “CanisterWorm”

> Microsoft is considering legal action against its partner OpenAI and Amazon over a $50 billion deal that could violate its exclusive cloud agreement with the ChatGPT maker ..

Yea, that's what we do. Partnering with companies while maneuvering to steal their lunch. We managed to do it to IBM - TWICE :|

There are massed of prior art based on dynamically adjusting the price based on demand:

Dynamic pricing systems and methods” (US10068241B2)

Variant: Event + user-behavior pricing (US20180144357A1)

The problem is with the basic model. Security is rendered moot every time you install an app. Regardless of whether its side-loaded or hosted on the Google Play store.

> .. we've had decades of Court packing by incompetent and extremely right wing nut jobs ..

Could you enumerate such right wing nut jobs and their erroneous rulings.

> In The Martian, fictional astronaut Mark Watney survives the wasteland of Mars by growing potatoes in lunar soil ..

No, he used Martian soil.

Up to now, I've never really understood quantum superposition :o

ClippyAI: “Any attempt by an eavesdropper to measure the polarization state of a photon in BB84 inevitably disturbs the qubit due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the no-cloning theorem, projecting it onto a random basis if the measurement basis is incorrect.

This measurement-induced disturbance introduces a detectable increase in the quantum bit error rate (QBER) on the sifted key shared between Alice and Bob.

Thus, the protocol provides information-theoretic security: the presence of eavesdropping is revealed through statistically significant errors, analogous to a classical tamper-evident seal being broken.”

ClippyAI: ‘Contemporary press and later retrospectives tell of Charles Mallory Hatfield, a “moisture accelerator” who traveled across the U.S. West promising rain and claiming to deliver it with a secret chemical concoction from around 1904 onward.’

> .. I thoroughly enjoyed the last doctor. He seemed to have fun along with a range of emotions

An intergalactic immortal being reduced to a simpering nancyboy :o