How about we put this much hyped AI to good use by employing it to automatically shut the door in such cases?

While we're at it, I could use an AI robot dishwasher that can actually clean pans, determining whether to use scouring powder and then use it or not, and position dishes itself, no more need for the user to carefully position everything, just dump the dirty dishes in the machine.

Too bad all the hoopla around AI was hype, and AI still can't do such simple things.

Or maybe (if it exists) it's just an iPad and this analyst is wrong.

Who cares? A 2 point drop is meaningless. And the median score went UP, from 744 to 745 (also meaningless). Trying to read anything into these small movements is futile.

If I watch you drown and do nothing, even though I'm a capable swimmer standing next to a bunch of flotation devices, and all of this is caught on camera, your family could probably sue me for causing your death even though I'm not a lifeguard and do not own the pool.

The equivalent here is suing the camera manufacturer, as if the camera should have done something when it saw the drowning.

I'm unaware of legislation making AI chatbots mandatory reporters.

Silicon Valley tech people not finishing college is more Fire in the Valley era than anything more recent. Gates and Allen, Jobs, and Wozniak all dropped out. Ballmer was the only major connection made at college for any of them, so far as I know. Page, Brin, Bezos, Randolph, and Hastings all finished college, some with graduate degrees. Zuckerberg dropped out, but his going to college was central to his business model.

The BLS jobs data is from the CES (Current Employment Survey). This is a survey of firms, not of the public. That's what Trump was complaining about. Whatever is wrong with that survey seems to be very new -- it used to be revisions were fairly evenly distributed, but since 2023 the revisions have been very biased downward. It seems unlikely this has anything to do with public survey fatigure.

The unemployment numbers come from a public survey (Current Population Survey), but those are different from the jobs numbers.

"Chat" is generic. So is "AI". The logos are deceptive, but OpenAI has no claim on "chat", "chatbot"or "AI chatbot", and no one should expect that those terms mean "ChatGPT"

This is retarded.

1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.

I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.

Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.

Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.

Presumably you could grow barley in arsenic-free soil. This is probably prohibitively expensive, but it's the kind of thing slashdotters would insist on.

ALPA just wants the airlines to be the only thing in the air. They don't like general aviation and are always pushing (often successfully) for further restrictions on it. They've claimed that to be allowed to fly a model airplane you should have as much training as a 737 pilot. If they ran out of things to do they'd probably pick a fight with the Audubon Society. They should be ignored.

Correct, but PEX pipes do contain and leach MTBE (the controversial octane enhancer that used to be used in gasoline), ETBE (its slightly larger cousin), toluene, phthalate esters, and other chemicals. Of course, sticking with copper isn't 100% safe either because copper pipe leach copper, at least until they're well-coated with a layer of minerals (assuming hard non-acidic water; if your water is soft and acidic the plumbing leaches copper continuously and you get holes in the pipes)

Pick your poison.

Before, during, and just after COVID, the tech companies were (over) hiring like mad. Since then, they've reduced hiring a LOT. So fewer new young workers, existing workers age, there's fewer young workers.

Spare phones (perhaps an old one) and/or strong magnets seem like an easy workaround.

Nah.

Iâ(TM)m 51. Iâ(TM)ve had health insurance continuously for 35 years and have used it exactly ZERO TIMES.

I am self pay. For everything but true life threatening emergencies, which Iâ(TM)ve had zero.

Even the ER is cheaper when negotiated self pay.

My urologist is stunned that I pay $85 for his visits. Self pay. Including labs. My colleague goes to the same urologist and his insurance pays $550 for the same visit and naturally it comes out of his deductible lol.

Insurance is a scam. All insurance is legal gambling and gamblers never win.