That always tempered for me the giddy fantasy of sci-fi space travel. Sure, you could direct that energy somewhere safe but you don't have a lot of wiggle room for mistakes on a ship that by its very operation fires a Death Star blast of energy every time it arrives! For all the talk of interstellar travel being a way to hedge the risk of humanity's extinction just having a capable vessel could enable a doomsday cult to forever "end human suffering".

Thankfully.

I have to wonder though: who is hurt worse and would fold faster if access to Microsoft (and Activision) products and services was at stake? Assuming Microsoft folds, do they simply accept that any sizeable acquisition they might consider will be similarly targeted? Lock-in is important to them, but it isn't the only dimension to their business. They also end up paying up to 3B if they have to back out of the merger.

Activision's revenue in 2022 was $7.53B

The demand is clearly there as that's basically the premise and depth of every narrative about some normal seeming guy who turns out to be a super guy once his latent super-ness is revealed to the world.

Human: Please identify the squares containing a walking marine.
[Shows images of somersaulting marines and marines in boxes]
AI: None of these fit your classification.
Human: HA! Fooled you!

Just to be safe they'll want to run the tool against the essay that they totally wrote all by themselves. If it flags they'll want to tweak it up a bit till it correctly identifies as being totally honest-to-goodness written by them.

My understanding of AI art is that a human still needs to tune / direct the process, select from the results, and decide how to present the piece.

If folks want to start filtering art based on effort of submission, let's start with the solid colored canvases and move up from there. /s

Beyond that, if art is for the artist then make whatever you like and enjoy. If it's for the viewer, then let me decide what speaks to me and reward it with my attention.

Homer: Are you guys working?
Workers: Yes, sir, Mr. Simpson.
Homer: Could you, um, work any harder than this?

Sadly probably too late to expect that considering having a backup camera is legally required. If you must have a display taking up precious dash space, you can pretty easily guess where the displaced controls are going to re-appear. And hey, if we did it for some of the controls why not go all the way and stuff the rest in there! /s

Complex behavior can arise from even simple rules. Chess has a simple rule-set that is trivial to model in a computer but it is very challenging to make it competitive against the best human opponents.

To me the thing was that out of the box it was a super-lightweight player. It could play basic formats and had a minimal interface but could be extended to do just about anything, even esoteric stuff like chiptunes from game ROMs. It got a bit more bloated over the years till the point where I still used it but only because I had it installed and not for any real advantage over other players.

Assuming the present course of evolution selects what we favor over traits that have thus far been successful enough to be selected. We like to think that evolution inexorably leads to qualities and ideals we value; strength, intelligence, compassion, selflessness. We also have a short memory of what trials mankind has survived in the past. I suspect we will survive just fine and the truth of it will, as it tends, lie somewhere between the extremes of utopia and utter dissolution we so often like to revere or revile respectively.

The page length is the shortest document that can clearly explain $SUBJECT to $AUDIENCE with sufficient citations and references to back statements to the source material(s).

The only time I ever recall hearing of a page count in college was as a warning that if your paper was getting that long you were probably off in the weeds.

Lately I rarely post to Slashdot and seemingly out of sheer randomness I'm granted mod points which evidently have an expiration date. Gods only know I'll get some for making this post and be encouraged to "use it or lose it" on whatever whim I might follow. I try to be constructive with them, but I've never gotten the sense that were hard to obtain, just unpredictable.

It is already fixed and has been so. If parents aren't using the controls available that is on them as guardians.

https://support.steampowered.c...