Outright hostility, you say? I can't imagine how that came about.

Manuals are great if you know the API you want to call and need to know the details. They aren't good if you don't know the API, or even if one exists. Or if the problem you're debugging is more complex than just "passed the wrong parameter to this function".

Quite. Scientists and researchers have been using the term AI to describe this collection of technologies and algorithms since the 1950s. The field has (arguably) made great strides recently. Most of the current scientists and researchers have been perfectly content to continue to call it AI. But no! Now we're going to let somebody who was born stupid, dedicated his life to staying stupid, and now is seemingly in advanced stages of dementia tell us what we should call this field? What a bunch of bootlickers these tech execs are. I hope Trump has the good sense to walk through a cattle field before he asks these losers to get their tongues out.

Nonsense! The Brits need Spain so they can get proper healthcare and affordable retirements!

AI game statistics on steam

Uuuhh.....

How did you come back, Professor 1.21 Gigawatts?
Where you've gone there are no roads!

The idea that some time, somewhere, science will figure out the answer to that particular question is not necessary.

Science answers questions. We don't get to choose which ones.

What if Binance itself stole the money, and now replenishes 90% of it to get good will while keeping 10% of it, which is what they wanted to steal all along? Conspiracy theorists want to know!

It's quite possible; OTOH having drones flying over our nuclear plants isn't something we should feel blase about. Maybe a drone swarm can't do much actual damage to a nuclear plant, but the fact that people are flying drones (deliberately or accidentally) in a restricted area is bad news all by itself; it suggests either complete ignorance of the law, or bad intentions.

Why not boost the ISS instead of de-orbiting it? Is it because it's just too old to keep safe for human habitation, regardless of what orbit it's in?

There is no god. But this argument isn't the Prime Mover Conjecture.

Think of an island in the Pacific. Animals arriving from a nearby continent is a reasonable explanation for the native fauna. It doesn't mean that all fauna everywhere on every continent must be explained as immigration from the outside.

If the Earth is an island, then this may in fact be what happened locally, provided it can actually be proved. The real issue with Panspermia is that cosmic distances are so vast and timescales so long that chance arrivals of chemical compounds from elsewhere in the galaxy (or even the wider universe) is exceedingly unlikely and shouldn't be taken seriously with what we currently know.

There's a variant wherein Life As We Know It may have originated on another planet in our solar system, and later injected into Earth. But that's a much weaker idea, because it raises the question why Earth, which is clearly in the most hospitable band for Life As We Know It, wouldn't have evolved its own variant. Instead of waiting for a comet that traveled all the way from a more inhospitable region bringing Life from there.

The good news is that these arguments can be tested scientifically by drilling into the proposed mechanisms directly, no faith needed.

You only average a TB a month because someone subsidizes the cost of your connection. If you had to pay the real cost yourself you'd be cutting back on that traffic. Think of a tax as an incentive to bring your own traffic into line with national economics.

Where I live there are people like you of course, and they get throttled when they exceed average usage. A user pays tax is a better system overall, imho.

Thanks for the pointer!

They spend trillions to make millions. What's one more waste of money to them?

Meanwhile the twin billionaire assholes Sergei and Larry Google fled california because they didn't want to contribute to healthcare for their poorest fellow Americans. I guess they'd rather party on an island somewhere.

This month: Everybody meet Paddy! He's going to use AI to rewrite all of our legacy software for practically free!
Next month: Our AI initiative has failed, entirely due to Paddy's incompetence. Please escort him from the building immediately and make sure he never works here again.