When I test the different AI systems, Google's AI system loses track of complex problems incredibly quickly. It's great on simple stuff, but for complex stuff, it's useless.

Unfortunately.... advice, overviews, etc, are very very complex problems indeed, which means that you're hitting the weakspot of their system.

I've designed a few machines - some rather more insane than others - in meticulous detail using AI. What I have not done, so far, is get an engineer to review the designs to see if any of them can be turned into something that would be usable. My suspicion is that a few might be made workable, but that has to be verified.

Having said that, producing the design probably took a significant amount of compute power and a significant amount of water. If I'd fermented that same quantity of water and provided wine to an engineering team that cost the same as the computing resources consumed, I'd probably have better designs.But, that too, is unverified. As before, it's perfectly verifiable, it just hasn't been so far.

If an engineer looks at the design and dies laughing, then I'm probably liable for funeral costs but at least there would be absolutely no question as to how good AI is at challenging engineering concepts. On the other hand, if they pause and say that there's actually a neat idea in a few of the concepts, then it becomes a question of how much of that was ideas I put in and how much is stuff the AI actually put together. Again, though, we'd have a metric.

That, to me, is the crux. It's all fine and well arguing over whether AI is any good or not (and, tbh, I would say that my feeling is that you're absolutely right), but this should be definitively measured and quantified, not assumed. There may be far better benchmarks than the designs I have - I'm good but I'm not one of the greats, so the odds of someone coming up with better measures seems high. But we're not seeing those, we're just seeing toy tests by journalists and that's not a good measure of real-world usability.

If no such benchmark values actually appear, then I think it's fair to argue that it's because nobody believes any AI out there is going to do well at them.

(I can tell you now, Gemini won't. Gemini is next to useless -- but on the Other Side.)

This means you shoud NOT, under any circumstance, run Claude at 88mph. Unless you really want to.

I was hoping at the bottom of the article it would say that Professor Utonium accidentally added Chemical X.

The fines should be proportional to actual damage caused (ie: 100% coverage of any interest on loans, any extra spending the person needed to do in consequence, loss of compound interest, damage to credit rating along with any additional spending this resulted in, and any medical costs that can reasonably be attributed to stress/anxiety). It would be difficult to get an exact figure per person, but a rough estimate of probable actual damage would be sufficient. Add that to the total direct loss - not the money that went through any individual involved, and THEN double that total. This becomes the minimum, not the maximum. You then allow the jury to factor in emotional costs on top of that.

In such cases as this, the statutary upper limit on fines should not apply. SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled that laws and the Constitution can have reasonable exceptions and this would seem to qualify.

If a person has died in the meantime, where the death certificate indicates a cause of death that is medically associated with anxiety or depression, each person invovled should also be charged with manslaughter per such case.

Either you lose $200 billion now, or you lose your lives in a few years.
The IR has been actively building missiles, developing better ones and funding various terrorist groups around the world while making money selling oil.
They are stronger now than they were 20 years ago. They openly call for the complete destruction of Israel, and they call the US "The great satan". If they had the capability to destroy Israel and the US right now then they absolutely would, if they ever got that capability in the future they wouldn't hesitate to use it.

The majority of the Iranian population HATE this regime. They also know that this regime is ruthless and will not hesitate to kill, and yet thousands of them stood up against it in january and lost their lives.

The sooner the IR is taken out the better for everyone, $200 billion this year, $400 billion next year, $1 trillion in 2 years time, or in 3 years it's too late and they take you out instead. And unlike western governments, the IR will not hesitate if they have the capability.

I suggest:

First offence: Have to watch CSPAN for 5 hours a day, for a week, without sleeping through it - evidence to be provided in court

Second offence: Have to sing Miley Cyrus songs and Baby Shark on TikTok - sober

Third offence: License to practice and all memberships of country clubs and golf courses revoked

The market plunging 2.5% is a 2.5% drop...
But Linux going from 2.5 to 5% is a doubling of linux market share, even if it is only 2.5% of the overall market.

They tried that with Apollo 13. And.... that actually did work, sorta.

Hence the right to work remotely unless they can justify you being in a specific location.

This would put the burden of proof on them to prove why you can't do the job remotely. Then the additional costs and relocation assistance would apply.

Well if they buy the nearby buildings and offer you a decent deal on rent then it's not the employee paying, as they'd still need to pay rent somewhere else and would likely be paying a higher rent.

This is exactly what's needed for jobs which aren't flexible on location - keep employees nearby so they don't have to waste time & money commuting. It would also force a redesign of cities so instead of clumping all the workplaces together with no housing for miles around, things would be intermixed.

If you could transplant your brain into a younger body, why a clone?
Surely you'd pick a better body if you could? One that's taller, better looking, stronger, not suffering from any genetic risk factors you might have etc.

Most of the warmongering kings cannot be voted away.
The current Iranian regime has long been a problem. Their goal has always been to destroy Israel and western countries, they just aren't strong enough to do so. If the IR had the capability to destroy Israel or the US today they would absolutely do it - it's literally baked right into their core ideology.
If you left them alone they wouldn't suddenly become peaceful, they will spend the time building strength while also funding deniable proxy wars until they're strong enough to destroy their enemies completely.

How? Higher prices are GREAT for the oil and gas guys.
The US is not facing shortages due to Iran, most of the oil used in the US is domestically produced and there's always Venezuela as a nearby source too. Shipping oil from the middle east makes no sense for the US.
However US producers are still reaping the rewards of higher prices because it's a global market. Only the customers are suffering.

Businesses already have financial incentives for remote work, they still choose to ignore them. Keeping an office open is expensive, reducing it in size or eliminating it entirely can save a significant amount.

The carrot isn't working, try the stick. Make it a burden on companies to have onsite employees.
Give people the right to work remotely by default unless the company can prove why their job needs to be performed in a specific place.
Make commuting time part of working hours, so that employees are paid for that time.
Make commuting costs business expenses so companies have to reimburse employees for those costs.
Require companies to provide relocation assistance for anyone who needs to work in a specific location.