The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

Why is their AI having trouble identifying emergency barriers, uniformed people making hand-signals, big puddles, and emergency vehicles? It doesn't seem like the kind of thing AI typically fails at.

Maybe the bot-car should ask the passengers for help if not sure. I suspect it often over-identifies such that engineers turned down the reaction threshold. Instead, try asking the damned humans. "Possible emergency situation ahead. I plan to stop and wait. Please confirm if this is a the proper action. Press 'Other' for other options."

What country's leaders wouldn't want similar goon-modes embedded?

Almost all models are confused about their identity.

Queue "woke" jokes in 3...2...1...

As more products and services have software and bots developed in unfriendly nations, the US banning them could put the USA at an economic disadvantage to nations that allow them. I'm not disputing its a legitimate concern, only saying the tradeoff may grow harsher over time.

We are already paying much more for EVs than we otherwise could. (Although part of that is from trade disputes rather than concerns over rogue XiWare.)

Maybe the military's plan for extra thick shielding is why Space-X is building such large rockets. Elon may be using manned missions largely as guise.

> if you think "being a sexual tease" is a bad thing, you could think that.

The implication was that is the only or default way women would build a system. If he said "it was programmed on a planet known for its pleasure industries" then it would play better.

Finally a real populist.

He sure is getting MAGA panties in bunches.

We can't afford to let the success of big tech companies depend on the health of fragile meatbags. We need to get resilient, fault-tolerant AGI in there running the enterprise. Also, unlike meatbags, you don't need $100M stock payouts to convince an AGI to work as a corporate executive.

Wait, what? They're *making* money now? Last I heard they were still playing shell games with pretend money in a financial merry-go-round of pinky swear deals to make it seem like they are somehow not haemorrhaging quite so many hundreds of billions of dollars as they actually are to try and keep the VC funding flowing in.

The AI endgame, sure. That's totally going to be the kind of bait and switch that Google pulled when they transitioned from a search provider into an ad provider; get everyone hooked on your services, then monetise all the data you've captured and start cranking up the token fees until your customers (only they are actually more your "product" now) squeal, then turn it up some more while offering a rent-seeking subscription model that looks like a good deal until you realise (too late) what they've buried in the small print.

Drug pushers are probably looking at the tech industry in awe at this point.

EM drives were intended for interstellar travel, not Earth orbit. The very slight but constant acceleration was claimed to get one close to the speed of light in a few years.

Spock's implication was that if not tempered by men, women would speak overly sexual. The two assumptions here is that first, women need to be tempered by men, and second that left on their own they'd become sexual teases. One fluffs the male ego, the other fluffs men's sexual fantasies.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

They've already dealt with this. If you read the fine print on these agreements, many or most of the recent ones say that the company has the option of rolling up any "substantially similar" arbitration cases into a single mass arbitration. (Which as usual, is decided by a person whose paycheck ultimately depends on the business of that same company.)

Didn't work out well for the Enterprise.

(Warning: clip is misogynistic. The visitor asking about the computer is from our time, by the way.)