D-wave, among others, was co-found by the CIA via their "In-Q-tel" frontend. One of the reason why at the time was the risk of Europe getting ahead, which did not happen. If China or Russia gets to run shor or grovers first, everyone else will be unconsentually sodomized Epstein style. The fat megalomaniac-incontinence-criminal-orange person has got very little to do with this all and i'll bet my mother he doesn't understand what it is about either.

I feel you have not given much thought to what "understanding" is.
People often say such things as you have, based on an intuitive understanding that does not stand up to scrutiny. "It just feels kind of right".

I could ask an AI what "understanding: is, and get a better answer than from 98% of people, but of course that is the type of answer that can come from regurgitating reading. The real proof is when you go into the details with more complex iterative queries, and (if) the AI understands your questions, and recognises your misconceptions. There is a lot that current LLMs cannot do well, like interacting with the real world, but they do "understand", often very well, depending on the context. Better at complex technical topics than celebrity gossip maybe?

I'm not commenting on this particular case, but due to the US plea-bargaining system, a guilty plea should not be seen as an admission of guilt.
The "right to a trial" is a distant memory in a land where anyone exercising that right case face a sentence 2 or 3 times longer than if they plead guilty.

They should get AI to write the Slashdot summaries.

It seems like every criticism I hear about AI could also be applied to humans. Sometimes more so.
AI confidently gives an answer when it doesn't know? check!
Lack of transparency for the process of coming to a conclusion? check!
Rationalisation - explaining the reasoning for a conclusion retrospectively. check!

AI output is only bad if you go in expecting it to be perfect, and not checking the results.
These are amazing tools when used correctly. Complaining about AI errors is like if someone showed you a talking dog, and you found fault with its grammar.

The seriousness of that went over the top and then built new things to go over the top of. Moderators please spend your points on the parent comment ^

Accurate statement: "Humans invented a way to harness CRISPR/Cas9 to create transgenic organisms"

Inaccurate statement: "Humans invented CRISPR/Cas9"

This isn't complicated.

No, the other reason the family doesn't want to talk about, but we really should.

If there were animals adeptly using fire long before humans existed, we would not call humans the first to "master fire" just because humans understood what they were doing.

Here is a list of all the animals besides humans who have mastered the use of CRISPR technology:

FYI, humans didn't invent CRISPR/Cas9 - bacteria and archaea did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR

It's an antiviral immune system. They bait bacteriophages into inserting their genes into noncoding regions of their genome, and then use CRISPR/Cas9 to match up anything from these noncoding regions that are in their coding regions, and to cut it out.

We humans stole that tech from them :) They mastered it long before we ever existed.

No. I even put a smiley there so slow people might understand.

Hyperbole. But who'd have thought that peace in the Middle East was easier than Eastern Europe? :-)

Yes, any time a story involves Elon, Slashdot starts to look like the comment section on Youtube. Sad.

Same with Trump. I loathe the guy, but the people commenting on him here, make Trump look like a stable genius.

Though to be fair, the article itself is so lacking in facts, it is hard to make any intelligent reply, so a joke is tempting.

If you are sitting down and working, a mouse is better than either. (Though for real productivity, learn those keyboard shortcuts!)

If you are moving around, or doing standing demos, you want a 2-in-1. (360 hinge or detachable).
What a pity they can't just offer macOS on the ipad Air/Pro. But thats like asking for ports on a macbook air.

Really? Why do you care about them?

To pay a fitting tribute to the man, I'd drop the coin into a dish of acid, but then instead of saving it while there was plenty of time left, I'd leave it to be slowly eaten away while occasionally dropping in healing herbs and drops of organic fruit juices, and then only try to rescue it once it was far too late