So if AI is a "co-author", but can't be an author, that just leaves the human as the sole author.

If AI could make accurate TL;DW summaries for videos, then they'd really have something. I hate when I search for something and the only answer happens to be presented in the form of a damn YouTube video.

You jest, but the reason I pulled the trigger on a 15 Pro right after the 16 was announced was because I wasn't interested in my phone having a bunch of useless AI shit. That and the $100 discount that the outgoing model typically gets until stock runs out.

Turned out that Apple's AI features were mostly vaporware anyway. That being said, I'll still happily request my check for what'll probably be like tree fiddy and one of those white Apple decals that they don't give you anymore.

DeepMind is the core of Google's AI research, and it began as a UK company that Google purchased. It's still the case that the bulk of their core researchers are there. Ceasing operations in the UK would not only cost them a lot more than the US DoD will ever pay them, it would also cost them a lot of critical AI expertise.

I don't either. Can you spell it out?

To what, exactly? The answer to that question matters quite a bit.

Electricity prices are shooting up and burning electricity is the way you get more crypto. Even proof of stake needs a shitload of electricity. Not to mention all that data center equipment that's gone shooting up in price.

Also the orange one keeps slamming the markets through sheer incompetence and because of that the crypto markets take a hit because they are more or less tied to the state of the real markets. Despite what they will tell you.

Bitcoin isn't quite at the bottom it was at before but it's still down by something like 30%. And it took a lot of market manipulation and a complete lack of regulation to get it to that point.

So frankly I'm surprised coinbase has held out this long. If they really are using AI to push production code though I would be extremely worried because they are under constant heavy duty attack and it's only a matter of time before they get a big hack if they're pushing that kind of code ..

With a dodgy asset that is constantly under massive amounts of attacks I'm sure that couldn't possibly end poorly.

Also I am so fucking sick of how AI makes it so that we can pretend Trump didn't put us into a recession. It is stupidly obvious we are in recession right now but because of the AI bubble and AI washing of layoffs we can all just pretend we aren't.

Crypto grift, AI bubble and psychopathic billionaire CEO.

Tariffs, deportations, attacks on drug boats, wars... almost all of the illegal shit the Trump administration has done could easily have been made legal by the GOP-controlled Congress. Early on in Trump 2.0 I wrote several letters to my very MAGA Senator, Mike Lee, begging him to sponsor and support legislation to do exactly that. Not because I thought the things Trump wanted to do were good but because I saw huge potential harm to the Republic if Congress just allowed the executive to flout the law.

Of course, Lee never responded to me. At all. And never lifted a finger to provide actual authorization for Trump's lawbreaking -- and, of course, Trump never asked the GOP Congress to do it.

The only reasonable conclusion is that Trump and the GOP (and SCOTUS) don't want the president to be constrained by law, and so Trump is deliberately doing all of this without Congressional approval in order to firmly establish the precedent that he doesn't need Congressional approval. He's doing the same thing now with the Iran war, having run out the 60-day clock but refusing even to ask Congress to authorize him to continue. GOP leadership is waffling, making up stuff (not found in the law!) about how the 60-day clock "stops" during a temporary ceasefire.

The truth is that Trump wants to be King, and the GOP wants him to be King. If Mike Johnson and John Thune wanted to, they could make Trump's actions lawful, but they want him to be able to ignore the law.

Microsoft pays its employees so well.

Just like all those other programmers people say deserve their rich salaries.

Sure, and for those really severe issues we draw hard lines in somewhat arbitrary places, based on broad averages. And for some of them we also don't get too aggressive about parents who transgress the rules in small ways -- for example, if you let your 15 year-old son have a beer on a fishing trip you're technically committing a crime but no one is going to prosecute you. The same is true for helping a kid to bypass age checks to access social media or whatever.

You lack imagination, then. And, how would this be any different from school counselors and similar who regularly do these same sorts of things, though typically with a focus on education rather than, say, maturity for social media use?

SpaceX could replace them faster than Russia could take them out. That would be a war of launch capacity and cadence, and SpaceX outlaunches the rest of the world combined.

Honestly they will probably mostly test for how much Trump coin the owners of the AI are currently holding.