> and the Chinese are always ready with a cheaper product.

Chinese gov't is likely subsidizing those also to gain market-share. So it's in the same boat, perhaps at a different pace though, as they don't have to care what Wallstreet wants

> Open Source AI thingies

Running on in-premises hardware? If cloud-based, the subsidization time-bomb may still play out.

It's a success if you observe the right cats.

The smart-phone boom saved many techies from the wrath of the mortgage bubble econ crash. Even if a dev didn't work on phones, other devs moving to phones kept general dev demand up.

Investor funds and market-share-fights have been subsidizing the cost of AI for end-users. Even if the predictions in the article are exaggerated, the Day(s) of Reckoning will eventually arrive and there will be lots of WTFs.

but to be fair it'll take at least $5 billion to examine it.

But they have a blank-et copyright on such.

He said it at least twice, not a fluke.

Perp just needs to moisten the gun, wet magnets don't work.

"Warning from the Star Visitors: don't entrust society with mechanized thinking devices."

I only saw bunches of Marco Rubio's, and they were doing everyone else's job.

"Kept out" is poorly worded on my part. A tariff was added as a dissuasion.

> saying they found 'signs' of alien life, and it never is.

Until we get samples back to Earth labs, we can't really tell. It's just speculation at this point.

The arguments over the meteorite AH-84001 are certainly interesting, but we need "fresher" samples.

since the 1970's Viking missions. Nobody will really know until we get samples back on Earth. (I hope we have immunity if a lab leak.)

The Viking landers detected what look like circadian rhythms, where organisms have an internal clock to optimize metabolism to fit daily temperature swings. The pattern of the rhythm fading over time when kept a constant temperature, and after being baked fit the pattern of certain Earth microbes. But "funny chemistry" can't be ruled out. Mars is a tease.

> Large cars, have been around for a long damn time

The big 70's-and-earlier cars were mostly sedans. While it was hard to see short people directly in front, the side-angle view was better than the SUV boats because sedans are lower to the ground. I used to drive a big sedan (not by choice). Thus, not really comparable.

I think you mean Detroit & Big Oil lobbied & bribed the gov't to make fuel rules that favor building big vehicles to keep foreign SUV competition out.

It's called "crony capitalism".