He's a puppet. He doesn't believe anything he says. If you look at some of the C-SPAN feeds, you'll see he's distracted and not paying attention at all half the time. When he speaks, its' like lines from a Hollywood script, as is all of congress. It's a joke. It's sad people believe any of these people legitimately care about or believe anything they say. The few who do (Dennis Kucinich, Thomas Massie, Ron Paul) either don't last long or don't really accomplish much of anything.

They wouldnt even need to go to the trouble of roadblocks, they could just ration fuel as has happened in many countries in times of strife.

If you'd seen some of the aftermath images of car accidents in China that I've seen first hand, you'd question the safety of cars manufactured in China. Perhaps things have improved, but I saw first hand where there were fatalities in car accidents at speeds that shouldn't have caused anything more than minor injuries in countries with strong safety regulations for auto manufacturers in place.

Test them out on Canada first. :) If they can pass rigorous safety tests, I don't have any real problem with them competing in the auto marketplace in the US. Domestic manufacturers will have to compete or find a better use for that industrial capacity. That's assuming there's a level playing field without significant government subsidies that enable predatory pricing (on both sides).

Thats like saying nothing has changed with the chemical reaction of fossil fuels since the 1880s. Yes, but its completely missing the point. A lot has changed about reactor design and safety since the 80s never mind the 50s. Maybe get a clue before you post again. Oh wait, why would you break the habit of a lifetime?

This is a taxi service - the kidult would already be sitting in the back in a normal cab. The ONLY thing this achieves is
A) Putting taxi drivers out of work (seems to be a Musk fetish)
B) Making it harder to move the car if the systems fail because no steering wheel.

On a more practical front - if there's an emergency how TF are emergency teams supposed to move the car out of the way or get it on the back of a tow truck easily if they can't fecking well steer it and the computer is dead?

This is just yet more tech for its own sake. Musk needs to realise sci-fi is not a how-to manual, its entertainment.

Put your CND badge back in the drawer and drag yourself out of the 1980s grandad.

Here's the thing: I hope I'm wrong, too. But I'm honest enough with myself to recognize what's going on. No amount of sticking my head in the ground and denying it will slow it.

Surely you recognize the benefits of being the last survivor.

I've been training models for the past 6 months. I'm pretty comfortable doing that at a 200-300 level, thanks.

You're begging the question, but sure, a couple reasons:

1) Output quality is still heavily gated on the person controlling the agents, their knowledge/capability, and the environments they setup, how they're prompting them, and their constraints. Microsoft has not had competent developers for at least a decade. You think they have robust CI/CD, good unit tests for Windows, and so on?
2) Code review is also hard for AI agents. The way they're designed ('next token') does not make them as discerning of common errors as people can be. In aggregate, however, they're still better than we are, and hundreds of times faster. This is particularly true if you tell them what to look for and how to find it. It's how people have been able to find a myriad of (often, very old) security vulnerabilities. You can't have AI both suck AND be a security threat; I don't know how people can make this argument and not see the inherent contradiction.
3) Again, code review is hard for agents, as is discovery. MS code is massive legacy code going back 30-40 years in Windows and Office applications. Fixing their shit is not as straightforward as "just use AI".
4) People ARE using AI to fix Microsoft shortcomings by, largely, avoiding them outright and implementing replacements.
5) What has Microsoft done to demonstrate they're actively improving legacy projects with AI (aside from saying it)? I've not seen any releases suggesting it's true. It's just marketing, likely to get more companies/individuals to start using their products.
6) Any efforts to change Windows will be substantially stymied by legacy application support, which MS has painstakingly managed (to the point of retaining legacy bugs for decades in order to make sure those applications which depend on them continue to run).
6)

Meh. I'm going to pile on and say that most homes:

a. aren't going to have multiple higher end devices with fancy gpus or a number of Apple M4 or M5 devices with enough RAM "laying around" doing nothing
and
b. even if they did, they're not going to be willing to have them on 24/7 and sucking up electrons like nobody's business to crank on AI inference jobs. The power usage would dramatically go up along with their monthly electric bill.

I could potentially see this working at a smaller business if their fleet of devices was up to the task. Game development shop?

Seems like a real reach and a "solution" in search of a problem to solve.

Do you ever stop making a fool of yourself on here or is it your hobby?

I'm cool with carmakers charging piecemeal for whatever they want. If they want to charge extra for headlights they can knock themselves out. But, if/when they start charging subscription fees for hardware that I own, that will be a brand I will purposely avoid for life.

* I admit I may cave if/when basically EVERY manufacturer has some sort of subscription option. Even then, I'll likely consider just buying nice older cars. For the price of a new Camry (~$30k), you can get a pretty sweet looking classic car that's easy and cheap to repair.

You ever stopped to wonder why so many data centres are building their own gas turbine generators? But hey, I'm sure they'll all be solar or wind powered one day! Jesus...

Number 7 according to Car & Driver, which I think is much more trustworthy than whatever "Wealthy Driver" is. The Car & Driver list is also applies to 2025 rather than 2023.

https://www.caranddriver.com/n...