You missed the point. Small enough pieces are already understandable. But... Well... It's like the problem with global variables, a few are really useful, but when they multiply the code becomes unintelligible. There are too many interactions.

Whether we know how they work or not depends on how closely you look. If you look closely enough, every single decision is understandable. But it's so complex that nobody understands the ensemble. Even ordinary programs are sort of this way. The Obfuscated C Contest is just an extreme outlier, but any really large chunk of code written by somebody else (or by you over the last few years ... and not all at once) can be difficult to understand. As it gets bigger, and has more patches, the problem gets worse. These things are at an extreme edge of this problem. But every small enough piece of them can be understood...at least by somebody.

I doubt these purported robotaxis are capable of dealing with I-4 in the daily 3PM toad strangler.

Mebby GDP doesn't measure what you think it does. When foreign products are excluded from American markets more production of American products will occur ... or needless products will not be used or made. Good for USA workers and screws pure-play USA GLOBALIST  investor class in azzwhole.

That doesn't make much sense either, the further back, the difference in the very way English is spoken/written.

Honestly this, again, means I get to raise a point that I never got a good reply to at the beginning of this LLM BS: what is the incentive for creating new, clean, correct, works at this point? Because "People always want to argue about shit on Reddit" isn't going to get us new information on the majority of topics with the possible exception of politics. And let's be honest, that's not a thing where you can guarantee accuracy by training on it either.

Literally the only people right now with an active incentive in setting up new websites are those trying to sell you something. Amazon will survive this. The (real) news sites... not so much.

And if you asked me in 2006, when the Internet jumped the shark, whether I'd prefer to have Amazon or the news sites in 20 years, I'd have said the second. Not that there was ever a realistic way Amazon like websites would disappear. But given the choice, I'd prefer to keep the stuff AI is killing.

In this context inappropriate use of AI is a use that gets unchecked erroneous outputs that you care about or it more expensive than you want to pay.

Look up the cost of a new Japanese hand-crafted bamboo fly-rod;  then a million bucks doesn't seem unreasonable for a tricked-out SUV. Also,  comes with  software and a "practice" set of telephone numbers.

Fark at least lets you create an account. Slashdot requires you to email them and explain why you should get an account if you want to join.

https://slashdot.org/my/newuse...

WB is more than just studios, and Netflix might even benefit from a pared down set of studios to rent out to production companies anyway.

Whoever buys WB ends up with quite a large infrastructure of franchise rights, connections, and cable/internet/streaming stuff. It's not just a company that makes Bugs Bunny cartoons.

Sounds a good reason to require they break out their landline and wireless assets into separate companies then, if there's such a clear conflict of interest.

I feel like if they're going to route fiber anyway, which is relatively difficult to route, adding some cheap copper cabling to it that powers the relatively low power digital modem + POTS convertor (ATA/FXS) from a central battery-backed up unit wouldn't be that expensive - save for the fact they haven't bothered to do it yet so retrofitting it would be more expensive (but wouldn't be necessary for that handful that they're desperately wanting to move to fiber.)

They have the infrastructure, the pipes to route this to, junction boxes close by that can contain the batteries. They even have old buried copper, capable of taking more than the power needed (old analog phones with bells had those bells powered by power from that copper) in some cases they can repurpose for this.

I think the bigger problem is they want all of the money and none of the responsibility. But that's why we have regulators.

OK, many people don't know how to use it yet.

AI is such a versatile tool that people keep trying to use it in inappropriate ways/places. Again, like computers in the 1960's & 1970's. I suspect that we're still at the point where most attempts will fail (some horribly), but some will be REALLY successful.

N.B.: Computers didn't become largely successful until structured programming and commodity software took over large parts of the market. That greatly reduced the errors. What's the equivalent for AI? We won't know until after robots become common. (LLMs are just touching the edge of what AIs can do.)

Worst-criminal-state supplier ?  I didn't know China or Russia made these snooper toys.

"Hell yeah, a credit card!" - people I don't get

You say what? Original creative thinking and self-discipline are "outdated" skills ?  Prompt-cluttered environs reflect our new Walden? Maybe so;  French Dadaists & German anarchists will dance in the streets and share the wreckage with  electro-chemically guided urban savages. Godel? Never mind him ...