There was a fun looking result deep in the foundations of mathematics. There's a few good youtube videos on it. The PBS one by Kelsey H. E. is my favourite.

It's called Hercules and the Hydra. Hercules is fighting the hydra, and based on all the available evidence, short of concrete mathematical proof, it appears Hercules is doomed. Yet it is a theorem that Hercules always wins. The war between greedy tech and nature is like that. Nature is slow compared to tech, but nature has a massively bigger 'context window' to use the LLM term. No matter which way greedy tech goes, eventually it will run out of space in it's 'context window' will bang its head repeatedly against an invisible wall it never knew was there, and start spewing out garbage. Frankly, I think it's already started spewing out garbage. And people are making high tech cargo cults out of worshiping that garbage. Ho hum.

I had an interesting discovery: Gemini knows about the maths I did as a grad student at uni; Copilot isn't, and pressed for precise literature references, starts hallucinating. If I ask Gemini a few questions about my thesis (and I can be reasonably vague), after a few prompts it picks out at least the name of my supervisor, and then I can ask 'which paper' and Gemini gives me the exact reference. Knowing that Gemini knows about me is nice. Knowing that Copilot doesn't is what really makes it fun.

... 'cause now I'm craving peanut butter and jam sandwiches.

... and cooling requirements for that.

AI slop is just wrong. It's worse than plagiarism. At least if you're copying a human's work and passing it off as your own, the work was actually done with a human. With an LLM, there is no human input except that of the deceptive village idiot who prompted it.

On the other hand, you can have very meaningful conversation with an AI, stuff that is meaningful and potentially important.
In that scenario, the human provides the 'humanly meaningful' component in the form of prompts, and the LLM, being a language process with a large model, in case you don't understand what Large Language Model means...

What is the right way to publish such conversations?

An AI is a mind amplifier. It amplifies the mind that prompts it. Nothing more, nothing less. Garbage in, garbage out. The danger is that 'garbage out' may not look like garbage to the average punter, and those who see through the garbage are a statistical minority.

Which still do.

Or auto-billed to a CC. People read and check their bank/CC statements - right? :-)
(I don't have anything auto-deducted from bank accounts -- deposited: yes; manual ebill: yes, auto-debited: no)

Also some continuity. I know they're adjacent model years, but my 2001 Civic Ex (135k miles) and 2002 CR-V Ex 62k miles) - both w/manual transmissions - have almost identical controls placement. But maybe that's common, idk.

Yup, just smother it with a bunch of lithium batteries. :-)

Ya, the way things seem to be going, my first thought was "nuclear datacenter" -- though getting enough water to cool it, or either, is a/the problem.

Apparently, the government giving money to U.S. companies seems to help their executives and shareholders, not their customers and consumers or even their rank-and-file employees. Go figure. /s

All newer vehicles "spy" on their owners and that capability is apparently a bitch to disable, if it even can be. So instead of Chinese auto companies, we're stuck with all the other ones doing it. I feel so much better. /s Thankfully, my 2001 Civic (135k miles) and 2002 CR-V (62k miles) - both manuals - are still in great shape and don't have that crap.

Ironically, the U.S. government seems okay with all the cellphones, tablets, etc..., many foreign made, "spying" on (almost literally) everyone.

Yup. And some charge lightning fast, or support automated battery swapping, though the U.S. doesn't have those infrastructures. I know it's anecdotal, but I've read several articles and reviews that say some Chinese EVs are way, way ahead. Of course, banning them will protect other manufacturers from having to compete. They can stick their collective heads in the sand, like domestic auto companies did when Honda and Toyota started selling in the U.S. -- that turned out so well for them. U.S. consumers will be stuck with overpriced (for sure), possibly second-rate auto tech for years. Yay! Winning! Side note: Tesla will be fine as they make about 51% of their vehicles in China.

Seriously, just no.

Asking ChatGTP questions about financial matters is one thing, giving it and OpenAI (or any of these companies), access to your financial accounts is another. You're being tracked and analyzed enough w/o also signing up (and paying) for this. Same concerns about using X as a financial platform.

As a side-rant about common financial sense... Ever see those commercials where the guy is in the store and checks the bank app on his phone to see if he can afford a new flat screen? Pro tip: If you don't know your current financial situation and have to check then and there, you can't afford it. (sigh)

*glances at Enron

Actually, that sounds truly brilliant. Let's raise the legal requirements so that happens...

I'd prefer if it applied to people who drive below the speed limit, brake at green lights, or who brake going down small hills. That, and those who drive Subarus or Buicks.