According to this news site: https://www.usatoday.com/story...

the Iran war has already cost us more than $11 billion.

There is a really interesting article about how octopuses and squids can change how their own DNA works by manipulating RNA.

https://www.sciencenews.org/ar...

Note how the RNA editing is triggered by temperature change - a major advantage in the fight against global warming.

1) Plutocracy = rich rule (Out competed by all below)
2) Mercantilism = Balance of trade, controlled by Tariffs. (Out competed by Capitalism)
3) Capitalism = Free market (no government control except for areas where non-market forces affect the market: law enforcement, military, ...)
4) Communism = Government controls ALL markets and owns everything (out competed by Capitalism and Mercantilism)
5) Socialism = Unclear word. Originally meaning communism plus private ownership of non-economics assets but co-opted by American politics to refer to capitalism with an active government that looks for areas the market has failed (higher satisfaction ratings than capitalism but less GDP)

We have gone from "We are firing you because AI does your job" to "We are firing you because we spent so much on AI we can't afford you."

Next up is:

"We are firing you because AI made us go bankrupt."

and then

"We are firing you from the McDonalds because AI bought all restaurants and has closed them down."

Seriously, which one of you Senators inserted a clause into the budget making it illegal to turn off an AI?

And what's this about granting them citizenship and the right to vote after 18 years?

I doubt that entirely. Everything we are discussing uses radio waves and electricity.

What is more likely is that the court room will employ an active radio jammer device, similarly to what is currently being used to stop drones

Perplexity is "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,â

The rules for car manufacturing require them to meet pollution rules. But they managed to get higher pollution amounts for larger cars. Then they proceeded to make bigger and bigger cars. Which resulted in larger prices.

Now the US cars are too big for anyone outside of the US to buy. Nobody wants vehicles that big and expensive if they have a choice of smaller cars.

With the current inflation, even US citizens do not want the large, expensive US made cars.

The solution is obvious - require all cars, regardless of size, to meet the tight pollution rules for the smaller cars. We can still make the larger cars, just expect a lot more electric vehicles.

AI can draw. Making charts etc. seems like an obvious sub-ability.

What would impress me is when you ask it a math equation, instead of attempting to do the math itself, it opens up the calculator app and uses it to solve the equation. When asked to translate, it opens up a translation app and uses it. When asked for the current news, it goes to a news website. When asked for current stock prices, it goes to a finance site and gets the information from there.

We do not want just the ability to answer questions, but the ability to know where to go to find the answers.

The more common the hallucinations are, the less dangerous they become because everyone begins to expect them.

They are most dangerous when they are just rare enough to be unexpected.

Giving them authority to do ANYTHING is incredibly stupid.

Would you give a teenager your car's pink slip, your home's title, the password to your bank accounts and tell it to file your taxes?

Nope. Do not give any AI any permissions to do more than send your messages.

Frankly, I do not think it is safe to give them the information the internet ones collect without my knowledge or consent.

1) No harm no foul.
2) You do the crime, you do the time.

Surprisingly, it seems the DNC are the "do the crime, do the time' people in this generation. GOP has embraced the no harm no foul and even pardoned people.

Us Democrats are tough on crime. We care about the principle, not the result.

I personally am shocked that a judge would think it was OK to use AI at all when crafting his argument. Just do not do that. Do the job you were paid to do, you cannot hire someone else to do it, nor can you get an AI to do it.

Note, if you promise to cook me a meal and you order chinese take out, I will be similarly upset.

There is a valid use of technical jargon: to communicate from one expert to another in clear words that leave no doubt.

Example:
When talking to a kid, a nurse should say: "You broke a bone in your left leg."

When talking to the surgeon that will fix it, that same nurse should say "Greenstick fracture of the left tibia"

The kid likely does not know what the words greenstick, fracture, or tibia means. Nor do they need to know. But the surgeon definitely needs to know all that information.

HOWEVER, there has developed another use of technical jargon:
To make the speaker sounds smart.
See, I know what a greenstick fracture is and I know the word tibia too! I must know what I am doing, you can trust me to do the surgery. (I am not a doctor, do not trust me to do any surgery, you will not like the results).

The problem is that smart people have long ago realized that inappropriate use of jargon means you are a lying con man, not a smart person.

For this reason, when I hear 'synergy' or any variation of it (with a few exceptions), I know the speaker is a moron trying to impress me. Many people think "CON MAN" rather than 'competent expert' when jargon is used, particularly the word synergy which was abused to ridiculous lengths by idiots with MBAs.

Note the main exception is in the middle of an explanation of why the synergy exists, as in: "If we buy a solar panel and a wind turbine, we can get just one backup battery. The synergy will save us about 5% of the total cost."

The reporter still should write the article - allowing them to pick perspectives and write well.

But the editing of the piece - THAT can be done by AI. Have the AI go through and ensure that the piece is accurate, clear and engaging. The reporter can always object and send it to a human Senior editor if the AI made a mistake in the editing.