There might be a trillionaire already.

I liked the lesson comments for this very reason - people would give insight as to the usage, which was usually super helpful. But then Duolingo rolled those insights into their "MAX" offering. I was already paying for Duolingo and while that seems like a nice feature (as well as the AI powered discussion sessions) I couldn't see paying more for those insights that are an internet search away - it was just convenient in the app. Speaking of the AI powered conversation. I took advantage of their four-day trial and the AI powered conversation was fun - but not ready for prime time IMO. If you made a mistake, or my phone misheard me - the mistakes rolled into the downstream conversation with no apparent way to course correct. As background, I am a long time Duolingo user - 4+ year streak now and I've spent 10 months in the highest "league" (yes, the excellent gamifying has totally sucked me in). I have found that it has been super useful - I've had conversations in Spanish and even given a couple industry presentations in Spanish (I had an opportunity to speak at a conference in Medellín a couple years ago). My vocabulary continues to expand but I have found that as good as I get - I don't feel that I've yet "mastered" Spanish.

This isn't a conservative v. leftist issue - it is an issue of integrity and accuracy. When I was working on my dissertation, and then later when I worked for a research institute, I was scared to death that I would make an error of this sort. According to the academic STANDARDS you can be removed from a program for engaging in plagiarism. Did you also note the difference in response by Gay and Oxmen? Has Gay apologized? (No). Did Oxmen? Immediately - and she took immediate steps to correct the issues. There are also differences in copying and pasting whole section of text, and forgetting to use quote marks although you actually include the citation. I think on my own experience with my dissertation and how many eyes were on it, the review committee and technical editor - and how easy it is to miss a punctuation mark. (If anyone has every coded - how many times do your eyes not see the missing semi-colon". But plagiarism is plagiarism and the standard is the standard. If there are going to be rules, the same rules need to apply to everyone.

As an independent singer-songwriter and producer I see this as inevitable, but I'm hoping in the future that "human-crafted songs" will have a market position, because you absolutely know the corporate entities are going to go full AI.

The biggest timeline delays for nuclear aren't typically construction - it is getting a certificate of need and clearing all the regulatory hurdles. Those alone can take 10 years before the first hole is dug.

France seems to do a good job at making them cost effective. They didn't do the American thing - where every plant is a custom build. They use a single design and then cookie cutter that sucker - which really drives the cost out of construction.

Additionally, the future of nuclear appears to 4th Gen nukes. Smaller, more cost effective builds and uses waste from earlier gen nukes as fuel, with some estimates suggesting there is 4000 years of available fuel.

Right. But it takes an organization willing to look into it. My experience has been that Google just automates these things. Humans aren't involved. I think fixing would cost money that Google doesn't want to invest.

I loved my Microsoft Phone - and I still used it in WiFi mode until it physically died. I loved Cortana (instead of Siri). I also thought that the abandonment was weird given both the strength of the Microsoft Surface and Microsoft's typical strategy of what I refer to as "surround and drown" (borrowing from a firefighting metaphor). Usually when Microsoft faces a setback they (to use a technical term) throw a shit-tonne of money at the problem until they carve out a market. For them to step away - especially after acquiring a mobile phone manufacturer - was just... not Microsofty.

Agreed. I also find it interesting watching the response to this topic that there seems to be a general lack of awareness that a federal court agreed that CISA exceeded their charter by working with third parties to suppress first amendment protections.

In the grand scheme of things, I'm way more concerned about the money laundering that our own members of Congress engage in.

Please point the CNN authors to the Milankovitch Model. I suspect that if humans had longer lifespans (say, a million years), they would notice these differences that are more attributable to the model. https://earthobservatory.nasa....

Friends don't let friends use Google.

I concur. The AI image creation is based on an artist's input parameters, yes? Alternatively - make the AI the copyright holder (while we wait for it to grow into its sentience).

Which is how you get porc chops. (When meat is back on the menu).

The ability to detect what you ate by the chemical makeup of your farts.

Following the old saying. Back in Pre-COVID, the former company I worked for was busting at the seams. We were in a pinch trying to find office space. We not only leased an adjacent building, the expanded operations in an existing building. Then covid. Most of the workforce switched to work from home. Post-Covid, the leases have been canceled and that company has a smaller building footprint than it had in 2020. Is it plausible that is what happened here? There was an over-estimation about how much office space was needed due to Covid reasons and a greater acceptance of work from home? Sure - they took the tax credits and ran - but is this a side effect rather than a driver to defraud the people of Wisconsin?