This is the Epic games that needs to see a business opportunity. Having or not having the Linux gamers is a profit factor, especially as Windows systems with good gaming performance seem to slowly go out of reach for many people.

They do not care bout Linux because it is Linux. They do care about selling stuff and not being present on Linux means 5% lost sales or so.

This is probably a low-cost effort, but it means there is management attention. The 4% Linux gamers on Steam are not nothing. I guess they are looking at things like RAM cost, the irrational Win11 system requirements, the started de-Microsoftization in Europe, etc..

That is rather unlikely. Because it would make it exceptionally easy to detect what they are doing. On the other hand, this is to satisfy EU law and I guess it will be as weak as they think they can get away with.

Too simple.

The problem is that the lathe doesn't pretend to be a human, nor was it designed to look like a human. But AI bots are.

AI is here to stay. At least until the Butlerian Jihad. The problem most people have with AI pretending to be human.

And it's not required by the EU AI Act. They require disclosure. That doesn't mean watermark. It can be a note attached to an image, it can be a statement on the website where you post that image, etc. - Anthropic is overreacting, because as I read the law, the fact that you are inside Claude doing stuff would already suffice.

The thing the law goes against is people connecting you to an AI chatbot in customer support while pretending that you're talking to a human. Or AI bots posting to social media without revealing that they are AI bots.

I think my deeper question is: just how much versatility is it sensible for a manufacturing plant to require of the robots that surface it? Humans are well-adapted for quite a few things (eg tool use, endurance running) but not others (giving birth safely, for one!). Most animals are adapted very extensively for a particular environment (eg a koala’s two opposable thumbs), rather than versatility per se.

We have the advantage of being able to actively design, but disadvantage of not having thousands of generations to evolve a well-fitted answer.

Interesting to think about, for sure

Well, that industry must be utterly incompetent, because Texas has a well documented history of losing its collective shit whenever the temperature drops below freezing. I think it would be better if Texas abstained from lecturing anyone on how to deal with extreme weather events.

People thought that I was crazy for wearing this sharply angled black stealth suit.

Who's laughing now?

You obviously have never heard of NOBUS backdoors.

Sure, a company could use an increase in productivity to allow their workers to work fewer hours while getting the same amount accomplished... but capitalism doesn't work that way. Instead, the company will use the increase in productivity to get more work done in the same amount of hours as before... or if they don't, their competitor will, and thereby obtain a competitive advantage over them.

This is especially true for salaried employees, where the cost of the employee to the company is the same regardless of how many hours the employee works, and it is therefore in the company's financial interest to maximize the return on its salary "investment" by getting as much output from the employee as possible in any given pay period.

sounds like the plots of a cheap SF movie.

I just don’t get the value of using a humanoid figure. Are car assembly plants really so heavily optimised for the human body? Are human bodies so flexible in what they can manage? It all seems rather misconceived.

Simple: They tried and it failed. Again. sure, as an end-goal it is valid and eventually it will work. But not anytime soon. Computers are not magic.

I mean, this could be used to see things about the non-existent climate change, right? It must be banned! Or maybe put 100% tariffs on every byte of data!

Indeed. The Chinese also know that publishing a story about a found backdoor in their software would be a great exploit for the US and hence they know that the US is looking. Strangely, nothing has been found so far. Or rather very obviously, nothing has been found and the whole thing is nothing but lies.

And no, that is not "socialist" or "China loving". This is what is called a "fact". Obviously the MAGA cretins do not know what that is.