We should all be both terrified and ready to open our wallets

Why? If they're pausing work, that means they're not chasing profits. Without new profits, who's going to open their wallets? That does not compute.

Duh! The humans are just introducing them to see if the AIs are still paying attention!

Later in the interview he says "It's less than one in a million alerts that an officer says, 'I'm not sure if that's right.' Less than one in a million."

Also: one million alerts correctly classified for every single failure? Let's say it takes the officer 10 seconds to register an alert and assign it to a local policeman for investigation. 10 million seconds at 8 hours per day uninterrupted is 348 working days: a little under a year and a half. That's 348 days of accepting the computer's choice no matter what. Must be monotonous.

Nobody should pay for a browser. The fact that you and others are mildly considering it is already proof that evil corporations have influenced the millennial generations' Zeitgeist so much.

Mozilla didn't develop the original code for their browser. It was donated to the world, free of charge, by Netscape (who took the ideas from a university). So the code that Mozilla has been working on (and rewriting several times) was licensed to them freely, and there is a continuous chain of ownership going back decades, no matter the rewrites. The code is yours to take and modify as per the license terms.

I'm quite happy if Mozilla folds. They shouldn't charge for access to the browser, and the world doesn't need their corporate structure directing anything.

Yes, AI. And no, I didn't say that we (the industry) have a pretty good idea how it works. I implied` that we have a pretty good idea that it works in a very different way than what the general public imagines.

The general public imagines that it works like human intelligence: you train a system, you have a set of rules and safeguards, and you trust that the person will use common sense to do the right thing. If they don't, there will be unacceptable consequences for the person, which keeps most people on the right path.

The actual way it works is more like this: you draw some points on a piece of paper, and you draw a curve through the point cloud. Then you read off where the curve goes. It's all geometrical thinking, not human-like thinking.

I've been buying business grade ThinkPads for 30 years. How is Framework better?

It's called Fascism, as defined by Mussolini: A totalitarian political movement linked with corporatism which was invented in Italy to run the country like a business belonging to, and for the benefit of, the Head of State (Mussolini himself).

but is it as simple as possible, and not any simpler?

We're making quite a bit of progress in understanding how they work. The main issue is that the popular imagination of some mysterious human like intelligence is not how they work. I blame generations of AI researchers who fill the introductions to their papers with fluffy pseudo-science about neurons and brain models.

Correct. And later on he tied his various literary universes (robots, galactic colonization, empire, foundation) into a cohesive whole where a benevolent god-like robot pulls the strings of history.

It's a great canon, but the obvious endpoint of making a metal god in our image is not a good aspirational argument in favour of the Three Laws.

These assholes are literally arguing for insider trading in every domain to justify their "wisdom of crowds" bullshit. Because, if the game is rigged, then the prediction outcomes actually look good.

They are mainly fooling 20-something poor students who worry about the future and think gambling is the only way to escape the underclass.

When an out of state company makes decisions inside a state, the state's power to force outcomes becomes limited. The out of state company can always say "take it or leave it" and threaten to exit the market.

So it's always better to keep companies that do business on the inside of a state, then the state can properly punish failures to uphold required standards.And if the company wants to shut down or exit, the state can attempt to take over the assets and force desired outcomes in various ways.

Too late! I already watched it (in 1902).

Thanks for sharing!

Ironically, the industry trend of doing SaaS has pushed the need for customer support way up, compared with the traditional model of selling a finished product once and issuing refunds or replacements in rare cases.