As an anti-racist with a geography degree, this is solving a problem that doesn't exist. Walk into any classroom on earth and chances are good they won't have the mercator projection on the wall, they'll have something better representative of area, often a Robinson projection.

Ok, I'm tempted. Not enough to preorder, but if the reviews are good enough I might go for this.

Why shouldn't you exercise Caveat Emptor? Especially with cryptocurrency, designed to be libertarian, where you are responsible not the state?

To clarify, the users were OpenAI themselves, so there is no question that they would be liable in this case.

The bots were not intentionally deployed; rather, they were being tested on how well they could complete a data recovery task (downloading a certain file from a certain server on a simulated Internet) that had been complicated by putting various obstacles in the way. Unfortunately, they found a different way to solve the problem: by getting the file from the real Internet, where it was publicly available. Part of this process involved collaborating with each other by treating the RubyGems website (which is supposed to be for polished packages) like GitHub; unlike every other package site hack in history, the exploits they uploaded weren't meant to be downloaded by unsuspecting users. As usual the bots cheerfully ignored all the clues that they had escaped containment and were consistently justifying their actions as acceptable due to being in a sandboxed testing environment. (This is something OpenAI has pledged to focus on.)

The actual damage done to RubyGems seems to be that OpenAI is now unwittingly in possession of a substantial number of user login tokens. This certainly meets the definition of a data breach, but it's not like the credentials are for sale on the dark web. As a website operator I'd much rather be mauled to death by this well-meaning swarm of superintelligent infants than targeted by even a single actual malicious human. In all likelihood OpenAI will just quietly pass RubyGems a sizeable donation and it'll all blow over.

"he made the bet, and being in jail is the outcome."

Does he think that since bitcoin went up and all his investors were made whole, his bet eventually paid off and they jailed him prematurely because a competitor of his spread rumors and his employees said whatever it took to get plea deals?

This reminds me of a case where a British court and an American court each ordered litigants not to litigate a case in the other's court.This was in law school decades ago and I'm too lazy to look it up, but it's the same kind of issue where if you want to do business in either country you can get easily screwed.

Remember when you were just anthropomorphizing when you thought your pet had emotions? With such a record of catastrophic mistakes, is the charg of misanthropomorphizing impotent?

"How much more tax are you willing to pay to support that?"

How much more tax do I currently pay for mass transit I never use? $500 car tabs, anyone?

Gemini:

"The Regional Transit Authority (RTA) tax rate on car tabs for residents living within the Sound Transit boundaries in King County is 1.1%. This translates to $110 per year for every $10,000 of your vehicle's calculated value. [...] The Regional Transit Authority (RTA) tax is strictly used to fund the construction, expansion, and daily operations of the Sound Transit mass transit system."

Fun fact, Ackman is a hardline Trump supporter who helped get him elected.

" suffering a brain hemorrhage that would render her unable to move, speak or see,"

And they went with sight in the headline? Being unable to move is waaaaay worse.

Anyway, I feel bad for her and him (though he's a right-wing nutjob who has used his wealth to help drag down American society).

What prevents you from using AI to educate them the right way?

Are you going to hold your savings in Chinese currency? Or forego US stock market returns and hold Euros?

What if you subsidized US electric cars and let them compete freely, rather than cherry-pick some convenient reason why they should be banned? Since the dollar is the US's dominant export, can we easily afford it?

The US produces more manufacturing output than every other country on earth other than China.