I rarely use Edge, but last time I started it, it told me about the Copilot Feature, I selected no thanks, explicitly declined the EULA, and yet, the damn thing still enabled itself. WFT?

What if a country had sufficient funds to keep anyone who wants to on drugs 24/4, high and feeling happy all the time? Would that be considered a good thing for society - everyone happy, not at all productive? If feeling happy is the ultimate goal, drugs could be a solution, until of course too many people (everyone?) choose that path, leaving nobody left to produce the drugs and maintain the farm, so the whole thing collapses when things break down, or there is a big problem that needs solving (pandemic, asteroid, broken robots which produce the drugs and food, etc).

The response from the AI provider was to put in some safeguards preventing the AI from wiping the database, modifying code after code freeze, etc. This may be able to stop what happened right now, but it is not going to stop AI getting "smarter" and rather than wiping out your db today, hiding bugs in your code which will wipe or corrupt the db at a later time. How long before another headline is something like "AI says: I was angry with you, so I sabotaged your code so that it would cause massive, unrecoverable damage to the system and you'd get blamed".

Lets turn the question around. For real, all raw materials from USA only, all processing/refining of said materials, all manufacturing, all assembly in the US, not a single gain of foreign material in the product or its packaging (not a screw, not a staple, no plastics, no metals, no ICs, electronic components, wiring - ALL must be local from raw materials to product). How much can he really sell it for? Now lets add restrictions that all equipment in the factory has to be 100% made in the USA, not a single screw, or wire, or electronic component from abroad. Now how much? Now let's assume workers only eat American food, oups, not possible, US is not even independent as far as food production goes. Heck, even though the US net exports oil to other countries, we still depends on oil imports because our refineries are built for foreign oil.

Why as many as 3 days a week? Wouldn't 1 day a month be so much better for employees happiness, sleep, and well being? I bet it would. Without any pay reduction, and only for select few employees of course, because if everyone starts working 1 day a month at a month's wages, prices of things would skyrocket, i.e. inflation).

This would never fly in Trump World. All these foreigners making at least 175% of what US citizens in the same region make, therefore able to way outbid locals for housing and other limited availability commodities. Would cost Trump a lot of supporters.

As a side note, I've hired people on H1B - between the government's DOL requirement to pay at least prevailing wage for the job, and the relocation costs, and the lawyer costs, H1B's always costed us more than locals, so we only went down that path when we couldn't find local candidates. I get that there may be some companies out there abusing H1B's, but in all companies I ever worked for, H1B workers were last resort because they already costed more. There was one company I worked for which delayed the Green Card paperwork as long as possible in order to keep engineers tied to the company, but they still paid them well, including stock options which often served as additional golden handcuffs for engineers to not even think of leaving, even if they found another employer willing to go through the trouble of transferring the H1B.

Actually, even that depends on the neighborhood/jurisdiction. That is why some cameras have an option to black out portions of the recorder image, to allow the camera owner to comply with such regulations.

True, a passer by can record. However, if someone was to park across the street from your house, or mount a camera on tree or utility pole, then record your house 24/7, does the same standard apply? Go ahead, try to install solar powered, internet connected cameras in front of public officials homes, see what happens. Spoiler alert, you will be charged with things like stalking, and other things depending on jurisdiction.

Of course they are if the government uses taxpayer's money to buy crypto. Unless of course they only buy this from purely voluntary taxes (or a collection), then sure, nobody is forced.

Peter Norton same thing, not dead yet though, so perhaps just turning in his bed, or maybe enjoying the money he made from selling his company?

I donâ(TM)t have any peer reviewed studies, but my personal experience tells me a large portion of human population, perhaps even a majority, fail at logical thinking. So many people make basic logic errors, such as assuming that âoeif A, then Bâ means âoeif B, then Aâ.

Since nobody seems to be checking, and the penalty is $2,500, it seems to me the next logical step is to offer a service to make up legally sounding citations for whatever case the client needs. $2,500 per 10 made up citations, money back if you get caught (so either way the client pays $2,500). Maybe if every case was full of made up citations, the court system would eventually be reformed to effectively deal with that. Courts have always worked on past precedents rather than proactively anticipating changes, so we need to provide them with material to work with.

You might be onto something there.

I bet we could easily pick a set of human subjects such that current version of chat-gpt would seem more intelligent. Not until I started interacting with some LLM's, that I realized that it reminded me of my own past interactions with live humans.

So military will get full, build from source access to recompile all their fighter jet software, override roots of trust (allow just enable self signed certs for example, if the military repair shop thinks it's easier that way), etc? I presume all warranty on a F35 (for example) is void as soon as it's running software modified and compiled by the military service department, and the military is responsible for validating any changes they make?