Couldn't start a flood.

Starting a fire with petrol is too expensive, especially in Germany.

Downloading your own virus and nuking the IT infrustructure! Yup, that'll do it.

Yes ... and no.

Some tasks become easier to automate. Like coding.

But, it is still left to interpret what the user wants. AI can't do that ... yet. And perhaps never. This isn't because AI is deficient, it's because the user does not know what they want.

What will be replaced is a worker who inputs data, checks the input matches expected output and then clicks SEND. Very little to zero value added. And in every workplace, there are a lot of those types of people. Never, ever had an original thought in the workplace.

Then there are those that literally cannot ask a specific, logical question. They might be able to google/ddg "Poker 4 of a kind" but could not think their way to ask "What are the odds of having 2 sets of 4 of a kind in Texas hold'em in a single round when there are 6 players".

Less easy, but not impossible to replace at those that actually do some thinking.

So, if you can ask users the right questions, ask the hidden questions and employ AI to automate routine tasks, I think you'll do ok.

Got to stay active. I see it before me, now. My mum is one of a (non-identical) twin. The difference between her and her sister could not be more stark.

My mum plays golf and bowls regularly and has an active social life. My aunt is/was a "shut in" for the last 30+ years. I suspect a bit of mental illness played its part there. However, mum mostly has her marbles still, and can drive, shop and do most of the "real-lfe" things. My aunt is basically in gods waiting room and has her basic needs seen to by others.

This going to trial (and the UKs Teco also going to trial), might end badly for the software industry. There might actually get to be some formal ruling on what "perpetual" means. Ditto "Lifetime" and "Support".

At the moment, these terms are whatever the vendor says they are. They might become what a judge says they are. And that could be good or bad for consumers depending upon the ruling.

However, it could be even worse for vendors as now there is a line in the sand. No doubt, once the dust is settled (ie, appealed to hell over the next decade and bit), the lawyers will have pisseed on the line in the sand to have still some opacity for the vendors to wriggle out of.

MS, Oracle, IBM, et al my quietly push Broadcom to settle out of court, for all their sakes.

It's far, far, far older than that.

There was a day that, indeed, 640k was enough for anybody and a 40Meg hard drive was as much as a good second hand smallish car.

I can remember the 80s. It was rife. Everywhere was somebody making a bid for some other company, even just for the realestate and other assets. Bang, a dvision sold off, moving from prime real estate to "sticks" and the waterfront being developed for a soulless luxury hotel or apartments.

Of course, it was all with other people's money. Sometime, the purchased firms own money, And one day, the money stopped and the 80s were really over.

Do I really need to say "now get off my lawn" at this point? Because if you don't I'm going to shake my fist at some clouds and then take a mid-afternoon nap.

... sadly for the Americans, the rest of the world now knows they can't count on a US based provider for this kind of thing any more.

It was uncomfortable enough relying so heavily on American software back when it couldn't be switched off remotely on the say so of an idiot. Today it's an intolerable risk.

Same genetic background. I trust them as far as I can spit a rat.

Anyway, there are free and paid for solutions, with and without support that fit the bill at least as well as this one. Nothing stands out about the offer.

I agree. Ads which cover 80% of content, popup, popunder, music, impossible to close, super repetitive, super repetitive, super repetitive, purposely distractive, should be blown to heck.

Sometimes, I turn off my ad blockers. The interweb is unusable. Just crap. Half the websites I'd never, ever use at all if I didn't have an ad-blocker.

I don't have any problem with content producers getting paid for their work through ad revenue. I have a problem with them festooning their content with so many fucking ads that I can't get TO the content. - I can't agree more.

And homophobia!
And misogyny!
And ageism!
And regligous bigotry!
And partisanal bias!
And, if all else fails, a deep distrust of everything different from oneself!

So, practically all copy were corrupt then. And now.

1 - People with those skills might actually say "Go to Hell" if posted with morally grey, or downright illegal task.
2 - Managers like "yes" men/women/other
3 - It hurts profit to think. Just DOOOOO.
4 - Never mind the quality, feel the width

Because the Intel Mac, was, I think, the last of 27inch 4k screens. And it is beautiful to look at and use.

During Corona WFH I would use this beast to Remote Desktop in to my work laptop. Because it was so much nicer. Then, after a break for dinner and some excercise, I could spend a couple of hours studying my Masters using the same machine.

Now, I haven't need process heavy tasks, a little transcoding aside. I could have done it CPU bound or accept the compromise and use the Video Toolbox, which produces beautiful (if larger) files.

Although Apple might be dropping support for the Intel Mac, I'd hope for one last bug fix release of Tahoe before it goes in to the long twighlight beyond.

money is not necessarily the answer. It may however, compensate the victim.

However, it does not punish the perpetrator. Knowingly or not, somone has had their liberty stolen from them. I wold propose that from the cop issuing the citation, up the chain of command, they all be forced to the same prison/lockup/facility that the innocent was subjected to, for the same amount of time.

Person in the slammer for 20 years on a false conviction, facked evidence, etc? Thats about 7300 days for Office Joe, Seargent Schmuck, Luftenant Loser, Captain Jack of no-spades and Comissioner Looney-Bin.

Double, if it was malicious. That will make a few sit up and take notice. It would be very effective. "To serve and protect" ... my arse. "To server and protect ... the officers".

...a lot of people online were saying there was an upcoming event called The Halvening that would change everything.

I guess this is it?

Seems to me 'dead' for a taxi isn't 'dead' for a static power bank. If I'm running a taxi I've got hard limits on how large my battery can be and how heavy, and I want to maximise the mileage I get between charges, because while my taxi is charging it's not out on the road earning money. When that battery is keeping only maybe 80% of its original design charge, and now I have to schedule one recharge too many per working day? Bang goes my business plan, so I'm replacing it.

If I'm storing energy for the grid I'm a lot less worried about that. It only stores 80% of what it did when new? Better than nothing, and the taxi firm is selling them off cheap. I'll stack them up!

Perhaps not, but if you pick your moment right then permanently stopping the work of some of the most talented researchers there could very well make a difference. A spectacular incident that makes the headlines might also deter others - bright graduates might decide it's far safer to take up a different line of work, subcontractors and suppliers might decide doing business with AI firms isn't worth the danger, investors might figure the increased risk of loss of premises and equipment into their projections, that kind of thing.

If people genuinely believed AI takeover was a real, present and imminent threat, then they wouldn't just be publishing essays online, they'd be forming direct action groups, along the full spectrum of campaigning: all the way from awareness raising publicity campaigns, through picketing, blockades and sit-ins, up through Black Bloc type actions, right up to menacing intimidation campaigns and terrifying physical force operations. But I don't see any Butlerian Jihad getting started. Which tells me they don't actually believe this at all; they're just bigging up their own importance. 'Oh yes, our technology is so incredibly powerful, if it were done wrong then imagine what could happen! Keep the money coming to make sure it's done right instead! Then all that power can be ours instead!... I mean, uh, yours, Mr Investor sir.'

AI stock valuations don't make a bit of sense unless the technology turns out to be every bit as powerful as that. If they don't keep that thought alive, then the bubble bursts right now. That's what all this hot air is about, and that's why nobody really pulls a Miles Dyson at the AI research lab.