Monitor, certainly. But why would they have remote control that can set a FREEZER to 50C?

The manager would.

I guess Yandex's DR sites don't have the latest updates installed.

Given that Russia can't refine crude or deliver fuel and now it's data centers are dropping like flies, they're the ones heading for the bronze age.

Sooner or later, the oligarchs will be showing Putin the window. He's making it hard to make a dishonest buck.

Exactly this. I have experimented with using AI, but absolutely forbid it to actually check in code. I just let it show me it's proposal. It can be useful at that, but often needs to be prodded about criteria it left out and frequently the final result needs a re-write for maintainability at least. It has a tendency to use really convoluted logic which can be greatly simplified without changing the result.

It does much better as a search tool. It's pretty good at finding exactly where some feature is implemented in a large codebase.

according to The Moscow Times, an independent newspaper.

In Soviet^H^H^H^H^H^Hfascist Russia, there are no independent newspapers.

Well, I do believe that the odds are that Ukraine will be defeated, but then I also believed that the odds were that North Vietnam would be defeated. So I'm clearly no expert in this area.

At the refrigerator end you're talking about grocery stores. I think you have unreasonable expectations. KISS. No remote control, only remote read. Have a technician come by and make and change commands. That shouldn't be needed very often, and you can monitor (but not control) it remotely.

Monitoring is one thing. Control is something else.

I agree, the real danger of this is that the documentation requirements will swiftly become so complex and verbose that only an AI can write them, and only an AI can read them. Humans will no longer even know what the effect of the documentation requirements is, they can only hope some of the remaining original purpose (keep the reactor safe) survives the AI rewrite.

Sorry, but no, only sometimes. Often it's not known what the test would need to be, but it's known how to test the answer.

From the inception of the project to now, the number of GitHub contributors has skyrocketed from a handful to almost 250. Practically speaking, it's still very Alpha, but bugs are being squashed and features added and honed at a stunning pace. Time will tell if this becomes and remains legit or just a flash in the pan.

You have more certainty about the future than I do. I *do* doubt that the full projected build-out will ever happen, and that will definitely hurt some overcommitted people. It *might* crash thoroughly, but I see no reason to put that at higher than a 10% chance. More likely a bunch of planned construction never gets ordered. And *when* does that happen? This year? Next April 15th?

Yeah, it will crash, just like the internet build-out crashed. Some folks will get hurt. But it won't return to what it used to be. AI will continue to be important...and become more important. (And there will be lots of mistakes made in using it.)

Whether AI will start setting it's own goals is less certain. If it does, it may be safer than if it doesn't. Things could get really wonky if a strong AI starts pursuing a stupid goal because it was told to do so.

Current AIs are only useful in areas where it's easy to recognize invalid results. (Ideally, easy enough that the AI, itself, can recognize that they are invalid, perhaps by invoking a deterministic tool.)

Well, they can also be valid for generating lots of "plausible ideas", like "What molecule would bind to this other molecule?", which can then be tested...but which can't be relied upon without testing. That's faster than experts can make guesses, and often has a higher success rate, but it needs testing.

Well, they're also useful for creating convincing bullshit.

So I guess my original "only" was too restrictive...but not *that* much too restrictive.

OK, why "August 4th, 2037"?
It sounds like you're following a particular story-line, but I don't know enough to recognize it.