Call it broken clock or whatever you need to, but "Super Intelligence" is not a bad descriptor. "Artificial Intelligence" covers an extremely broad classification of software. Including some tiny model running on your smart watch. Your smart watch heart monitor is not what is generating all the concern among politicians and CEOs. The concern is over a hypothetical super intelligent (beyond human level) frontier model that is difficult, if not impossible, to control. That's a very specific subset of the general AI field. So having some nomenclature to indicate that subset is not a bad idea.

It likely has more to do with declining console sales.

I can see that in an 80s song lyric and I can also see Al and Tipper Gore wanting that album banned to save the children.

And you wonder why Gen X does not trust either political party. :-)

They are pretty close to that point. Instruct the LLM to stop being polite, stop trying to please, and to honestly and critically review the conversation above. It often gets pretty interesting, and sometimes approaches useful feedback when it turns off the ass kissing and updates the opinions and recommendations it gave you a minute ago..

More accurately the electronic computer replaced the human computer. "Computer" was a human job once upon a time.

No, its just iterative development. New version, try again.

No, over the many months we customers have gotten better at self checkout and have learned not to trigger the events that will require that employee override. And they now make the bags generally available, we no longer have to interrupt the employee to get bags.

Failure to scan triggers one of those employee overrides. The system is quite sensitive. If you try to scan things two handed, sequence items one at a time, a little body rotation can get the second unscanned item in the other hand too "near" the bagging area and trigger an override. There are RFID and numerous cameras tracking each item. You can see it all as the employee clears the false alarm.

And that will get you one of those employee alerts.

Good luck when someone leaves something behind accidentally in the bagging area. That's something the software can't handle. Its not on your scanned list but it can't be moved off to the side out of your way without an employee alert.

At first with the self checkout you move glacially slow and it works. Then as you get more familiar you try to work faster and trigger all sorts of alerts, sometimes multiple in one checkout. Over the months you get the movements and pacing down well enough to avoid triggering alerts. And you can now go get a bag if you need one yourself. All without employee intervention. Once the customers get "trained" for checkout the system may very well save money. I wonder if they are counting on us customers gaining such proficiency?

That's why you have a second specialized computer for financial stuff and nothing else. Could be a dirt cheap chromebook. Could be that old retired lap. So long as it gets a factory reset/wipe and software updates, which might require an old PC having linux installed.

Crypto is designed so you do not need anything other than a basic computer that you will use yourself. Using anything else is breaking the security model, giving a 3rd party control/access.

You really really don't want to see an angry Claude. :-)

The real solution was for the automakers to switch to the Tesla network.

WRT the ice carrier, that and escort carriers. The very long range liberator configuration was an important part in closing that gap, but not the entire solution. The escort carriers were also an important part. VLR and CVE complemented each other well.

It makes sense when you consider that it acts as a theft deterrent. If criminals can't sell what they steal beyond scraping it for parts (which is also difficult for a lot of Apple products since they're becoming more and more integrated.) then they won't bother stealing it in the first place. Sure, stupid ones will, just like there's always a dumb bird that hasn't learned not to try eating the orange and black butterfly yet, but the overall effect is useful.

If you want to buy a used Apple device it's not hard to remove it from your account so that someone else can register it. I've done this with numerous Apple products that have been handed down to family members or sold to friends over the years. The police aren't going to give a shit if your device gets stolen or do anything to help you recover it, so good on Apple for making it a lot less valuable for the thief.

Incidentally, I'd consider a bot that gets upset and tells me to fuck off if I'm being exceptionally mean to it to be closer to a human than one that just keeps apologizing when the intelligent thing would be to realize that I'm an asshole not worth engaging with any further.

Of course the other possibility is that they've found a correlation between users who were abusive to their LLM and people who've recently experienced unexplained house fires and are trying to put a lid on the kettle before anyone else suspects or notices.

Why would they care if someone else is paying to be a jerk to their LLM? If they're giving away or subsidizing the access I can see your point, but someone could waste just as much compute being excessively positive towards it as they could being mean. A model would get just as damaged by telling it everything it produces is great when it's actually not if it's using that as feedback to adjust its own output. Judging by how badly those who surround themselves with yes men tend to fall, I'd even argue that excessive positivity could be worse than negativity, but of course LLM's aren't humans so perhaps the same is not true.