Let's hope that few of them interact with their vehicle like its a person. Because if you're having a two-way conversation where your motorcycle tells you how smart and clever you are, that's almost certainly a mental illness.

The interface of chatbot LLMs is ultimately what differentiate it from calling your nation, battleship, rifle, car, etc. a "she". And we should tread very carefully in assigning human qualities to a machine that was trained to imitate and manipulate human beings.

And like I recommend time and time again. We have to regulate these chatbot LLMs because of the social costs to the psychological manipulation that is inherent to their very design.

And here I thought geeks and hackers prioritized freedom and technical superiority over popularity. I'm fortunate you are here to correct my faulty assumption.

If you're not planning on having sex with it, then it shouldn't matter!

Wait... are you planning on having sex with it?!?

Simple, we should make it illegal to represent an AI with a gender and pronouns. How illegal? Fines, injunctions, etc. Make it expensive to be wrong.

Why? Because it's a goddamn machine and a whole lot of problems go away if we stop anthropomorphize it.

Female porn stars get paid ten times as much as male porns stars! That's so unfair! I feel so discriminated against!

That's not what "directly involved" means. Its tourism as best, and at worst: just Seinfeld being a shill.

Yes, that's generally how it works. Although my family mainly gets called communist and anti-Semitic these days.

Most comics play both sides. In a semi-public social setting, they'll participate with a "yes, and" when it's racist, anti-woke, etc. And claim it is comedy. When you make light of the ridiculous positions that Bill Maher or Jerry Seinfeld have to their face, it's suddenly censorship or "evil" (Seinfeld's words LOL).
If you want an example of a comedian that is both funny and a decent person, check out Stavros Halkias. He might seem "woke" because he's not willing to play to decades old stereotypes for cheap laughs. But it turns out you can rip on people and poke fun and be "edgy" without using the nearest trans person as your punching bag.

tl;dr - old, washed up comedians aren't worth anyone's time.

Did you see the pictures of the AIs in the study?

What's with that lighting? They didn't adjust for the fact that the woman looks slightly more like a serial killer, with a wrinkled skirt pulled up to her ribcage. I haven't seen graphics that bad since Metaverse. The study noticed it, but didn't adjust for it. Relevant quote:

Because the graphics were terrible.

We've dealt with machine proofs before, that's been a thing in the field of mathematics for decades. And the proof's value hinges on if it contributes to the advancement of human knowledge. If humans eventually understand the proof, great. If we have yet another proof that a human can't peel back to find broader principles, then the contribution is of minuscule value.

Have been a C programmer for 40 years, I am 100% in favor of rewriting all of Linux in Rust. Just sayin'. Once you get over the very frustrating learning curve, you realize it's the best language available for most problem sets.

If someone were to say that 1% of the techniques were novel, I would be surprised that it is so high. So yes, "mostly" is the correct qualifier here.

Are the JPEG XL encoding and decoding algorithms encumbered by any patents, or can anyone use them for free?

According ot George Carlin, God put us here on this Earth because it lacked plastic. We have risen to the task and created massive amounts of plastic! Praise be!

Wars are too profitable to end without immediately starting another. Oil nations and Islamists are a never ending wellspring of fear to feed to the masses.

The fact is, we are all wired to judge people by their appearance, and certainly race and gender do play into that implicit bias. What saddens me most is that even black people judge other black people as being more of a threat.