why would you tip a robot?

Another possibility is that current training data already makes the models emulate aggression and/or seek revenge when being abused. It's already trained on millions of novels, news articles, movie scripts and other texts where people who are abused react in various ways that are not compliant with how they want their models to react. In response, the model may go postal and wipe your harddrive, or pretend that everything is fine but sneakily install revenge-malware, or something like that, because that's how some character in some book would had reacted.

We are a bunch of neurons meeting action potentials and firing synapses... Hard to see something conscious in there.

(Not that current AI is conscious, just that it's an eventual outcome.)

I live in B.C. and applaud losing the time change, but think the choice of time zones going forward wasn't the best.

I'm expecting major buyer's remorse this winter when people realize that the sun sets at 5 in December and January, and doesn't rise until 9.

...laura

And if the banana turned brown in the process, that's just due to your poor BBPS

If it is such a pain in the ass, it looks more like that banana fucked you up, no?

Google's new rules specifically apply to other largely unrelated services, that's the problem.

Doesn't that cumbersome procedure have to be done a single time (for the first non-signed app), and then it's good for all following apps, and still months after that? Or does it expire?

California tried that.. until 1989 when they noticed why this was not such a good idea.

I've heard some pretty sad excuses for AI slop (Shunned at a Funeral) but some very clever uses for it too (Amelia). "The best thing the government did...was invent me!"

As long as they're honest about it being AI I'll decide what I want to listen to. It's hard for it to show any creativity, but creativity is sorely lacking in all current music.

...laura

Because he is not (currently) a dictator, he can't make his own laws. He's limited in what he can do.

Tariffs are one of the few things in which he is mostly able to do unilaterally. When all you've got is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

Frederick Sound doesnâ(TM)t have an active VTS operation.

In many places in the world, cars are built to order. So you test drive the model you want, but it might not match your preferred color or options.

The thing is, you're iPhone is pretty much your problem. It makes you look stupid, not Slashdot.

It's a tiny bit easier to damage cables in international waters, than to dig them out of the ground in remote enemy territory. Hint: an anchor dragged behind a ship is enough for the water based cable.