Turning to AIs for a ruling on who is human and who is not is an interesting inversion of the Turing test.

It could be that. What it definitely was, though, is that Sony thought they could make more money selling to data centers than to the public.

Why do US politicians seemingly love to cut off their nose to spite their face so much? I can't think of another country where something as stupid and wasteful could happen without enough public outrage that it would result in the government being removed one way or another.

Antiprotons, the forbidden PopRocks

Sadly while your logic sounds spot on, the reality is, that TV still does ACR (basically hashing each screen sometimes multiple times a second) and builds one hell of an accurate profile of everything you watch. Even if the source is HDMI. And it's still sold.

Food for thought, that HDMI cable to your dedicated device, it likely supports networking, so the TV has a path to the internet even if you don't connect an ethernet cable directly to it, or add in your wifi creds.

Or some other Weekly World News cast member?

Only the customers with fancy GPUs have anything worth farming, and they probably want to run games on them instead.

I've heard of traffic 'accidents' where a diabetic went hypoglycemic, passed out, and drove into other cars, pedestrians, etc. For some reason the news always reports it as a 'medical event', but the point is, people are killed by diabetics due to their diabetes way too often. It is an apt analogy. An idiot decides to drink and drive an puts people at risk. An idiot with diabetes fails to control their blood sugar and decides to drive, putting people at risk.

China isn't the one running a ham-fisted trade war, starting multiple shooting wars wars and threatening to annex their supposed allies. The USA is screwing over everyone. China looks like the safer bet at this point.

That's my gut reaction too -- this will result in software with obscure bugs that are near-impossible for a human to find or fix because no human even understands how the software works.

OTOH, maybe no human will need to find or fix the bugs, because they can task an AI to find and fix them instead. I'd say that strains credibility, but last year I would have said it strains credibility that an AI can understand (or, at least, "understand") human-written code as well as a human programmer, and yet here we are.

Yahoo Mail is still a thing, and they run news aggregation sites in a bunch of regions, often partnering with a local TV station or newspaper.

Yeah, it's easy to add more code to fix stuff that should be deleted. Just have the launcher code call your new code which bypasses all the old code. The old code can happily remain, it'll just never be called. No special skills required. If you look at the windows codebase, you'll see this technique everywhere.

True, but I don't see how that's a problem for anyone.

People joke about Linux being unstable, and having usability issues, when was the last time a major Linux distribution completely bleeped home directory access? I've never seen it, and I've been using Linux since 1999, maybe 1998. Let's be clear, you could do through incompetence, but that's of your own destruction, and if you did, you could easily get it back.

Off the top of my head, a RHEL/CentOS 7 update package for GRUB rendered a lot of systems unbootable. SuSE used to use ReiserFS by default, which had a nasty habit of pulling in anything that looked vaguely like directory data when you did a scavenge, so you had to ensure you never had a disk image of a ReiserFS volume anywhere, and hope you didn't have anything that looked similar enough. There have been plenty of breaking bugs in Linux distros.

For something that's too far away to be of much use, it sure is getting a lot of use.