About $0.45 actually.

When I was in school, the local ice cream chain gave out free book covers. All the cool kids had them.

Given how over-priced text books are these days, I wouldn't be surprised if the issued books cost more than the chromebook.

As I said above, when Mom and Dad get the bill, there will be consequences for the kid. I'm sure if the kid caused a fire at the school and mom got THAT bill, there would be more than a slap on the wrist coming.

I'm sure when Mom and Dad get the bill, they'll make sure there are consequences. There's no need for a judge to get involved for that.

If they wrote their code in a language that doesn't burn CPU like it's a free limitless resource their costs would have been far lower.

Let's vote on it next election. Who thinks we should keep the IRS? Don't keep repeating the BS about roads and infrastructure. Go look at how they actually spend our money. Then decide. Is funding gender studies in Pakistan really what you'd like them to spend your money on?

This is a clueless and very dangerous precendent.I'm amazed that the judge allowed this.

Apart from the fact that no person or thing can possibly know what the victim actually would have thought, not many people have enough emotional detachment and technical knowledge around AI to understand that the words that the AI said in court were actually manufactured by someone/something else and disguised as the words of the victim, and they could have made him say anything.Yes people on some level knew this was AI, but clearly those in court including the judge were affected emotionally and therefore so was their judgement.

Even more worrying is that it would be trivially easy for some programmer or attorney to intentionally manipulate the judge and jury using this technology.

They are, but we'll never do business with them again. Not sure they care but if enough people take that stance in aggregate maybe it makes a difference long term.

Wonder if they've ever heard of an annoying little company called SCO?

In the same way, PCBs aren't TRYING to give people cancer. Sincere but unrealized desire that by-products (or even direct products) of an industry be harmless in no way ethically insulates the company from the very real harms.

First, most of those didn't work their way up through the company to do that. They happened to work a job at the company as a teen or to make beer money for college, then through happenstance ended up hired as an executive after graduation, possibly after working at other places after graduation. You're not going to see the mail room guy gets promoted to lead mail room guy, to mail room manager, etc all the way up to CEO very often.

Next, for every one of those cases, condensed into one neat dreamer article in a magazine, there's a few million others who worked just as hard as mail-room guy or similar and got the heave ho after the CEO gave a speech about a leaner more agile company and cashed in some inflated stock for a new yacht.

Consider something like a $1000 iPhone. How many actual hours of human labor do you suppose go in assembling each phone?

I'd say not even one. Pay that one at $40 and you are talking about 4%. Of course, a more common U.S. hourly for that is more like $20.

The tactic is to pull you just a little bit at a time. Do that long enough and by the time it's done, you can't even see where you started from.

That's also American politics in a nutshell. Emphasis on NUT.

They're not trying to anything. They don't have the conscious or even designed aspect needed to be "trying". They're like the Mirror of Erised in text form. They tell you what you want them to.