Speaking as someone that watched the first Dr Who broadcast and was a fan until a few years ago, I am so disappointed at the general decline of the show. It has become too wrapped up in portraying social issues to the detriment of actually engaging stories. That's not even mentioning the fact that at its height it was a serial, with cliff-hanger endings wheras the reboot rushes to finish even the most complex (potentially) stories in one go. I don't watch any more. A fascinating concept ridden into the ground having survived and prospered for decades. 'Change' is not always the answer.

Literally an episode from Black Mirror. Quite sad and I hope she finds something more fulfilling to do.

I have intimate knowledge of Crowdstrike from my former life in cybersecurity. It is a good product. What they did was unforgivable but to try to seriously damage them via some lawsuit where lawyers will have inflated the damage in the hope of a higher settlement benefits nobody except the lawyers and some face saving for Delta.

We're all supposed to be on the same side when it comes to fighting digital crime and vandalism and I just don't see how this helps. Crowdstrike are well aware of their profile and the damage done by their stupid mistake. To extract potentially hundreds of millions of dollars won't make one of their staff any less likely to do something stupid again. It might impair their ability to continuously improve their product against the ever evolving threats.

Can't we think of something else, more constructive?

I was always encouraged to verify information and try to get as close as possible to the original source. So perhaps it would be sensible to have a simple (button?) method to list the sources that the AI would have referenced when providing their answers. They might even be ordered by 'relevance'.

How can a man getting out of a car, walking back to another man in a separate car and then deliberately pointing a gun at him and shooting him, be manslaughter?

It wasn't 'accidental', if someone points a lethal weapon at another human and pulls the trigger they know what is likely to happen.

We all hoped the USPTO had stopped granting silly permissions to companies to take ownership of commonly used terms.

We know a strong protection of IP is important (especially to a capitalist system) but this lot have been making stupid decisions for decades. They really didn't 'get' the digital age at all.

At the moment, in the US, even the law isn't the law, so I don't fancy his chances should he ever find himself in reach of American authorities (which nowadays could literally be anywhere).

Most countries operating a sort of 'common law' legal system tracing roots back to English law for example, have judges that will lean towards the 'spirit' of the law when adjudicating.

He'd better keep a very low profile.

Normally, in the UK, if this has been a 'serious' security breach, proceedings would have been conducted behind closed doors and likely not even disclosed to the press or public. I would suspect that this is a security infraction but not as bad as many have assumed.

I can't accept that. Other countries, or intellectuals, asked to define AGI would be unlikely to include 'economically valuable' in their definition. It has little to do with intelligence itself, it is an application of intelligence. Of course it's a better definition if you're after financing...

Regarding containment it will be human weakness that will likely permit AI to 'escape' as it is provided with too many 'facilities'. It will be too tempting to connect a useful AI to other systems and provide it resources. Isolation or sandboxing should be possible but as you imply as well, neither of us think humans will do it successfully.

A truly US-centric definition of AGI. Apparently we're only intelligent if we're good at 'economically valuable' activities. It is precisely this kind of attitued towards subjects like AI that makes so many people nervous. I suppose OpenAI would regard military applications of AGI as economically valuable with the implied negotiating strength it would confer(?).

The more we hear the more we learn that society is quite a long way from being ready for anything that approaches AGI.

Now this is the kind of AI use-case we can all get behind...

The only good point regarding this government effort to install more infrastructure to censor is that it doesn't mention protecting children or catching terrorists.

During the Industrial Revolution in England (c.1760-1840) I thought it was finally recognised that working people too long was counter-productive?
Obviously India, in many ways, resembles the England of the 1700s but I hope the people of India can also learn from history and refuse to become modern day slaves.

Exactly, if anything we might actually see people considering, seriously, other desktop OSs. Perhaps linux, perhaps MacOS. I run many OSs at home, I am a retired IT professional and I will likely switch my main machine to linux, provided I can make it play the games I still enjoy.

Alienware used to be a decent brand. I had one of their early laptops and it was quite amazing the performance they managed to eke out of it. Dell effectively ruined it. It's astonishing really that a company would buy a brand with a decent rep and name recognition then run it into the ground... Did that really help them sell more Dells or did it send the serious gamers in search of other small but technically savvy brands?