You can't bet a company on ideas like that. There is absolutely zero assurance that we can even build an intelligent machine using classical computing techniques, and even less assurance that any of the basic AI techniques we are using can achieve it. It would actually be remarkable if we happened to stumble upon the design of an intelligent machine, given we have so little idea how our brains actual achieve this, and it would be ludicrously serendipitous if we were also able to stumble upon a super intelligence that can exponentially improve itself at the same time.

It would be like suggesting that cave men might have stumbled upon a working nuclear fusion reactor by smacking enough rocks together. We even understand the principles behind fusion and we're struggling to build one. But hey ho, we will just create a super intelligence even though we have no idea how intelligence works in our brains.

The people pushing this angle are delusional. Yes, it is entirely likely we can create better and better agents that appear to be intelligence and can perform useful tasks. But this super intelligence thing is dumb. If you wanted billions to setup a research lab to try to define intelligence and study the human brain, then that would make sense, but these people are saying they'll be able to time travel using anti-gravity thrusters before they can even speak some basic words.

My bet is that these superstar hires Zuckerberg has found are very intelligent grifters who will milk the situation for all the personal wealth they can. Those in actual revenue generating roles can probably see this, and that probably explains the rift.

How about we instead tell copyright trolls to go fuck themselves?

Calibri uses more ink than TNR. TNR is just one of the ugliest default fonts to ever exist and I wouldn't use it - ordered or not.

So we should just ignore the minority that this actively hurts? In favor of a government that doesn't give two shits about children either way? Because this isn't the action you take if you actually care about the children.

Isn't this just a new way to justify enshitification. The new reality is that you can't speak to a human at all. Press 2 to be asked the same questions again.

It seems to me that the initial justification to switch to Calibri was pretty spurious, I had always thought printed text with serifs was easier to read.

The switch to TNR seems to be motivated just by anti-inclusion pettyness. Both fonts seem pretty near equivantly functional and "professional" to me.

Real life communities are not always possible, or appropriate, for every child.

Eh...not really. The types of assholery just shift.

Can't supervise them 100% of the time, nor should they be.

Overkill. And bypassable.

I worked for a farming automation company over 20 years ago now. There were a few things I noticed:

The first was that much of the low hanging automation tasks had already been automated a long time ago. People think automation is replacing a field full of 100 workers with 100 humanoid robots. But the reality is that we replaced those workers with a tractor and pesticide sprays. It's this observation that makes me skeptical about the whole humanoid hype fest.

The second thing is that people are damn cheap. I mean, a human can pick a lot of tomatoes in an hour. If the human breaks down, you just fire them and hire one that is in better condition. There is no capital cost for a human (perhaps a little to train them) - the farm doesn't have to pay to 'build' them. Even if a tomato picking robot was a few 1000's of dollars (not going to happen) that would still be higher than the cost of just getting another human. Further, if markets change you just fire your humans, or get them to pick something else instead, but if you've invested significant capital in tomato picking robots you've got a big problem.

I'm not saying that there isn't a point at which an automatic tomato picking robot wouldn't be viable - there definitely will be. But ultimately it's just an economics question. At the moment, making such a robot that can even perform that task well, let alone be cheap and, importantly, reliable, is a very difficult problem. I definitely think we could solve it - we could have solved it a decade ago - but there is very little investment for this stuff because the low price of humans sets a limit on the value of the resultant product, and that value is very low.

of money.

How much of this is simply shopping for pockets of male privilege ?

Take heart boys, you can hold your own on a level playing field if you take advantage of learning opportunities

I wish they had linked to the study, this sounds like great news though, and I see no reason why the Universities can't use the best of both approaches to include even more content into an undergraduate degree

it would have to be a tight roll not to add too much thickness, or maybe it wraps around the outside of the case. I would have thought sliding panels would be thinner overall

Why don't they just print a rack-end price or a price list for an entire section of the shelving every 20 feet or so ?

They could update the prices more quickly then. Or is there a requirement that the price label be immediately adjacent to the item ?

Money I should imagine - a small parcel would likely cost the sender more, maybe have more content scrutiny

The issue is that the hardware costs money to run. If you don't have a way to generate a proportionate return from using it, then you are still just sinking money into the black hole, and that is not sustainable.

Think about how it works with BTC mining - at a certain coin price and electricity cost, a given chip cannot mine a coin for less than the cost of the electricity to do so. So you would be a fool to run such a chip under those conditions, even if the chip was free.

AI at the moment is not generating anywhere near the revenue required to sustain the operating costs. It's entirely possible that if the bubble blows, many of these data centres cannot find loads that are not loss making. TBF, I imagine if you could discount the capital cost (which will happen when they go bankrupt), then I'm sure they'll be able to find some uses in things like research/rendering/simulation etc, but it will be brutal.