Anecdote: I have observed, at least in this area, that many drivers will quite easily use *any* available lane to pass if they think it will save them five seconds of their drive. This includes turn lanes, highway merge lanes, slip roads, etc. On a regular basis (especially on the Interstate highways) I also see people changing two or more lanes, frequently without signaling. The probability of this happening increases with certain makes and colors of car. A red Tesla, for example, has a much higher than average probability of making a thoughtless maneuver.

The worst part of all this is that they will insist on doing it no matter what prompt is used. Even direct clear instructions to not do so don't work. If a person started doing things like that, I would very quickly stop interacting with someone that annoying. And before anyone asks, yes, I do stop interacting with the "AI" LLMs that do that. Strangely, I don't have the same issue with models I run locally.

I have an idea, instead of cutting the (admittedly useful) maid service, why don't we stop eating at five star restaurants every night?

"I know AI when I see it." often followed by "That is not AI"

Wall-E managed to do it. Most folks can tell exactly what Wall-E or EVE is thinking just from their case and LCD language.

Based on the definition of art; the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power; I would say that any game is art if the game-play, story, or even background is appreciated for emotional power. As you pointed out, Ebert applies his own, narrower definition. Since he is not engaged by the power of games (until he actually, you know, plays them) he does not consider them art. I do. From my view, Ebert made far more pretentious statements than deep nuggets of wisdom. I, however, am not inclined to perform a count.

F!ck7hat

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
If I tell you I am lying to you, can that be the truth?
If you went back and time and became your own grandfather, who came first, you or your mother?
Can your name spell you?

Oh, no. I just store a one way hash for each letter. Then I can verify any combination in any order. And I store a hash for the common permutations the system uses, for even better performance. In fact, I have a complete rainbow table for your password. For it to work, of course I use the same salt for all of it. And for speed, I store the salt in the same data store as the hashes....

And I am sure there is someone out there with a worse scheme than this to meet the bank regulations.

* I do not represent any bank or business, and these comments are entirely my own sarcasm.

YOU are only allowed to ship small batteries. A billionaire who can buy the cargo planes can find a way to ship almost anything by air.

I read through this whole thread and there is a common theme: desktop and mobile. I think the concept of all platforms includes washing machines, toasters, Pi, Arduino, door locks, security panels, smoke detectors, etc. When I look at it that way, I see more than the monitor/keyboard/mouse/monitor(s) setup of a desktop, or the touch/screed/sensors interface of a smartphone.

How would a shopping program work? Could it run in my pantry, refrigerator, washing machine, garage, or anywhere I use consumables? Would each of these be able to communicate so that I can view my shopping list at any time? Would they work with my printer? What about my note-taking program?

Even more, could they send that list to my favorite stores so all I have to do when I arrive is choose perishables like meat and vegetables? Is the store running a scaled up version of the same software? Or maybe running an instance of the software for each customer in a VM?

I imagine a world trending toward Futurama, where everything is a robot of some type, albeit not AI. They can all communicate and take care of my needs mostly without my input. My vacuum knows when to go to work, the floor tells it about the traffic. Other sensors in the floor let the wet cleaner know to clean up a spill. The refrigerator makes sure to stock itself with my favorite drinks, so that they are cold and ready whenever I want one. And since they can all run the same software, I can play Upset Ornithoids on all of them without losing my high score, or take a note and know it will be wherever I am.

It's not about how we can program any one class of device, it's about how we can program all devices at once.

Isn't that what most conversations already are?

There really are only three types of conversation I can have with you: I can offer to exchange or exchange something of value with you (e.g. cash for goods), I can ask something of value from you (e.g. time, donations), or we can exchange meaningless platitudes. I know that is a very basic way to look at it, but the exchange is the whole point of having a conversation, even if the exchange is of knowledge.

Where one falls, two shall rise in its place.

As a married introvert who plays D&D regularly and hangs out with friends regularly, I can provide anecdotal evidence to support this thesis. While I do enjoy my social time, I end up exhausted afterwards. I keep my circle to people I trust.

I have a Chevrolet Volt, and it can e-mail or text me when charging is complete. It also provides an estimated charge time which is pretty accurate. While it doesn't Supercharge, I suspect that notification is a pretty common feature for EVs.