Is Mars getting near Earth? I seem to remember that there is a window of opportunity for these trips, and then the planets separate and trips become more difficult. Perhaps that is the reason for the revival.

Bitcoin only got to rise in price because it was the first and for some time the only digital wallet. People, particularly tax evaders and money launderers, liked the idea of moving millions in a USB stick.or a mail. That created demand, demand bid the price up, and prices up brought the momentum-seeker speculators. Virtuous circle for you.

That era is gone. There are many digital options now. Particularly you have stablecoins where you don't need to worry (so much) about them losing value. So only the speculation effect remain. Once the momentum is downward, speculators flee, and there is no longer any reason at all to buy Bitcoin.

That's the cause. You are welcome.

Aside from the problems that other mention, I have found that, while it can solve a problem, and the code works, many times it doesn't choose the best solution.

I wanted some code to edit a database table, and there was in the framework a grid control that did it practically all, with basically one hundred lines of code. But the AI didn't choose it, but some other control that required lots more of code, and the associated difficulties when modifying or expanding it. The grid control was relatively new, so perhaps the reduced number of references in the web was the cause. Of course, after telling the bot to use that control, the typing time reduction was great, I think that's the level now.

You always go back to the same, that the AI does not understand what it's doing, and that's the real flaw.

Well, it is if you think of the driving software as a deterministic machine, as we are used to. If you have a toy truck, you can make it go where you want, but try that with a cat. The driving software is quite nearer the cat situation than the toy truck.

My phone still allows it: Firefox with the "Video Background Play Fix" extension. I hope it holds, because I use it a lot.

The Internet has changed literally every job and somehow things haven't changed that much, have they?

I know the question that is in everybody's mind:

Will it do porn?

Uau, That's a long trip from Final Fantasy! I suppose it's a matter of time till all movie studios are dead, or at least so changed as the newspapers with the advent of the Internet. It's the same situation, democratization of publishing, If everybody can make a film by writing a prompt, then all you need is the script writer, really. Well, and a film editor, probably.

On the plus side, perhaps we'll see some original content now. On the minus side, I guess the 2030's Oscars ceremony will sport no glamour actresses on the red carpet, but geeks holding laptops. Instead of "who's you dress from?" (Valentino) you'll have "who's your bot from?" (OpenAI's "Filminator" with some continuity tweaks from a recent startup, you wouldn't know it)

I wonder if you could prompt it just "Take 'A Tale of Two Cities' and make a film from it"., and what would happen.

I mean. Don't they drive their own cars? The difference in ergonomy and safety is too big to miss. One has to wonder about the decision process. Well, at least they are backtracking, others aren't.

I believe that the concepts around human intelligence are so diffuse that any discussion about them is futile. But one thing is clear for me, that we we speak of AI, of real AI I mean, we are really talking about a Human Simulator. We want HAL 9000, something that can talk to us but at the same time can integrate and understand all knowledge. The problem, that was clear to Mr Clarke too, is that for simulating a human we have to simulate its emotions, that comprise 90% of our acts.

Why am I writing this post? I get no benefit from it. I do it for some kind of vicarious social validation, meaningful only if you are a social ape. No machine will ever understand why we do most of what we do, and it's doubtful that if we manage to create such a machine, it will have a practical use. But we don't want practical uses, we want a buddy that can answer all questions. No matter that the questions themselves have no meaning.

What would be the lunar equivalent of geostationary?

You mean Betteridge's law of headlines is broken? I would not be so cavalier...

The countdown begins now to the moment when humans will be forbidden to drive, as it would be considered unacceptably dangerous.

Sure this tech is not perfect. But think about the inner satisfaction when you come back to the car, midday in a hot summer, with the sun hitting like a hammer, knowing that the car will be burning inside, but now knowing that at least it will have charged a whole lot in that couple of hours.

How much is that in Libraries of Congress?