Only thing worse than talking to an offshore call center operator, is talking to an AI bot.

The premise is opposition to genocide. So you are saying opposition to genocide is antisemetic, which means you are equating all Jews to committing genocide, and you actually think you are not the antisemetic one here. That's cute.

Finally got to check out Galaxy's Edge recently. Two of the three rides were better than I expected. (But so was the Tron ride and a couple of others at Magic Kingdom, my expectations were low but found it not terrible overall) And I loved the ambience of walking through a Star Wars style town and market.

What bothered me was that it was mostly all in on new trilogy. I expected them to push the newer Disney material, but c'mon! Almost no original trilogy? Some of the other new stuff is actually pretty good, but barely any Clones or Rebels cartoon content? No Rogue One or Andor? Not even Mandalorian or Ashoka?

It was predominantly the least interesting Star Wars material possible. It wouldn't bother me so much if it was a mix of different Star Wars sources, but it was a singular focus on promoting their worst content rather than even newer content in general, let alone a sampling across different facets of the Star Wars Universe.

If its digital and someone else has any control over it whatsoever (DRM, on cloud server, etc) you don't actually own anything.

Same if it is not digital. See how land deeds actually work, First Sale doctrine being revoked...

Maybe the company is worthless and maybe it will tank. The question is "when?" It could be maintained by Trump supporters for a long long time. Tesla is hugely valuable stock, 10x the value of Toyota despite Toyota selling in a month 10x what Tesla sells in an entire year, because there is always someone willing to dump money into it to maintain its position: Musk fanbois, billionaires making politically motivated investments, other investors who don't want Musk to default on the tens of billions in loans which he use Tesla as collateral. Trump Media could similarly be maintained indefinitely.

I wouldn't risk my money betting for or against it.

Touchscreens are a pox on UI/UX

• 1. People Hate Elon Musk
• 2. EVs are are expensive and getting more expensive
• 3. Lots of layoffs among target consumers (tech)
• 4. Government reduced tax credits and car makers jacked prices to absorb tax credits but not reduced prices when credits went away
• 5. The charging infrastructure is limited, confusing, and generally not user friendly.

When you can just stop at any charging station along the way the same as you can a gas station, then EV sales with skyrocket. Until then, we need more PHEVs - like almost every new Jeep Wrangler I see is a 4xe.

And none of that matters if people cannot afford them.

The 2008 subprime mortgage crisis when the housing bubble burst, it was discovered that there were tons of bad mortgages getting approved. All of these were supposedly reviewed by a person, but those human reviewers were referred to as "F12 Monkeys" because they just sat there hitting the approve command for everything. (Unable to find reference now)

When "self driving cars" were first being tested on public roads, there was a lot of research showing that people either place too much trust in the automation, or just zone out or even fall asleep. More recent articles just state drivers are responsible (aka legally liable) to take over but I find nothing claiming to solve the problem that people can't or just don't.

Now we have artificially "intelligent" systems which require human oversight and humans are trusting the AI too much to bother correcting them? Color me surprised that this trend continued exactly as predictable as possible.

Humans are just bad at providing reliable oversight of flawed automated systems presented as effective.

I've seen oranges sold, already pealed and in a plastic container. smdh...

I save and reuse those so called "single use" bags all the time. They were great for sharing leftovers, grabbing any collection of small random things, perfect small room garbage bags, etc.

Now I have to buy a package of garbage bags for even the bathroom, specialized bags for almost every other use including a dozen backpacks where I used to have one, and a huge pile of shopping bags which wear out quickly.

And any "reusable" bag does NOT get reused when its the one holding the leaky non-frozen meat.

These bans on "single use" plastic bags are not well thought out and only seem to consider one single lifestyle.

Reduce. REUSE. Recycle. (and Repair)

Wow I remember those days. I think it was an empty for loop incrementing x from 0 to 1,000 took almost an even second so you could reliably use that as a timer on 8088 and 8086 computers, so long as the hardware never changed LOL.

My first upgrade from an 8086 PC clone to a 386 or 486 got interesting reactions from many, many programs. Let's just say my 1st lesson in backwards compatibility was real quick!

...the easiest job at a company to replace with a chatbot is the CEO.

You have a company full of people who do actual work, and one person who talks a lot of nonsense and makes occasional decisions based upon whatever text is fed upon that week.

Which do you think a generative AI chatbot is best suited to replacing?

The simplest and most direct regulation should be that the company which produces any technology which creates or generates anything should be held accountable for whatever that technology produces. The user can separately be held accountable for specific uses, but the baseline liability should lay with those who have control over the technology and with AI that is the company creating it.

For example, a self driving car using AI to detect road conditions runs over a toddler it did not identify as human? That should absolutely be the company creating the faulty technology's liability, not the "driver" who is really a passenger at that point.

To delineate the difference in liability, consider this distinction: If a user of AI asks for an original picture and the AI instead produces an exact copy violating copyright, then it is the creating company's liability, but if the user asked the AI to produce a copy which violates copyright, then it becomes the user's liability.

Companies should not be permitted to transfer such liability through EULAs or other one sided contracts.

I've had coworkers use AI to write code for them and it was a disaster every single time. Once had to spend an hour debugging code until he finally admitted it was AI generated then I realized it had made up nonexistent libraries.

Nonsense.

The Flip and the Fold are two different phones which I cannot tell if you and the article are conflating or not. For both, the screens are no longer as fragile as the first generation. Something getting caught in the screen is such a non issue compared to the oversized garbage of most standard phones nowadays not fitting into pockets. As for fitting into the pocket or sitting on them, that depends on which phone we are talking about.

My wife has a Fold, loves it (I hate it) as it now replaces having to also carry a tablet. It folds to the same size except twice as thick, which makes no difference to someone who carries it in her purse. She bangs hers around a lot and has had no problem with the screen or hinge in a year or 2 since she got it.

I have a Flip and it is awesome. I always loved the clamshell design of older phones because it fits in my pocket and absolutely detest the "modern" candybar/iphone style. The Flip fits easily into a front pocket the same as the old clamshells so I no longer have to worry about sitting on it or it falling out when using the toilette. I really don't care about the large folding screen as I was perfectly happy with my old Motorola Ming smartphone with a smaller screen - I think the manufacturers really don't understand that for this market, the small phone is more important than a big screen which is why they are trying to have both. The only problem is the same as with many other newer phones in that they are copying Apple in ditching the headphone jack (and thus the possibility of having an FM tuner in an emergency when the cell towers are out as headphone wires double as antennae) as well as ditching microSD card slots so you're stuck with whatever mem they give you.