Everyone who really saw a benefit to an EV has bought one. Those are people who have an easy solution for charging, plus climate fanatics who want an EV for political reasons.

The rest of the population will buy an EV when they cost less than the alternative. Also, charging has to be easy: either charge in the employer's parking lot (at reasonable costs), or landlords install charging stations where renters can use them overnight. That's a big ask.

Meanwhile, it's just as well that EV sales are slowing down, because the general net infrastructure is not up to charging millions of vehicles. I'm not just speaking of the US here - I'm in Europe, and that's generally true here as well.

It's just a silly idea. Especially given how it's usually implemented, where they depend on a manufacturer's “cloud” to work. I don't need “smart lights” that turn on using Wi-Fi; I go to the switch and simply turn them on. I once for fun thought about developing a refrigerator that would warn me when something inside was about to run out or expire, but... After seriously analyzing the case, I concluded that it is much simpler and more reliable to just go to the refrigerator and check it myself.

Translating what the article really meant.

OpenAI spent a fortune on flawed technology, spent even more hoping that the fix for the flaw would be to spend even more (probably the idea of someone in marketing or someone who is in the computer field but recently dropped out of a week-long course), and now that the bill is too big, it hopes to be “bailed out” by the government like the banks were, trying to argue that it is as important as the banks and therefore cannot be allowed to fail.

Hubris. With our capabilities within our universe, we cannot fully describe our reality. However - if our universe is a simulation - we have no idea of the capabilities of the universe in which that simulation runs, no idea of its physical laws and reality.

Consider: if we create a simulation, even one that allows computation: can that simulation potentially explain itself? It really depends on the capabilities we build into it.

The fact that they know this proves what we already knew: chats are saved and mined for information. Probably even temporary chats, whatever they say.

Of course, there are a lot of people out there who are disturbed or lonely. ChatGPT&Co make for someone to talk to - and someone is better than no one. That said, I hope that a serious discussion of suicide leads immediately to a suggestion to call a help-line.

Meanwhile, the kids just screwing around can be told to fob off - only the AIs are way to sycophantic to actually do that.

basic flaws like buffer overflows, command injections, and SQL injections

I teach students how to avoid these kinds of flaws in my basic programming courses. Most students don't understand the importance, or don't care, or are actually incapable of avoiding these issues in their programs.

It's yet another aspect of a well-known issue: We have a massive demand for software, but very few programmers are actually competent. I've taught in high-quality degree programs: maybe 10% of the students are really good, and another 30%-40% could contribute competently - as long as they are supervised by someone good. Those are self-selected students in high-quality degree programs.

In less technical degree programs, where I also teach some programming courses, I feel fortunate to have 1 or 2 students who have any real potential. The other learn to copy-and-paste (or, now, use AI), without any real understanding of what they are doing. These make up the vast majority of programmers out there, and they are the reason why injection attacks are still a thing.

FWIW: This is especially true in Asian software sweat-shops: rooms full of people pasting in code with no clue what they are doing, while their boss walks around looking over their shoulders, telling each person what their next task is. Push out code, fast and cheap, that's all that matters.

First, if you're in the office, the boss can see you. Assuming, of course, that the boss is in the office.

second, who spends all their time in Teams? No work gets done there - if I'm not actively using it, it is closed.

... that you can't tell if a user is working from home based on productivity metrics, but have to resort to this instead?

Jaguar had three hits:

1. They had an absolutely idiotic ad campaign featuring weird people in colored clothing prancing around. Had nothing to do with cars, and alienated their core audience.
2. They completely stopped producing cars during the transition to EVs. That transition did not go smoothly, so they had literally nothing to sell for months.
3. They outsourced their IT security to an Indian company, apparently chosen because it belongs to the same Indian holding company as Jaguar. Surprise: they got hacked.

Was the third point really what hurt them? Or is it just an excuse, because the first two were the real causes?

Seriously, if you want to push forward on a research topic, you don't want a team of thousands. A team of 600 is already far too big. If they had 600 extra people, well, that's a research team that is going nowhere...

A core group of 10-15 researchers and engineers. Maybe a few such groups, to chase different ideas. Supporting staff, maybe an equal number. If they had 100 really good people, that would be the max. Add to that the staff required to keep their public offerings up and running - how many is that, maybe another 100?

Yeah, if they can drop 600, their unit is still bloated.

This has been happening here and there since Slashdot was sold to the media group. If you haven't noticed, it's probably because your comments are so irrelevant that they don't justify the hassle.

I said no as an answer but slashdot deleted my previous answer, I assume they don't like people who go against the AI hysteria.

RAM used for cache and RAM actually used by applications are completely different things.

The first is acceptable because it's usually disk cache that's immediately freed for use by other applications, while the second - when in excess - is usually a symptom of poorly programmed applications. Pay attention to the Windows memory manager, which shows how much memory is being used in actual cache and how much memory is being used by applications.

Disagree. You aren't loaning money to yourself. If we use your analogy, it's like a father borrowing money in the names of all his kids. Sure, maybe he spent some of it on their food and upkeep, but they are the ones who will ultimately be responsible for the borrowing.

It's a continual struggle everywhere. Here, in Switzerland, the population recently voted to reject a number of extensions to the highway system, preferring to invest more in our excellent public transport system. The job of the politicians in parliament is to implement the referendum the public has voted on.

So what do the politicians do? They commission a study that examines the best places to invest transport money - funny, how it proposes extending the highway system at the expense of public transport. I'm sure none of them are the recipients of any lobbying efforts. /s