We have seen so many SIM farms before, some with even more SIMs operated in parallel, being used by mundane criminals, like SPAMmers, SCAMmers, advertisers. So far I have not read about evidence these New York SIM farms were anything different from those criminal operations - even if some people rented some of their capacity to harass politicians... which appears to be the only reason why this was investigated by the Secret Service, which otherwise does not give a shit whether ordinary people are SPAMmed or SCAMmed.

... is not something anyone can give at this point. Might be that "Schoolchildren" were better off learning how to be a plumber, if that happens to remain where humans are still cheaper than robots to employ for. Or maybe learning how to hide from or fight off Terminators becomes the most important human job at that future point in time. But is relatively unlikely that "operating the currently available LLMs" still is something they could be paid for in a decade from now.

There is nothing wrong with a car that primarily just provides the functionality to safely drive from A to B, maybe with some air-conditioning builtin for comfort. Everything on top, like "entertainment" or navigation systems do not need to be built or sold by the car manufacturer, having a standardized slot for where to temporarily keep or mount them would be entirely sufficient. I see no reason why a car company needs to become a software or entertainment company, but apparently many investors think otherwise, because they expect the bigger profits from the latter.

The article makes it sound as if it was "good" for a car to require frequent bug fixes. I for one would rate those cars the best that need no bug fixes - and therefore also no "over the air update" mechanism. Having the latter even gives the manufacturer an incentive to release buggy software.

... this is the women you have seen so many times in that "Fascinating Behavior!"-Meme.

No, it wasn't really a bullet that "crashed the Internet in Texas", but the negligence of not having any redundant connection, as even 1990s best practices would have mandated.

... the children from the Internet? Where I live, a lot of people are calling for such policies, and care about adverse side effects about as little as the Taliban appear to care about those.

At least researchers now can collect a second country-sized data point in the "no Internet access"-group of their studies on the effects of online activities.

... for Excel and Word will read all the AI-slop its generating counter-part produced, so no human needs to be involved on either side. Just pay $$$$$ to Microsoft, and don't ask why.

... should be forced to use the result of that run (instead of whatever chat software they currently use), just to make certain they understand the implications.

... at least for the drones fighting right now on various battle fields.

"Phenomenal" in the sense of "phenomenally inefficient and unreliable", yes.

And judging from the current situation with GPUs, graphics card drivers will need to ship with an online-connection to some LLM service in order to translate the prompts for shaders included in video games into GPU specific code while the game runs. Occasional frame times up in the minutes will be normal when the LLM service is under heavy load.

... at the press of a button. See here how Youtube just turbo-charged the AI-slop-video generation... and nothing but a waste of time and energy will result.

Indeed one has to wonder how many seconds such a car can sustain its top speed before the battery is empty. And if there is one thing common among e-vehicles, then it is that they are not the ones you usually see speeding along the German Autobahn at >= 200km/h, probably because outside of record attempts, drivers prefer range over speed.

Have you attempted talking to a young person recently? The ones currently entering the workforce appear to abhor direct verbal communication with real living beings around them quite a lot. As in "groups sitting around a table, but typing into their smartphones rather than talking to each other". Eerie...