Was there ever a ban, or just tarrifs high enough to price Chinese vehicles out of the market? Since Waymo isn't selling vehicles, perhaps that isn't an obstacle for them.

Maybe they were; at this point they seem to be reduced to trying to invent a more compelling form of interactive pornography that they can sell subscriptions to. Color me underwhelmed.

Perhaps it was referring to golems? That idea dates back to 400-500 BC, although really they behave more like traditional computer programs than anything we'd currently consider intelligent.

I don't need an AI to write my code, since I can write code myself. That said, it could be nice to have an AI inspect my code and point out anything it suspects might be a bug... there are already lots of static analysis tools that do this sort of thing and they are great, but I think AI might be able to find different classes of bug that are beyond the capabilities of static analysis.

Going a bit further, what would be even more useful is an AI that can run my program and exercise its GUI (or fuzz its inputs) and monitor the resulting behavior the way a human would, to look for faults during execution. Human-driven SQA is always a lot of tedious work, and a production bottleneck.

If you want to know when the AI bubble has burst, watch for Facebook to announce that it's changing its name to "AGI LLM" or something. That's the official signal.

... then literally constructing a false God for Christians to worship is as good an approach as any.

In a fission nuclear plant, nuclear fuel is used to generate heat to boil water to run a steam turbine.

That's all well and good, but there's no reason the heat has to come from nuclear fission; any similarly reliable heat-source would do just as well. Perhaps there are cheaper and safer ways to obtain the required heat? You can do a whole lot of drilling with $80,000,000,000 dollars, especially since without any radioactive material to worry about, you don't have to spend all that money on security, failsafe backup systems, and long-term waste disposal anymore.

...I'm very sensitive to this issue, but fix the chatbots. We need to stop requiring ID for services, it's too much of a risk.

This is to control you, adults, and make you hand over your identity and other information to these providers. It's a scam, don't let the government do this to people.

AI doesn't generate well detailed images to be used this way, what's the angle here or is this just another ad for "AI"?

The only people willing to read through 1990's-era source code these days are the hackers :)

... when the AI bubble bursts and 90% of the AI data centers go dark. The AI that remains will be the AI that is doing something useful enough to be worth the electricity it sucks down.

What the world would really like is something that performs like nuclear fission (lots of 24/7 reliable baseload power, deployable anywhere) but without the big upfront expense or the catastrophic risks (pollution, storage, proliferation) to manage.

Is there such a thing? Could there be? Nuclear fusion might be one answer, and they've made good progress, but it's still a bit iffy and even in the best-case scenario it won't be applied at scale for some years yet. Geothermal is seeing some interesting developments that might allow it to be deployed more broadly, so that's what I'm currently geeked over. Short of that, there's always good old-fashioned renewables+lots of storage, which can be made to work, but requires a lot of infrastructure.

London. Conservative? Hahaha. Yikes. Those are words so diametrically opposed in substance that I refuse to put them in the same sentence.

No. This is purely the result of the "progressive" globalist set importing so many third worlders that native English are a -20 point minority in their own capitol, police being directed to turn a blind eye to any number of criminal transgressions if the perpetrators fall on the right side of the paper bag test, while simultaneously going after native English for things such as going to church during the Covid lockdowns while ignoring the politicians throwing extravagant bashes, going after comedians, politicians, and regular citizens for posting unapproved narratives and very mildly spicy language on the internet, prosecutors turning away cases such as the former while voraciously persecuting the later.
London in particular, and the UK as a whole is seemingly the result of someone asking "what is a sensible, rational approach to successful governance of a population?" and then doing the exact opposite.

What kind of traffic cones do you have that require a CS degree to place? Are they self deploying? Operate on a mesh network? Inquiring minds want to know!