TFS is awfully confusing. But if I may speculate wildly, if it's a 3.5mm *headset* jack including the mic line, it could play/pause audio on any connected device that can be controlled by the mic clicker on earbuds. If that is the case and you're feeling charitable, you could imagine disabling this feature because they got reports of it damaging equipment and determining that there's a hardware limitation preventing them from doing it safely.

Since I don't own any Amazon devices and never will, this remains idle, and probably extremely incorrect, speculation.

You must mean notepad on Windows 10. Modern notepad has copilot built in now.

Preeeeetty sure corporate lock-in is about ten thousand times more important to them than gamers.

You can't be pedantic if you can't do the math right. A 10% increase every year for 10 years would be 160% increase.

Ah yes, because there's plenty of room for the world's population to all move into the countryside with 10 acres apiece. Clearly anyone who can't afford to do so does not deserve a healthy circadian rhythm. much as those who live in food deserts and can't afford to leave don't deserve healthy meals.

It's about what university you go to. Liberal arts schools may have a perfectly respectable physics program, but their whole science program may be housed under the College of X, which gives out BAs rather than BSs. The reverse also happens; had I wanted to, I could have gotten a BS in Latin from Caltech, because they only give out BS degrees, regardless of the field.

That is a pretty bizarre stance. Are you really suggesting that no one employed by an AI company actually does research? I rather wonder how new models keep improving, then. It's also odd to suggest that none of those researchers would ever talk to the press, especially "ex-"researchers who don't have to worry about getting fired.

There's some SERIOUS survivor bias in there, literally. Just because those previous "scary" technologies did not break the world does not mean that no technology ever will. This generation of AI won't, and I sincerely doubt any future evolution of AI along the current LLM model ever can. But burning hydrocarbons is and will have severe effects on the world's economy and resource politics. Massive buildup of nuclear weapons damn well could have destroyed society.

AI doesn't "understand the concept of a reward", nor does it need to. It's not functionally different than a classical nonlinear likelihood maximization. An arbitrary function is evaluated at different points in some parameter space, and the answer is the point that yields the minimum. If you want to train an AI that prioritizes correct answers over acceptable methods, you simply change how much each of those criteria is weighted in your objective function. AIs can effectively work in much higher parameter spaces than you can evaluate with classical minimizers, but that's about the only real difference.

Think about navigation. The objective function is minimum travel time between two points. Usually you can set options to avoid highways or tolls entirely. But you could just as easily have an option like "Avoid tolls limited by adding no more than 10 minutes per $1 saved". Then the objective function is just (total time + 10m*$1) and you get a different route.

10% chance, huh? When a real scientist tells you a number, it's the result of a calculation/measurement/model, not "sure, that seems about right".

You know why it's really dead? Because broadcast TV is dead. Instead of being freely available for anyone with a TV and rabbit ears to watch, the show about the perfect socialist utopia where no one even remembers what money is is locked behind a Paramount subscription. Even as we move closer to a world where human labor is obsolete, we move further from a society where anyone but the billionaire owners benefit from that technology.

If the only thing that happens is something coming along to build something better, shouldn't we now have the best possible everything? Was any "social media" platform ever better than ICQ?

Serious question: how is that stat affected by people working multiple jobs? I assume salaried "exempt" workers who put in 60+ hours/week are just counted as full time 40, but what about people working multiple crappy jobs working 60-90 per week? Overall it probably wouldn't affect things much, but I would guess once you start slicing into demographics you'd get a lot of bias in low income groups.

Invoking your second amendment rights in response to police talking to you is called suicide by cop.

Where is the "+1 Groan" option?