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Most computer users have very few real demands to make and it suffices.

Perhaps Gemini's been training on sources too young to listen to Radiohead.

Honestly, I didn't tell it to add that gun to the picture, it did that on its own!

That's a fair point.

Well, it's okay for them.

I don't know why you'd read literally the last 25 years of leaks from mass surveillance programs and think for one moment that they've just, gosh, overlooked the opportunities.

After 30 days and before the heat-death of the universe?

I saw a Discman in a museum a few years ago. A Discman. They couldn't even use a Walkman.

I go back and forth on it a lot myself; and it's not just in the office context. Grandkid's sports club had an AI-made song about the group at Christmas. It was "good enough" for t…

I think technically it's referring to the advice, which is in the singular. "These AIs are usually right about things I don't know anything about" sounds like the textbook example …

I would imagine it is like transcribing, an industry I was in for a little bit when I was younger. I saw the same transition there and imagine it will be elsewhere. First it's a bu…

I raised my kids with physical books. But when I was growing up we had a record turntable, and then a tape player, and I do remember having some kind of physical connection with my…

Pretty much. The most depressing thing about the bland slop produced by LLMs is realizing that this is what they "think" of us.

Where do you think the LLMs learned it from...

That's exactly how I feel although I do wonder if a lot of younger people, if any still become readers, will just a different, less physical relationship with their books than I do…

If all else fails resort to old-fashioned letter. As long as it's certified you will have proof of delivery. And then, if they continue to make unauthorized charges, it is your cre…

Certified mail? I know it's old-fashioned but then you could hold their feet to the fire if they kept charging you.

They may. I think the point was not that they were intentionally making a dangerous product, more that "Look how dangerous our model is according to some of our tests!" works as a …

Hardly a new hypothetical scenario, that Wargames movie is probably 40 years old now.

Many companies would say that's the best kind of risk-reward balance. For them, anyway.

Companies of all sizes should have insurance to cover such scenarios. You need to get tradesman's insurance on your repair work, or you need to ask yourself why the insurance compa…

And then there's a whole truckload of case law about liability that comes into play. We haven't yet written those laws for "AI."

It's Shrek logic. "Some of you are going to die, and that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."

You're asking that question in 2026?

Not wrong, that format requires a regular parade of guests with some kind of subject matter expertise, and if it's a military or national security topic, most of those subject matt…