Its certainly a novelty and someone could park it out along the highway to get people to stop.

This is a more modern example, Hemming.com should get some hits from this clickbait. Not sure its worth $10,000 much less the price asked. But would this be a story if the guy was asking $10,000? No. What's even more modern is that since he couldn't sell it at a lower price, he raised the price to make it appear more valuable.

I think the trucks are operating almost exclusively on interstate and on a fixed route aren't they?

I have a lot more confidence in self-driving semi's used by business than I do with self-driving cars that are sold to individual consumers. Businesses are going to buy and use them based on their performance. The individual consumer will buy and use them based on whatever emotional appeal the marketing creates.

That doesn't sound like they are voiding the warranty except for things caused by the failure to update. Once you update, even if after 45 days, the warranty would still be good since your failure to update earlier likely wouldn't be the cause of the problem.

I was just joking. But more seriously, while AI's flaws are different than humans, its not clear that they have any worse impact on results.

Which makes them an almost perfect simulation of human intelligence.

"Computer" on star trek is fictional. Real life is always going to faded compared to what we can imagine.

No, they don't. There are many people in the world who don't own or even have access to a personal computer. But they have a phone. However your basic point is correct, the smart phone didn't replace computers for all purposes. But they did make them much less essential.

I think the question is will AI dramatically reduce the importance of screen based information and communication. I think that is possible. A world where a screen is an auxiliary device rather than the central one is not that hard to imagine.

This is informed speculation rather than research. It is mostly informed by the interests of the Microsoft executives who agreed to pay people to do it. I am not sure what those interests are, but they aren't spending money for nothing.

No, it isn't. There is no "master plan" for crypto. Its just greedy humans buying something in the hopes they can find a "greater fool" they can sell it to at a higher price. The evidence is they can and there is not a lot of reason to think that will change.

You have only made any money once you sold it. Otherwise the wheel is still in spin.

I don't think AI is a business. Its a tool. The idea that a small number of people will create a monopoly and control it may be techno fantasy. Instead, every company and university in existence will have an AI it uses. AI's business model will be "building" AI's for people.

That's why Trump is President. Elections have become celebrity contests and he is a professional celebrity with years of experience operating against amateurs. He is operating on well tested instincts. Who is more interesting, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump? Or Jeb Bush or Donald Trump to go back to the origins of this shitshow. If you are choosing the star of a four year reality media show, Trump is by far the better choice. Here we are, talking about Trump. He Scores!

The judges on the Supreme Court all went to Harvard or Yale and/or clerked for a Supreme Court judge who did. Judges are political appointees. Crappy legal decisions don't have much to do with the judge's legal ability, just their crappy politics. Being brilliant lawyers just makes it easier for them to explain why the law requires their chosen outcome. Or to twist the law to achieve the same purpose. I suspect the outcome here will be to enhance the value of corporate intellectual property. Tennant loses.

I think at this point anything that might vaguely increase competition with Chinese companies is defined as "national security". So its not surprising that was the pitch made to get the lawsuit dumped.

I agree. But I think you need to remember that what we value is subjective. People still buy handmade furniture. In fact, they pay a premium for it because it is handmade. People still go to listen to live music even though it often is not as good as the recorded music available. Einstein did not come up with his theory of relativity because he was trying to create "intellectual property". There are plenty of other reasons for people to be creative than money. And many ways people will appreciate those things other than paying for them. We live in a commercial world, but that isn't the only world possible. The adage "intelligence is overrated" is still true and people overestimate the likely impact of AI even at its most generous success.