Machine learning, renamed “AI” with the LLM boom, does not simulate intelligence. It integrates feedback loops, which is kind of like learning and it uses a network of nodes which kind of look like neurons if you squint from a distance. These networks have been around for many decades, I’ve built a bunch myself in college, and they’re at their core just polynomial functions with a lot of parameters. Current technology allows very large networks and networks of networks, but it’s still not in any way similar to brains.

There is separate research into simulating neurons and brains, but that is separate from machine learning.

Also we don’t actually understand how our brains work at the level where we could copy them. We understand some things and have some educated guesses on others, but overall it’s pretty much a mistery still.

I do all my browsing in private mode, so I have no open tabs other than this one.

There’s no technical reason to think we won’t in the next ~20-50 years

Other than that nobody has any idea how to go about it? The things called “AI” today are not precursors to AGI. The search for strong AI is still nowhere close to any breakthroughs.

We’ve been engaged for a while

Doesn’t engaged mean that you proposed and she said yes? Isn’t that when you give the ring? (I don’t really know, engagement rings are not a thing in my culture, but that’s what I saw in American movies)

Episode 4x23 “The Host”

“Phone pocket?” -JD Vance

Never had a console growing up. PC all the way. Started with a ZX Spectrum clone, then a 286, then a Pentium 100, and so on. I got my first consoles as an adult, first the Xbox One, which I never really played anything other than Just Dance on, then a Switch, which I couldn’t really get into either and ended up playing more on Ryujinx than on the actual switch. Bought an old 3DS at one point and its also just sitting in a drawer. Guess I’m too much of a PC gamer to get into consoles.

Never understood why, but it’s called “thick milk” in mine.

And “hanger”

My cat has zero reaction to catnip anyway, so this comic wouldn’t even apply to him. But he does love to play and if we don’t play with him, he’ll find his own play. Find some small paper or plastic thing somewhere and swat them away then chase them. Or pick it up in his mouth and fling it up to then catch in mid flight. Lately we took out one of his older cat toys (a ribbon on a stick basically) and it’s his new favorite toy. He carries it around with him everywhere he goes, including up and down the stairs. And even though he’s over 13 years old, he’s more playful than he was as a kitten.

My first thought was facehugger

No, no. You have to be born with the intention or capability. If you did not intend or were able to hold eggs at birth, then you’re not a woman.

Upwork publishes which skills are most in demand on the platform every year: https://www.upwork.com/resources/in-demand-jobs-and-skills

That should be a good starting point. See which of those you’re interested in and can be learned online.

Like all Romance languages, number “one” has different masculine and feminine forms, depending on what you’re counting. Unlike other Romance languages, number “two” is also gendered.

That is one page on the Sharp website. The Sharp website still being up is not surprising. That product page still being there means that Sharp never deleted it and didn’t change whatever engine they use for their site.

which seems to be missing a digit

It also seems to have a nail growing from a knuckle.

Have they stopped airing Zeffirelli’s one on TV? I remember it was always on the schedule during Easter.

Also worth reading the books he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter.

The first book is ok, but the rest of the series is pretty meh. Still bought and read them all as a Pratchett fan, but I wouldn’t recommend them to others. If you want to expand past the Discworld series, Good Omens is a much better recommendation. Also Nation is a really good book too.

Which is what that Microsoft employee protested against and got fired for.

Prompt engineering is not easy. Getting something as good as a real artist’s work is very hard, especially if you’re not an artist. Of course actual art is going to win every time.