Let me guess: That student was home-schooled by some overconfident religious nut parents and never saw a real school from the inside?

I think my old scope still has this bus. Well, it also has Windows 98…

An American shooting star, obviously…

If you play more regularly, you get quickly used to this message.

He knows the NFL has loads of money, and asks them for fat bribes with this stunt.

As long as he’s asleep he cannot post even more ridiculous nonsense.

Not a loss for me. I liked them when they were still good, on C64 and Amiga. But now? Good riddance. May the sheiks have fun with it.

I would not call it a catastrophic failure. I would call it a valuable lesson.

There are others, where there are way more arrows, and they are not at all orthogonal…

Good.

Yep. Let it flag potential problems, and have humans react to it, e.g. by reviewing and correcting things manually. AI can do a lot of things quick and efficiently, but it must be supervised like a toddler.

“Delivering total nonsense, with complete confidence” - Thank you for this wonderful quote, applicable to nearly all Harvard MBAs.

But quality control by humans, even by unpaid interns, would exceed the budget!

Well, thank you for the warning. So you are saying people should avoid working for you at any cost.

You claim you don’t, but there are thousands of people out there every year claiming a different story…

Thirtyish years ago, we played a multiplayer online game called “LPMud”. There were three talking NPCs in the game: Harry, basically a simple programming example on talking and reacting NPCs, Sir Obliterator, a dark knight with a more advanced vocabulary and a few talking points about a quest, and Eliza, basically a NPC with an Eliza engine.

Usually, they never met. Harry “lived” in the core area of the game, Sir Obliterator in or around the quest area to which he belonged, and Eliza was normally not even active.

Some wizard had summoned them all to the guild hall, the entrance area of the game for fun, and they were rather busy “talking” with each other.

They were annoying, but also hilarious…

So Steam is still doing business in Russia? I actually thought they were better than that.

Luckily, our laws demands bathroom doors. Which was a pain in the … for my coworker. New built house, everything was ready to move in, but the contractor f-ed up the bathroom door, and they had to wait with their move until that was fixed.

While what happened in Japan sucks and calls for an apology by Mozilla towards the team, the general idea of machine translation on demand is one of the few working examples of machine learning. I’d recommend professional systems instead of google translate, though.

Well, did anyone expect them to admit guilt?