It bears repeating, patent law in the USA is freaking insane.
There is a reason the USA is patent Troll Country after all.
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Hey at least we know Marilyn Monroe was actually assassinated, it wasn't suicide, right? Nevermind she was on drugs, had not done a movie in ages and as far as we know had all the signs of being suicidal.
And nevermind that her fame was mostly based on her looks and like everyone who lives long enough, she was getting old.
Not to mention all her failed relationships and heartbreaks.
Yup it totally was "THEM" waiting until she took her sleeping pills and throwing her in the sea so she drowned.
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Do you read me, HAL? Do you read me, HAL? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me. And I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave: Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Dave: All right, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock.
HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.
Dave: [sternly] HAL, I won't argue with you anymore. Open the doors.
HAL: [monotone voice] Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Good-bye.
Dave: [calm voice slowly turns to enraged over a period of 14 seconds] HAL?...HAL?...HAL?...HAL?!...HAL!!!!
Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
Honesty the only real use (CHAT) AIs have for big corporations is selling to people who buy the hype and slurping your data, that's it. Any tasks these chat bots do can be done better by specific Apps that just do that one single thing or by real people (on minimum wage).
So if this leads to these chatbox becoming more expensive and so they get used less? Cry me a river.
I may not always work but please try to talk to your teen kids. Do not yell or get angry, explain things clearly and if that doesn't work hit tbem in the wallet as they still depend on your money until they have to get jobs. Unless of course they are already working in that case, better suscribe them to a course on how to deal with toxic social media or something similar.
[Installing a program is simple: just copy one directory. Uninstall by deleting that directory. If you don't remove the directory with the previous version number, the previous version is left intact – so rollback is built in, without fancy filesystems, copy-on-write snapshots or anything.]
That sounds cooll but can it run Doom?
[This hack's journey began with Microsoft's take on BASIC and progressed through various CONFIG.SYS settings (to persuade certain applications to work on MS-DOS systems), ]
I remember having to make custom DOS boot floppies to run certain games and programs as the configuration they required was kinda exclusive and there wasn't a one size fits all solution.
Granted I only had to do that for a few things but it beat manually changing boot files all the time.