Yum Brands, the parent company that owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC,

Gotcha. A lot of other people don’t seem to realize it, though, in particular local legislators who allow it to happen.

what are the odds the seller just went down to his building’s garage and took pictures of his car as they parked it?

I don’t want to be part of their beta tests.

“Send me $15,000 and you will receive* <product>.”

Then we disagree on one of the main challenges. The AI systems I’m thinking of are based on what are sometimes called foundation models, trained unsupervised on the enormous data repositories you mention, setting literally hundreds of billions of parameters. GPT-3, DALL E, etc. Even if we had the army of people…

Pretty much.  Here’s a slightly different summary: Modern machine learning systems are so complex that when they break (i.e. they produce unacceptable output) we often can’t figure out how to fix them.

My take on the PT Cruiser is that it looked like a fun car, but it wasn’t fun to drive.  An EV reboot might take care of that.

It’s nuts: I type in “Who founded Tesla” to a search box and Google helpfully gives me a dropdown box with “Elon Musk.” But the first hit is Wikipedia, where we find,

And it might not even be interest in a Big Mac per se.

“Michael Keaton’s ass has been in this seat. That’s worth half a million right there.”

and

Lowercase letters didn’t arise until the Middle Ages, according to various online sources, much later than I’d realized.

Another interesting typographical/perception note:

I had that thought... If that’s what he meant, it reflects poorly on the majority party.

“...sad for the people of SD7, who will not have a seat at the table for the next two years...”

They’re obsessed with writing as much shit in as short amount of time as possible.

I moved to Germany in 1986 and a couple of years later was offered a company car. My choice (not the specific car pictured but the same model) was a black 1988 BMW 318i in which I zipped around on Bundesstraßen and the Autobahn for the next few years. Looking back, I’m grateful for (and a little amazed at) the…

I’d have thought so, too.

A friend suggested that, after the Eli Lilly incident, it’s potentially irresponsible for a large corporation to stay on Twitter. The upside of leaving with a big public announcement is that they’re inoculating themselves against being impersonated in the future if Elon does anything equally stupid again. (Not…