So they’ll spend all day posting memes on whatever platform survives the purge?

We’re still a few thousand years away from that. There’s very little a humanoid robot can do in a factory that a robot arm can’t do better. About the only thing I can think of is pretending to drink coffee in the break room.

Neither of them really fit, but AI is a very marketable term. So basically anything that does stuff on a computer will be labeled that when someone wants to sell it badly enough.

They weren’t exactly the target audience. It was more like when teenage boys started liking My Little Pony. A complete surprise, but they took advantage of it as well as they could.

Our funny numbers have quite deep meaning, thank you very much.

Try M-Disc, it’s supposed to be as good as microfilm for archival.

Had a copy photoshopped under his hand would be more accurate.

It’s photoshop slop. No AI necessary.

What do you mean? They awkwardly photoshopped a recent newspaper page into the photo. That should be more than enough proof!

Sony is way too into proprietary lock-in to have allowed that long term. Hell, I’m astonished they ever allowed the release of their games to PC. They’ll never do that again.

I wouldn’t say entirely useless. They just aren’t plug and play replacements.

You use tulips every day?

That disparity is because there is more than one runaway trigger involved and which one hits first decides the way we go.

it has no cellular data connection or significant internal storage

That you know of. Pretty easy to hide those things amongst all the rest of the electronics.

Not necessarily a particular face. They just need a warm body to collect data from.

As long as you can get or make the parts it will last as long as you need. I have a feeling part fabrication is going to be a good business going forward.

Including paying companies specifically to lay that cable then never forcing them to actually do it.

To be fair, if you’ve ever had to use HughesNet, a leopard eating your face is a welcome change of pace.

Actually, most of them were sold when they dropped the price to $20 or less a few months later. Only the hard-core fomo crowd bought at full price.

PT immediately comes to mind.

There have been others that I don’t remember the names of offhand.