I can't wait to give this root access to every machine I have.

This is classic AI goalposts-moving.

OK, they can play chess, but that's not real AI - can they write poems? OK, they can write poems, but that's not real AI - can they compose music? OK, they can compose music, but that's not real AI - can they translate languages? OK, they can translate text, but can they do maths? OK, they can do maths, but can they solve a Millenium Prize? <-- we are here

"I once knocked a bunch of bananas off a tall man's head. His name is Ash and his leg is like teak. Is he a tree?"

"What? Don't be silly. For one thing, trees have moss."

"OK he's grown moss. He's a tree now right? Right??"

"I doubt it, for I see nothing but wishful thinking to suggest that simulating the appearance of tree characteristics is part of a path to becoming a tree. And that's not actually indistinguishable from moss anyway, is it?"

"Urgh, classic goalpost shifting!"

Imagine meeting a person who could do all of those things.

“I once met a person who could beat any grandmaster in chess, translate any language, and complete international math Olympiad problems. He couldn’t solve any Millenium problems though, so I’d say he was a midwit at best.”

Incredibly creepy. I'm amazed they don't have any idea quite how user-hostile this is, or the reception it would receive.

Creepy as fuck. I'm really suprised they don't understand quite how user-hostile this is.

> I'm really suprised they don't understand quite how user-hostile this is.

I'm really surprised anyone thinks these companies care.

It can be used for in-jokey comedic effect. For example, referring to M*cr*sft W*nd*ws or Br*dc*m as though they were offensive terms. Or *r*cl*.

The momentum behind rust seems absolutely unstoppable at the moment, in the light of this, the adoption of Rust into the Linux kernel, and the adoption of for formally verified software by Amazon and Microsoft.

Deservedly so.

While I feel sorry for the people involved, Oracle as a company richly deserves this, for reasons far too familiar to everyone here. This is a come-uppance that has been waiting to happen for decades.

I'm not sure this is the come-uppance you've been waiting for. Oracle still has a larger market cap than at any point in history except the last ~2 years.

Technically, they could do a whole bunch of things, including doing multihop routing via other connected televisions or insecure WiFi networks. There's no evidence that they do this, as far as I know, but also no reason why they couldn't do this in the future if they wanted to.

"Owning the glass" is a euphemistic way of saying "owning the viewers".

The drive to make warp drives reality seems irresistable. But will they ever actually be possible?