Halfway through and this is hilarious. Are you trying to tell me that AI originally stood for Anomalously-small Istanbulians? :D

Edit: Oh. In hindsight this (and other similarly snarky backronyms) is obviously why any time computers can do a thing it stops being “AI”.

Was this thing written by ChatGPT?

The problem with Google's robotics acquisitions was that they fired Andy Rubin less than a year after he made them. They floundered after that.

It's clear that Google's management simply didn't have the patience to continue putting money into hardware development before the software was ready. They forced premature commercialization on BD and then dumped them on SoftBank. Strong top-level executive support could have changed that. I wonder what Google robotics could have been.

I'm going through a breakup right now and really enjoying posts like this. Interesting, funny, accessible. The Grug Brained Developer also really hit the spot. Any other recommendations in this vein? Thanks!

Why do folks think remote telepresence never became popular, outside of the occasional appearance in sitcoms?