its funny because you expect there to be a joke and there isn't one. the more people that don't get it the funnier it is to laugh at, and once you are in on it you can laugh too

one of many permutations of "why did the chicken cross the road?"

if you want to see more charming and ethical machine learning look up “breve creatures”
it was a screensaver that evolves clusters of blocks by selecting for ones that can travel further and faster by hopping/crawling/rolling/etc

the technology has basically been around since the 60s, the “era” itself is defined by the reckless exploitation, waste, and application of it by these companies. either they didn’t learn from the “metaverse”, or what they learned is they don’t need a real product to make huge $$$$, demos are enough

yeah, surely if you can move through time then the rest is trivial

he may understand that, but doesn’t want to trigger people’s programmed response to that sentiment so that they actually learn the information instead of blindly rejecting it because the word socialism (or likewise) came up. the median voter hates “obamacare” but loves the “affordable care act”

possibly they want attention and know the computer is tough competition or some device has a bad case of coil whine and you can’t hear it but they can

the nerds aren’t the rich ones, neural networks have been a thing since the 60s, its just only recently (after the collapse of the “metaverse”) that tech ceos decided to steal all the data they want and burn down the earth along the way. they wear the skin of nerds but they are not the nerds