Oops I had Carl Bergstrom and Carl Zimmer mixed up.
jonhendry
As a guy who writes for the Times Carl's probably going to get a smack on the wrist for using spicy language in criticism of a Times article.
"But could you not build a thing instead, that does the behaviour directly?"
Back in the day NeXT's Interface Builder let you connect up and configure "live" UI objects, and then freeze-dry them to a file, which would be rehydrated at runtime to recreate those objects (or copies of them if you needed more.)
Apple kept this for a while but doesn't really do it anymore. There were complications with version control, etc.
In college I took an AI class and it was just a lisp class. I was disappointed. Also the instructor often had white foam in the corners of his mouth, so I dropped it.
I assume they're thinking about transcontinental flights most of all. Dubai->LA or whatever.
The concern is that they're not "lost in the wilderness" but rather are going to turn up in the vicinity of some newly dead people.
Don't forget he made a prototype of a gaming helmet with shotgun shells aimed to kill the wearer.
@froztbyte
Keeper should sell their customer lists to other dating services so those services can keep those weirdos out.