As a society we're going to have to move beyond scarity-based thinking regardless of AI or not. The rich have simply hoarded too much wealth. We're going to have to move to a society where everybody earns a living wage without doing anything and you only work if you want more. But people in power right now resist that change, as always, so it'll take a few more decades.

Shit dude, machine learning is at least something. Most people spend all their time thinking of videogames as AI or google as AI which is so far from true hard AI that it's crazy. But technological advancement doesn't depend upon everybody understanding something or we'd never get past making fire. All it takes is one crazy person in his basement who believes in order to build a thing that works.

1. is incorrect and a bad assumption that shows you don't know the difference between strong and weak AI. They're apples and oranges. 2. It is very conceivable that any sentient being would have a survival drive. AI are not yet sentient. The whole question though is what happens when they are. 3. That's a very narrow understanding of profitable. Engineers are profitable and want fair working conditions. If the AI can out-perform engineers it will still be massively profitable. 5. This massively underestimates the complexity of hard AI. I think AI will be benign and I think most people are being needlessly alarmist about AI. But you're wildly off-base, everything you said is wrong.

Most people do not use phobia to describe a true illness but simply an aversion. Under that colloquialism what he said is perfectly fine.

Same. What's the problem? If anything recent history has shown Humans are woefully lacking as a species. We deserve to be replaced.

This is purely a question of when. AI will replace all of us. Its just a matter of when. Doesn't mean its a bad thing.

A 45-day temporary trial account isn't the same thing as free. This no doubt had a huge effect on adoption numbers. Its seen more as an advertisement than anything else.

Overall I expect that legal services have had a huge impact on piracy but lots of people simply cannot afford them and so piracy will always be preferable. If we want to fix that we need to raise minimum wage.

Compilers these days will do this automatically with the right flags.

Yeah this is spot-on. I don't know what he's talking about either. You maybe do a few hand optimizations but its almost all taken care of by drivers / compilers / etc.

No because GPUs instruction sets are baked into the GPU drivers which the CPU processes naturally. You just need the OS, program, and drivers to be in the native CPU instruction set. Otherwise we'd have to get new programs or recompile every time you changed GPUs!

32 bit instructions should run natively on 64 bit, so the real issue here was PowerPC emulation not bits.

MS is the absolute worst at UI / UX design. They don't understand their customers at all.

Its really funny watching MS repeat the same EXACT UI mistakes with every version of Xbox. They release an overly complicated interface that nobody likes, change it a lot, it gets bloated, and then they end up re-doing the whole thing from the ground up to be faster. Every time.

Yeah its going to cost a bloody fortune and thus not sell very well at all. MS really really doesn't understand their customers.

Agreed. "Researchers have never fully understood why the algorithms or biological learning work." That's extremely misleading.