In beach climate zones, salt particles in the air corrode metal and degrade other materials, and this is enhanced if the climate has lots of sunshine.

Small particles are also a significant human health hazard. Individuals with respiratory issues can have severe reactions, including asthma attacks which can be life threatening. These salt particles are specifically intended to be very small so they can stay in the air and travel long distances, making the geographic footprint even greater.

This is a horrible experiment to perform in an urban area. It is dangerous and possibly illegal. The agencies that fund this kind of work have well defined protocols addressing the human impact of experiments, and there is no way this would have been approved if the work had been correctly evaluated. Someone was negligent, cut corners or deliberately ignored the rules. Whoever is responsible will be in big trouble, like having the project canceled, being excluded from getting grants, or being fired trouble.

Before HD camera were in cellphones and doorbells I worked on a project with a 720p camera. It was big, cost well over a hundred thousand dollars, and was very rare. When testing the camera it was decided we would not take pictures out of the windows since we could capture images of people walking outside. The protocol for the funding agency had very strict guidelines about human experimentation and we didn't want to have any problems. For motion image tests we bought some lava lamps and other electric motion toys so it was manifest that people were not experimental subjects.

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they want to get into everyone's house, whether you sign up with them or not.

Unfortunately, nearly everyone jumping on LLM bandwagon has "flat dead zero ability to differentiate complete shit from quality output", to slightly edit your comment.

They had a meeting with Trump and he said that for a big enough bribe he'd eliminate the EPA, end pollution regulation, make electric vehicles illegal, and have zero taxes on fossil fuel profits. Buying the government is the best investment an oligarch can ever make, and right now everything is for sale at bargain prices. Big Pharma, media conglomerates, Wall Street, real estate, the military complex, and anyone else with a billion or so to spare are all lining up purchase a complete lack of oversight and accountability.

When technological civilization collapses they and their families will all be fine, having bought all the places that can still support comfortable human existence. Or they will be hanging out with Elon on Mars, in a techno-libertarian paradise without the bother of pesky human scum who have a net worth of less then half a billion dollars. Everyone else will get the mass extinction event they deserve because they are poor.

Problem solved.

Becoming a billionaire faster then sticking with OpenAI?

Progress!

Hire a person who has very little skill in reading english, which could be done very inexpensively if they are outside the USA, England or Australia. Give them access to your email account and have them go through and organize it once a week. When you need something done have them do it for you.

You will get better results, and have better personal security then relying on any AI system. And there will be real accountability if anything goes wrong. If (actually when) Google screws things up for you there will be absolutely nothing you can do about it, and if you give them too much trouble they will delete your account.

And your shit doesn't stink either.

Yep, ignore statistics. Your personal experience is the only thing that counts.

Nothing bad ever happens to me - Oingo Boingo "Why should I care?"

Under the benevolent control of Elon, Dell will soon mandate that employees get neural implants. This will insure that during office hours employees will spend 100% of their time, and 100% of their mental effort, thinking abut their work. Effort less then 100% will be noted on the company wide monitoring system, which just exists to help employees do the best job possible.

In the unfortunate circumstance an employee falls short, Dell may be forced to let them go. Due to the mandatory NDA, this will require the repossession of the Neuralink implant, which contains sensitive proprietary technology. This a simple painless procedure and will cause no problems for the terminated employee.

Although a lot of people would disagree with the real world result, delivery drones are clearly nowhere near this aspirational idea of the USPS:

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" is a phrase long associated with the American postal worker. Though not an official creed or motto of the United States Postal Service the Postal Service does acknowledge it as an informal motto.

For delivery drones it's more like "if it's not raining or snowing or hailing or windy or dark or foggy or real hot or too cold or too far or someone has a BB run or real gun and it's not too far then maybe you'll get a package if it's not too big or heavy. Maybe."

What ChatGPT, and all LLM based software is good at is raising money. And it can also generate cashflow by sales, at least for a while.

This will continue as long as the hype and early adopter frenzy continues. Somewhere down the road reality will intrude, and all the empty promises will result in a variety of failures. Not everything will be useless, but a vast amount resources will be wasted along the way, and a lot of people will be victimized by bad software.

Then the vultures, .a.k.a. class action lawyers, will have a huge feast. This will absorb another huge amount of money while doing nothing for those who have been harmed.

In short, the techie flag wavers, CEOs and eventually lawyers will end up with huge piles of money, and everyone else will pay the price. It's the US tech business in action. (Note that the smart tech types who get early cash-outs will be winners, while those who buy their own hype will end up with a lot of useless stock options.)

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It was a big thing for a while, and it enabled a lot of things, both good and bad. Then the AI boom happened and it turned into a toxic radioactive cesspool and became useless and dangerous.

Thanks for asking. I'll help you out with these kinds of questions anytime.