To give the AI domain knowledge many humans will be needed. Think of every subfield in the world .. from machinist to plumber. A robot will not be able to do any of those things with reliability without human training data, and tons of it. All kinds of scenarios need to be told it.

AI is still pretty stupid. A human can be shown something once and he can apply that in many situations.

For people, the internet is one source of information. For AI training, it is the only source.

If you don't get why that difference matters, go ask Mummy for cookie and some milk, it's past your bedtime and you have school tomorrow.

Yes. In a society with a rule of law, it cannot be any other way. The only alternative is to people can tell whatever lies they want without fear of consequences, even if it literally gets people killed. We see too much of that already.

When you're a narcissist, and stupid, it's pretty obvious, to you, that you're inherently superior to all other human beings, therefore, it is literally impossible for anyone to honestly give you less than the best possible rating.

Yes, these "people" really do believe that.

In many other countries, as well, but don't let that stop you from masturbating furiously over how much you hate the US.

People aren't confused by marketing BS. They're confused by their own stupidity.

And yet, he is correct. AI is based on scraping the internet. Even if it were capable of actual intelligence, anything based on the internet is based mostly on lies, misunderstanding and willful ignorance.

Automation increases number of jobs and also the things you can buy with that money. The thing that has fucked everyone over is real estate prices. And that's because building permits are hard to get. People are afraid that their home value will decline, so they block new building permits for the illusion that it sustains their own home price. That's an evil move (and btw I say that as a homeowner). It's also unnecessary, when more homes are in an area long term it increases the price of real estate in that area.

Anyway, my point is that everything is expensive because of the price of real estate. Robots will increase the number of jobs by increasing the number of products and services we have available. People will have jobs facilitating and managing robots or fleets of robots. The real way to wealth shall be to own robots, the same as owning a restaurant or a company with a bunch of employees. Since that will be taxed or the government may even own a percent of some companies (socialism?), even a $200 welfare or UBI check would buy you a lot of stuff.

Are we sure they're American? 'Cause elsewhere... Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls via new X account location information.

Google: X location feature

Pete Hegseth is concerned enough that he's switching from Signal to SMS to leak battle info ... :-)

Then riddle me this, Batman: Why are they preloading it? What are they preloading? Since it's running all the time, they're clearly not preloading it. Ergo, they're doing something else that will impact system resources, and need some kind of explanation.

Without knowing precisely how Explorer is structured, it's conceivable that there may be different dynamically-linked libraries and/or execution points for running the desktop and for the file explorer, in which case just having explorer.exe running in and of itself doesn't mean that new modules have to be loaded if explorer.exe process fires up. The solution could very well be to load the libraries involved in file browsing when the desktop opens.

Just guessing here. There was a time when there was a lot more horsepower required for GUI elements than folder browsing, but this is 2025, and explorer.exe probably uses orders of a magnitude more resources now than it did in 1995, because... well, who knows really. Probably to sell more ads and load up more data to their AI.

That, on modern hardware, they have to preload a fucking file browser so that it pops up faster is just an indication of what a steaming pile of garbage MS is. They had sweet spots with Win2k-WinXP and with Win7, but their incoherent need to be a whole bunch of contradictory things --- with AI! has led what was a rather iffy OS and UI experience to begin with to become a cluster fuck of incoherence.

I do most of my day to day work on MacOS and Gnome, and fortunately the Terminal services version I have to RDP into is Server 2016, but every time I have to work with Windows 11 I'm just stunned by just how awful it looks and how badly it behaves.

XP didn't spend as much time going through all your documents and data files and sending its "telemetry" off to Microsoft for AI training (and sale to advertisers for "targeted ads").

And now, file explorer will be running all the time, so make certain they don't miss anything.

With the username "Fly Swatter" of course you'd want the windows open.