Show me how your insights have enabled you to create more advanced functionality, and then I'll be interested.

Much of the critique seems irrelevant to AI other than LLMs, such as self-driving cars which map visual input to actions.

The illusion of intelligence evaporates if you use these systems for more than a few minutes.

Using AI effectively requires, ironically, advanced thinking skills and abilities. It's not going to make stupid people as smart as smart people, it's going to make smart people smarter and stupid people stupider. If you can't outthink the AI, there's no place for you.

My wife and I bought a used 2024 Mini Cooper EV just last weekend, for roughly that amount. It seems well-built and is very fun to drive. However it is only useful for driving around town because its range is only 120 miles. Technologically this is clearly out of date. I couldn't help but think that if not for trade restrictions we could be paying the same for a new car with more advanced batteries and motors. In fact the Mini Cooper EV, the 2025 model with almost double the range, is not available in the US because of trade restrictions.

I never liked the framing of 'their brain hasn't finished maturing.' You could as well say that after 26 the brain begins its decline into risk aversion and senescence. Somebody has to go out and slay the beasts and fight the enemies and make the babies and young people in their physical prime did most of it.

The last thing NVidia wants to do is advance TPUs as a viable and more affordable alternative to the GPUs that are a gusher of profit for NVidia. Even if it's inevitable, delaying the erosion of the GPU market is worth billions per month to them.

This is some big-league gambling! $200B in a morning! That's the entire market cap of Apple in spring of 2010. (For reference that's when the iPhone 4 came out - they were at the top of their game.)

I had forgot about Altman getting fired by the board for not 'being candid' (presumably tantamount to lying). Admittedly if there is a business equivalent to being expelled for academic fraud, that might be it.

They clearly do NOT think it is safe. From TFS, emphasis mine:

"It is important to differentiate between the highly toxic PFAS such as PFOA and PFOS for which the EPA has set drinking water standards, versus less toxic PFAS in pesticides that help maintain food security," notes Doug Van Hoewyk, a toxicologist at Maine's Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry.

Less toxic is still toxic. So, they *know* it's bad for you (and probably the environment/local ecology too), just not as bad, and yet they still expect you to be grateful for their efforts and quite literally lap it up. Good luck getting that shit on the shelves of places like the EU that have reasonable food standards, regardless of any tariffs or TACOs.

We should call it "job incomplete".

Most common metals have a simple one or two syllable name: Iron, Copper, Tin, Zinc, Lead, Nickel, Silver, Gold, etc.

The USA recognized that to some extent and got started by chopping off one extraneous syllable, paring it down from five to four. However, once it was realized that Al would be a common everyday material like iron, we should have gone ahead and pruned it all the way down to two syllables, maybe something like "Alem".

This might be the best evidence yet of a bubble.

I don't think he will or should receive a lifetime ban from any and all employment.

But as for MIT, or any other research institution with any prestige, my prediction is he is done.

As for Sam Altman, maybe you can point us to some example when he or OpenAI violated academic integrity by fabricating data like this?

No XXY or XYY or XXX etc. are not new genders. That logic is insane. They are copying errors, akin to other syndromes like Down Syndrome, that usually render the afflicted as sterile if they survive. The one guy I've known you had Klinefelter's would want only to be a normal guy, certainly not a new gender. Oh, you feel awkward about your affliction you can't do anything about? Yes let's draw attention to that, get it out there for everyone to see, focus on it, make it who you are! That's gonna be healthy for them.

Through history there have been effeminate men and masculine women. That isn't a crisis or new gender, it's just a personality trait. A transgendered woman can no more tell you what it's like to actually be a woman than a woman can tell them what it's actually like to be a transgendered woman. Their perception of life is different because their lives are different. I think for many it's just a fetish. Why else do so many dress as some over-the-top attention whore cliches of what a woman is? Look at Dylan Mulvaney. The only real women that dress like that all the time are intentionally sexualizing themselves for money.

I would be so utterly disappointed and surprised if Napster had somehow grown up into a stable, solvent, law-abiding corporation.

Agreed, but people were allowed to indicate multiple sites (the sum is way over 100%) so you can just ignore the questionable ones without changing the rankings among the more social websites.

The fall of erstwhile-twitter is quite stunning.

Come on, corporations don't have the authority to decide arbitrarily where to site a nuclear plant, and I bet you know it.