The problem with this line of thinking is that you are ignorant of the fact that we CAN say what is not thinking, and we've narrowed down the problem quite a bit.

It is generally agreed that chocolate bars do not think. Rocks do not think. Pocket calculators do not think. We know what thinking is not, even if we can't define it fully.

AI can think. The article is wrong.

AI hasn't been invented yet. LLMs are weak AI.

There aren't that many billionaires. The Wikipedia article on them says that there are only a bit above 900 in the U.S. and a little over 3,000 in the entire world. They have a lot of money, but only because other people voluntarily gave it to them because they valued what they were selling. Maybe this isn't the case worldwide and I'm sure there's a warlord or two that managed to export enough wealth from the people to be considered a billionaire, but most of them got there because they built something valuable, perhaps a few because their father did.

I don't entirely blame the problems of the present on previous generations either. They certainly could make life better for the current or next generation, but why should they. Many of them worked hard to get where they were. Many more worked hard and got nowhere. Why should they give up what they earned to spoil someone who lacks the context to even understand how appreciative they should be. They'll be dead in time and their assets will be passed along regardless of whether they hoard them right now.

If you want to blame someone for the world not turning out the way you wanted it to, look no further than the mirror. Why don't you amass the wealth or power to shape the world as you wanted it to look? Why would you expect anyone else to do it for you?

No, those are government jobs. No one in the private sector employs anyone (unskilled or otherwise) any longer than they have to. Unless they're in management of course. I think most managers are hired to waste the time of other managers that are also time vampires so that some engineers and developers can actually get things done.

... most likely in brain development. Some people mature very quickly, others never mature at all. As the saying goes , some people grow old and wise, others just grow old.

The 1990s called, they want their meme back.

Mad cow disease, seriously? That hasn't been a thing for 30 years.

"Just because some PFAS chemicals are toxic and last forever doesnt necessarily mean that all of them are evil"

The problem is the C-F bond. Its very hard for our ecosystem to break it and even if some of the molecule gets broken down there will still be a flourinated residue compound that isn't.

Yup. Not many people in other countries want the beef on their plate pumped full of antibiotics just to promote growth and to hell with the bacteria resistance it causes as a side effect.

Y'all would LOVE this if it were set in motion by the autopen corpse of Biden ... and you do know that, deep down, when today's 2-minute hate* wears off. Part of you knows this, under the layer of black and white thinking.

(* Orwell was so prescient, but for the love of all that's holy, if it were only two-minutes ...)

Before AI I replaced my flagship Android phone once every 2 or 3 years. Now I am not sure, how can I replace my phone if I do not want AI functionality in it at all?

Don't try to confuse us with your scientific mumbo jumbo about distinguishing different chemicals from each other! And your lying MAGA concepts like "quantity"! We know pure evil when we see it!

A database is useless without data too. Most computer programs are.

Free is a fiction that exists exclusively in the minds of stupid people.

Notice they said absolutely nothing about using it to target keyword ads at you, build profiles about you to target you with ads, and whatever else they're doing with the data to push more bullshit ads on you. The only smart feature is to disable the account and use something else that respects your privacy.

"Well, the LLMs don't really consist of "code" per se"

Oh they do, a LOT of it, all the way from the high level python libraries such as TensorFlow, via sigmoid or relu activation functions down to the low level CUDA GPU libs. The only part that is pure data is the weighting of the neurons which themselves are code.