McDonalds, Cracker Barrel, etc...eat at a non "family" restaurant and it won't be full of kids.

Bill Gates Claims Climate Change Won't Destroy Humanity After All https://www.huffpost.com/entry...

They cut xx number of jobs, then in 9 months they report the profit went up so the CEO gets a bonus?

Same thing when "faster" smart phone screens came along. I remember one of those late night guys when a new iPhone came out, took LAST YEARS model out on the street showing it to people saying it was the NEW one and ever person was just goo-goo over how bright and smooth the screen was. For 99% of the users, they probably can't tell the difference between 2k & 4k. It's all for MARKETING. People think more is better.

Well, considering a lot of people these days, cannot spell or complete a sentence without using emoji characters, using "texting language", this doesn't surprise me at all.

If you do not promise to stop stealing my stuff, I am not going to invite you back to my house for dinner.

We all appreciate a free press, but free press is not the same as a press that is party to a crime by receiving and publishing illegally obtained material.

The real problem, however, is when the press claims to have obtained inside info and publishes inflammatory articles with the intent to influence policy and elections and that information is later proven to be false. Just a few examples are Dan Rather reporting military records on Bush (fake), Clinton funding (fake) intel dossier on Trump, Wikileaks publishing (fake/edited) videos and declaring a military "slaughter" of civilians. This type of reporting does serious harm to our democracy - and speech that causes harm is not always protected.

Hey Fred, can you change the engine sound to that of a sports car? Sure Debbie, let me pull up the engine sounds I've got stored on the computer. What a flipping JOKE!

It's just like when things in a grocery store go down in price. Yeah, the price dropped, but the QUANTITY in the box went down. I never buy anything on Prime day...it's for suckers. They jack the price up a week or two before prime day, then discount it to make it look good.

I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.

Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.

I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.

But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?

You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.

A few notes.
Google has been the leader in ML/AI before OpenAI even existed. It has been integrated in their products for well over a decade, including translate, autocorrect, sentence completion, predictive search, etc. Google literally authored and publicly released the leading research on AI and LLMs, including the key research on âoeattentionâ.
Microsoft and OpenAI were bedfellows early on with the specific intent of embedding AI into Microsoft projects. Then OpenAI screwed over Microsoft.
OpenAI complaining is really rich, given how they continue to violate their âoeopenâ charter in the pursuit of Sam Altmanâ(TM)s ego. OpenAI has not been open, they have not benefited others, and they seek absolute control of technology others developed.

I spend quite a bit on Discord server services, but I'm out.

GFY, Discord and governments, for mandating this bullshit nonsense.

I use to repair tv's back in the mid-late 70's as a teenager through college. You didn't have to worry about someone stealing your "puny" 25" tv back then because those @#)^@$ things were HEAVY! Those huge CRT "picture tubes" weighed a TON! The glow of the old vacuum tubes in the back was kind of cool though. Although, you DID have to wait for the tv to WARM UP before you could use it.

Yeah, that will work out great! Star Trek TOS already did an episode like that over 50 years ago. The M5 computer didn't work out so well.

In small nations, yeah, EV's probably work! Plus in these small countries, they have available mass transit. In America, it take days to drive across the country. Some people live "out in the sticks" on farms or in the country and it takes time to get to a city. The lack of EV charging stations, along with the TIME IT TAKES to recharge is a problem. Batteries in the super cold winter is another thing. Until someone comes up with "The Flux Capacitor" and the "Fusion Reactor" from Back To The Future, hybrids are a better option than a full fledge EV. Personally I drive an ICE vehicle and probably will do so till I die.

Talking to people in public isnâ(TM)t harassment.

Talking to people on taxpayer funded grounds also isnâ(TM)t trespass.