I was wondering the same thing; if OpenAI's AI was all they cracked it up to be, it should have this problem solved already and they'd be implementing it.

Let's reword the Sam Altman's communique: Holy Shit!! We owe a fuckton of money and we don't have the faintest of fuzzies how we'll be in a position to repay it....unless one of you stiffs.....errrr.....valued employees hit a home run. Think of coming up with something as big as AI that we can punt and then I can still be the billionaire of my dreams. Surely you all want that, right?

Tats sort of look okay up until age 30. Between 30-40, you look like you are fighting old age and losing. Between 40-50, you look like you are trying to fit into your kids' social group. Between 50-60, you look like your crazy uncle having a mid-life crisis. Between 60-70, you look like you think you are still 18 going on 80. Between 70-80, you look like a badly worn carpet, Between 80-90, you are absolutely hideous and they make you look like a decayed corpse. From 90 on, you will be a decayed corpse before you are a decayed corpse.

I don't think that is it. I think he's just naturally stupid.

The LORD also recommended that you not sow a field with two different crops or wear a garment made of two different cloths. He's a FUNNY God.

Technology-wise, they've had top researchers all along. Want more? Just hire them, not hard when you have infinite money.

And google has access to everything. They serve about 1/3 of the population on earth every day. Not just search but webmail, texts, maps, word processor, TV (youtube), transportation (Waymo) everything.

Google is on almost everybody else's webpages too, through Google Ads.

There isn't much about your digital life google doesn't know about, and almost every potentially productive use of AI can be deployed to billions through their own services.

The entire positive side to bureaucracies and committees and governments is that they have enough people in them to do multiple things at once.

Usually when someone says something like what you said and I quoted above here, they are trying to argue that human drivers shouldn't exist. Maybe this is true, for some particular set of truths, but there's always a number of ways you can look at a situation. For example, I would argue that no one and no computer should be driving in the bulk of situations we are currently driving in, because cars are a terrible mode of transportation in the cities where most people live.

That's true, but that doesn't make what you said above correct. Left and right are very, very different things, and it very much does matter which you get.

Isn't it a fake race with fake metrics? We have companies sinking many billions of dollars into some vague development of AI, but without concrete goals or definitive plans to turn that investment into revenue.

I guess if someone wants to declare themselves the winner, they'll simply have to be the one that burned the most capital on this boondoggle.

First Street very likely doesn't have some magic model that can predict the future better than anyone else.

When you get a mortgage you have to pay for a flood survey. Even my house 700' above the village where the bank is.

Your flood risk is absolutely predicted by the flood history of your location. The bank writing the mortgage has the skin in the game which is why they make the buyer pay for the flood survey.

It sounds like First Street might be liable for damages based on pseudoscience if these Realtors bring a case. It would be interesting to see them present solid evidence that they prospectively beat the existing flood models and survive a cross-examination.

If they've published a peer-reviewed paper then I missed it.

Hostile design is often a sign of libido dominandi, not just laziness.

SmartTube has probably hundreds of settings you can tweak to improve usability and accessibility. The developer clearly has a user-first philosophy.

You have Revanced for Android but Apple doesn't allow such things.

It has some excellent accessibility improvements over stock.

Cheaper to just pay the bribes.

In America it's known as K-street. Or "donating" to an Inauguration Gala. Or hosting a high court judge in a European palace for a couple of weeks. Or giving decision makers absurd private sector salaries when they 'retire'. Or giving the Governor's wife a $200K no-show job. Pick your branch, there's a way.

In India the system is less formal.

Look, if someone makes a mistake abd owns it. We learn from it and move on. If your business is destroyed by a single person's slip up, then perhaps you are not that serious of a business.

The absolutely toxic corporate culture that firing someone is a reasonable first step is why millions of office workers are paralyzed with fear over losing their job. You are not trash to throw away, you're a person that society has invested thousands of dollars and hours into childhood and education.

In reality, people should be let go if there is a pattern of behavior that other measures have failed to correct. Like if they aren't completing tasks, behaving in an unprofessional way, making costly mistakes frequently, etc.

We're still in the dark ages when it comes to social development. Humanity has a long way to go before we can competently wield the power that we now possess.

I love getting modded down by people who support rape. If the worst pieces of shit hate me then I must be doing it right.