It sure didn't.
Your dream of the human brain being more than classically physical, and ergo more than a finite state machine are not backed up by one single shred of evidence, and that's the Achilles Heel of all computers-can't-think arguments.
Maybe in another 1000 years you'll find that evidence, but it's not looking great for you guys.
Keep clinging to that notion of free will though.

I don't feel like I need to read an introductory book about my degree.
I'd be more than amused to see how you think it applies to the discussion at hand, however.
Looking for theories of computation to disprove thinking machines isn't going to get you far. I'll see your Daniel I. A. Cohen, and raise you an Alan Turing.

Yes, it is.

And your severe lack of a fucking clue made discussion with you an analogue to pissing in the wind anyway.
Name calling is just fun. You trying to use it to disengage is just you copping out.

No, I'm not.
There is no database, and the factors have nothing to do with words.

Fuck, you know so goddamn little about how these things actually work, and you just can't be assed to bother to fucking read, can you?

Humans misread shit all the fucking time, in any orientation.

Jesus fucking christ, you're dim.
You're acting like "Aha! These things can't read things at a 30 degree angle!!!", but that's an outright falsehood.
Is the error rate higher? Yes. Can they without error? Yes. It's all probabilities, just like humans.
If you've ever misread anything, I guess you've demonstrated that you can't think.

Google makes $350B a year.

You just said what it's done.
They have like 35 million paying customers pulling in ~$4B a year.
That's a far stretch from $52, but their growth is also obscene.

Of course the vast majority are free users. This is the case for all products like this. They'll hit $10B a year by next year unless there's a collapse in growth.

I think you probably shouldn't judge based on what you're seeing on the free shit models.
People are using it today in businesses. Agentic workflows are all over the fucking place.

Incorrect, in this case.
If we were talking about a restaurant in Epcot, or something like that- sure, I'd agree with you. But we're not.

We have AI to summarize the AI slop articles.

I'm the same, always use a good credit card, but the occasional hassle is worth it. The prices are 1/10th the Amazon ones.

Used to be, but Trump has kinda ruined it for the rest of us. He complained that they were charging Americans more, so instead of reducing their prices, they just increased them everywhere else.

As an example, Mounjaro went from around £180 in the UK, to around £300.

I saw a YouTube video from a guy who bought a mini excavator from AliExpress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's surprisingly good. Japanese Kubota engine, everything else looks decent quality, especially considering the incredibly low price. I've seen similar videos from other people who bought heavy machinery like farm equipment and lathes.

On the one hand it's a shame that our domestic manufacturing is finding it hard to compete. On the other, they aren't doing themselves any favours with things like DRM to stop you working on your own tools. The price competition is a good thing for consumers.

Take Germany luxury/performance cars, for example. The Chinese ones are every bit as luxury and well made, and often exceed them for performance. On top of that, the German manufacturers can't resist screwing their customers with bullshit like subscriptions for heated seats and no owner access to the engine bay.

I regularly buy from AliExpress. Their customer service isn't as good as Amazon's, but the prices are 1/10th of the Amazon ones so even though the odd things gets lost or is of poor quality, I'm still well up on what Amazon would have cost me.

Occasionally I need to do a credit card chargeback. Had to do that on a computer case that got damaged. For small stuff costing literal pennies I don't bother with the maybe 1 in 20 items that is lost or no good.

As you say, it's the same stuff they sell with a hefty mark-up on Amazon, and in every other shop.

If chasing ratings is taken too far, you end up with Fox used to be, where shows would get cancelled a few episodes into their first season because they were not instant mega hits. Netflix is nearly as bad, cancelling stuff days after it premiers.

A lot of shows took a season or two to really find their feet. A lot of shows that struggled early on ended up doing very well in syndication, or started a long running franchise.

They will probably charge a much fairer price for their treatments too, which will be very welcome.