Microsoft purposefully screws up every other Windows release, so that the subsequent release can be hailed as a massive improvement.

We don't have a technical definition of it, so we can't say if an AI is capable of it.

followed by...

It is just hype when AI proponents claims that current AI might be conscious

I'm wondering if you see any contradiction between these two statements.

Welcome back!

And similarly, having people control them is a fetish for most non-millionaires in the U.S.

It's about time. I steer away from Google products as often as I can, due to Google's stance that if you lose access to your account, "Ooops, oh well, just create a new one!"

The Wikimedia Foundation said that this poses a risk to the long term sustainability of Wikipedia.

Not worried, Jimmy Wales has been begging for money desperately every year. I'm sure they have a huge stock pile of donations by now, right? Right?

The base model costs $1,599.

Journalism outlets should start calling these things what they truly are: desperation models. Apple ratchets up the price so much if you want to upgrade past the desperation model that it's practically comical.

It seems that a smart person would know how to conserve mental energy far more efficiently than you.

But that's the only way to get there.

50% of the industry disagrees with you.

For someone who is supposedly smart, you should try harder to not be an idiot.

I've come to the same conclusion. Conservatives like the chain of command, in government, politics, military, and religion. Chain of command resonates well with their simpleton brains.

I mean, Apple solved this problem a decade ago with App Store, I don't think we need an exotic solution here.

Eh, the buggy whip makers went to work for Ford.

So, are you saying that software developers are all going to go work for OpenAI? *facepalm*

You can catch the boss between meetings and pass along a little tidbit of information

Wait until the author hears about this thing called asynchronous communication!

He'll lose his top when he hears that I can pass along a little tidbit of information to my boss in the very same meeting in which we are both attending, with all the other meeting participants being none the wiser.

I can even schedule my messages so that they'll be delivered right when my boss wakes up.

I guess Wharton hasn't heard of these new-fangled technologies yet. That must be a downside of being at such a prestigious, ivy league school.

They're basically just misleading marketing noise at that point.

OK, but you just described the entirety of marketing in the U.S.