My guess is they made it specifically into a device so it could get that publicity. Oh, and look. It worked.

Because as an app, it offers nothing and that would have been obvious. Hence it had to be a physical device in order to scam people into thinking it was more than what it actually is. As an app, nobody would have cared. But look at all the press exposure it got and still get because it is a physical device.

Indeed. I think for some reason faking "good enough" is often a lot easier than faking "good". Maybe the additional step from "good enough" to "good" already overloads the average person's fact checking ability.

In my case: No car, use public transport, live in a minimum energy house, electricity comes from water and solar. Any more you demand before you think I can "legitimately" complain?

I see the oil-shills are out in force. You people should pray that Karma is not a thing.

Well, the world is doomed then. Because anything that is possible here is long-term in when it becomes beneficial and most people are not mentally equipped for long0term planning at all.

Dude, get your head out of your ass. Quite frankly, if you want to make a point, make it one that is a little less ridiculous.

Most education facility today is pretty good at stunting the growth of your mind, no aid from ChatGPT required.

I have nothing Google, hence I will not be setting up 2FA with them. So no "changes" to that either.

Simple: There is no rational reason to think LLMs can do general intelligence at all. At the same time, it clearly is an extraordinary claim and so would need extraordinary proof to takle that claim seriously. There is not even simple proof for that claim, so it is clearly complete bullshit at this time. At the same time LLMs is mature tech and the only real improvement over, say, IBM Watson (15 years old) is a better natural language interface and a larger training data. Hence it is not rational to expect great improvements either.

Oh, and the physicalist approach you push there is not Science, it is pure belief. We do not know how human minds work when they are actually using General Intelligence. Which, to be fair is somewhere between "rarely" and "never" for many people.

Well, besides the obvious fact that Altmann stands to profit massively from a lie here, I really doubt he knows as much about AGI as I do. He does not strike me as nearly as smart or educated as I am and he decidedly has not followed AI research for something like 35 years, unlike me. But he does not need to understand what he is promising, as he is just pushing a scam. He just needs to know what people want to hear.

Why he pushes AGI as a (fake) goal is quite clear: His hype AI is quite pathetic and cannot be fixed. So to keep the hype going a bit longer (and making a few more billions), he needs to claim it is just a stepping-stone to something even greater. This uses elements of the "Big Lie" approach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie) and the dream of robotic slaves and robotic "friends" that apparently many people entertain. The same baseless claims were used, incidentally, in the last few AI hypes. Yes, I have seen a few. They always come with the same empty promises. So what Altman does is not even original.

In relation to how much I consume. Which is very little and, I like to think, nicely offset by me efforts to insult assholes like you.

True. Although "church" is a ridiculous example. These just have good lies that appeal to many people but are quite obviously all about accumulation of power and controlling what people think. Same for governments.

What makes the oil business special is that they are evil at all sizes and are more openly evil, hence setting a bad example in addition.

You should always go for "good", because that typically means "good value for money" and typically does not include short-term "solutions" causing long-term problems. "Good enough" is the same as "good" if done right, i.e. when looking at all angles. But fake "good enough", were typically long(er)-term effects and often also risks and side-effects are ignored, is actually not "good enough" and not "good" either.

Sad but true. All most people care about is cost, not cost in relation to quality. And hence they buy crap.