Do you really think that suicides are logical? That was a strange way to phrase it. Still, if you read the article, you will see that at least some of these people were highly invested in it, including having their family move to another city to allow them to study for the exam, or taking a loan. They had a lot riding on that test.

India's suicide rate is rather average. There are fewer suicides per capita than in the US or some European nations, and a little more than Canada or some other European nations. (This is based on the Wikipedia page on suicide rate and recent stats reported by Gemini.) The large number of suicides is purely because India has 1.5 billion people, which is a lot more than other nations. So in absolute numbers it will have more suicides.

By the way, apparently (according to Gemini), about 1100 college students in the US commit suicide per year.

As the US restricts free commerce more, people look toward the only real alternative, which is China. This is the case here, too, with Chinese AI models growing in dominance.

I think of this in AD&D terms, with China being Lawful Evil and the US currently being Chaotic Neutral (more like Chaotic Stupid, but still...). It seem natural that people would prefer Lawful, as it's easier to deal with.

News at 11.

During the pandemic, when there was choice between studying remotely and not studying, the good thing to do was to provide laptops. Now that it's less needed, it's less needed.

How is this news? The money wasn't wasted, it was put to good and necessary use.

Thanks for posting. Already read that on Engadget, but it's good to have a reference here.

The list starts only somewhat questionable, then degrades into, as you say, "Mr. Adolf broadcasting". I liked that summary.

Sure, the researchers might have ignored some things, but then again, the writer hasn't done any research. FUD is easy to spread, and "human slop" is easy to write. Lots of people write FUD about AI, it's the in thing. I think that in general AI slop is better.

Found that funny.

No, it actually makes sense if a few of the employees were previous unemployed.

From the summary, it's clear that the people who used AI saw a great increase in productivity. That these people then chose to spend more time on work because of this is likely because the increased productivity excited them.

So basically, I don't see a problem here. AI working as promised and people being overly enthusiastic is quite a reasonable outcome. I've yet to read the full article, so there might be more there, but far as I'm concerned, that's quite an optimistic outcome.

doctors and physiologists have given up. "Just do the bare minimum. It's better than doing nothing."

The only problem I currently have is that I no longer think that a longer lifespan is beneficial. I have no will to live through WW3 or any other global or local upheaval or pandemic or whatnot. When growing up the future looked good. Then in the 90s people started imagining the future as dystopian. I disliked that notion, but recent years led me to think it's where we're going.

So I don't currently see extending my lifespan as something that's worth the effort.

I think you're misrepresenting the issue here. None of those Korean grunt workers will ever get to do more advanced creative work in Japan.

Unfortunately the original article is beyond a paywall, so I don't know if it's mentioned there, but I'd guess that "everyone" means "about 5% of the population".

"Linux celeb Lennart Poettering has left Microsoft and co-founded a new company... It is unclear why Poettering decided to leave Microsoft. We asked the company to comment but have not received a response."

The writer might have early onset of dementia, or perhaps early onset of AI syndrom.

Lot of people implying that hardware requirements would prevent people from switching. This might have been true for some, but apparently for many users it wasn't (which made sense; the TPM requirement is for very old PCs). So "ending" support for Windows 10 did what Microsoft wanted, moved users to Windows 11.

By the way, I just recently tried to update an old Windows 10 PC (of a family member), and Windows Update simply offered me to extend the support by a year.

People are largely idiots. They spend their time consuming media and trying to do selfish things for their enjoyment, while serving as wage slaves to corporations, where most of them do nothing of actual importance. AI hallucinations are nothing compared to humans' stupid beliefs. Even academia is filled with bad research and some outright fraud.

So it's not clear to me what is this "human level intelligence" that people want AI to aspire to.