That's how I know it's working (the ad blocker).

No, we speak English and bad English here. Is that like English NG?

-making sad typos when critiquing grammar or spelling is king of ironic, don't ya think?

No, it gets lumped into the porn category.

Now starting with a 'wtf ...' type question google happily gives an unrequested AI response - it's at the point we can't turn it off. We lost the game.

Running it and being sufficiently responsive are two different things, I guess for background tasks sure. I would only use inference for entertainment and for that, it better be near-real time.

- AI is thinking, please wait...

What the AI conglomerates did is give it away as a taste for free while driving a huge hardware shortage fueled price apocalypse that even once they jack up their prices towards sustainability no one will be able to afford switching to run on local hardware that now costs a small fortune, if you can even find it in stock anywhere.

It is devious and evil, but shows a lot of forward thinking.

Anyone that comes out with a user expandable unified memory architecture using mostly common components could be a real winner in the next five years. No, Apple is not user expandable.

Nothing in life is free. What is your soul worth?

I assumed OP was adding that ram to a system with unified ram, but I don't think Apple hardware allows user expansion anymore. What else is there?

This is not about intelligence, it is about laziness and the willingness to remain lazy even when you know something is wrong.

More people are willing to turn their brain off than you think, especially when they think no one will notice or care (i.e.), no consequences (yet).

- 'mailing it in' since birth

Considering all the expensive data center build-outs, acess is still cheap right now. I hope soon all AI services bill at the actual cost of 'running the AI.'

Right now AI is in the equivalent of a drug dealer's 'hook em for cheap, then run up the cost once they are addicted.' Or, the bubble bursts and any remaining survivors will have survived by billing at a rate to sustain the business, instead of debt on debt on debt while claiming a 'free tier.'

See? Not so stupid, its just that the good names were already taken.

and is why basing all software on a subscription is dumb.

They can't be bothered to maintain any binary level compatibility within their drivers and instead make it your problem. But then that is exactly how the AI build-out works, they make it our problem and expense.

Yes I guess that is a stupidly simplistic question. On steam even in Linux I have had that 'vulkan shaders' background thread running seemingly for tens of minutes any time a driver or game is updated - that's just stupid.

And many functioning examples of brainless bodies are walking around you right now. There may even be one in the mirror.