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?

1. That would be illegal (Europe) and 2. I am paid from a table since as a lecturer, I am technically a public servant. (No complaints about the salary.)

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.'

And fail. This has nothing to do with expertise or education in an area. It has everything to do with how a person approaches a question.

No. There is a group, the "independent thinkers", that do not use this crap. They are small, admittedly, but they do exists. The usual estimate is 10...15% of the population and education seems to make no difference.

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They might have launghed then, but they're not laughing now.

Do not make for good engineering. FOSS is no different.

You re not a teen. You are a killer. You just have not run into a situation where you will manifest that yet because you got lucky.

They probably have not gotten dumber, but they definitely think they are smarter and finally have reliable truth at their disposal.

The thing is, these people are the majority (!) of the human race at around 80%. The reason actually mentally capable people see them less often is filter effects. But think of some random relatives, which you probably have minimized or cut contact with.

"Fluid IQ" is just how much of your IQ you actually use. The term was probably invented to not have to tell high IQ people that are not independent thinkers (quite a lot, probably a majority) that they are effectively pretty dump and mentally incapable.

You just exposed yourself as a stupid person. Because all reliable research says exactly the opposite: The more conservative, the more mentally incapable. And that is not even me trying to insult you. That is just a solid fact.

There is one thing: About 10-15% of the population are independent thinkers and about 20-25% (including the former) can be convinced by rational argument. At the same time about 80% of the human race is religious in one form or another. There will be some special cases and some overlap. For example people that know their religious beliefs are irrational and they are just using them to make themselves feel better. But overall, these are the two pools of people we have.

Now, add that fact-checking AI is typically somewhat hard (because it gives you the mainstream results from its training data), and you nicely have that correlation.

As to why there do not seem to be formal studies at this time, that is probably because LLM-type AI is still new and because getting funding for research that both exposes uncritical LLM users and religious people as mentally incapable is likely pretty hard.