Well, that's not true. Trivially, AI includes randomization, which is something beyond pattern matching.

Anyways, give us all an objective definition of what intelligence actually is, and what precludes machines from doing whatever that is, and let's go from there.

Somebody downmodded you for that, but I can't tell if you are in fact arguing they are self-aware, or arguing that cogito ero sum doesn't really prove anything so everything is baseless...

I don't think the problem is with the Constitution. Any Constitution is just a piece of paper, unless people collectively honor it. You could say it makes the Executive too strong, but this has happened gradually as we allowed it, or asked for it, since Congress has become crippled with partisan politics. For example the Constitution gives the power to set tariffs to Congress, not the President. Yet look where we are now.

I think it's kind of delicious to see chess used as a benchmark of intelligence again. Of course the chatbot could be augmented with a chess engine that it knows how to invoke to easily beat any human. But using an LLM as a chess engine itself is a nice challenge. Maybe there's a way to do it, or maybe AI as we know it needs more visualization capability. Or maybe if the AI can write a good chess engine given the rules.

In any case a single guy trying to prove a negative by failing to do something (set up an LLM to play chess) is not very convincing.

"What did Paul Volker do to stop inflation? To subdue double-digit inflation, Chairman Volcker announced, in October 1979, a dramatic break in the way that monetary policy would operate. In practice, the new approach to monetary policy involved high interest rates (tight money) to slow the economy and fight inflation." Carter basically sacrifices political career by allowing this to happen. Then Reagan opened the floodgates of debt and made everybody feel good.

The economic numbers for the past six months must be quite painful for your worldview.

That's the point of eating your seed corn - it fills your belly, for the moment.

Specifically, he aggressively try to get rid of the fed chairman so he can arbitrarily push down the interest rate, which promotes further exploding the debt.

This makes me think how different solar systems have almost nothing to do with each other. If all the other solar systems (that is, 99.9999999% of the universe) disappeared tomorrow, would it have any affect on us whatsoever?

I actually think the difference between 51% and 65% is surprisingly small.

The online music streaming market doesn't seem to have become fragmented like the video market has. Everybody has everything. You don't have to sign up for 10 different music streaming services to find what you want. I don't actually have spotify, it seems like everything is on Youtube anyways?

Would you call China invading Taiwan defense? That is the issue. Neither China nor the USA will be invading the other anytime in the foreseeable future.

Going out of business, it ain't pretty. You take measures to increase revenue, but it inevitably makes the product worse or more expensive.

I agree it won't last long, but there is a "magical" or "high priesthood" aspect to it for now (or put more pragmatically - trade secrets). If it were just a matter of going through some set of well-defined steps, even hard ones like getting a PhD from Stanford, way too many people have done that for $10M pay packages to happen.

I guarantee you that a mid-level research scientist in AI from non-distinguished company is not making $500k per year in flat salary.

I actually think that's the way to go. There needs to be a law about whether AI is allowed to learn from content on the same terms as a living individual, or not. Then there also need to be technical means to enact whatever policy is legislated, which is here this Cloudflare technology could fit in.

I wouldn't say "from scratch." The Germans made a very significant investment in rocketry, and it's hard to argue we didn't exploit it, when Werner von Braun (a Nazi, and in fact officer in the SS) was the chief architect of the Saturn V.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history...