Did the US always grow at the expense of the rest of the world because the US was the "acceptable" option?

Most likely, we will all be killed. And not because of a real AI (not those pathetic things they insist on calling AI) having something against humanity, but because of the super-rich who spent trillions developing it, sending it to build hunter-killers to wipe us out and then build a "utopia" for themselves. Well, until the moment their greed makes them destroy each other and only the AI remains.

How much did you get paid to post this nonsense? "AI is already now a core technology"? Don't make me laugh.

Downloaded an hour or two ago from the official websites before I made my previous comment. In the meantime, I tested Manjaro further and managed to get the sound working on it after some experimentation using alsamixer, which strangely enough, the exact same method does not work on Fedora or Mint. I find it funny that alsamixer can even correctly identify the sound card model, while the supposedly much more up-to-date GUIs of KDE and GNOME can't even do that, let alone correctly configure the sound channels (the GUI claims to be able, but does nothing).

I just tested some live distros here. Fedora, Mint, etc. Guess what, none of them were able to use my sound card (AE-5) correctly, no sound in any of the distros tested. Oh, several “suggestions” on how to fix it via command line, of course. And guess what, none of them worked.

Developer here with almost the same amount of experience as the other guy.

The problem with Linux is that although it is very good as an operating system, it is still trash as a desktop. As a developer I need a good desktop to work on, where things just work and all applications work consistently. Copying and pasting, for example, should not behave differently in each application you use as happen in Linux desktop.

And then there's the serious problem of fragmentation. If I had to migrate to Linux permanently, I would have to choose between literally hundreds of distros, each of which does one thing or another well and everything else mediocrely. I won't even get into installing new applications, which often has unexpected problems even when you use the standard installation method for the selected distro, and may your favorite god protect you if you have to install from source code (which I know how to do, but depending on the size and complexity of the application it can be practically impossible).

It's just a silly idea. Especially given how it's usually implemented, where they depend on a manufacturer's “cloud” to work. I don't need “smart lights” that turn on using Wi-Fi; I go to the switch and simply turn them on. I once for fun thought about developing a refrigerator that would warn me when something inside was about to run out or expire, but... After seriously analyzing the case, I concluded that it is much simpler and more reliable to just go to the refrigerator and check it myself.

Translating what the article really meant.

OpenAI spent a fortune on flawed technology, spent even more hoping that the fix for the flaw would be to spend even more (probably the idea of someone in marketing or someone who is in the computer field but recently dropped out of a week-long course), and now that the bill is too big, it hopes to be “bailed out” by the government like the banks were, trying to argue that it is as important as the banks and therefore cannot be allowed to fail.

This has been happening here and there since Slashdot was sold to the media group. If you haven't noticed, it's probably because your comments are so irrelevant that they don't justify the hassle.

I said no as an answer but slashdot deleted my previous answer, I assume they don't like people who go against the AI hysteria.

RAM used for cache and RAM actually used by applications are completely different things.

The first is acceptable because it's usually disk cache that's immediately freed for use by other applications, while the second - when in excess - is usually a symptom of poorly programmed applications. Pay attention to the Windows memory manager, which shows how much memory is being used in actual cache and how much memory is being used by applications.

... to see how many here FAILED to understand the point of the TFA.

Let's turn RAM into dollars to see if it makes it easier to understand the fucking point of the article: You have, say, $320 available. And you only need $3 of that to do the job you need to do. Why, for all the creatures of darkness, do you think you have to use all the $320 to do the same job just because you have $320? Is it because the $320 “is free” so you should use all of it? When out of the $320 available, you only need $3 to do the job?

Just because you have 32GB of RAM available doesn't mean you should waste it! And every mentally challenged individual who says, “Oh, memory is free now” should first be burned alive and then dismissed from any and all tasks vaguely related to programming.

Greed causes blindness. All these companies believe that AI is the new get-rich-quick scheme, like a gold rush or the old and famous case of Dutch tulips.

Not really.

What I have noticed happening in recent years is a tendency to replace the company's leadership and management. Removing the people who actually know the business and replacing them with generic idiots or sociopaths, who don't know shit about the company's business but are really good at making the company owners believe that they are “essential to the company”.

And then it becomes difficult to work at these companies because, since these generic “CEOs” don't know jack shit about the company's business, they start giving absurd orders on top of absurd orders to the point where the company ends up going bankrupt or becoming so bad that it would be preferable to go bankrupt. Then your work environment ends up becoming toxic. Because your colleagues (and you) start to get stressed out by meaningless orders and restrictions imposed “because that's what the market wants” (Only the CEO thinks that), imposing increasingly difficult goals because the generic “CEO” completely believes that they are perfectly acceptable (remember that he doesn't know shit about the company's business) and starts cutting the budget where he shouldn't “because that's what the market preaches.” Of course, when the company ends up going under, it's all the fault of “the employees who didn't try hard enough to do their part,” while the “CEO” gets a golden parachute to go after his next victim.

What are you going to do next, give him surgery to widen his hips? Complete facial surgery so the "woman" doesn't have a grotesquely ugly face (because he's actually a man)?

Unless you can come up with a complete body swap, all you'll end up doing is horribly mutilating someone whose identity crisis would probably be easier to treat with a psychologist or a psychiatrist, and all this in the name of a panacea you can shout about all you want is still insane.