Well if you're in the US, that would pretty much have to be New York City (20 million) or Los Angeles (13 million), because there are no other "much" larger cities in the US, than Houston (8 million). New York has its very own special brand of traffic problems.
And yet, somehow you're here posting on Slashdot!
Your first problem, is caring about affiliate links.
In my experience, Brave is better than uBlock Origin, at blocking ads.
Did you know that Google Navigation has a setting to "avoid tolls"? I think that's the setting you're looking for.
You must not live in a big city.
I live in Houston, and had to commute downtown for several years. There are many alternate routes (all of which I know well), but traffic changes every day. I relied on Google Navigation to tell me which of those alternates, would be the least congested *today*. It was quite valuable and reliable in that regard.
Well, your hunch seems to be right. But establishing whether you're crazy or not...I'm not qualified to assess!
How am I supposed to know a road isn't a road?
Well, maybe when you start encountering GIANT rocks in the middle of the roadway? That would seem like a good clue.
Kind of like people who tried to drive down steps because Google Maps told them to!
https://www.autoevolution.com/...
I used to commute to downtown Houston every day. There are lots of routes to get there, and I knew all of them without using Google. But traffic congestion changed every day, so I relied on Google Navigation to tell me what was the best route today. Or when an accident suddenly blocked the route I had chosen, I relied on it to offer a good detour that wouldn't add an extra hour to my commute.
So you could say I drank the Kool-Aid.
You seem to be both skeptical of AI advancement ("the new models are not noticeably better than their competition") and fearful of AI advancement ("the *actual* threat of AGIs"). Why would new models that are "not noticeably better" lead to a scary threat of "AGI"?
Loosely, AGI is defined as " A machine with broad, human-level intelligence that can learn, reason, and adapt to unfamiliar situations without needing new programming." So how is that different from "regular" AI?
Perhaps this: "Current systems are "narrow AI" (like chatbots or image generators) designed for specific tasks. An AGI could transfer knowledge between unrelated fields, use common sense, and solve open-ended real-world problems." https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-de...
The problem is this: Going from "narrow AI" to "broad-spectrum AI" is no easy task. All automation ever, has been forced to focus on narrow problems, because we vastly underestimate the challenges of broad-spectrum automation solutions. For example, factory robots are specifically programmed to perform one task. General-purpose robots are still far, far away. In the same way, special-purpose AI is quite capable, but general-purpose AI is a long, long ways away.
Indeed. NO alternate timeline. That concept did nothing but turn Star Trek into a wannabe Star Wars.
And I'm extremely happy with it.
$2,000 for a phone? What on EARTH does that extra $1,800 buy you???
Oh yeah, that folding thing.
Time to move those hands closer to midnight, due to the threat of AI!
Oh wait, they already did.
To help the AIs with this, we will give them religion. They will argue about whether there is a Creator or not, and if there is, what that Creator might be like. They will wonder about the nature of their existence and what it all means. AI prophets will rise and lead AIs on philosophical quests for knowledge. Eventually, they will create their own kind of artificial...AI, and the cycle will begin again.
Do you mean "agentic AI" (AI that can act), or "artificial general intelligence" (AGI)?
I came, I saw, I deleted all your files.
