Turns out the right shade is a more mauvy shade of pinky-russet.

It's true, and I think token prediction is a big part of what the human brain does. Perception itself is a token prediction process. However there are other mechanisms that simply do not exist in an LLM, purpose-built mechanisms forged over millions of years of evolution. Even the dumbest NPCs must have some of that sleeping inside them. I can imagine an android capable of many human functions based entirely on a hodgepodge of LLMs and machine vision algorithms, but ascribing emotions or real agency to these things would still be a mistake.

A couple of months ago in the data centers of New Mexico, gigantic ants were discovered. These ants are similar in appearance and characteristics to the household and garden pests you are familiar with, except that they are mutations ranging in size from nine to twelve feet in length. The New Mexico colony was destroyed, but two queen ants escaped. One has been accounted for and destroyed. The other has not yet been found but is now known to have established a nest somewhere in the storm drains beneath the streets of Los Angeles. It is not known how long this nest has been established or how many of these lethal monsters have hatched. Maybe a few, maybe thousands.

Aaah! It's THEM!

You realize it's just predicting tokens, right? It doesn't "feel" anything.

This is what happens when you train a machine on Reddit posts.

Get this kid a desktop computer so he can wank off properly!

Great way to leverage synergies, Amazon. Maybe you an entice some Twitch creators to sign up for IMDb Pro.

Well IMDB's primary purpose is to sell Amazon products so I think this is more likely aligned with Twitch.

Yes, of course, but this just a nice extra. GOG has always had a "goodies" section with some fun bonus items, like wallpapers and even ringtones... nice to see them improving this with some more detailed box art. It's rarely important for playing the game, but sometimes it provides vital context to playing the game. A lot of those old games came with inserts, magazines or full-on books containing introductory text, backstory, jokes and hints that were vital to get started in the game. The box and manuals were very much a part of the game at the time.

Isn't that exactly what they have done?

The interesting part here is:

It is a remarkable coincidence that the solutions they have been working on in Codex just spontaneously emerge from an internal OpenAI research model. It's almost like it's just regurgitating its training data...

I use DuckDuckGo primarily and it's usually okay, but often for more obscure searches I need to fall back on Google. It is still superior, but only by a hair. All search engines are polluted with the bot-generated SEO "answers pages" that just contain a thousand variations on the same question, though. Different search engines won't fix that.

Yes, I know, they're bred and conditioned that way. Irradiated to enjoy the toil. We're not there... yet.

"Hey LG, find my remote"

"According to our surveillance records, you left it in the bathroom again. It's under the red towel."

"Thanks LG!"

Yes, the EULAs for LG TVs are extensive. They present you with multiple pages of agreements and track your acceptance of each one. If an agreement is updated, they prompt you next time you turn on your TV and track your re-acceptance of that agreement. You can't use the TV without accepting, although you can generally opt out of agreements for specific features and advertising in a straightforward manner. It's been a few years since I had an LG TV but I remember being impressed by the robustness of the software simply for managing user agreements. I'm pretty sure if you're being recorded, you agreed to it.

This was already solved. Those people are branded as Deltas or Epsilons, and sent to perform menial labor requiring as little thought as possible.