the bots have trouble now for sure, but look back 5 years and tell me you thought any of this was possible back then.

Writing Software: which if you aren't familiar can do pretty much everything knowledge related and produce any ditigal artifact. Still more: software can generate control instructions for physical media - like a fork lift - just as easily as it can crank out a PDF, and we have Language models that can already generate the code for that. So think bigger.

Yeah, for example, the copy writing example of TFA: Instead of the interns doing copy writing for a column or two they will be in charge of operating ChatGPT to write 10 of them at a time, or similar things thereto. The scale of work possible by one person will increase, the thought processes will move up one level of abstraction, but many of the same tasks will take place as before. We will just be able to do things we didn't think were practical before after completing them all. Think of how cell phones and ubiquitous internet changed our lives. This will be like that, except for all the grunt work. Entry level just moves up a level of difficulty, but it's ok, relatively speaking, because the new crop of employees have AI to help.

I know I'm just one person, but I'm sure there are many more like me: I ONLY buy audiobooks anymore. (And yes, I do use the accompanying PDFs when I need them.) I have purchased almost 600 books from audible over almost 2 decades now. I just can't take time to sit down open a book, but i definitely can blast one over headphones when I'm on the mountain bike trail, driving out of town, folding laundry or whatever. It allows me to fit reading into my life where I otherwise would not be able to. So, far from just converting users from print to audio... I think audio is expanding the pie of readers in general to those that couldn't afford the time.

My wife laments the downfall of ThinkGeek, because she used to know that if she couldn't find a gift for me at the store then a random desk goodie from ThinkGeek would always work. Now, it's once again a struggle.

I don't want any administrations having this kind of say. unless they can technically define 'monopoly' and all of its legal criteria, they have no business enforcing it. We should know before we do something whether or not it will be considered illegal based on black and white criteria. none of this 'I will know it when I see it' crap. That's how you get graft.

There was still no reason to kill the merger. Control the robotics market? with vacuum cleaners? no way

Section 230 only protects people hosting the content. Not people posting it.

It's their stated business model.

you used to be able to save it as MIDI files you could import into a DAW. In parts by instrument. That's much different than just saving the WAV

they can take their surveillance-state-teet-sucking-predatory-intellectual-property-model and shove it up their ass.

you can turn them off? I want that feature.

He doesn't come up and say: "Hey chat, who should we bomb today?" He is probably just rubber ducking with it. Discussing the background and situations. I would be very surprised if a) he actually allowed it to make the decision for him. and b) he would admit so afterward if this was indeed true.

Who coulda seen this coming? Trump lobs trade war grenades into the supply chain and they're reacting to it. What the hell did they think was going to happen? "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

I much prefer to be sold targeted ads based on my chats than have product placement show up in the bot's responses or have it try to convince me to buy a particular brand directly