When people only provide MS office documents, than there is no problem? And why is it a US vs. China problem and not just a question of whose software they use? I'd think today one should probably use open document, but if one uses MS proprietary formats and another one WPS' proprietary format I don't see much difference. Buy the product or ask to get the document in another format. Welcome to the world of non-Microsoft users!

I think one could also, completely without AI, think about how markets work. If nobody would want AI, why is there demand for ChatGPT? Why does it have millions paying customers? I am seriously not a fan of OpenAI (go local!), but they are clearly satisfying an existing demand with their product.

Why do AI haters always jump to death threats? Can't have a civilized discourse?

You cannot even represent the state space in any PC. No, not even in your hypothetical future one, there are a few laws of physics against that.

Also programmers are doing things to automate themselves away since decades, knowing they won't lose their job, but be able to deliver better results. Why did IT scale up that much? Because we don't need to build the foundation from scratch anymore. When did you write the last assembler code? Many people nowadays can't even program in C and still create good programs using compilers or interpreters that allow them to use constructs that require less knowledge about how to use the hardware efficiently. AI is another layer of abstraction, that can make you more efficient. And the good thing is, while frameworks like let's say Electron add a huge overhead for the user, the AI adds some overhead for the programmer, but delivers code that is efficient for the user. The programmer needs to big GPU and needs to check the code, the compiled binary is small as if a human programmer would have written it.

As the project had large headache about "slop" reports, you probably can take their success seriously. If it would have been more trouble than worth, they would have told you so, as they were annoyed previously and are happy now.

A very progressive opinion for someone who usually would be expected to support conservative structures.
Yes, you should be worried about too much centralization. And you should be worried about the large companies killing small competition. Did you follow how Anthropic every now and then publishes articles about how AI is dangerous? Yeah ... and they can gatekeep their AI behind their API, but the evil open ai models ... they can't be allowed as anyone could ask how to steal the moon and the model might answer without guard rails.

I ask for it. Just to end this stupid "nobody asked for it" argument.

I also think a few million ChatGPT users asked for it. But maybe ask them yourself.

They are talking about downloads, not benchmarks. There are many benchmarks and many are pretty worthless as some models are overfit to the benchmarks and fail completely on tasks not in the benchmark.

Which blockchain bubble? Nobody sane invested into that anyway. A few people trying a pump and dump scheme got lost when others dumped first, but that's it. I can't understand why people always try to compare things to NFTs, where everyone knew from the start that it's attaching a price tag to something that has no worth itself. At least NFT were honest. Bitcoin claims to provide a good currency while it is hard to pay with it. NFTs always said you only speculate with them.

Not every use is TikTok. And things increasing concentration can start as simple as giving you access to texts that interest you that you don't find in the children's books at home. You can have a look at all the nerds with their overly long screen time in front of C64s and how much they learned in that time, even though it was neither a book nor getting fresh air. Back then they were uncool for it, now they have high paying jobs, because they have knowledge that proved to become much more useful than it was back then. And even then it was more useful than many other time sinks.

They are not even hiding that they scan the content you put in there. Why are you surprised they now scan for even more purposes?

The business model of search engines also applies to chatbots, and chatbots and search engines are converging anyway.
Perplexity started the AI search, ChatGPT just integrated search in chats and Google is already building an AI search page. The search pages will have ads as the usual search pages and feature AI and search at the same time. The time when ChatGPT allowed you to use it without login was the moment they decided an ad-driven model would be an option for them.

It is about control and incentives. Even when it is circular, everyone is reinforcing a certain thing that next company should do.

I think chrome had it. The problem was edge had it on by default and websites claimed that that means users didn't choose to opt-out but were just using the user-friendly default, so they could ignore it. If it weren't for edge, they would have found another excuse. Without a law enforcing it, they will not obey it.