Indeed. The only way to determine whether you can fly is to believe the guy who sells you a pair of wings and drives you to the top of a cliff.

There is no way in hell an Ai robot will be able to interact meaningfully with a classroom of kids under 12 - the youngest ones will act like little kids, constantly interrupting and talking over each other and confusing it because they are excited and have little impulse control. Older kids will mistreat it or try to mess it up because it has zero authority. Why spend $57k a year on another teacher, or on two part-time teaching assistants when you can spend that once on a POS that some sales-idiot convinced an administrator would work?

I think the Ai angle might be an unwelcome distraction from the case that could hurt the employees. If Meta can show they didn't actually use Ai to make any decisions, but merely to assemble statistics that they could have gathered via traditional means, then the case loses credibility. If the employees can actually show that the layoffs disproportionately affected workers engaged in protected activities and those with disabilities, they'd probably have a good enough case, especially if those decisions were made by cold, calculating humans.

Once again, the non-creatives like Belsky completely fail to understand why creatives (and those sympathetic) are upset about Ai. It's not because the prompt-generated garbage is garbage. And if he thinks CEOs and bean counters won't push to use the Ai to save money by cutting staff and creative budgets, he's delusional or willfully stupid. First they came for the storyboard artists, and I said nothing, because who the F*ck cares about storyboards?

Genuine question - I'm not opposed to the idea in principle but I don't know how it would work. I don't really know how sovereign tax funds work, but the press release mentions "natural resources". Ai companies are not a "natural resource" so I don't know how current US tax law would even allow companies to pay with taxes with stock. They aren't even a "natural monopoly" like telephones and utilities used to be, so that argument doesn't really work, but IINAL. It also sounds like it would be easily challenged under the 5th amendment, and the current court would likely rule against the law as an illegal taking. And what about a private company? OpenAI hasn't had their IPO yet, so couldn't they just find some kind of workaround to avoid this?

Hopefully all the new Ai features can be turned off on my Pixel 9, or this might be the first update I pass on.

It's interesting how expectations of privacy can change over time with the technology. I'm pretty sure that before cell phones you couldn't get a land-line installed without the phone company having all your details - especially a physical address - that the government could get pretty easily from them. But then you also had pay phones in many places, which were the old timey version of a burner. Bring back phone booths! lol

At this point I view every announcement from any Ai company about how amazing/scary/advanced/ their product is to be 90%+ marketing. They are constantly trying to make everyone believe their own BS hype, because it's the only thing that can keep the gravy train rolling longer.

This was my exact thought - "and take action without needing to be prompted each time" is a huge no for me. I imagine they wanted to keep the naming scheme consistent with their current "Copilot", which is a much more palatable offering, because it doesn't act without you telling it to.

Maybe this is why Dell's enterprise customer service, tech support, and repair service for end-user PCs have rapidly gone down hill in the last two years. Like nVidia, they don't see this previously core component as a big money-make anymorer. It's really gotten abysmal, even for a company that buys thousands of systems from them annually. You can see the cost-cutting measures in every interaction now, as well as the huge price hikes due to component shortages. Ai is destroying the tech industry in more ways than one.

There's no way this ends up happening because it would be a wonderful thing for our rights, and 'murica doesn't do that kind of thing any more.

At this point, as long as Steam and GOG stay up and running with their current catalogs, the entire video game development industry could self-destruct and any gamer over 30 would have enough stuff to play until they die. The younger generation of players would have time to create a new industry from scratch for themselves :)

Ahh well, good for this guy at least. I wonder if he'll actually name his kid Claude as he said in his post.

They still get a decent number of kids online but also get plausible deniability. Once you've required users to lie or cheat to bypass your "safeguards" you are no longer liable for any harm, right?

OMG can you imagine driving in a stressful or bad weather situation and having a constant animation playing on your car's fricking hood? Most idiot drivers can barely pay attention as it is. Next up - play Mario Bros on your car's hood in traffic!