The only human being Elon Musk cares about is himself. He is a profound narcissist.

THEY'RE STILL WORKING ON REACTOS?!

Next you'll tell me Haiku is still an option.

"If people start flocking to Linux"

Will this be the year of Linux on the desktop?!?

Slow down, sometimes it takes a few years, or 32 years in this case, to get something right.

I didn't say they don't need calibration.

I said they don't need calibration all the time.

Failure to connect to the cloud should not result in immediate device failure. Manual calibration steps should be possible. Or at least a message "cloud service unavailable, device will stop working in 48h" or similar.

I don't understand why people are willing to bootlick the company in this case. Cloud connected everything is cancer.

I mean, the data is easily googleable.

Me: Prison is not the answer to everything.
You: It is because (insert specific scenario).

Let me introduce you to the word "everything" and what it means.

This whole article is about how to STOP people from driving while drunk. I'm not hand wringing, I just don't think that prison is the only solution here.

Because prison is not the answer to everything for fuck's sake.

Sure, in this case we can say "fuck you" to drunk drivers and the don't deserve sympathy, but this everything must be cloud connected trend is going to fuck us all eventually.

The problem is that the above sentence requires a person to be able to hold two thoughts in their head at the same time, which appears to be above almost everyone commenting in this thread.

Drinking and driving is not cool.

Making a device that could and should operate locally rely on a cloud service is also not cool. Breathalyzers have been around for decades, and do not need calibration all the time.

Sure, in this case we can say "fuck you" to drunk drivers, but this everything must be cloud connected trend is going to fuck us all eventually.

That's some optimism you have, asking people to think before posting.

Waymo or Tesla? Waymo is so far ahead of Tesla that how can even the most gullible investor think they are every going to catch up?

AI has had a profoundly negative effect in education, which naturally none of the AI vendors will take any responsibility for.

It turns out that "retrieving answers to exams" is something that LLMs excel at. Since most early education is about learning stuff that's already well known to older or more educated people, it is nearly impossible for teachers to devise assignments that are appropriate to the learning level of students that cannot be easily answered by LLMs.

My teenage daughter reports that many of her classmates basically cannot do any work without LLM. Her lacrosse coach recently assigned an exercise of watching a video, and most of the members of the team put it into AI to give answers. That may be shortsighted and self-destructive behavior, but these are minors who we don't expect to understand or deal with long-term consequences. That's why we don't let them vote, drink, drive cars, gamble or do other things that are destructive to self and others.

Yet nobody at OpenAI or Anthropic seems to give two shits about destroying the education of millions of young people, and saddling teachers and schools - who have salaries/budgets many orders of magnitude smaller than these speculative cash receptacles - with the fallout of a perfect assignment-faking machine.

We're still stuck hearing the platitudes about how "AI can help them learn in new ways", which is a radioactive pile of nuclear bullshit, while Anthropic's "research" says nothing about the impacts on education right now.

That's a cheap low IQ tactic. I don't need to have a fully formed alternative politico-economic system, ready to deploy tomorrow, in order to critique this one aspect of the existing system.

Alternatively (and I understand that this is unintelligible to Americans), I have a social conscience, and socioeconomic structures that exacerbate the already destructive and divisive civilisational landscape that we are currently suffering with bother me. I want my fellow humans to live in a world characterised by justice, fairness, compassion, and kindness.