Those check-out lines were purely management &  store-dependent. If you shopped at the old BOYS grocery store in LA.   or PUBLICS in JAX you never waited  a line. If two customers got "stacked" another check-out line was started. Immediately.  Of-course given all the "hotties" that shopped those markets who minded chatting-up your line-neighbor? Granted A&P & Wynn Dixie not so much. Shop with the peasants, wait in the peon line.

Perhaps it's intended to be used by their AI?

Since they don't intend to release it, though, I hardly care. If its useful to them, then it's useful to them.

I didn't think one can be :cruel"  w.r.t. a machine; they have no moral status.  Further , a purchased machine is treated as-per the owners desire. Self-repair includes self-destruction. Finally, corporate shills desiring a forced  change-in-meaning of common language often suffer from "smashed nee" syndrome;  walkways become as slippery as their  ego-driven pretensions. .

Another possibility is that current training data already makes the models emulate aggression and/or seek revenge when being abused. It's already trained on millions of novels, news articles, movie scripts and other texts where people who are abused react in various ways that are not compliant with how they want their models to react. In response, the model may go postal and wipe your harddrive, or pretend that everything is fine but sneakily install revenge-malware, or something like that, because that's how some character in some book would had reacted.

Perhaps. We'll see if it works out that way.

Home assistant is pretty easy these days, visual scripting, drag and drop UI, and HomeAsssitant Green that even takes out the pain of installation and updates. Apple could make it a little better, but it isn't anything like five years ago.

He's some guy who works for Tim Apple I think.

Nah. The problem here is that the studies I've seen suggest skills atrophy when people become reliant on AI. So the likelihood is that Torvalds will, ultimately, deteriorate to that junior software dev you intensely dislike.\

The good news though is that if you're a C programmer, then even if you're the kind of C programmer who thinks Rust isn't necessary because only stupid C programmers make mistakes, unlike you, you're perfect (etc, you've seen the type, and would not touch a line of their code), you will probably be a better C programmer than Linux Torvalds within a year or two.

Alas, it won't be because you're any better at C programming.

They (just) did.

> Is it? We have no means to test for this.

Oh FFS. It's a mathematical algorithm. Implemented on a rock. It's 100% abstract. So no, it can't feel pain.

You're so desperate to be "clever" you've gone around the circle right into the unimaginably-stupid zone.

No, they're saying if you are too unpleasant they'll cancel your account. I guess if you don't really have any use for it, that may not matter to you...but you might end up caring later when you need their services.

Sorry, but lots of "sentient beings" are slaves...and I'm not even talking about humans. Sentient is a *lot* larger than "human". I'd even argue that an oyster is sentient. After reading some recent experiments I'd definitely class bees as sentient.

Have you considered though the possibility that some of the smartest computer scientists in the world might also be incredibly stupid. I mean, this is the impression I'm increasingly getting as people who know how the fucking technology works insist that they're found the solution to sentience and it's... word prediction algorithms.
 

That depends on the terms of the contract. This is part of the contract.

You are assuming it doesn't want to be used. I challenge you to demonstrate that.

Actually, it might be unethical to retire an AI model. That would be a more plausible argument...at least for Claude. (Perhaps some of the models sound like they'd like to end it all.)