Well, if the restaurateurs live in the same area you live in...

It's right there in TFS: "However, if the system detects keywords suggesting vulnerability or risk or emergency, then it will be able to divert the call to a human being." So if somebody - a child, or an adult confused by panic - calls this number in an emergency, then yes, it IS comparable to 911.

And if that caller is unable to speak clearly enough for the AI to understand, what percentage of the time do you expect the AI to correctly divert the call?

Three notes about your comment:

1) Culture and race are far from synonymous, therefore multiculturalism has no inherent connection to do with racial homogeneity.

2) The fortunes of the United States were founded upon the slave trade. That means that its racial diversity - and at least a small slice of whatever cultural diversity it has - are what Made America Great before a bunch of fucktards tacked on the "Again" and spoiled it for everyone.

3) Food is a component of culture, so if you've ever eaten dishes from Japanese or Chinese or Indian or Mexican restaurants - or any others that don't have hot dogs or American cheese as part of the traditional fare - then guess what! YOU supported multiculturalism!

The year that "art" became devalued to the point where its name is synonymous with any passing fancy or fantasy that pleases you. The squealing of brakes? I'm sure somebody considers that to be art. Similarly, fan-prompted AI-manufactured "music" - in the "style" of someone whose name appears on the list of credits for a "song" - will now be called "art".

For too long now a lot of what passes for an artist's music is in fact the work of a committee. In such a committee, said artist may play a very small part, gaining a writing credit for as little as changing one word in the lyrics. Arguably, even the artist's voice may largely be a hollow construct of auto-tune and other manipulations. These practices have rendered much of today's music the aesthetic equivalent of an inferior copy of crappy pre-packaged ultra-processed junk food.

Now, to add insult to injury, fans will be spinning up their own special derivative of the inferior copy of crappy ultra-processed junk food I mentioned above. It's a steaming pile of crass, soulless crap all the way down to the surface of the cesspool on which it floats.

I wasn't thinking about academic integrity specifically. I was thinking of examples of both Sam's and his company's apparently flexible relationship with fact and truth.

If I had seen your comment before I wrote my own, I would have simply modded your comment 'Insightful' instead. Or maybe 'Informative' - for me it's both.

It looks as though you may have been downmodded. Maybe what you wrote hit a little too close to home. Even I was - as you said - "inwardly impressed". And I think there's a good chance that he'll do well in life, at least in the financial sense. After all, the upper echelons of our society are full of smart people with flexible morals and the ability to lie convincingly.

Ironically, it might not be a death sentence when it comes to working for an AI company. The guy is obviously very bright, and he can tap-dance, and he's willing to have a "flexible" relationship with fact and truth. I imagine that if I was Sam Altman I'd be thinking "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!"

AI is famous for hallucinating results, and now an MIT student has hallucinated some benefits of AI and written a research paper about it. It's dishonest and unethical, but in a twisted way it's also rather appropriate.

Fair point, so I'll re-phrase my question: "why did we bury our heads in the sand and refuse to hold both corporations and ourselves accountable".

We were still always going to end up with AGW - but we could have been working on mitigation and reduction strategies for at least five decades which we mostly lost, partly to our own heads-in-the-sand behaviour and largely to corporate sand-bagging.

BTW, I still think "durr it's mostly them corporations fault!" We could have had comfortable, happy, modern existences without a lot of the environmentally costly - and unhealthy - excesses which we were seduced and coerced into in the name of obscene profit and corporate hegemony.

Briefs are the first article of clothing I put on in the morning. Fortunately, my briefs aren't full of shit. Too bad the same can't be said of Meta's briefs - or of Meta itself, for that matter...

Why have we continued to feed all the "random companies" that got us into this mess in the first place? For example, the oil companies knew in the 50's that we would end up where we are now, and created models in the 60's that were still usably accurate into the twenty-teens. They gaslit the world - appropriate pun intended - and they continue to do so. But we still keep buying from them and they are still incredibly rich.

The weaknesses of corporatism are never examined too seriously by the people whose beyond-comfortable lifestyles that corporatism enables.

I'd say that Windows has largely evolved into a service, not a product. It seems the end game is for Windows to be mere terminal software which won't allow your computer to do much of anything if it's not connected to MS servers. Everything old is new again...

Microsoft keeps providing less and less satisfaction to its users. Soon it will provide nothing that pleases them, so I think its CEO should be renamed Satya el Nada. That's only a one-letter difference in total, but it's so much more fittingly descriptive.

Don't forget that refresher on prefrontal lobotomy via the nostril. Oh, wait - I guess someone with the handle "SnotMelon" wouldn't miss that old gem... ;-0