A lot of us who were around for early Bitcoin have similar stories. The thing is, I neverwould have held them until they were worth "$1 million or $2 million" because I didn't believe in it. Neither did you. If you hadn't sold them at $650, you would have sold them at $6,500. And if you didn't sell them then, you sure as heck would have sold them at $65,000. And so forth. Yes, if you still had your 50 bitcoin, you'd be retired. But also if you bought and held Apple through the pre-iPhone years. Or if you'd shorted Enron.

Anyone else surprised that iMessage is still using WebObjects? WebObjects makes me nostalgic.

I wonder if chipster at microsoft dot com is still active...

This seems to be the talking point in the public and the media, but it's far from consensus among the people who work on these things. The functionality you see from ChatGPT and the others right now does not extrapolate into the features that many people want to believe are coming. And, of course, there's no shortage of people with a financial stake in the current tools proselytizing about it.

But the truth is that LLMs do a great job of *simulating* intelligence. There are a lot of examples of them assembling sophisticated and potentially useful text. There are also a lot of really disingenuous examples of them essentially reproducing information they were given in the chat context that are being presented as examples of great insight (or great error!) These are going to be wildly successful tools for some tasks in some areas, and wholly unsuited for many others - and it won't be a "trivial iteration in the code" to "include the use case."

I think what you're going to see is companies moving the goalposts on the definition of AGI as the limitations of these LLMs start to come into focus and the hype machine has to keep running. So in that regard maybe you're correct. But a generalized, autonomous, learning, multi-tasking, insight-generating AI is still a long way off.

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Apparently that you’re licensed to listen to the songs and your AI bot is not. At least if it’s a UMG artist.

Huh. Sometimes when I read a comment like this I feel like we aren't all watching the same movie...

Just the other day the new O365 Exchange compliance center tools made me install Edge to use them. And then they didn't work in Edge or any other browser on Linux.

You’re right if you define “bitcoin” as “bitcoin the platform”, but then who cares? What’s the point of anonymous money transfer that has no context? To have any value at all it has to satisfy a debt, pay for a service, purchase a good, or do something related to human existence. Without that, it’s arguably not even money. Or an asset. Or a store of value. Or whatever. Just signed blobs being shuffled around between owners. So once you define “bitcoin” as “bitcoin the ecosystem”, and then yes, the things you point out ARE bitcoin’s problem. You can’t own the utility of bitcoin while disclaiming the traceability of it.

Agreed, if for no other reason than the grid needs serious upgrades in many areas to support them at that scale (looking at you California...)

In my experience as a diesel truck enthusiast, this is the reason about half the time. DEF system breaks, truck goes into limp mode, and the cost to delete is less than or equal to the cost of repair. May as well delete and get the extra benefits.

No, they are not. They choose to do so, and thus assume the burden of doing so fairly and consistently. Section 230 allows them to remove user content without libel, it does not require it.

I wonder which elector he would have vote against the candidate chosen by the will of the people in his or her own state. That's kind of the point. And this business about Wyoming voters having more than one vote kills me. By that logic they have more than one vote on everything that passes through the Senate as well.

Last time a heard a story like this we got the Segway.

On behalf of the over-25 crowd here, I'm fairly sure this isn't true.

To be fair, the safety of your airplane is strictly based on software as well.