He says they are going to combat AI Slop, in the same breath as he says they are rolling out tools to make creating it easier.

I don't think this guy understands what most people think "AI Slop" even is. "Remixing existing content", *IS* slop. It is low effort, low value, garbage.

I said growth rate in the very first post. Go read it. You're the one who confused them, not me.

Yes but this is always used as a red herring in the argument. Carriers say "if we are forced to sell unlocked it will make phones unaffordable" - my point is, this is a false narrative.

Canada banned the sale of locked mobile phones in 2017. Since then, every phone sold in the country has been unlocked.

Did financing phones go away and make phones more expensive? No.

Carriers still finance phones, and tie them to plans, it is just decoupled from the device so while you may be paying off the device for 3 years, you can decide to sell it and/or move carriers whenever you want, by paying off the remaining balance.

And you should take a reading comprehension test.

The GROWTH RATE has been shrinking for a decade.

Reports in the 70s were all predicated on not just growth, but INCREASING growth rates (exponential) because that's what had happened until that point. All of those models were wrong. The growth rate has been collapsing even faster than it grew. The global population is never going to reach 9 billion, and the peak estimate is revised down every single year. Its actually looking unlikely we will ever even break 8
5 billion.

There are ways to build data centers that use little to no water. They are just more complicated, so unless they are forced to, companies don't do it.

I wish people would not just always assume that Data Center == Water Use. This is a problem trivially worked around using existing technology.

The fundamental premise of that report was that the global population growth rate would keep growing, which it hasn't -it has been shrinking for over a decade, and is almost to an equilibrium point - after which the population is going to start *shrinking*.

With shrinking population, will come shrinking water demands.

The global population collapse is going to cause a lot of other problems - our economies are not built to withstand it - but running out of water won't be one of them.

The only question we have right now is, will global population collapse happen fast enough to avert the water crisis. It is hard to say, as all prediction models about population over the past 100 years have been inaccurate - we classically over-project and under-project the growth and collapse rates.

Ever since cellular phones came along, I've always used a BT headset. Even on my first flip phone, which did NOT have Bluetooth I used one. Plantronics made the M1500 which was a two piece headset. The headset was wireless, and the other part plugged into the earphone jack on the phone. I've always used either handsfree or BT headsets when using the phone. Not out of caution, but back then, there wasn't speakerphone mode or connecting it to your car. So if you needed to answer a call, you had to hold the phone up to your ear, which wasn't really a good thing to do while driving. Especially when your work vehicle was a manual transmission. It's just habit now to pop on the BT headset if it isn't already on my head.

For example, he acquired American citizenship. I bet he must feel real smart about that one today...

If he's "vibe coding" anything important, as impressive as the man and his achievements are, he's an idiot. But my understanding is that he doesn't use it for anything important.

If you are an end-user, Gemini is way better, more functional, and comes with your Google subscription

If you are a company - come on. Claude is WAY WAY beyond anything OpenAI does.

Total nonsense. Humans cant do that. Saying AI needs to be able to do it is bogusm

Define what consciousness means in humans and animals.

Then tell me why any of this matters, from a moral or ethics perspective are we treating animals different if they are conscious? Most literature says that human children are not even fully conscious until they are around two years old. SO what does that mean?

How about we figure this out for humans and animals first, before we worry about AI.

You can drive across each country pretty much in one day. It takes MULTIPLE days to drive across just the state of Texas, and there are 47 others in the continental U.S.

The dirty secret of LLMs is there is still no way to incrementally train them properly.

We fake our way there with context windows and RAG systems and fine-tuning, but the reality is that there is no way to have an LLM that, every morning, has been trained on what it learned yesterday.

Instead, the latest models take months of training on millions of parameters, and when you want to introduce new data, you need to start all over from scratch.

This is the nut that really needs to be cracked with LLMs. If incremental learning was cracked, and we let current models loose, we would have real AGI within days to weeks.