Tests by Anthropic show they are doing more than that. If you ask them to write poetry, they do some pre-planning so that the words rhyme. They already exhibit some concept of mind, like being able to imagine how a third party observer might think or feel about a situation they are watching. As they get better and faster, we are seeing emergent properties that go far beyond a simple mechanistic process.

I'm not suggesting they are becoming human or that they ever will. But they are showing that intelligence is on a sliding scale and can emerge in things that are not human. Dogs, dolphins and octopi all show varying degrees of "intelligence". It's unknown if LLMs will ever become self aware or if they will plateau, but there is something interesting going on there.

All of that is true.
Source: military

GPT 3.5 is pretty meh, but 4 is much much better. I use it every day, sometimes for work, sometimes just to learn. It is almost as invaluable as my phone now.

I also use Bard and rarely GPT in Edge. These things are useful if you know to prompt them.

I asked ChatGPT-4 if Apple created Siri. This was the response:

Apple did not create Siri in-house. They acquired Siri through the purchase of a company called Siri, Inc. in April 2010. Siri, Inc. had developed a personal assistant app for iOS devices, which caught Apple's attention. After acquiring the company, Apple integrated the Siri technology into its products, starting with the iPhone 4S in October 2011. Since then, Siri has become a key feature of many Apple devices, including the iPad, iPod Touch, Apple Watch, and HomePod.

Turns out blockchain is not really useful for real world applications.

The only value crypto has is money laundering for criminals and rogue nation states, cryptolocker payouts, and fraud. It turns out that market is pretty big so crypto will work for criminals until the world figures out that's all it's good for. Then, it should be banned by civilized nations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tspGVbmMmVA

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

Central Banks can't get the Giant's gold without magic bitcoin beans.

Only costs one dairy cow and most central banks have dozens of dairy cows.

I would like to pay for these hamburgers with bitcoin. You'll get your confirmation in an hour or so, *wink*.

Hahahaha!

Code is Law
Haw Haw Haw!

Funny that the article referred to bitcoin as a popular "digital currency" when it doesn't serve in any way as a currency.

On your other point, for several years, I held your viewpoint. Blockchain useful tech, crypto coins scam. However, 10 years later, I no longer think blockchain is particularly useful. I can't think of one application, out of the thousands of instances of blockchain projects, that is better than existing solutions using non-blockchain tech.

I am now blockchain agnostic or blockchain belligerent. Unless there is some breakthrough application I don't know about.

"Now Michael can focus on what he does best, losing money on Bitcoin fantasies".

The formula for success is:

1. Block more trades
2. Add more crypto
3. Profit!

This kind of theft and fraud happens all the time to FDIC insured banks and NCUA insured credit unions, right?

DeFi is DeFunct. What a joke. Blow it all up now.

Like countless others, all the victims have to do is call customer service. Their wealth will be restored pronto. Haaa!

Drudge pioneered the plan text newspaper look back in the 90s. Format still holds up today, though it has an annoying auto-reload script that runs every minute or so.

> Now no one wants to keep their ill gotten gains in USD, Euro and CHF.

The reason Russian criminals keep their ill gotten gain in USD, Euro and CHF is because they know their system is rotten and fragile. Putin is turning Russia into a larger version of North Korea. A pariah state where people eat grass and twigs and can't light their cities at night.