I wish I had a dollar for every time I gave gweihir the benefit of the doubt, only to have him/her double down on their ignorance and stupidity. I can promise you that he/she will *never* let accepted facts get in the way of his/her belief that Humans are endowed by a supernatural force that makes them immune to the scientific method.

I think/ hope this is the result of confirmation bias. We have no way to know for sure what most Slashdot readers think, and it is less common to see people point out how absurd these people we describe are, because I think most people realize the degree of their ignorance. I do it because I know others read these comments, and I am not trying to convince people who don't have the knowledge or understanding. I do it for people who may be on the fence so that they don't get improperly influenced by fools.

Exactly my point. One has nothing to do with the other.

I'm all for America making a reliable affordable CAR again. But perhaps we be realistic when asking America to directly compete with a product built with slave wages in a Communist country. Does even a 100% tariff rate make competitive sense here? Does 200%? At what point does an outright ban make more sense? Plenty of other countries have already answered that question with bans to protect their valued brands.

The concept of Protectionism has validity in every country no matter how 'racist' people want to feel it is. The word Protect is included for many a valid reason every country can justify to a reasonable extent.

No. I'm not saying the UAW worker has justified their stance comparing their salary to the CEOs that's 300x more. Their greed has manifested into a $50K new car price in an industry now eating itself. Ford can ask/plead/beg for those protections all they want. They're going to find themselves standing alone in a field full of mouse-gnawed overflow inventory that isn't selling due to the patented John Deere flavored Stealership model no one can afford to buy from anymore, as the world peers through a Streisand-stained window and takes another picture. Laughing.

That was a lot of words to say that you really don't. I guess we are just supposed to overlook the fact that you tried to say you know OpenAI is lying about achieving AGI by never actually claiming that they achieved AGI.

When the new car price goes from $50,000 to $70,000 in the next decade..along with $500/month insurance premiums accounting for the unitard chassis idiocy putting the frame on the outside of the car to completely total your chances of avoiding negative equity, you’ll realize we’re not just building a taxi cab network for the next generation.

Were telling the next generation they won’t be responsible for learning how to drive. Which also means personal autonomy is dead. And sadly, damn near all of them are perfectly happy with that.

Reap what you Lear.

Go back 100 years and tell me how many 1926 dollars you would need to buy one of those newfangled automobiles. Think you’ll find millionaires bragging about how “cheap” they are?

Go back 50 years and buy a personal computer. If you are important enough to sell it to, you’ll find out the price because you know what they say. If you gotta ask, it must be..cheaper?

Do I dare ask a teenager to look at a cell phone bill from 25 years ago? Back when you paid per text message each way (incoming and outgoing), and charged per minute of talk time? Think per megabyte would be cheaper today? Just my landline long distance bill was over $100/month. That’s still cheaper than 90% of the internet plans that ultimately replaced it and much more.

And people wonder why the newest generation, appears spoiled.

Anyone for what could go right? Like NOT being harmed or killed by yet another distracted driver drunk on 100-proof doomscrolling behind the wheel?

Yeah. We do know what possibly could go wrong. But until we address what definitely goes wrong every day, put the fucking junkie in the backseat and let the machine drive. It’s a lot more sobering event. For all of us.

Yes. This is the “answer” when you cater to grown-ass children as we now do. You coddled immaturity. Then they all grew up. In body only. Teenagers are immature to the point of not even wanting to learn how to drive, because responsibility is ick. That mentality simply did not exist last century unless you were born with a silver chauffeur in your drivers seat.

Sadly, the You’ll Own Nothing auto-driving solution here is also a response to the $50,000 new car price and the $350/month insurance cost that will total that unitard chassis design the moment you get a fender bender. Negative Equity is the name of the fiscal prostitute hired by the stealership pimp to try and sling that shit as sexy now. Yeah. That bad.

You know this how?

Here is the problem you are facing making this claim. Slashdot has throughout the course of AI history consistently been populated by a certain contingent of the "AI is not real / AI Can't do / AI will never be able to do ..." types like yourself, and history as proved them wrong ... every ... single ... time. Conflating Sam Altman with Open AI is arguing from a position of false equivalence, and even if it was not it was Greg Brockman, not Altman, that authored the release.

What are you going on about? It is *far* more common for laypersons to use the phrase "Ask GPT" than "Ask Claude", and most of the people I know say "Ask AI", a trend that will continue when AI transitions from AI to AGI. There is no reasonable reason to suspect that people will abandon contemporary terminology in favor of more accurate terminology. Most people aren't going to ask the question "wait ... did you ask AI or AGI?" You grossly overestimate the human propensity to be specific and accurate.

To extend your metaphor, the USA is a huge boat with a very large number of people who are already not good at swimming. Some kind of flotation device may be the only hope they have. To show where your metaphor breaks down, no matter how well you understand them or how you use them, Water Wings can't help you learn to swim and/or become a better swimmer. AI isn't automatically a destructive force. It is the use of AI by people who don't understand it and haven't learned to use it in the right way for the right purpose(s) that causes the problem. This parallels the internet. The problem isn't that people have access to the internet. The problem is that most people don't understand it and/or use it properly, so they think anti-social media is great, and if they saw it on the internet it must be true, or they intentionally abuse it in furtherance of their own bad actor agenda.

Now that's a rich dish of human ignorance smothered in the finest irony.

If it's a human grade of AGI, then there's a good chance it's just humans lying for profit and not actual general intelligence.

But when actual AGI is born, humans will be far too deaf, dumb and blind by comparison to even realize they are the grift.

Not unlike the ignorance of today that fails to realize who is The Product now.

Wait..is that a..SoC design?

Huh.

One hell of a way to make a ROC'em SOC'em robot.

(Don't forget to tip your waitress-bot.)

Congressional Insider Trading (a.k.a. Pelosis Law) become the golden standard of ethics by which our highest Representation of government decided to staunchly defend instead of vehemently denounce.

That's not fraud. That's a fucking job perk now.