Back in the day, it was an article of faith that throwing more people at a project didn't speed it up, but rather had the opposite effect.
Not that this policy was ever intended to be anything but performative.

Those "captains of industry" only care about next quarter's profits and their bonus. If they actually indulged in long-term thinking, they'd probably miss their quarterly targets and get fired.

Slashing science budgets and gutting higher education somehow doesn't seem like it's going to close the gap.

I'll bet they had their fingers crossed behind their back.

"We're also looking at better controls so you can dial this down or off if you don't find it helpful."

Helpful? Since when is an ad encouraging me to shop at Target helpful? This lame attempt at corporate spin just digs the hole deeper.

It's very rational. Humans are accountable, self-driving cars aren't. Also, humans can adapt to unusual situations, self-driving cars cannot.

I rarely use the top link of search results. I want to see a range of results so I can pick the most appropriate or narrow my search. I most certainly do not want my browser to assume it knows what I'm looking for.

The US hasn't had to be competitive in that way, and China now has more fire in the belly. I for one welcome our new Chinese AI overlords.

Anti-intellectualism and the defunding of education and science, combined with the advent of AI, is going to accelerate this trend, at least in the US. We're not only getting dumber, we're facilitating and celebrating it.

the ISPs will be forced to raise their rates due to the elimination of a scam, oops, I mean, the increased cost of doing business

As a marketer. He repackaged other people's tech and sold the hell out of it. As such, it's totally appropriate to honor him in this age of disinformation.

For one thing, it's got questionable usability. For another, if I'm interested in AI, Apple isn't the name that immediately comes to mind...

This means current chip design, as well as data center design, will soon be obsolete. Most estimates give it about 5 years at the current pace of development. Then what? All new data centers? Paid for with enormous profits no doubt???

You must be making a big profit, right? Or maybe you have a business plan to monetize those users that will let you pay back your investors and then some? ...? ...?

So-called 'disruptive' businesses represent profit for a few but exploitation for everybody else. The ultimate goal of society shouldn't be whiz-bang gadgets and billionaires, it should be prosperity and opportunity for all.