False. The correct term is lose less money. Zero of these AI companies are in the black.

So, your new goalpost for AGI/ASI is being able to "make money"? Thank you for the clarification! By the way, have you ever heard the term "fundamental research"? Many if not the vast majority of things that you now take for granted have their roots in it.

Secondly, many companies that use OpenAI and Anthropic AI are profitable.

It's all quite confusing to me but whatever.

No matter what the humidity, at 42.5 degrees you are cooked. It's only going to get worse too.

Apple will keep jacking up prices too, due to AI taking all the RAM and flash.

But isn't this a massive upheaval and cost for you? Switching from managing Chromebooks to Macbooks, switching software suites, dealing with all the different IT problems that arise from MacOS etc?

If a person dedicated a few months of research to that, I'd applaud it as an example of human ingenuity and endurance.

Yeah, right, except some of the solved problems are 70-80 years old.

But, it's nor a problem anyone needed to solve. It wasn't something keeping anyone up at night.

You're excellent at moving the goalposts.

why haven't they yet figured out optimizations that'd allow the companies making them actually make money?

The problem is you don't follow AI companies closely and both Anthropic and OpenAI have announced that their latest models have optimized their own code to run faster and more efficiently, which means that LLMs have already allowed them to make more money by reducing the amount of computing power required. And that's just one example of many. A billion-dollar company has already been created by a single person using LLMs. How's that for making money with LLMs? Look up Medvi by Matthew Gallagher.

I too want to believe I'm a special kind of meat bag. But sadly, it looks like LLMs have essentially surpassed 99% of living people on Earth.

There's nothing wrong with being a Luddite. But for some reason for some people, it takes a lot of courage to admit it.

No, I mean because I care about Slashdot and having an interesting, insightful debate here. I know, I'm expected too much, but it happens sometimes.

We are going through a transition where these tools are just becoming available and a massive number of bugs are being fixed, but in future they will be standard for software developers as part of the QA process.

I fully agree, but I do think this might actually be an improvement for customers, at least in some cases.

I've been talking to some AI chatbots for a couple of companies I have been dealing with, to get stuff sorted out. They are much better than multiple choice menus or the old dumb chatbots that just scan for keywords and then print out an FAQ entry. I don't need to guess the special magic words to make them do what I want, and if they are doing down slightly the wrong path I can correct them.

The ones I have used hand off to a human when necessary. I'm sure that will get enshittified, but at least for now I find they are more reliable at either resolving the issue for me, or at least getting the right information to the right people to get it resolved.

I don't have a side here. I use both Windows and Linux. Windows pisses me off, Linux pisses me off.

What I care about is how it's hard to have an honest conversation about any of this stuff without it becoming a Microsoft hate-fest or ridiculous assumptions about open source being somehow inherently more secure.

Yeah, I know, no EV will ever work for you, you simply must emit CO2 and dump pollution into other people's lungs, 6 minutes and saving time by not going for petrol is just something you can't abide. Give you convenience or give you death.

Yeah, I'm asking which model of Ioniq have 6 seats? I thought they were all 5, so maybe your definition of a seat is different and actually there are a lot more cars that fit your needs.

Anyway, no charging at all on a day trip... Well, 6 hours of driving and 6 minutes of charging seems reasonable to me. I'd have filled up a fossil car too, maybe the day before and again after or something, which would doubtless have cost me more than 6 minutes total time. Not that it cost me any time because I needed to pee anyway.

You have to be realistic, not just arbitrarily set the bar slightly above where you think EVs are today.

The LLM thing comes up in a lot of "switch to Linux challenge" scenarios. The issue is that a lot of the Linux community is sadly very toxic. Someone says they want to use X, and the response they get is "why? Just use Y instead". They google an error message and get an out of date Reddit thread where the copy/paste solution bricks their OS (happened to Linus of LTT a couple of years ago).

LLMs try to be helpful and sift through all the outdated forum posts for you. They make using Linux a lot more pleasant and, ironically, human.

With Windows having enshittified, while Linux isn't perfect it does at least feel like some distros are trying to do the right thing, and aren't outright hostile to the user.