For Meta, it’s a paid service with tie-ins and vendor dependency and total insights and control over everything you do, 24/7. Then combine that with everything else meta already knows about its customers.

I totally get why Meta wants this product to exist!

Thanks, but I’ll pass. I’m sure there will be suckers who fall for this.
And if it fails they’ll still sneak it into insta, Facebook or WhatsApp.

Now explain why you think there are 2 e’s in the word seventeen.

Soon, cited sources will also be AI generated

AI has been trained on human data, and is optimized for replicating human behavior. And so far, coding with AI follows the same principals as coding with humans: You need to be clear on what you want to achieve. You need to leave enough room for alternative solutions. You need to be careful to give enough context, but not too much. Therefore I think AI won’t perform that well when you let it work on abstraction levels it’s not trained on. And humans need high level specifications and code that is understandable with clear human concepts. There are good reason why we don’t write websites using assembly language. Those reasons don’t go away when it’s AI that produces it.

So the idea even solves that problem then. Those people cause artificial shortages and drive prices up. The proposed solution taxes that behavior. Perfect!

In the end, crypto is either used as a currency for criminals, or as an investment, where profit is financed by the bigger idiots and hype.

When some other criminals step in that are smaller idiots, well, thats where the money flows to.

Somehow I can’t find the Gulf of Mexico anymore.

Seriously, I’ve kost the last bit of trust and respect for when Google changed that name,

What used to be their motto? “Don’t be evil” or something?
Google makes Microsoft look like a trustworthy company with good intentions.

That’s how we get high app ratings:

Carefully select who you include in the statistics.

Wait for a moment where the user is likely to be happy. So, don’t ask in the few 2 minutes, it’s unlikely for them to be super enthusiastic already.
Give them a free reward, or wait until they’ve successfully completed an important operation.

Then ask (in the app!) if they like the app,
Yes? Great! Redirect to the AppStore to rate.
No?: Ask for feedback (in the app, not in the AppStore!), and hide it from other users.

Low quality or unsuitable code is undeniably a problem with AI assisted programming. But developers not fully understanding the code that’s being used is nothing extraordinary. How many of us fully know or understand which machine instructions our compiler or JIT generated? Or which specific sorting algorithm is applied when we call x.sort()? Or which specific checks the OS does when we create a new file? Or how an external API works internally? We program against black boxes all the time. It’s not a problem. To the contrary: relying on others to solve our sub-problems is what allows us to solve more complex problems.

I want one hundred thousand dollars! Muhahaha. No, wait.. I want 3453453457532342352463462452453467753345346 quadrillion dollars. Muhahaha.

I’m a tech nerd. I’m curious ans like gadgets and 3D. I don’t hate apple. And I can easily afford spending 4000. Yet, I’m not interested in buying this. I’ve seen the videos, I’ve played with the Oculus, and well meh. It’s kind of anti-social to wear these things. Others in the room don’t see what you’re experiencing. So this is only usable for people that are alone in a room,

Yesterday, ChatGPT refuses even a poem about farts for my kids. As long as generative AI is restricted to an annoying level of political correctness and prudishness, any form of porn will be excluded. I give OpenAI 0% chance of survival on the long term. Their death sentence will be the moment that some other company comes along and does AI porn right.

I initially read that that Japan was going to laser-shoot down junk food.
A bit like my teachers used to at school.

You can fuck with Americans with nuclear threats, ignore international trade agreements, spy openly, form oil cartels, shout “death to America” with a crowd of a millions people. Whatever. They don’t bend.

But this one would mean WW III the same second.

There are limits that people don’t seem to talk about much.

If an LLM is trained on human language. It won’t automatically surpass the capabilities of human intelligence.

Try training a LLM on what kindergarten kids tell each other. No amount of additional computing power will make it start saying sensible things about economy or physics.

The best we can do is provide a wide variety of scientific papers, but ithe LLM won’t start talking and thinking like a somebody with an IQ of 500.
And if it did, we wouldn’t be able to fully understand.

Exactly which problem does this solve for me?

If it was launched together with the rest of the world I would’ve tried and it back then; out of curiosity,

But by now I’ve already seen that it’s a failure elsewhere, so I’m not going to bother investing time in it now.