No. Natalie Portman naked and petrified you incessant newb.

I believe this is the point where the investors get told, "It's OK. We're gonna make it up in volume."

The kids they pay to run and get lunch and sometimes comment on new features?

So, this kid's parents just let him sit for eight hours a day with a laptop strapped to him doing whatever? Even if you're using it to learn something important, there should be enough supervision to promote some breaks. Hell's bells, I've been computin' since I was twelve, am currently in my mid fifties, and can't remember ever sitting at a computer for more than an hour at a time without getting up to stretch and walk around a bit, or swap laundry, or check some baking, or walk a dog, or something. Do we have no sense of balance anymore? Is there no attempt to teach that we need to learn how to keep ourselves from turning into a pile of goo?

If I use mine in my lap, it's on a lap-desk with a cushion that raises it up a bit on the knee end to keep it from slipping. Wonder if that counts as table or lap?

There are some experimental long-term memory systems being tacked on to various models here or there. Some of them can even keep you convinced for a pretty decent amount of time that the system is learning as it goes. But eventually the prompt background process that feeds the memory back to the model gets so fat that it makes even simple queries take way too long to process. I haven't managed to figure out if there's a way to eventually fold the learned material into the actual model in a way that would improve performance, or if that would just make it disappear entirely in the flood of other data.

Until we sort that, we don't really have what I always wanted out of AI. It doesn't learn. It doesn't grow. At least, not through normal interaction without a large retraining period.

I figured that's part of why Donny is so fond of AI companies. They're flooding the internet with so much garbage that it will eventually become unusable for the great masses, and for those that do use it, they won't be able to get any real information through the constant shit-spew of AI output.

As I once told my homophobe uncle: "I find it strangely fascinating how often you rant about gay people. Like, you seem a little too interested in gay people. Ya know? Like, you're curious, about it, and that curiosity kinda makes ya a little loopy, and you're not quite smart enough to figure out why that makes you feel funny, so the only way you know how to cope is to throw little temper tantrums about it."

It only shut him up for a few minutes, but at least it shut him up briefly.

Uh, no. Wall Street is *PRECISELY* a casino. And the people who own the AIs are fine with letting the commoners go bankrupt, so long as the resulting profit goes to the right pockets. That's the game. House always finds a way to win. And anybody not a part of The House, we get to lose. Yee haw!

I believe this type of scenario is why people sometimes utter the phrase late stage capitalism.

That's what we keep being told in programming positions. AI now does the entry job programming work. No newbs to gain experience. Us seniors aren't to worry about it though, because by the time we retire, AI will be good enough to do our jobs too. Which isn't as reassuring as the executives want us to think it is, because we know the two possibilities. 1) They never actually get that good and we get incentivized to stay past where we're financially able to retire. 2) The get that good before we're really ready to retire, but the bottom line requires us to be pushed out because our salaries are no longer justified when the AI can do the job.

Yet another lose-lose proposition. How wonderful.

Why would you want a watch to tell you the time? It's so you never miss a notice and everybody notices you getting your notices. Good grief. Do you even tech, bro?

I thought your mom said she was gonna stop doing those!

The entire purpose of incorporation is to create a legal shield for the owners and decision makers behind the corporation. Personhood when it comes to gains, to powers, to rights, non-personhood when it comes to responsibility, legal matters, civility, or being a positive part of the society that they incorporate in. It's a sociopathic block on any ethical or moral responsibility, and it's celebrated for precisely that reason.

Always has been, so long as there's enough zeroes in the net worth line of the person or entity committing the crime.

In some ways, that's a designed trap so the general population doesn't have time to think too hard about who is doing what to cause maximization of the things that actually create the harm-cycle they've found themselves in. Flood the zone with depression and nobody has time to think about why they're depressed, only that they are.