Greed, is what is destroying "us" with AI. 95% of people who lost a valid job to AI, was replaced because it costs less. Not because it's better or even fully competent to replace a human worker. It will destroy us in many ways. Quality and Safety being quite the valid concerns.

And we don't need AI stores. That was a bullshit gimmick at best. We already have stores that can be stripped of meatsacks down to nothing but surveillance (mostly AI) to combat theft, with registers are already automated today (self check-out), which will become even more common. Product returns will be handled through the mail. No humans in Customer "Service". Just a chatbot. I mean, if you want to call that an AI store, sure.

Regarding the member of the Not-So-Magnificent Seven assuming they don't have enough yet, it sure would be nice if you could stop destroying stock market stability as fast as you can.

"Staying ahead of everyone else is hard. It costs a lot of money, and we don't have effective monetization in place yet. So, we want everyone else to slow down so it will be easy for us to maintain our position of top dog while we figure out how to become profitable."

That's what I took away from the call for a slowdown, anyway.

I'd have to disagree based on the natural laws of mass. His newfound circumference alone mandates a gap wider than Skywalkers womprat targets.

I doubt Bruce Lee could kick his face at this point. With Kareems legs.

A few days ago there was a story about how an AI store was failing horribly. It can't do that, but at the same time will destroy us? It's pretty clear that no one has any actual answers or little interest in being honest about the exact capabilities of AI when their bottom line depends on hype or their job position relies on prognosticating doom.

You're discounting the ability of the actor to bring something to the role that the director couldn't envision themselves. The whole point of having casting auditions is so the director can find an actor that either fits their own idea of the part or blows them away with something transformative that they could not have envisioned before seeing it. Not every actor is capable of that and not every part calls for it, but when it does happen it creates something best described as the magic of cinema. If this weren't the case, the phrase "Hello, Clarice" would be completely meaningless to everyone who reads this post, and yet there are some for whom it is not merely memorable, but evokes an entire range of emotions and even causes them to read it in a different voice. Tell me that Anthony Hopkins was just a middle man with a straight face.

And what happens when the tool, doesn't even need to improve?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We act like the future is as cognitively bright as we were. It's not. At the rate we're going, Gen Charlie Foxtrot will be bested by today's Toddler-grade AI. Easily.

How much longer before Gen Illiterate operating in a voice-activated world, can no longer tell..

You gonna recognize those times America succeeded?

Because you'd almost assuredly be writing that shit talk in German by now, on a planet barely feeling the fucking tip of a 1,000-year Reich in their ass.

You're welcome.

No. That's not really "all" that matters with the worth of high-value art. Because billionaires adding a corrupt amount of zeros on the end of a check for it aren't actually buying and trading in high-value art. They're trading in tax loopholes. Nothing more. Many "collectors" toss their write-offs in warehouses, to be only appreciated by the accountant on a spreadsheet at the end of a fiscal quarter. Remove the loophole motive, and the value crashes to a price-per-hour one would expect to pay an artist.

* artists laugh hysterically at the thought of charging per hour *

Tends to make you wonder what the actual value of a shitcoin is. Guess we could at least base it off the insane compute costs it takes to get one, but that's probably just going to piss people off realizing how much energy shitcoin is actually consuming on the planet to compute a commodity out of bits and bytes.

People keep bragging about 21 million as if Limited to XX Pieces is some proven way of effectively sustaining and using that commodo-currency for a few hundred million citizens across hundreds of thousands of businesses. We don't even do that with precious metals. Mainly because we're still mining it out of the ground, and will be for a long time coming. When we mine the very last shitcoin, do you think the cost will be feasible for trade and barter at a "nominal" price of $8.4 milion per coin, or will a digital currency traded like high-art have destroyed the base fiat currency by then, because "Progress"?

I get this feeling Gen Charlie Foxtrot will be sipping on digital wine flipping the pages of a cloud-based comic book anime collection and proudly bragging about their landlord ownerstake shares in virtual real estate..

This is a mistake. Go see the "Wolf Warrior" films. They're constantly referenced as the basis for China's forceful resurgence.
And then when you see them, they are bad. so so so bad. Silly stereotype characters, unreal things, characters in odd places acting unlike any human being would act, ever. All served with a giant heaping bowl of propoganda.
In fact, so terribly awful that they bleed into good. There's a scene where African warlords ( wolf warrior 2?) allows a large convoy of troops to drive past them because...they are proudly flying a Chinese flag. My friend actually fell off his chair laughing.

... for the lobbying failure. They tried contributing in BitCoin. Then someone converted that to pizzas and got upset.

I just hate it when Firefox trips my breaker trying to sort out Slashdot character encoding.

Oh come on! Slashdot can handle a percent sign just fine. It's just some Slashdditor that can't enter the correct character.

We had better get all those Teslas off the street, parked over storm drains.