Ahh yes, proof by blatant assertion, a favourite for those whose IQ's lurk in middle age.....but maybe, just maybe the reason some humans are trying to produce **Artificial** Intelligence is because there's not much being generated by humans. Any valuable resource can suffer from scarcity and now that humans have satisfied our physical needs, there's a desire to have more quality intelligence to spend our free time with.

A cursory glance at any comments section reveals that intelligence is clearly in short supply

What's this "we" business? I'm not from the USA, and do not speak for me in any way....and while the USA has a particular blindness to it's own actions, you're talking about a place that is the richest and most powerful country **to ever exist**. Hold your reply, go read a book and think about that for more than an hour without talking or doing anything else...I guarantee the rebuttal to your mental diarrhea consists of information and stories you would never have dreamt of. If it were up to people like you, you'd be happy to let *real* 3rd world psychopaths continue to terrorise people for another 50 years. Have you ever read a history book? or any books at all? By the sound of it, where you're from is an intellectual shithole ... probably the UK

Every time? How many times are we talking here?

Touchscreens were a thing in the 1980's but were really bad, then made a comeback with modern devices. EFTPOS was a thing and went away for a while before making a comeback. Such could be the case with AI. I tried gpt5.2 the other day, and while Mr Altman is a sleazy grifter with all the sincerity and charm of a used car salesman, the people doing the actual work are knocking it out of the park, on so many levels...

omg are you a shill or just living on another planet? Just dove into Win11 for the last 2 month after years away and Windows is an absolute shit show. A pure example of how you can put too much lipstick on a pig...how is it justifiable for people who actually paid for that garbage? Windows has never been good. The best it was, is barely acceptable. Microsoft should be prosecuted for turning one of the greatest achievements of all time (computers) into something that barely functions for most people. When Bill Gates said "Well he's dead now so you always have to be careful" about his 'meetings' with Epstein, it laid bare to the whole world what MS is about, and it isn't progress.

Why would you stop a recount? That reeks of corruption.

What is this "maths" you speak of? /s Being able to count seems like heresy in a land on innumerates.

You trust anything the Europeans or Chinese report? Hell, Chinese cannot even give honest numbers about their population because it turns out provincial governments were lying to get more $$ from their "government". And Japan is psychotically organised, hence the high suicide rate.

Damn, you're a sad case. Being the last boat to sink doesn't make you a winner.

And I'm guessing you're still wondering why no one likes you...

There is a lid for every pot? You cannot possibly know that, so much depends on chance so seems somewhat presumptive of you to mention? Maybe in a perfect world, which this is not. However your post was one of the rare treats on /. and I for one appreciate your effort.

Why did you have any faith to begin with? Sure there have been some shining moments in history...Moon landing? Yippee! Then we get the war on communism/drugs/"terrorism"/"climate change"/(insert failed idea here)... The majority of time is replete with violence, destruction, the work of socio/psycho-paths, cultures of compulsive liars and tyrants being allowed to spread into the nice bits, willful ignorance and adherence to blind ideology. Most beneficial products of civilisation have been co-opted in one way or another by some group of assholes. Just look at the difference in the internet over the last 30 years, from hopeful enthusiasm about the future to reddit and slashdot. Maybe that's why we can't have nice things...and then when nice people get a nice place to live, we are constantly harangued about our "carbon footprint" and how we're evil for being so successful by people who know what they're doing is wrong, but do it anyway, because even though they "invented the internet", they are fundamentally evil and malicious. It suffices to say that a lot of people are just struggling to deal with the big questions, and lack the critical thinking skills to sort shit from clay, which is partially by design in the "education" systems, media etc and partially because intelligence varies across a spectrum, so they resort to "culture" as their guide on how to live, what's good, what's not etc etc....and tbh that sounds a recipe for disaster...look at anywhere with thousands of years of history in one region and name me one that is doing well...might as well ask the designers of the Titanic to produce a ship that won't sink...I'm sure the descendants of those who proposed the Titanic are hard at work on the internet today, and nowhere is that more evident than at /. where the people who "maintain" this site are content to see how low they can go and still get away with it. YMMV

Have you ever had a good hard listen to yourself lately?

The Head of the Physics dept at the uni I studied physics at told us this little gem in about 1995. It's stayed with me ever since

If you think there is (s/be "are") too many people on this planet, how about you remove yourself first?