Clive Sinclair's company collapsed within five years of shipping their first computer. Perhaps not a good counter-example.

I'd love to see Meta et al's business models banned completely, for everyone... not just kids.

The "engagement plus targeted ads" model should be illegal. It's obviously hugely detrimental to social media users and to society in general.

However, this is likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court. Meta can kick enough funding to the Trump regime to ensure a favorable SCOTUS ruling, and then it'll be business as usual for Zuckopath.

Everything in the story was highly implausible. I think you just have to suspend disbelief and enjoy the storytelling.

Yes, I saw it. I also read the book. I preferred the book, but I also enjoyed the movie a lot..

The movie was quite faithful to the book, and even though it was a long movie (over 2.5 hours) it didn't seem long and it moved along quite nicely. The alien creature was pretty much exactly what I had pictured while I was reading the book, and they did a good job imbuing it with personality.

I think the movie was worth seeing in a movie theatre.

Anything that wasn't action, drama, or comedy was largely dropped and almost all of the science was quick summary explanations.

Texas tried it long before these states, but its law was put on hold by a judge. Utah and Louisiana are also trying to pass or have passed age-verification laws.

A large number of states, including California, Colorado, Illinois and New York, have already passed or are passing stupid device age-attestation laws like this one. These laws purport to apply to just about any OS on any general-purpose computing device, if the device is capable of downloading software. If the laws are not fought, it means open-source is in trouble and mass surveillance will become the norm.

Celebrating someone's death is low-class.

Making a death threat is a crime. There is a difference.

That was just an excuse. They had years to cut the prices before the tariffs happened. And cutting prices quickly used to be the standard.

I am strongly opposed to age verification.

However, given that the developer faced (according to the article) "harassment, doxxing, death threats, and a flood of hate mail", maybe we need some form of maturity verification? There's no call for that sort of crap. And I really hope that criminal charges are filed against anyone sending death threats.

"Did you really think we want those laws observed? We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against. We're after power and we mean it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

-4 years.

In what way? Once the model is loaded into VRAM, very little data has to travel over the bus. You're going to be limited by storage speeds loading the model anyway.

I think AI is not becoming more "human" every day. The A in AI should really stand for "Alien".

If we ever do achieve AGI (which I doubt... but let's play devil's advocate) the experience of the AGI will be very different from that of humans, and the form its intelligence will take will also likely be very different and alien to us. An intelligence that has never inhabited a biological body nor interacted with other humans is likely to have very different ways of thinking and very different goals from us. Are we able to control that?

OpenAI is definitely headed for bankruptcy. Porn has always been the thing that turbo-charged technological advances. Do you really think VCRs and high-speed Internet were invented for any other reason? :)