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I hear you, but i disagree - at least based on what we know presently. If you look at US unemployment stats (which are a bit fucked from Covid), they jump in 2023 a little, but have since been decreasing each year since (employment is increasing). You can argue it's because the Trump admin is cooking the books in hwo they report unemployment, but an almost identical trend is seen in the UK stats.. Canada.. Germany.. Italy (barely even an AI blip in their stats)..

Are they all cooking the books?

If you believe the AI hype crew, AI is "improving in leaps and bounds weekly", but that simply doesn't align with reality.

Yeah, LLM AIs (the predominant AI tech in the AI© industry) have increased in quality as the sum total of all earth's investor-class capital is poured into them... But that isn't being translated in significant real world applications and job losses.

Companies tried (and are trying) AI©, and have mostly found it just isn't any better or more reliable than a human in the vast majority of real world applications.

If you are a white collar worker and you only make a few minor mistakes now and then - boss doesn't care, you're human. On the other hand if you're a white collar worker and you make only a couple mistakes now and then but wow they are batshit crazy ones that defy your coworkers attempts to understand them - you're fired. That's AI.

"AI for the first time can replace or exceed human cognition." 🤣

No.

Maybe if you chose one tiny sliver of human cognition like memory and isolate it, but cognition overall? No chance. LLM tech is a database inference machine. Some uses? Yes. 1/3 of the worlds stock market wealth invested in it? Dumb.

Not many years ago, Bill Gates said that climate change was the most important issue facing the world.

I guess that's solved now, because he now says how we handle AI use and access has taken the mantle as the most important issue the world's facing.

This is just more AI cooker stuff from a billionaire octagonarian.

That's crazy that LG installed adware by bundling it up with Windows drivers and delivering it through Windows Update.

If companies can send adware through Windows Update packaged simply as 'drivers' and Microsoft doesn't even raise an eyebrow even once this is known, reported and questioned by media, then my already low opinion of their quality control drops precipitously.

So, like... wisdom.

Calling it now..

"YouTube will now count views only when an ad has been played in full".

Will come sooner than you think.

Ah yes, certainly easier and more convenient to boot into a live OS or hidden OS every time you need to mount a hidden volume (per VeraCrypt's recommended guideline), instead of just using the hardware from OPs post.

What a beautiful Anas platyrhynchos stallion.

Sold out and I can't seem to pre-order a pair for their next batch (maybe the next allotment is already sold out).

Oh well, my wallet wins this round.

she crashed her car and drank excessively as a teen, she says.

She gave both her children smartphones when they turned 11 and let her daughter start using Snapchat at the same age.

Yeah.. that tracks.

The simple fact is that we hairless apes were never meant to have the sum of all human knowledge and endless distractions available to us at all times.

We're inquisitive creatures and it's hard AF to put that phone down when dopamine loop at 1am.

Still reduces the cost drastically to society, the whole exploitative college middle-man charging $150k for a degree is gone because the government says "fuck you, degrees are $40k or you don't get govt places for your course", and lo and behold.. Suddenly the same courses are $40k.

Just like how the US healthcare advocates cry that "free healthcare is socialism that overburdens the taxpayer" - and yet in countries with socialised healthcare they pay 1/4 of what the US pays for the same health outcomes and usually even less for literally the exact same medicine from the same companies.

Collective bargaining.

I read your questions three times but I still can't tell what you're asking.