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If we have a do get AGI money will become instantly worthless and so there isn’t really any incentive for these companies to actually make AGI.

That’s not quite the same as saying that it’s an impossible target though. But if we want it we’ll have to do it ourselves there’s no way the corporations are going to do it.

That’s why this product was so blatantly stupid from the outset and why no one bought it.

Although presumably there are companies that do sell liquid nitrogen generators

DARPA is always cost a lot of money. Wouldn’t they the ones that try to investigative psychic powers were real? Oh and for a while they were trying to develop a perpetual motion machine.

Of course in retrospect that looks stupid, but if they’d ever succeeded in building a perpetual motion machine they would have made all their money back and then some. So it isn’t immediately apparent that they will have saved anyone any money. They’ve just not spent the money, which is not the same thing at all.

It wasn’t standalone though everything still ran on the cloud. At the time the product came out everyone said exactly the same thing, this product is just an interface for a remote AI so why not just use a phone?

Given the fact it had the battery life of a suicidal mayfly and the capacity to heat itself up to 700° I could forgive you for thinking it was running the AI locally

It’s called a viral marketing

I’ve always been a fan of book ciphers, but they’re probably really annoying to actually use.

Infamously G4S don’t conduct background checks. If they did they wouldn’t hire anyone because all of their employees are psychopaths.

Even when they are hired as mere security guards rather than close protection they still end up killing people.

These people have enough money to hire private protection already, it’s not the lack of an app that has stopped them from doing so up until this point. It’s simply that they didn’t actually believe they were in any danger from the peons.

Buy a few drones and you could automate the assassination process for maximum efficiency.

I don’t know how these tariffs are supposed to work

You’re overqualified then.

They are not meant to work. It’s just something to threaten other countries with, it isn’t a sound economic policy, it’s the political equivalent of holding your breath so you’ll be allowed more candy.

I suppose it would be useful for low poly assets but I’d probably just make them myself because I can’t imagine the AI would do exactly what I wanted

What? I read that three times and it still doesn’t make sense.

That is it. I’ve lost all respect from Microsoft.

The only reason to pursue fusion power research is so you can say this on a weekly basis. Any benefits to humanity are purely secondary.

The product was a failure long before HP got anywhere near it

LLMs have consequences to climate

I would have no problem asking and AI agent to speak to a colleagues AI agent to automatically find a mutually acceptable time for a call or meeting.

Yeah I mean the climate’s important but screw talking to people

Hungry, they are usually feeling hungry.

That doesn’t fix the problem though. For one thing they’re not net zero because they’re not capturing 100% of the carbon and also that’s like putting a bucket under a leaky pipe and claiming you fixed the pipe.

The bucket will overfill and then you’ve still got water on the floor.

Or you could fix the pipe.

Well yeah that’s like saying it’s more costly to fix an oil spill in the ocean then just simply not use oil to begin with. Yeah obviously.

The point of carbon capture isn’t to allow us to continue to use carbon producing fuels it’s to undo the damage that’s already being done. So this cost comparison is daft.

I ever so slightly miss all of the Internet Explorer 6 hacks. Sure it was utterly stupid they were required and we are in a much better position now, but it’s less fun now. Everything just uses Chromium.

Fortunately Safari is still utter garbage so we’ve got that.