No AI bro company is on the path to AGI. Transformer technology will not lead to AGI.

Sadly, somewhere along the line New Zealand became a very conservative country that’s hard to rouse to action.

Chloe all the way

Indeed. It will be a shitshow with all sorts of attempts to juice the share price via obfuscation of the actual abilities, like musk has been doing already. It won’t have many tangible outputs, but they’re desperate for the next big growth idea, so here we are.

Robotics. It will be a pivot to robotics.

I am whelmed by this exchange

The problem was actually caused by Google Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.

You missed the other key detail: “and raised the price regardless of whether we use AI”.

I finally migrated my work email from Google workspace specifically because they jacked the subscription price and justified it due to Gemini, a tool I never used.

For Google Ads at least, it’s pay per click not impression

Can you not just make sure YouTube gets none of your money by using a front end that strips out all ads and sponsored segments? My kids watch YouTube but they’ve never seen an ad.

The generation that grew up with ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga etc knows how to use computers.

My case in point. Instead of farming out translation jobs for 12 languages in WPML to people, we now auto translate all content via AI. That’s jobs lost. Complicated legal docs is an edge case in the content world.

Cursor is agent mode with Claude 3.7 absolutely writes well enough after indexing our codebase to mean less junior devs. I’m sorry that doesn’t fit into your narrative.

That’s not to say the world isn’t full of AI slop, and there aren’t huge issues around LLMs, But there are some solid use cases for this technology in replacing meat bags.

Translators and junior level devs.

It’s nowhere near as bad here in NZ

My elderly ragdoll needed grooming too.

LLMs are not advancing enough any more. There just isn’t any more useful human generated text to train new models on. The net is already full of AI generated slop. OpenAI currently spends 2.35 USD to make 1 USD. It’s fundamentally unsustainable.

What enshittification? I haven’t noticed any dark patterns in the Bluesky app.

I’d gladly pay a subscription for a useable service than have ads plastered all over it. It’s infinitely better than the shitshow that is X.

Free will is a concept invented by St Augustine to get God off the hook for the garden of eden fiasco. There is nowhere in science that supports the notion of a self somehow separate from the causal nature of the universe.

XRP at least has instant feeless payments. No consumer protection though. Some banks use it for intra-bank transfers.