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You can't seriously believe this.

Seems to me like you're undervaluing the impact of software in the modern world, as if software hasn't driven massive productivity gains in every industry in the last 50 years.

> The early 2026 research shows only modest improvement in productivity

The field experiments in this study are a few years old.

This feels like a parlor trick where the AI was trained to mimic informal telephone mannerisms. The actual conversations were pretty bad. Lots of style, not much substance basically.

You can do both, that's what Apple was famous for in the past.

If someone generates an image with a signature on it and doesn't share it, what harm does that do?

When the user shares it, that is when reputational harm becomes an issue.

I think beer is even more of an acquired taste, but it doesn't stop the breweries from outselling the wineries.

So you think the engineers should be prosecuted for hacking Hugging Face? I'm not sure how else to take what you said if you want to assign all culpability to the person who prompts or develops an AI system.

If it ain't broke, fix it.

It doesn't have to be a race, that's just the way we have been treating it so far. There have been examples in the past of civilization ending technology that has been redirected from being a death race (chemical, biological, and nuclear arms in particular.)

JSTOR isn't just full of publicly funded work.

Needs an annoying header that changes size as you scroll.

How does banning the models in the US prevent this?

Knowing that they trained on that data doesn't mean that you've demonstrated that they "stole" it. Certainly the courts haven't decided that in every case.

>It seems like the purpose of humans isn't to keep machines busy. When our phone or laptop is idle, it's fine if it sleeps. And when we do want something, we'd rather not wait.

I'm not sure what the original commenter had in mind, but just because our machines are idle when we aren't using them doesn't mean that, that's how we will use computers in the future.

I think notifications are an example even now of the computer not really being idle when we aren't interacting with it.

This is exactly the kind of sanitized hacking this article is talking about.

> Our mission is straightforward: we are building AI solutions that can automatically solve important problems in machine learning, science, and engineering.

Genuinely curious which part you found complex.

> Bento is a discontinued database application for Mac OS X made by the former FileMaker Inc., since renamed to Claris.

Because you will get sued by openai/anthropic

> I know people gnash their teeth at that, but I'm pretty convinced the ass-pain associated with getting a data center constructed on the planet with all the NIMBY stuff will be will incentivize space data centers too.

You can build solar panels practically anywhere with enough daylight. Space data centers will never make any sense and it's clearly bait for people who will believe anything.

Seems like the appropriate place for a non-violent offender.

I don't think viewing the night sky is necessary for "human flourishing"

> Perhaps the last event was one million years ago and we are now (proverbially) 'due'.

Ironically this is a great example of the gambler's fallacy.

Who is going to invest in your company when they could invest in the company that just makes the drugs you invent without the overhead of R&D?

If Julian Assange had taken his privacy principles and built a social network instead of leaking government secrets things might have turned out differently.

Moore's law isn't as relevant with parallel workloads. If you can keep building more lanes you don't have to worry about making faster cars.

> LLMs don't get a free pass because they're also so good at writing typescript for beige CRUD apps and bedtime stories.

Plenty of useful things get free passes to be dangerous. Traffic accidents are the leading cause of accidental deaths in 11 states, but we don't ban cars because they're dangerous. There's plenty of safety features, but we acknowledge and accept that people will die. People like to pretend that they won't sacrifice safety for convenience, but they continue to do it time and time again.

I would go to this museum.

Surprising that there are still people who don't think LLMs qualify as AI

Pre-built PCs are the way to get a deal right now. The price of individual components is much more expensive than buying something from Micro Center or one of the Chinese integrators.