yup, and there's at least a 25% chance it was written by an AI.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffortune.com%2F2024%2F10%2F30...

if you get rid of the toxic trash accounts that were making Former Twitter a cesspool of bots and flame wars.

Hate to break it to you but all of Apple's products were not the first one, they were just the most usable/best one. Vision was not the first VR, Watch was not the first smart watch, iPod was not the first mp3 player, PowerBook was not the first laptop, Lisa/Macintosh was not the first WIMP computer, and Apple I/II was not the first Home Personal Computer (or homebrew computer).

They don't have to be first, they just have to make one that is better. Usually they have been buying the competition if they are small enough and making it if they can.

Another form of payday loans pushed onto digital consumers.

The people can't have the welfare if the corporations take all the government money all to build the rockets to Mars, AI Data centers and nuclear reactors to power the data centers. He's right about that for sure.

There used to be a nuclear power plant in Brazil that at one time locals called The Firefly due to its operating history. Clinton Nuclear Plant is the US' closest equivalent to that. ComEd, which has a long and large if not always 100% successful of running nuclear plants, spent years resisting all pressure from the ICC and state government to take it over from its original owner and then when their new corporate parent forced the issue spent years and many careers trying to make it work.

I don't think any of those technolgies you mentioned had nearly the investment or interest of such a wide variety of people. From health care, to government, to coding, to any company with a terrible chatbot, all of them have people interested in trying to replace system X with a LLM guessing machine.

The crash from this hype train will be large indeed. Even if it does 1/10th of what they say it can (which I doubt since people are claiming that it will replace most workers and do all the thinking for us, thank you AGI boosters), it will have a profound impact on how we do information work.

Matches the non-existent brain cells in RJK Jr's skull.

And he failed to pay her, as per his usual SOP.

Unclear why one of the traditional routes of population increase in US states - for the last 425+ years in most states, closer to 525 years in what is now California - is deemed to be "propping up" the population. Almost as if there is an agenda and a narrative to declare more recent immigrants as not real citizens or not real people. As opposed to, say, a German family that immigrated to the United States in 1904.

In the Old Days(tm), say 1990, electric power companies depended on Bell System wires for the most critical protective relaying applications, and the Bell Operating Companies provided nine 9s reliability with latency approaching the speed of light. Television networks likewise: national distribution in as close to atomic time synchronization as was humanly possible.

Today one is lucky to be able to make a voice call from one medium sized city to another without dropouts, jitter, disconnections, and other digital voice garbage. Latency? Ha ha ha ha. Reliability? Not even funny.

Progress!

As first described the Google glasses would have been very useful in industrial environment and for jobs such as railroad locomotive and airliner maintenance - having maintenance instructions automatically overlaying your sight picure based on what you were working on would be a great thing for productivity and safety. Problem is that would have been billions of dollars in development of the hardware and the pattern recognition software alone. Then maintenance documents (drawings, procedures, etc) would have had to be incorporated and the owners of that IP would not have been willing to participate except on an equal contractual footing. So huge upfront costs and no equally huge revenue stream for Google in sight (heh).

That said, the idea that a secretive recluse billionaire who made his money by stealing other people's PII might not realize that ordinary human beings do not care to be under a combination of Superman's x-ray vision and Thiel's tracking database 24/7 is... not surprising.

I'm looking forward the legions of Slashdotters who will quit their work-from-home coding and data jobs to move to remote rural areas for 40 years and devote themselves to hot, uncomfortable, 60 hour/week physical jobs with the added bonus of up to 5 REM/year of radiation exposure operating nuclear power plants.

"No new information is being created; it's a fancy synthesized summary"

That of course is most definitely not what the "AI" firms are telling their boosters and investors.

Let's not forget the massive theft of the work of other human beings incorporated into every one of these LLM "AI" scams.