Good thing this isn't the CIA, or Python's Benevolent Dictator for Life's cigars would mysteriously start exploding.

If "the lab's ambition is to create "godlike A.I. superintelligence."", shareholders should demand it's shut down immediately before it sucks up another 70 billion dollars with nothing to show for it. They might as well say "this lab's goal is to make everything we touch into gold".

On the contrary, more billionaires should be doing this kind of thing. They're smarter than the rest of us, and able to evaluate risk better. Normal safety standards should not apply to their projects, as long as they're onboard themselves to test, of course.

It's curious how these "AI" features, which are supposedly incredibly desirable and powerful tools for consumers, have to be forced onto them with huge payments to middlemen and distributors. It's almost as if no one would install them if they had the choice to do it themselves.

I see the word "woke" continues its march to mean "anything we don't like". Although I guess fiber does use TRANSceivers.

It's almost as bad as Texas?

It's unsurprising that 25 year old hard drives are failing. It's surprising, though, that no one's done anything about it before now. Audio files are not large. Hard drives in 1999 were, what, 30-40GB at most?

Current state of the art for backup is LTO-9 tape, which is 18TB to a tape, and the tape costs around a hundred bucks (less in bulk). That means 600 90's hard drives could be backed up to a single LTO-9 tape. The most expensive part of the process would probably be connecting the hard drives and copying data off of them, but once you've done that, it's easy to make multiple LTO copies for essentially no cost, which lets you store them in different locations, etc., and the fact that they'll take up maybe one thousandth of the physical space/weight has to lead to pretty good savings over time.

LTO tapes have at least a 30 year lifespan, and they don't fail all at once like disk drives do, so just plan to copy the data onto new (larger capacity) LTO tapes in 15-20 years, and you're golden. That no one has thought of this for 25 years, and just allowed these hard drives to sit around and rot, is pure negligence.

Trillions of megabytes, huh? Too bad there isn't a more convenient unit we could use.

Mandatory arbitration should be banned. It shouldn't be possible to sign away fundamental rights to legal recourse.

It will be highly decentralized once the entire Trump family flees to a wide variety of countries across the world with no income tax and no extradition treaty with the US.

And Trump Steaks!

Honestly, this is kind of a genius move. Trump is a con artist, of course, and crypto's pretty much a fool's game to get into at this point, but Trump has a huge following of low-information people who also happen to be mostly older white people with at least some money, and they all take his word as gospel. He'll likely be able to scam them out of millions if he can pull this off (and he doesn't go to prison).

Are you insinuating the RAM in the Apple Silicon Macs is somehow not real RAM? Configuring the machine with enough of it is a different issue, but it most definitely is real RAM, and very fast RAM at that.

Silicon Valley tech bro, infinite growth grindset, disrupt everything, we're smarter than everyone else culture is a mental illness, and the end result is Elon Musk, the world's most divorced asshole, and this kind of stuff.

No, AGI is defined as AI in the general range of human intelligence (or better). Your definition does not match any used in the field.