Jassy verified the layoffs had nothing to do with AI.

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Bullshit. We lived through it, dumbass.

Elon finished the acquisition of Twitter about a month before ChatGPT was released. Elon immediately fired about half the company. This absolutely shocked the industry and led to countless predictions of imminent technical and business failure.

But what actually happened? Twitter struggled for a month or two. Then it was fine. Most importantly to tech executives: the company continued running reasonably well with roughly half the number of employees.

That blew the minds of C-level tech executives.

That highlighted the fact that companies had hired way too many people during the pandemic. Further, they could make just as much money if they fired a significant percentage of their employees instead.

So, these companies started firing people. Every year since 2022, tech companies laid off a percentage of their workforce for no real reason. Financially, they were doing great before the layoffs. After the layoffs, they look even more profitable. Regardless, the companies still mostly run fine with at most the occasional outage every now and then (I'm looking at you Amazon).

The fact that these companies can blame the layoffs on AI is just an added bonus. These C-level executives love AI and spending money. You need a reason to tell shareholders for spending obscene amounts of money on a technology. The layoffs are the excuse for the AI expenditures, not the other way around.

Seriously, there's no Tron in Tron. How can anyone call this a Tron movie without showing the title character even once? Hell, there was an opportunity at the beginning of the movie when Ares invaded Encom. One of those security programs defending Encom should have been Tron. It's a missed opportunity amongst an entire movie of missed opportunities.

Further, where are all the other characters set up in Tron Legacy? Why should we care anything about this whole new crew of characters that seem to have no real connection to the previous stories? Legacy actually set up the possibility of an interesting sequel. Why aren't we getting that?

As for Leto, the guy can't act. Please, please, please stop putting him in movies.

Funny how Trump institutes a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas and 2 weeks later Microsoft is all about investing in schools at “home.”

When I use AI tools in topics that I know well, often which I learned in university, I can easily pick out errors in AI output. Those errors occur quite often.

In topics that I don't know, it's damn near impossible to pick out errors. I'm fairly confident those errors still exist. But, I can't see them due to my own knowledge limitations. Regardless, the AI remains confident regarding all output whether correct or not.

The knowledge provided by university which is denoted by those fancy degrees is arguably more valuable in the era of AI due to hallucinations. You need humans who can tell when the AI is correct or not.

The topic is China's K-visa, not the US.

Most people don't want to live under the CCP. China is also wildly racist in a way that is shocking to non-Chinese. I don't see China attracting large numbers of foreigners willing to move and work in the country.

The value of the SAT comes as an objective measure of test taking. Given that students take a lot of those kinds of tests in university, it's also an objective measure of how students ultimately perform in university. The better a student's SAT score, the better they'll tend to do in college.

The fact that it's an objective measure is important. Students can manipulate grades. Some will beg and plead with teachers to turn those B's into A's. Some can just pay off low-paid teachers. Some students can go to private schools that all but guarantee straight A's. The point is that grades can be manipulated. The SAT doesn't suffer from those same problems. Students aren't begging and pleading with SAT test personnel for a better score.

Companies relying on AI to do the work of humans will eventually realize their mistake when 95% of their AI projects fail. Say what you want about humans, at least their projects tend to succeed. Corporate leadership now laying off people are eventually going to reverse course when reality finally catches up with them.

They hit 40.

The smartphones we have today were copied from Apple. The only real comparison before then are Blackberries and Windows phones, both of which are very different implementations.

Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO at the time, was on Apple's board during the time Apple created the iPhone. He was later fired from Apple's board for conflict of interest. It's well known that Google copied other products from companies such as Microsoft. It's clear that Google took the ideas for it's smartphone from Apple.

When Google was founded, they were only a search engine. Android phones didn't come until years later when they stole the idea from Apple.

No, it's what tech leaders such as Zuckerberg have been stating publicly. It's why they're making predictions of AI taking over jobs.

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