They are not science and I said arguably improve equity and mental health because that is their only argued purpose and actually according to many people they do not even do those and in fact can make it worse. There will never be any technological advances from those studies. To your last question, if robots were doing everything for me I'd gladly focus my time on something separate from what I currently do for work.

There has been a shift in the US to consider Social Science' a science. This has caused a massive amount of funding to be diverted from scientific programs in physics, chemistry, and biology to programs that study gender, race, sexuality, and other social topics. Advances in STEM fields research advances in technology while the social sciences arguable only improve equity and mental health.

You can use an LLM with anything, the original poster of this was confusing LLM with AI in general.

The retooling argument doesn't work as well as it did with Tesla. Tesla was perpetually sold out of existing vehicles while they upgraded for their newer models. Rivian on the other hand has inventory available and is still seeing a decline in sales.

Rivian is another one of those permanently losing money companies. I'm extremely skeptical that they will be able to survive long enough to implement everything they planned. Their total # of vehicles sold are actually expected to decline in 2025. While they do have some backing from VW and Amazon who might want to pour money into the fire, the time to create their own silicon, get out new vehicles with the new silicon, then test those vehicles is easily a 5 year process.

Visual data processing does not use LLMs.

They have arguably the most valuable copyright content on planet Earth and are paying 1 billion to give it away. Make it make sense.

1100 new features!!... I'd rather eliminate AI from the productivity suite rather than pay for it. It seems to be creeping in anyways even through we have never paid for additional copilot features. Maybe someone who actually uses it knows, but I assume you start using it then it tells you need to upgrade to do the thing you actually wanted it to do?

Can't edit, but math is off due to packs vs cards. Divide by 10 and you get 2.5M cards of each super rare printed so far.

10.2 billion printed. The absolute rarest possible cards are about 1 in 1,200 packs which means there are still 25.5M of each of the rarest cards. I suppose in 200 years they will actually be rare.

Oligopolies are not monopolies. For a monopoly there has to be a barrier to entry for other participants. A high market share just means you are doing things better than everyone else. Literally every industry has many competitors, take car companies as one, there are dozens just in the US alone and thousands if you expand world wide.

You simply don't know how the government works. Monopolies are already illegal and we already have anti-trust laws. Lina Khan was simply an ignorant person who was bad at their job. This was evidenced by blocking a merger, then the company that tried to merge going bankrupt. She literally killed businesses.

"Cause of death: Data processing"

There isn't one example because there are literally millions, its a fact of supply and demand. This happens with every product and in every industry. It's a simple math equation, while prices are high -> build more -> profit. Anyone moving too slow won't be able to profit before the shortage is over with. Capitalism gives profit to those who move the fastest, which is exactly what you want to prevent shortages.

These players themselves will be first to expand their manufacturing to capitalize on high prices before they normalize. First company to produce more makes a goldmine in profit until others catch up.