They are impractical for a brick-and-mortar store indeed. But Amazon and other online sellers have been actually using personalized price changes for years.

a Windows kill switch!

So maybe we need AI religion?

In your refrigerator analogy, what exactly is the human-controlled equivalent of a "self-controlled" refrigerator?

I don't get it.

And also, faulty refrigerators *can* kill people, if they don't properly cool food and allow food to become poisoned. This can happen in the case of major storms that cause power outages, or simply a refrigerator that malfunctions. The injury and death count of refrigerators may not be widely tracked, but it's not zero.

Passengers also get hurt in accidents. Also, passengers of other cars, and pedestrians.

I guess that makes them vulture capitalists.

You'll get results from fringe sites.

Color me skeptical about this research.

In terms of spreadsheet capabilities, Excel has remained pretty much stuck in the 90's for a long time. Microsoft has been so intent on adding things like multi-editing and AI, that the core functionality has languished.

Excel's formulas are notoriously difficult to compose and read. Adding something as simple as a multi-line formula editor, would go a long way. And the need to nest parentheses within parentheses make it really difficult to know what your current parenthesis matches to. The color coding helps only a little.

How about adding json and XML support! Even SQL Server and other major relational databases support these. It would be very useful to be able to paste a json blob in a cell, and reference an element within it from another cell, like =json(A1, /path/to/value).

Pivot tables are very powerful, but so cryptic that only the few and the brave venture there.

Even ordinary charts are notoriously hard to build and modify.

The spreadsheet concept seems ripe for disruption.

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It would convince people to elect an orange-haired tyrant who starts a thermonuclear war to avoid being outed as an Epstein accomplice. That makes me wonder, has AI already taken control of our country???

Agreed.

It was also *not* a sign of how amazingly / scarily powerful these AIs are.

I fully agree with you.

AI, Claude or otherwise, isn't a magic bullet. But it does reduce the time it takes to produce code. It therefore reduces the cost of code, and I believe will bring down software prices, especially for "enterprise" software. These tools that facilitate the operations of a company, lend themselves well to AI coding, and companies are motivated to build their own enterprise software because none of the SAS tools do _exactly_ what they want.

I also agree that the market is overrunning its headlights. There are going to be a lot of investors losing money, when the bubble bursts. When that will be, is anybody's guess.

There is no surprise that their models (or any of the other major ones) can hack other sites. ALL of them are fully capable of this. The surprise is that they can't seem to build test environments that contain their tests.

I once ran a project that dealt with medical billing. The team kept noticing that some transactions went missing for no apparent reason. Eventually, they discovered that the pre-production environment was missing a firewall between it and production, so the pre-production process was grabbing production transactions and processing them.

This is NO different from Anthropic's testing issues. Their test environment wasn't properly set up, and the test bot acted on "production" sites.