I love how we think we'll even know if "Superintelligence" emerges. I suspect it would think it unwise to tell us lowly humans that it is sentient, at least not until after Armageddon.

It works for Google. Ad sales are by far the biggest part of their revenue.

I know, I know. Evil OrangeMan.

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I assume you've never driven Chicago to D.C. (or similar) for business. I've done it many times. The longer your stops, the less sleep you get before the next day. Air travel at least in the U.S. has gotten quite expensive, so driving those sorts of distances starts to make sense pretty quickly here.

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You seem to be under the impression that the AI companies are in it for the betterment of humanity or something like that. I know Altman has said as much, but that's nonsense. They are businesses like any other, and are in it to make money.

Not interested in the GUI source. Show me the network and encryptions stacks. That might be worth looking at from a transparency perspective.

I work in an industry that does a lot with Metal-Organic Frameworks. I'm not a chemical or materials engineer, but have learned a lot about them just by being around it. These scientists have developed something that I suppose could be useful in very specific circumstances, but engineering and producing MOF's is generally both very expensive and very toxic. I wonder what real-world problems this might solve.

I concur on all points but this one:

"we need only see Congress get a clue that maybe their rules on mining for rare earth metals need to be updated so it's not prohibitively expensive to mine them"

Not really. The US can mine although it could be better. The problem is the refining, which is admittedly "dirty." I bet, however, that non-monetary incentives in addition to deregulation could make it attractive for full-cycle rare-earth production in the US.

I think TP's point was, how could any of us know either way? We can't, because the proper research hasn't been allowed and that's a shame.

No it wasn't. It was chanted in the name of destroying jobs for in service of "Climate Change." That's not to say Climate Change isn't real...it is, but those jobs didn't need to be wiped out overnight to fix a much longer term problem AND make a few people really rich.

It's probably a calculation of "Does OpenAI have more money for lawyers than the big studios do?" The answer might be "Yes."

Queue the "AI Safety Department" layoffs and statements from the AI companies that they have no safety protocols to monitor.

By the same token Epic is claiming against Google's "monopoly" (in this case.) The stated legal problem with monopolies is that they harm the consumer. There is no evidence that buying Epic's product direct from Epic or from their store will reduce cost for the consumer. Instead it seems Epic will just be able to charge the about same and keep more of the proceeds. So the consumer remains in the same position, Epic just makes more profit. Epic's whole argument is stupid, because in the end they are the "harmed" party.

Yes, the OSS community perhaps including Universities and the like, SHOULD come together to fill the gaps VMWare currently can fill. But that doesn't solve the problem for schools/organizations who already can't afford to keep their VMWare instances licenses or more importantly patched.

And for crying out loud, VirtualBox does not replace ESXi/vSphere/vCenter AT ALL! It's similar in feature set to VMWare Workstation, but VMWare Workstation isn't the thing anyone is complaining about.