Ya, the percentage improvement is fucking annoying.
Using the dipshit's parachute model, every single parachute in existence has a probability of not opening.
38% reduction of that is universally good.

Whether or not that probability is 50%, or 0.00005% is what matters.

Europeans?

In my experience, visiting Europeans tend to be young people with no money at all.
The median American has more money than the median European, anyway.

Let's look at the real impact of a loss of Eurodollars in the tourism industry in the US.
It seems we're projected to lose ~$12.5B this year.
That's out ~$30500B.
How, oh how, will we ever survive?
Canadians are more concerning. But our neighbors up north are really only sauced over Trump treating them like they're fucking second class US citizens, and they're quick to forgive. Europeans are too busy smelling their own farts and confusing their dreams with the continuance of their relevance.

I was being sarcastic.
I use it for productive work right now.
So do many people.
The industry for people using it for work is already measured in billions of dollars per year in revenue.

If you don't- that's just fine.

This is your key insight. I'd add DamnOregonian's corollary to it, though: Not all work requires a model capable of producing superintelligent output. Sometimes-bordering-on-kinda-dumb-but-also-freakishly-skilled-in-certain-ways is also perfectly sufficient at times.

An analogy would have required a similarity. A parachute and an LLM are not similar. The consequences of an LLM hallucinating, and a parachute opening are not similar. What they did, and you swallowed, because you too do dumb shit like this- is believed, incorrectly, that you can compare two unalike things and call it an analogy.

What it actually is, is a logical fallacy- a false equivalence.
"If you told me that the newest nukes killed 38% less innocent people, I still don't want to get nuked".

I swear to fucking god you get dumber by the day.

I think you should perhaps read better before commenting.
No argument existed in that post. What did exist were 4 unsubstantiated claims, with the final one being obvious satire (unless we accept the premise that humans can generate code 4 years before they're conceived).

I'm not sure a concept, even as simple as this, could be explained to you.

I'll try anyway.
They've made an investment. As part of that investment, the corporation will agree to a licensing deal with ~$1B/yr for Disney. Money they would otherwise not have gotten.
Their investment will make money, and the licensing will make money.
OpenAI benefits by pushing out the time at which they need to become profitable.

Nothing about this is even strange. It's normal startup behavior.

What they have not done is given away their copyright. In fact, if anything, this serves as an acknowledgement of their copyright by OpenAI.

Do you read this site? The AI luddites are fucking vicious. You can see their desperation grow as AI progressively fills the gaps in their Intelligence of the Gaps argument. They're not far from firebombing offices.

By buying into a company, like anyone else... I can't believe you seriously asked that question.
I have revenue streams from several private and public corporations that I own stock in.

I agree- you should probably not use your LLM as a parachute, or other things where any hallucination has an equivalent outcome to a parachute not opening.
That was not an intelligent argument. Try again.

For sure- they're at least the right color, right?

Nonsense. These things are useless. Only fools buy them. They produce nothing but hallucinations, and can't generate code past a negative 5 year old level.
Trust me, I read that on slashdot.

How on Earth could it not be?

If you had 38% less tumor load on your cancer, would that be a good thing to you?
They're not trying to deny that the things hallucinate. You are trying to deny that an improvement is.... an improvement.
"Checkmate, LLM-tards!"

Same, on all counts.
A couple decades ago there were several years when Opera was absolutely the most advanced, most feature-rich, most user-centric, most customizable browser on the planet. Especially if you were a researcher needing to do lots of nonlinear browsing where you are constantly spawning/closing/reloading multiple tabs. KB shortcuts and mouse gestures were killer; I helped several visually-impaired people get it configured so they didn't need to rely on precise clicking of screen-rendered buttons and site navigation features. Using any of the other browsers of the day felt as laborious as trying to play an graphical MMORPG over a 4800bps modem without call-waiting disabled.

You act as if your ARM2 was some kind of major leap forward.

I've seen simplified analyses based on uneducated claims of "MIPS", and such, but the fact is, ARM was dead as of the 68040- it was so far in the dust, that there was no catching up.
By the time of the 68060 (ARMs still being ARM2s at this time), the performance delta was over 5x in Motorola's favor.
Apple is the only reason we have Arm CPUs today- because they rescued them from bankruptcy.

Because it doesn't alter the poster's original conclusion/assertion in any way, so it doesn't add anything useful to the discussion.
Because its value therefore begins and ends with scoring Zing-The-Empire points, which are basically emotional NFTs -- you can collect them, and then... what?