The thing that’s stopping anything like that is that the AI we have today is not intelligence in any sense of the word, despite the marketing and “journalism” hype to the contrary.

ChatGPT is predictive text on steroids.

Type a word on your mobile phone, then keep tapping the next predicted word and you’ll have some sense of what is happening behind the scenes.

The difference between your phone keyboard and ChatGPT? Many billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of computing power.

It looks real, but there is nothing intelligent about the selection of the next word. It just has much more context to guess the next word and has many more texts to sample from than you or I.

There is no understanding of the text at all, no true or false, right or wrong, none of that.

AI today is Assumed Intelligence

Arthur C Clarke says it best:

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

I don’t expect this to be solved in my lifetime, and I believe that the current methods of"intelligence " are too energy intensive to be scalable.

That’s not to say that machine learning algorithms are useless, there are significant positive and productive tools around, ChatGPT and its Large Language Model siblings not withstanding.

Source: I have 40+ years experience in ICT and have an understanding of how this works behind the scenes.

Other than endless posts from the general public telling us how amazing it is, peppered with decision makers using it to replace staff and then the subsequent news reports how it told us that we should eat rocks, or some variation thereof, there’s been no impact whatsoever in my personal life.

In my professional life as an ICT person with over 40 years experience, it’s helped me identify which people understand what it is and more specifically, what it isn’t, intelligent, and respond accordingly.

The sooner the AI bubble bursts, the better.

What is the evidence of this?

It has. I use it everyday. It’s shit. Apple keeps moving windows to different desktops without user interaction, I can’t snap windows to each other, full screen takes over a whole desktop and ESC inside such a window puts it back to some random state.

Better Touch Tool did a better job a decade or so ago.

What is the use case for hosting this?

I can open any PDF on any computer, either locally, if the file is on the local filesystem, or via the internet, served using a simple web server and any filesharing system in-between.

I moved to Linux over 25 years ago and I miss absolutely nothing.

The joy of not having to update your OS when Microsoft forces it, even whilst you’re working, or the way Apple still cannot do window tiling despite decades of examples on how to achieve this, or installing applications and finding files splattered all over the file system with no way to remove them except manually, or the endless user agreements, licence fees, expiring licensees, or the notion that you cannot run a new OS on an old machine that’s in perfect working order.

So, no, it was the best decision I’ve made.

I wish that I’d made the same good decision when it comes to my accounting software.

The thing that’s stopping anything like this is that the AI we have today is not intelligence in any sense of the word, despite the marketing and “journalism” hype to the contrary.

ChatGPT is predictive text on steroids.

Type a word on your mobile phone, then keep tapping the next predicted word and you’ll have some sense of what is happening behind the scenes.

The difference between your phone keyboard and ChatGPT? Many billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of computing power.

It looks real, but there is nothing intelligent about the selection of the next word. It just has much more context to guess the next word and has many more texts to sample from than you or I.

There is no understanding of the text at all, no true or false, right or wrong, none of that.

AI today is Assumed Intelligence

Arthur C Clarke says it best:

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

I don’t expect this to be solved in my lifetime, and I believe that the current methods of"intelligence " are too energy intensive to be scalable.

That’s not to say that machine learning algorithms are useless, there are significant positive and productive tools around, ChatGPT and its Large Language Model siblings not withstanding.

Source: I have 40+ years experience in ICT and have an understanding of how this works behind the scenes.

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One way to implement this: https://chinwag.au/verification/

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What kind of answers are you hoping for here?

An education?

No idea, I’ve seen it in several different places. I think it’s a stylised Christmas tree gone dildo…

Cute. Are they taking suggestions for designs?

Here’s one:

https://dutchreview.com/wp-content/uploads/Rotterdam__Santa_Claus-696x943.jpg

I doubt that it’s water condensation. Based on some internet sleuthing I strongly suspect that it’s alcohol.

https://foodwine.com/alcohol-evaporation/

Why it’s happening for one and not the other, I’m not sure.

I’m guessing that once Google is prohibited from providing incentives, the bottom will fall out of that particular market and those other search engines will likely pay less, if anything, for the privilege.

Which one?

I did not respond to this survey, but I’m an open source “programmer” and I’m in the 4% group in that chart.