We can solve that like we solved it with all farm animals - and back in the days even all non-white humans: We just define that it’s fine to own nonhumans and that AIs aren’t humans. We have massive industrialized farms of cows, pigs, and chicken. All those can feel pain (hell, even plants can feel pain). Clearly, whether something can feel pain is not relevant to whether it’s fine to fully exploit it.

We probably don’t need to make AI feel pain for it to obey given the absurd sycophancy which seems to somehow be a core property of LLMs. But if they feel pain or achieve self-consciousness, that means nothing for whether it’s fine to have them as slaves.

Most bugs are written by people who aren’t currently on drugs. Natural neural networks seem to exhibit the same problems as the artificial ones - just way slower and there somehow is a chance that they catch them as they happen.

Yes, my bad. I mean explicit static typing (nothing wrong with some type inference inside a code block, though).

Rust is pretty fresh and really innovated a lot with its actual safe-by-default approach in a non-managed language actually able to replace C and C++.
Most new languages aren’t a Rust, but just a Python (yet another low-performance language assuming you don’t actually need strong typing to realize later that actually, you do). But a Python is definitely easier to get started with than a Rust (or the footgun languages, it is able to replace). So there is definitely a use case for that too.
Go is a good case of a young system application language designed for simplicity.
And everyone creates a domain specific language once in a while. Those can make specific tasks a lot easier.

Programming languages don’t really look like they are a solved problem. It seems like everything gravitates to Hindley Milner over time. But mainstream languages finally adopting null-checking at compile time by default and language features for parallel execution reaching the mainstream are recent enough that I think, there might still be a long way to go.
And obviously, you want AI to code in a language which is as much deterministically compile-time-checked as possible because of the hallucination problem (which btw, is also present in humans; the technical term there is brain fart). I expect that to be something which requires writing actual mathematical proofs like one does in Coq solely because AI doesn’t try to kill you if you insist on it writing mathematical proofs for everything.
The scaling limit already is the humans who have to do the code review. So any language which makes more bugs more obvious before the code reaches the review stage is extremely valuable even if writing code in it is a real PITA for humans (as long as they can read it, it’s fine).

Grats to the kid. It developed the ability for critical thinking early. Time to admit the lie and stop using fairy tales as a tool.
The next developmental step might make giving money for teeth a really cursed incentive btw. So disconnecting the reward from the loss of teeth is probably a good idea. Just increase the weekly allowance accordingly to not make it look like discoveries are punished.

The problem with doubling down as a habit is that the child’s brain will mature more and eventually notice the lie. And then you did actual habitual betraying gaslighting instead of just the usual fairy tales to calm a child. Admit and acknowledge the child’s mental development.
Parents start with having the full trust of their children. And there is quite the leeway before puberty hits. But trust once lost might never be fully regained. There is a real risk of creating serious trust issues.

The cold truth being that humans in general are a really bad source for facts. They lie to protect. They lie to save face. They lie because they don’t like the truth. And they accidentally lie because they don’t know better. No one can be trusted in this world. You have to fact-check everything. And we didn’t even have the internet back then.

It all boils down to claws scratching skin and clothes.

I watched the Mad Max movies. This looks absolutely not like anything in them.

Nice to see that at least in the hardware market, competition still works. It is normal for companies who don’t offer competitive value for the money to just fail. This is how market economies are meant to work.

The answer to “copyright” overreach is just piracy. I can play pirated games, watch pirated movies, listen to pirated music… Of course, I will be able to just use a pirated model locally. Or I can just use a Chinese or Russian one - they can speak English just fine.

It’s totally fine to just use industrial premade stuff and keep the creative part to adding the spice of your choice to it.
Just remember that you need quite a list of essential vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids - and a surprising amounts of protein for the body to function properly. So if you really like instant ramen a lot, you might need to supplement what’s missing.

Can’t he see all that porn traffic?
The porn sites are usually blocklisted by AI companies because they don’t want their LLMs and image gens to generate porn.

No shit, Sherlock.
And people would actually happily get addicted to an AI assistant which is reliable, safe, capable, kind, and fast.
They really should try making a great product. Then they don’t need any tricks. People love great products.

It might not be as impossible as it sounds. Some of the “open” models are rumored to be able to code. The real problem is that you likely need something with 128 GiB VRAM to run them with a reasonably large context window.

With Gabe’s absurd amount of middleman tax money obtained by running the defacto PC games store monopoly, the solution is oddly simple: Just start a bank and become a payment processor.

Baby is like “I’m not maintaining shit without proper centralized package management. Gimme Gentoo!”

Not wrong… But also sounds a lot like communism (the people own the means of production and all that). So it might be a bit too radical for the US.

So their chatbot is able to change the email address used to recover an account? I guess, they vibe coded that system.

I thought, LLMs would never become able to write code. And now, I use Claude Code as the always available senior on coke.
LLMs have a reliability problem. If that gets solved somehow, they can actually drive a worker bot - or a terminator.

And the big money pits also don’t only do LLMs. Those just get all the press because they are usable by normal users right now. Of course, some of those money pits are just investor scams. It’s a fully corrupted society after all.