That’s what people doing. That’s the reason they’re talking at chatbots, because chatbots mimics speech. They do “chatbot, explain X to me”, chatbot generates words that look like a text full of whatever, user skims those words, sometimes doing “I don’t understand Y part of it, explain it again but using different words”, and go “oh, I understand X now, chatbot called me a good boy in the end, this means I’m an expert on X actually”, and go about their days thinking they know shit now, when in reality they did unlearning.
I’m sure you’re different, but if so you’re unique. And maybe, just maybe, you also don’t realise how not unique you are.
It’s hard to overestimate how effective an llm is at making people believe they weren’t lied to

they can be extremely useful for that

Using an LLM is exactly the opposite of learning. It’s anti-learning. It feels nice because your brain is not engaged, and it gives a lot of text that looks like explanation, so you feel like you’ve learned something, but you just skimmed some bullshit and that’s it. In the end you know less than you knew before you started, but you don’t realise that.

Mini pc costs a grand+

You’d think getting it easier to exchange money for items is the whole point of capitalism

It’s so weird how little it takes to ruin a society

Backup.
Update.
Don’t keep all in one place.
Update.
Don’t forget to backup.

Userbase doesn’t matter this much this days. What matters is raw data, the best data the better. Random people from the internet bring shitty data, data of logged in users is better.
And if the userbase drops, they can add more bots, who cares, line goes up.

I’m beginning to suspect never. The industry (read nvidia) got taste for selling stuff in bulk to those who don’t care about price and/or quality. They don’t want to return to the world where regular people (ew) were their primary source of income. They will find new scam to use their cards on.

Evidently, the only thing it’s good for is providing endless dribble for snake oil salesmen to scam people with. There is an endless barrage of “our latest and greatest magic just solved a problem” and when the dust settles it’s always some combination of exaggeration, lies, misunderstanding, and stolen work.
Even from my very limited understanding of high level fusion related math, I can bet it’s the same case here. At best they’re not lying and they provided a proof for some old math theorem. What I know is that fusion isn’t “one proven math problem away”, and I bet even if they’re not lying it will not help that much if at all.

There is a lot of this going on in your assumptions

And if you actually believe that, I have an amazing business proposition to you. So, there is a bridge in NY, and I can sell it to you for very little money…

Because many people now discuss their ideas with AI, ideas may spread the same way as well when the conversations are used as training data.

As a training data it’s possible less then useful, unsupervised data like that is actively harmful. As a central repository of everyone’s private conversations it can be in a way useful, but I can’t understand how anyone could be OK with a private company reselling your most private data.

You’ve been drinking too much cool aid.

That’s what she said.

There are, but they’re even more bulky, and they are waterproof in the sense that the water wouldn’t damage the device, but the port itself is still vulnerable, and very much so. Unless it has a flap, but no regular phone used that ever.

I wouldn’t have any problem with this kind of metaphors, I use it myself about everything all the time, if there wasn’t a substantial portion of population that actually did the jump to the “it’s saying something coherent therefore it’s a person that wants to help me and I exclusively talk to him now, his name is mekahitler by the way”.
I am afraid that by normalizing metaphors here we’re doing some damage, because as it turns out, so many people don’t get metaphors.

We attribute agency to everything, absolutely. But previously, we understood that it’s tongue-in-cheek to some extend. Now we got crazy and do it for real. Like, a lot of people talk about their car as if it’s alive, they gave it a name, they talk about it’s character and how it’s doing something “to spite you” and if it doesn’t start in cold weather, they ask it nicely and talk to it. But when you start believing for real that your car is a sentient object that talks to you and gives you information, we always understood that this is the time when you need to be committed to a mental institution.
With chatbots this distinction got lost, and people started behaving as if it’s actually sentient. It’s not a metaphor anymore. This is a problem, even if it’s not the problem.

You’re attributing a lot of agency to the fancy autocomplete, and that’s big part of the overall problem.