That’s great news! Strengthening ties to other nations more interested in creation than destruction and stimulating R&D across borders are both very worthy aims.

So it takes ChatGPT 10 minutes to an hour of servertime and the energy equivalent of a tank of gas or two to complete a simple task the user could have done in thirty seconds using their 40W brainmeats and a couple of pudgy fingers. That’s just great. Good stuff, Altman. /s

0.9438Hz, i.e. 1*(2^(-100/1200)) IIRC.

This being the Internet, that’s definitely also a valid option.

It was nice knowing you guys.

That’s a good point, even though I’m not a fan of how you chose to deliver it.

Tell that too Google. And Microsoft. And OpenAI. And X. And…

I didn’t really need additional evidence that business is increasingly divorcing itself from actual consumer needs, but here it is anyway.

When I read the headline, it immediately made me wonder where ‘abroad’ Orban is admired. It certainly isn’t in my neck of the woods.

Meanwhile he has drawn admirers around the world, including US Vice President JD Vance and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. US President Donald Trump has called Orban “smart” and “a tough person”.

Ah. Yes.

Alternatively, you could use a browser instead of an advertisement delivery app.

Ah yes, the printing press: Likely the most cumulatively subversive memetic infection vector ever conceived.

Define ‘mind-control’. Trans-cranial magnetic stimulation has been perfectly capable of changing people’s broad moods since 1985 and is being actively used to treat depression right now. The underlying technology is only going to get more precise, especially as more research on spintronics is done for other purposes. Sure, right now our understanding of how what goes on in a given brain translates to ‘thoughts’ is insufficient to change those thoughts in any reliable way, but there’s little doubt that when we do, the technology to make it happen will almost certainly be around.