Someone will have to know how to steer the LLM to fix/update/maintain the bespoke software they decided to use, so still a large cost there

It’s because social media is no longer primarily about being social

Reads like AI

Forcing people to take and buy and own and maintain a car since hundreds of billions have been spent on that mode of transit, but near zero (in comparison) on any other seems like bad form imo

But then you get into a world where people can’t cross the street (moreso than what’s already available). I recall seeing a video on YouTube that explores your suggestion to its inevitable conclusion. Additionally, this could exacerbate suburban sprawl

I don't think so - you could still have pedestrian controlled crossings - press a button and the cars will stop. You just don't need any lights.

You might not even need buttons - driverless cars are already going to have to handle zebra crossings somehow.

You do too. What makes you think the models are intelligent? Are you seriously that dense? Do you think your phones keyboard autocomplete is intelligent because it can improve by adapting to new words?

For one, because they can implement large-scale software engineering tasks in seconds, which I believe requires intelligence.

How much of this is executed as a retrieval-and-interpolation task on the vast amount of input data they've encoded?

There's a lot of evidence that LLMs tend to come up empty or hilariously wrong when there's a relative sparsity in relevant training data (think <10e4 even) for a given qury.

> in seconds

I see this as less relevant to a discussiom about intelligence. Calculators are very fast in operating on large numbers.

I think they're intelligent. Sometimes they come up with novel solutions when I present them with a novel problem.

Yeah some people pop a melatonin every night before bed

Yeah the “rocks are alive and conscious” crowd are certainly something

Yeah us US folk love our dessert for breakfast

The unregulated monopoly that is google has really served us well too. Instead of non-government-approved thoughts we get SEO slop, sponsored links, AI overviews, mass data collection, listicles, and unhelpful search results. Seems like both extremes aren’t good right? Maybe don’t be disingenuous?