Little Known Fact: When light bulbs first became available, they were called “BulbsGPT,” and candlestick makers pressured the State to pause their further development for the good of society. Funny because it’s true about light bulbs… …and now its looking to be true about ChatGPT etc. as well.
Mark - ChatGP uses deep learning. Check out this video where there' using this same deep learning tech to deal with cheating ion online video games. Very fascinating
I'm no fan of more government but there's a big difference between going from candles to a lightbulb and from controlled software to possibly uncontrolled software. I don't want to see progress/research hindered but I thin it is far to require those doing teh research to do so with care and caution. There's a reason you aren't allowed to build a nuclear bomb in your garage even if you do know how to. What you do poses risk to others so it has to be done with caution and unfortunately as the Internet Of Things has proven repeatedly, security is never these guys first or even second priority but last.
The idea behind artificially shortening teh lifespan of a light bulb is known as planned obsolescence; an engineering concept that states progress will be hastened by the artificial reauction or lifespan of some device because doing so will force more production in less time driving innovation. It's just a bonus that it also drives up profits. Planned Obsolescence is an actual conspiracy it's just not a very secret one but it might as well be to anyone not involved in engineering. It's been applied to practically every device/appliance as the temptation to drive up profits can't be resisted. while planned obsolescence does hasten innovation it's not without cost. We unnecessarily increased the amount of trash we started adding our environment. Secondary side effects are the loss in quality. Tertiary benefits for the large corporations is this also makes competition from small mom&pop like shops nearly impossible. We used to make things of quality but planned obsolescence traded that in for quick and cheap albeit only cheap initially. Over the long term you end up paying more.
There is an excellent documentary called teh lightbulb Conspiracy that may still be on youtube. It features a lightbulb in a small fire station that was pre-planned obsolescence and the bulb's been burning for about 100 years if I remember correctly.
Mark - ChatGP uses deep learning. Check out this video where there' using this same deep learning tech to deal with cheating ion online video games. Very fascinating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkmIItTrQP4
I'm no fan of more government but there's a big difference between going from candles to a lightbulb and from controlled software to possibly uncontrolled software. I don't want to see progress/research hindered but I thin it is far to require those doing teh research to do so with care and caution. There's a reason you aren't allowed to build a nuclear bomb in your garage even if you do know how to. What you do poses risk to others so it has to be done with caution and unfortunately as the Internet Of Things has proven repeatedly, security is never these guys first or even second priority but last.
The idea behind artificially shortening teh lifespan of a light bulb is known as planned obsolescence; an engineering concept that states progress will be hastened by the artificial reauction or lifespan of some device because doing so will force more production in less time driving innovation. It's just a bonus that it also drives up profits. Planned Obsolescence is an actual conspiracy it's just not a very secret one but it might as well be to anyone not involved in engineering. It's been applied to practically every device/appliance as the temptation to drive up profits can't be resisted. while planned obsolescence does hasten innovation it's not without cost. We unnecessarily increased the amount of trash we started adding our environment. Secondary side effects are the loss in quality. Tertiary benefits for the large corporations is this also makes competition from small mom&pop like shops nearly impossible. We used to make things of quality but planned obsolescence traded that in for quick and cheap albeit only cheap initially. Over the long term you end up paying more.
There is an excellent documentary called teh lightbulb Conspiracy that may still be on youtube. It features a lightbulb in a small fire station that was pre-planned obsolescence and the bulb's been burning for about 100 years if I remember correctly.
I think Doc Vinay Prasad got it right, for the short term: the best few will succeed, but the mediocre masses will lose out.
Just like "smart cars" won't drive better than the few absolute best drivers, but will be more safe and efficient than the masses of mediocre drivers.
In the long term, that's a whole other story :)