Corporations are driven by people — they aren’t completely autonomous agents. Yet if you shot the CEO of Exxon or any of the others, what effect would it have? Another person of much the same ilk would swiftly move into place, much as stepping on a few ants hardly effects an anthill at all.

I've never understood why people feel compelled to share this take.

Edit, clarity: The quoted common rhetorical statement, not the overall essay's conclusions about AI.

This is pretend.

Thanks for the actual input, people who haven't worked around this kind of hardware are mostly limited to goofing around like it's sci-fi when it's mostly John Deere style nonsense

There aren't short-range EMP burst emitters, that's sci-fi pretend. These are real robot flashlight caddies they deploy at outdoor malls in Ohio.

Have you seen a teardown or something like that anywhere?

That's crazy that I nailed it in 1 try

Yeah I got people in Cleveland but they don't like AEW because they are wrong about which things are good

spread + AEW sounds like a great time OP I think its possible that your friends are not pro-level friends but maybe something else is amiss?

• live in ohio
• not good at video games
• only know 4 girls, all have same name
• the guys were all white dudes with beard + glasses, couldn't tell each other apart
• invited mean guy

if not one of those try getting pro friends

So it has been with all political carrots in the United States my entire adult life, regardless of who is in charge, which is why I don't believe in nations or electoralism anymore

Wikipedia is fine, it isn't "losing prominence." This is willful misinterpretation of a speech to make it sound more dire, a nonsense AI propaganda angle, and a bunch of ageist nonsense about Gen-Z that will be immediately familiar to anyone who pays attention to this kind of slop.

Please post better articles

Ars Technica is a captured outlet. They consistently post dangerous corpo propaganda and little else.

Why is Biz Insider so insistent on being cringe on top of being a worthless capitalist propaganda rag

The reason your someone might have thought this was a stupid question is because

• there is no evidence that AGI is imminent or even possible
• current tech labeled as AI is really limited in very boring ways, like LLMs

If some thing gets sold as an AGI, it will be a Mechanical Turk, As in, it will be a magic trick that actually uses human laborers like Amazon's "AI Store" where you just walk out with your purchases. "If it works, it's mechanical turks."