While some of the cited services have done some egregious stuff all on there own, I was taking it as mostly about how you have just so many of them and you have to keep track of what content is available via what service and how that changes over time.
Curiosity isn't part of the content shuffling part of it, but it is still a reminder of just how fractured the general experience is.
Of our surviving malls, they all had to go through a big redesign, to try to steer into the 'hang out' sentiment. Lot's of more higher end dining, a park, apartments/hotels/office space, a few small performance venues for bands.
A mall that has all of that now was, before the renovation, was department stores and specialty shops connected as spartan and efficiently as possible, with a fast food court for convenience but nothing you'd really want to sit longer than you absolutely had to. To the extent it worked as a teen hangout it was because they could grab some cheap food, be inside under a generic roof outside any stores, they could giggle at the stuff in Spencer's Gifts.
I saw one article actually going all in on how incredible GPT-5 was.
The thing is, the biggest piece that really made the author excited was the "startup idea" and it proceeded to generate a mountain of business-speak that says nothing. He proceeds to proclaim a whole team of MBAs would take hours to produce something so magnificent. This pretty much made him just lose it, and I guess that is exactly the sort of content idiot executives slurp up.
Keyboard substituted the wrong word, fixed.
Yeah, the fact you can "gaslight" a chat is just as much of a symptom of a difficulty as the usual mistakes. It shows that it doesn't deal with facts, but structurally sound content, which is correlated with facts, especially when the prompt has context/rag stuffing the prompt using more traditional approaches that actually will tend to get more factual stuff crammed in.
To all the people white knighting for the LLM, for the thousandth time, we know that it is useful, but it's usefulness is only tenuously connected to the marketing reality. Making the mistake in counting letters is less important than the fact that it "acts" like it can when it can't.
Oh the CS job market may just be more persistently toast. Yes there have been layoffs attributed to AI, however I think a lot of those businesses were kind of itching to do those layoffs anyway. There was way overhiring in the ~~security~~ sector in general, plus when the AI bubble pops it'll drag the test if the tech sector with it.
AGI might be just around the corner, or it might be indefinitely far off, but either way I don't think "just more LLM" is going to get there, and that seems to be all the AI industry is really equipped to handle at the moment.
Ironically, getting to AGI might take a bubble pop to stop the current LLM architectures from just sucking up all the resources to let other approaches breathe a little.
More practically, I'd have expected to see more engaged robotics, but it seems all the money is being spent on pure online AI approaches.
Of course, the downside of any of these memes for demonstration is that it's hard to know if it's real or not because once it becomes a meme, it tends to somehow or another get tweaked out. Like a commonly cited question from the humanity's last exam which LLMs could not answer suddenly got answered by them with pretty much the verbatim same answer, after enough people posted it and replied and it would appear in prompt stuffing giving the LLM the answer crowd sourced.
Seemed a likely outcome. On the way to being late, there were stories where basically they spent ungodly amounts of money in an attempt and then scrapped it because it wasn't actually any better. And that this happened multiple times.
So if they were truly stuck, what to do? They could admit they were stuck, and watch the economic collapse as investors realize they were mistaken on how far along the technology curve things were, or they could market the hell out of GPT-5 and pretend it's amazing and hope enough suckers and latecomers to LLM buy into that narrative that it carries through. Like Sam Altman acting 'scared' of what GPT-5 is going to be, "what have we done?" in a very melodramatic way like he's Oppenheimer or something, likening it to the Death Star (all in all, a very 'wtf' situation, if it were really as dangerous as you say, you seem awfully eager to get it going).
So we have an incremental iteration with some good, some bad, and perhaps overall better, but in the context of the ungodly investment in the LLM sector, it's way way less than would should reasonably expect.
Which is insane, it's a percentage, compensation for inflation is baked in.
I don't tip on tax.
But on the flip side if I receive a discount of some sort, I tip on the pre-discount amount.
Wait, you think Trump is being anti-genocide? The guy who relished the concept of 'Trump Gaza' after they get those pesky Palestinians out of there? Who said explicitly it should be given over to luxury real estate developers instead of Palestinians?