Thanks for asking the questions seemingly obvious questions so that I don’t have to wonder.

I had a broken thermometer safely stored in Tupperware and (super safely!) wrapped in a bread bag in my garage for three years.

Every so often I’d google how to dispose of it. I called places on lists and they had no idea what I was talking about.

Eventually I just threw it away. I decided it was safer than forgetting about it and someone accidentally exposing themselves.

It’s incredible how many things used to have lead and how little is harmful. It never leaves your body. It just gets diluted as you make new blood. So crazy.

Bullets, paint from the 60’s, vials of mercury from your old thermometer, anything you’re waiting to take to the hazardous waste day that is usually held for 2 hours during working hours once a year as published on the bulletin board at the fire station.

Also just around the time I bought a System76 to WFH. I was bitterly disappointed

It’s no longer supported. The installer is just an old copy

Agreed. I thought your stuff looked spammy at first but the content and analysis is really top notch. Just like ChatGPT I only fear your monetization strategy

Well even we’re living to 200 my kids will say their dad heard it from gayhitler

I was going to link it, but the search results are amazing. I remember getting that in an email back in the 90’s.

https://www.google.com/search?q=clippy+suicide+note&tbm=isch

Edit: I remember when I had to click on “just write the document without help” on nearly every document.

I always remember the “Looks like you’re working on a suicide note, I can help!” picture.

Who’s going to start the company to build the next president?

I asked it to do ASCII art and it refused

Great point. AI will be doing a lot more with a lot less.

There have to be so many inefficiencies with the design of CNNs and reinforcement.

Clearly you don’t need the totality of human knowledge to be as smart as a above average 20 year old, but that’s what we’ve been using.

ChatGPT is like a well mannered college student who’s really fast at using google, but it obviously took millions of training hours.

Humans are pretty smart with limited exposure to knowledge and just thousands of hours. When ChatGPT makes it’s own AI, it’s going to be bananas.

I think whatever distinction you’re making those realities will be less than 5-10 years, which I consider essentially simultaneous.

China could keep it a secret for as long as it makes sense to do so. (Or has been keeping it a secret)

The US? Who knows.

Companies? They’ll want Qn+1 profits

No and maybe I’m wrong.

There is no way in hell that thing is scalable.

The energy required to recognize the fruit, the place to pick it, what to do if it’s windy and moving… all that would be very energy intensive, like mining bitcoin server farm type of energy.

Then you have to believe many stems break and the fruit drops, or the fruit isn’t ready yet and you need to judgmentally follow up with a second crew in 2 days or whatever.

The machine would have to cost at least a million and any repair would be expensive as well. For a million dollars you could have a city of decently paid seasonal workers (ok well 250 workers with monthly expense of $4,000, so maybe a small village).

So initial cost plus energy plus upkeep plus net product gain loss (I’d like to the video of this machine working in rain or less than ideal conditions), I’m guessing the prospect of replacing humans is way down the line.

Disclaimer; I’m not a farmer.