This is how I (also as a layman) look at it as well.
AI right now is limited to trained neural networks, and while they function sort of like a brain, there is no neurogenesis. The trained neural network cannot grow, cannot expand on it's own, and is restrained by the silicon it is running on.
I believe that true AGI will require hardware and models that are able to learn, grow and evolve organically. The next step required for that in my opinion is biocomputing.
That's the most annoying bit, they target you with an ad when starting just a 1-2 minute video.
They present the ad in the most intrusive and annoying way possible. It ensures that I will either ignore it, or never purchase that item or service out of spite. If you do this almost every time I play a quick video, it generates a very negative user experience.
If they focused on how to have ads coexist with the user experience and mesh better with the media being watched, they might not irritate every user by trying to make them impossible to avoid - and they wouldn't have to play this cat and mouse bullshit that eventually leads to their platform being irrelevant.
This happened to a local sports-bar chain around us. It was always decent and our first choice for family nights out, but after Covid it went downhill, locations closed, and the last location close by just started falling flat... empty even at busy periods, no wait staff, declining quality, etc. It just up and closed shortly after.
Lately for pizza I've only been ordering from Dominoes, mostly because it's sort of cheap but also consistent.
Not fantastic, not bad, but always pretty good.
I hope they keep up with it, whenever I go in they always appear fully staffed and in good spirits.
My inner sci-fi geek tells me that by this time, we discover faster than light travel, only it isn't compatible with life as we know it.
So we ship off these receivers to circumvent that limitation. Instead of travelling ourselves, we can send off our consciousness to inhabit a human-life analog to explore.
What that does to your psyche, and your body in limbo, are probably good material for a story, if it hasn't already been written.
My inner geek tells me it's more likely humans will plug themselves into the matrix because it'll be far more receptive to technological advances than actual exploration.
At best, you'll throw a bunch of nanoprobes everywhere to get new entropy into the system.
I was just thinking about what the alternatives to nuclear would have been, had it not been created. (Purely hypothetical, as I know it would require a vastly different timeline of scientific discovery to avoid nuclear entirely.)
Would we still have an equivalent war deterrent today without nuclear? What would it look like?
My guess is something biological. My tongue-in-cheek guess would be something zoological (laser sharks anyone? pigeon pirahna hybrids?)
A strategic deterrent needs to be targetable and scalable. Biological and chemical weapons don't have this property. Before nuclear, strategic deterrence meant maintaining a massive standing army and navy. This was very expensive and also difficult to scale due to the logistical footprint, so most countries could not maintain it very long. There is also the issue that the economic cost of strategic deterrence is relatively much higher for smaller countries.
What changed with nuclear is that you could maintain a credible and scalable strategic deterrent indefinitely at a tiny cost compared to maintaining conventional forces at an equivalent level of deterrence effect.
Scalability is a bit of an issue, but a biological weapon like weaponized anthrax or chemical weapon like a powder that converts to 4highly effective nerve gas could conceivably delivered by methods similar to the nuclear triad. Strategic bombers could airdrop them over population centers, and with enough engineering we could probably make ballistic missiles with payloads that disperse such agents in an air burst, using a small amount of explosives to scatter it over an area the size of Manhattan
WW2 showed that strategic deterrence with chemical and biological weapons doesn't work. Both sides feared gas particularly and therefore didn't use war gas on each other (civilians is another matter.) Germany had very potent nerve gasses and had reason to believe the allies did as well, and didn't dare use them. But the threat of these gasses wasn't strong enough to deter the rest of the war.
Biological has the advantage of not destroying the infrastructure of the place you are attacking nor making it inhabitable for thousands of years. So if you're wanting to take over the land after you remove the pesky opponents currently occupying it, nuclear is a really bad choice. Biological and chemical can be cleaned up and or inoculated against depending on method used.
The only reason nuclear weapons are easy to pinpoint is because so few actors are capable of making them. If you had one you could load it onto a semi truck, drive into the middle of New York or Moscow and detonate it, with all evidence conveniently destroyed in the blast.
Keep in mind that there are nuclear detection sensors deployed throughout the US and if you tried to roll a nuke-containing semi into New York, there would be a heavily-armed team trying to intercept you[1].
Supposedly[2], they are sensitive enough that it's untenable to transport enough lead around to shield it.
Agreed, but it was indispensable when I was learning VMWare over a decade ago for work. Having a free version I could tinker with at home was very useful.
This is just going to kill whatever hobbyist user base they did have, and make it harder to learn the platform.
People tinker with free stuff in their own time a lot. Some of those people would have sway in what products a business purchases in future, like virtualisation software for example.
Over the years, I've never seen a longer version. I thought CSPAN might have one, but searching for just "fred rogers" wasn't giving me any results pre-1980s. The PBS versions I've found are just the OP clip as well.
In my searches, I have seen one YouTube video that has a few seconds extra at the front[0], but I couldn't tell you if it's actually Senator Pastore screaming "shut up" or if the author sampled some random gavels and screaming, ha.
I'd love to see the full hearing just to get the context of how big of a shift Pastore really went through, but if CSPAN and PBS both don't have it, I feel it doesn't exist at this point.
I saw another post mentioned more games like Minecraft. There are a surprising number of options nowadays. I just got the kids Super Dungeon Designer and I think they are enjoying it. They also liked Sound Shapes.
Big point is essentially do not burden the kids with general coding, asset creation, or other software development style things. They want to make fun things and play with them, move to a content creation paradigm.
AI right now is limited to trained neural networks, and while they function sort of like a brain, there is no neurogenesis. The trained neural network cannot grow, cannot expand on it's own, and is restrained by the silicon it is running on.
I believe that true AGI will require hardware and models that are able to learn, grow and evolve organically. The next step required for that in my opinion is biocomputing.