Maybe buy a better laptop?

My 2012 MacBook Air was used for a decade, five years by me and then five years by a friend after I switched to using the iPad for everything instead for a while.

interesting read! i‘m really curious about the future and how AI will transform our current world.

does anyone know if ChatGpt is currently also learning from its users or is OpenAi restricting that?

Pretty much.

The market for upgrades in every product area is limited to enthusiasts and business. It's just not worth doing, honestly, unless the device is hideously expensive and the market is fast-moving but inconsistent like PCs in the 1980s and 1990s. Otherwise either upgrades don't give enough value to be worth buying an upgrade or you basically need to upgrade everything anyway.

Battery life is a solved issue with a lot of things, now, though. Because phones and laptops aren't increasing in capability as fast, manufacturers have started to offer free or nominal cost replacement services for those components.

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Marketing is wildly expensive. Companies rely heavily on their flagship products bringing people in to learn more and word of mouth from those who have learned more.

There wasn't any such thing.

The issue was that, a decade ago, companies were adding smart features without really grokking the implications of a sensor which can halt operation. This led to lots of products becoming useless because the sensor had failed.

This can be counteracted in some systems with a hard reset. The machine will sometimes have code to mark a sensor as bad when it runs the first-run diagnostic and will ignore the sensor thereafter. Other times the issue was just a routine that wanted the user to perform some maintenance task years later, long after they'd lost the manual, and they would not know how to reset the flag. (E.g., by powering on the coffee maker while holding the brew button or whatever.)

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to be your source for the cause. I work in IOT and this sort of stuff was among the war stories told by coworkers from the early days of the market.

I’m excited about the positive potential for AI but also think great caution is called for. With great power comes great responsibility. Unfortunately, we are human after all.

Then all the more power to you. No one is going to ban humans from cooking. Most people either lack time or will and bad diet is a serious problem which is why I think of cooking automation as a necessity.

The following submission statement was provided by /u/jamesj:

I'd like to share some of my thoughts and have a discussion regarding the timeline for AGI and the risks inherent in building it. My argument boils down to:

1. AGI is possible to build
2. It is possible the first AGI will be built soon
3. AGI which is possible to build soon is inherently existentially dangerous

So we need more people working on the problems of alignment and of deciding what goals increasingly intelligent AI systems should pursue.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/11bu6ev/why_the_development_of_artificial_general/j9zv8zv/

That's a problem with your warranty laws, not the products.

These kinds of failures are common because most failures are from a bad draw, i.e., a part that has a defect because some percentage of parts does.

Searching around, it looks like it wasn't planned obsolescence but malfunctions in various sensors. This was pretty common a decade ago as "smart" was just starting; it was a slapped-on feature that wasn't engineered well.

I love cooking and can do it well, I think I’ll always cook. Cleaning up is another matter.

Televisions were way more expensive back then, though, and advances in CRTs was really slow. So you needed it to last a long time to justify the purchase, even for a middle class family, and you could expect that it wouldn't really be behind newer televisions for many years because it took a long time for any significant changes to arrive.

The EU is discussing legislation to ban planned obsolescence. They’ve already made progress with right to repair… government getting involved in anything is unpopular these days but it’s the only way stuff that doesn’t directly lead to profits gets done….

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I think it will bring down the internet. It is going to be spammed so much just like bots that the internet will be unusable.

Paper is murdered ground tree bodies. You know from trees

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I'd like to share some of my thoughts and have a discussion regarding the timeline for AGI and the risks inherent in building it. My argument boils down to:

1. AGI is possible to build
2. It is possible the first AGI will be built soon
3. AGI which is possible to build soon is inherently existentially dangerous

So we need more people working on the problems of alignment and of deciding what goals increasingly intelligent AI systems should pursue.

Well in 10-15 years, when 3d printed housing gets better and more mainstream it will be much easier to build and assemble on site, like a plastic cement truck with a 3d printer on the back.

Writing prompts is only necessary because currently Midjourney is in a form of Discord server. As soon as they or someone else creates a proper user interface there will be no need for writing anything. Or very little need.

If you have read the article actually they won't primarily use trees. the main source of material would be paper.

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it'd be faster to just build a loom and supply it with twine

we need like 5 robots around the house just to dig up articles about the inevitable future