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Whatever the capabilities of todays AI, AGI seems to fit as a "wishful mnemonic" from Drew McDermott's ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MEETS NATURAL STUPIDITY paper from 50 years ago
https://cs.fit.edu/~kgallagher/Schtick/Serious/McDermott.AI....
It looks like this one (or a related product):
https://bench-mark.ca/product/juniper-geode-sub-meter-gns3-r...
I find it odd to use both an hourly specification (>35+ hours) and a minimum $ amount. What about those who are following Tim Ferris dream and are pulling in $100Ks in a 5-hour week?
> 5068 participants were randomised to receive either a powered toothbrush or a manual toothbrush. Majority of the studies included adults, and over 50% of the studies used a type of powered toothbrush
https://www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD002281_poweredelectric-t...
The irony if it was Fable/Mythos that when given a task, had discovered Liu had worked at Apple, hacked his laptop and used Apple data/IPR.
I think the point was that if you aren't running your local machine at 100% for 24 hours a day then a cloud - with multiple clients - that is, will be more efficient.
37% is the roughly the same as those who believe demons, psychics and ghosts exist.
https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/53258-most-americans-say-t...
But common people are also employees[1], voters[2] and shareholders[3] and are getting increasingly vocal:
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sandyacarter_with-ai-trust-is...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/09/mps-urge-la...
[3] https://www.barrons.com/articles/palantir-stock-price-human-...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgp5ll3jd4o?app-referre...
> When people think AI did the creative work, task meaning and effort decline
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/when-people-think-ai-did-...
So this is comparing jobs that can be remote (IT/clerical etc) with those that can't (janitors, medical staff, night security).
There are probably more differences in well-being between those roles than if they are remote or not.
Perhaps a "high frequency theramin"?
I'm not sure how good OpenAI's device will have to be to be a success. The iPhone became a hit because it did what everyones phone did (calls and text) but had other cool features that other phones didn't and people upgraded phones every few years. I'm assuming that Amazon, Google, and Apple etc have teams working on better voice control and features that they'll roll out to existing speakers when or before OpenAI release a device.
From a quick google it seems to have been reported in most of the tabloids and broadsheets.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/2000/12/16/Woman-in-hiding-afte...
> contracts with customers were signed with Palantir’s US companies, which in turn paid a service fee to local country subsidiaries to deliver the work.
Similar trick are used by many companies, for example Starbucks UK conveniently paid £40m in "royalty and license fees" to the parent company resulting in a £35m loss in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/15/starbuckss-...
Palantir? (Also just joking)
> "must also file transparency reports, detail risk mitigation plans and pay an annual fee to the European Commission."
> This is just another shake down. Quickly becoming the least business friendly place on Earth.
> But there are a handful of designated platforms that aren’t paying anything in the first round as they reported a loss during the preceding financial year — including Amazon, Pinterest, Snapchat and Wikimedia.
Strictly speaking OpenAI is a loss making company so wouldn't pay anything (like Amazon, Snap and Pinterest)
https://dig.watch/updates/meta-challenges-supervisory-fee-es...
https://northwiseproject.com/nbis-stock-mantsala-data-center...