OpenAI boldly promised the imminent arrival of the digital super god that can solve EVERY problem in the universe.... And now they are forced to admit "rate of improvements slowed"? Surprise!
The winds of change are blowing strong now. Shit is bound to change a lot in the next few years.
How it started. How it's going.
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. - Laozi
Google: The "how little can we do to capture your data" company
When i first encountered Ted Nelson's "Project Xanadu" in my teen years, i was confused & intrigued. After years of working on it, I've come to terms that Ted is poetically describing "an experience of water & interconnection"
Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth (1969) - By Giorgio de Santillana (Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science M.l.T.) and Hertha von Dechend (Professor für Geschichte der Natur-wissenschaften, Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt) (PDF) (Wikipedia)
MIND CONTROL - Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors.
It has been shown that the human brain can be stimulated through pulsations of certain electromagnetic frequencies, these can be emitted by screen devices or radio frequencies causing physiological sensory resonance in humans. By means of a simple program it is possible to manipulate the nervous system of a subject at a subliminal level. Patent US6506148B2 (google this)