Not OP but for me it comes down to "asking a person" ≠ "asking a device". Besides just to be pedantic one of the thing you've described is not something an llm would be able to do, and for the second one... That's what watches and clocks are for. You don't need to have a datacenter running smwh in the world or a beefy PC to take a glance at the time. If you think you do, I personally wouldn't call others "a little strange" if I were you.

Asinine comments such at these is the reason why we have countries having to sound an alarm in the first place

Agree. Also what upsets me the most is that to a great extent, all of these antics he pulls out are largely ignored by its userbase, meaning that most of the people using OpenAI products are either ignoring or ignorant altogether of what he truly thinks of them. I'm not advocating for stopping GenAI usage because of this, but considering there are several equivalent competitors out there, it'd be mostly warranted to boycott OpenAI for these exact reason.

Otherwise the message that remains in the eye of these ghouls is that no matter how much you treat the world population as annoying cattle, they'll gobble it up in exchange for restaurant suggestions and rageslop

Yep that's true, on the other hand the trend I've been seeing in the last months is worrying me, in that the company I'm working for and other adjacent ones, the focus is to hand off the development to "managed agents" or whatever, relegating embedded engineers to basically just V&V or QA. The increase in crap code has been duly reported by employees such as me and promptly discarded, considered just FUD by upper management

imho it was definitely popular before and altman adopted it to fit in with the online crowd

sama writing like that is not a new thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1000015

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=59004

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15 (from literally the first HN thread ever)

Also, it's perhaps somewhat hilarious to suggest that someone who has been chronically online for decades has to do anything to "fit in"

He writes as people who grew up on IRC and similar platforms tend to.

oh okay, I shouldn't have judged that so haphazardly. thx for the references

he's started making videos way before LLMs were able to aid in researching content. He's just good at doing what he does, no tricks there.

They just know it's not going to happen

Not the best counterpoint to the argument IMHO, especially considering there are tens/hundred of thousand of people that do the same as you, and that has only driven rent cost up in the extended Milan metropolitan area, even 30-40 km further away from the city, and with roads that are not nearly capable enough to carry commuters' traffic, it just transforms the underlying issues into massive, daily traffic jams anywhere in the immediate area

What about EU's CRA?

Doesn't really do anything to ensure the end-user truly has ownership over the device and the ability to control what software runs on it. 10 years of security updates is nice (assuming the company making the device doesn't go out of business in that time) but doesn't stop those devices becoming vulnerable after that (and a truly useful device will likely have more than 10 years of useful life). I don't know the specifics of the CRA, but most proposed regulatory solutions I've seen intentionally take control away from the end-user.

The manufacturer is encouraged to open source the product at the end of the life plus the government agencies now have a saying in what is EOL.

If you still sell EOL Products, you have to make sure it is still save, even as distributor.

Take control away from the end-user is a good point, I will keep this in mind.

You are the only one mentioning it.

I think the CRA is the right step in the right direction. Companies can finally be fined when they sell a product that has known vulnerabilities.

This is something that is discussed for years - now we have a definite Law.

And we already see changes: if you install Windows, the first thing it does is to get patches and the start over.

If that someone then takes that work that you're providing for free to other people to build on it, makes a closed source product out of it and gives you no attribution, then you can be darn well sure I want to protect it.