It depends on your definition of the touring test. If you want something that can speak like a human and mimic it, we are there. If you want something that can act like an expert in the field and converse with an expert in the field, hallucinations mean an LLM is going to act like a very confident liar to any expert. If we want AI capable of problem solving and reasoning, it isn't hard to show we really are not there yet.

I've been using AI quite a bit for a writing editor, though everything it suggests needs heavy editing, but it works better than me rereading it over and over again. The biggest problem is the AI always fawning over what I asked it to review. It takes a fair bit of digging through the almost sycophantic content to get the actual critique from the AI, even after asking it to stop flattering me a few times. Maybe some people will like this but it doesn't fit what I want from a friend.

Trump Is a Gold-Plated Security Nightmare

Sorry, couldn’t help myself after seeing that title.

I usually buy fairly new indie games that run great on old machines. However I will admit that most of the games I play were not actually made this decade...

Yep, my 10+ year old desktop still handles most of the indie games I like to play, even fairly new releases. Starfield is a very pretty PowerPoint presentation, but I don't need that level of graphics for most games I play. Sure my laptop with an NVIDIA 4070 card is the one I use to play when I don't want to go to the office and when I want high res screenshots for various artwork, but I don't feel like I'm missing out much when I use my "ancient" machine.

I will upgrade eventually, probably when there is less uncertainty on prices, but there isn't the need to move to new hardware because modern games have moved past or something.

Might as well...

Exactly what I'm referring to, but I'm pretty sure the lawmaker has no interest going after the lottery managers.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the poor tax either.

I didn't say the people who bought the tickets, I said the Texas lottery officials as they did not create rules to prevent this. Honestly this is mostly a sarcastic post that if Dan Patrick wants someone strung up for theft, the people who bought the tickets aren't responsible, the people who did not prevent this from happening with the lottery are, if anyone actually wants to consider this to be theft.

So are the people who allowed this to happen, the Texas lottery officials that were not smart enough to see this coming and create rules to prevent it, going to be charged for the theft?

Agreed

Mortgage rates are a lot lower than credit cards. So again, people that have the money to afford a mortgage are being hurt less than people who can't afford food and have to buy things like that with a credit card.

Still I will qualify that this is not people who have to buy fancy phones and cars on loan and could get by just fine with an old used car. I have no sympathy for people living above their means for luxury, rather than for subsistence.

Agreed, a lot of people make very poor decisions. That doesn't mean that there are people in debt because of unfortunate circumstances. Both need to be considered.

Yep, don't buy anything you can't afford with your paycheck. Interest rates just steal from your future income.

This works great, at least up until the point where what someone can't afford is daily necessities like food and gas.

If expecting the call centers to know more than what is written on the instruction booklet is being Karen, I will Karen it up in here!