>Did I or did they change?

>>Andreessen and his cronies are making large claims about what human beings want and need.

Could very well be a moving target according to what they need from human beings at the time.

That was quick.

Unrecoverable defect exists within the sharpie/chair interface.

Is repeatable.

Exhaustively reconfirmed as root cause of cascading fatal errors.

First they laugh.

Then they wanna just cry when it brings down their whole starfleet with a virus that they have no immunity to ;)

I like the looks of this.

Wrote something much simpler than this on a pre-PC desktop when I needed to plot.

If you're 21 years old now that's probably not enough :(

Maybe have to wait until you are about 61 ;)

Note: not my downvote, corrective upvote applied instead :)

From the comments:

‪Andy Meyers‬ ‪@andymeyers10.bsky.social‬ · 3h I said “launch window”, not “Launch Windows”!

Copilot (which one?!?) says "I'm sorry Dave, I cannot allow you to do that"

Elevators of ships, and on ships.

>Who does all the cleaning?

In some cases that would be the same person that does the most advanced innovative and/or creative work.

The idea behind the fully automated system is that fewer hired hands are needed for efforts that are routine enough. But not zero, you still need one person who can do everything at a minimum, if called upon for mission-critical operation.

In the case of the creative work and planning where it is out of the league for AI, these things need to always be done too, but they are not exactly "routine".

Once most of the tedious routine tasks are well-automated though, then the human brain behind the lab can finally relax a bit, with eurekas flowing at the same rate without needing a full 40 or 50 addititonal hours at the bench any more, while even more results are generated than they could do single-handedly too.

Which gives them the time to do the cleaning also, otherwise they would need two humans to serve their only automated system.

I get the idea that the OkCupid founders & investors did as well as they could with their dating business, and as a "byproduct" they built up a valuable representative database along the way.

Money was already being made off the dating alone, and the accumulating facial data was a no-cost item from the beginning.

Even though the data is mainly just a working foundation for the dating service, eventually the database got so big that lots of value could be extracted in other ways.

It would be difficult to put an exact dollar figure on the value of a database like that itself for sure.

And selling it could be considered unethical in some peoples' eyes, so those in control could very well have decided to start that adjacent facial recognition company in response. After all, regardless of an inaccurately valued asset, OkCupid is not passing the data on to a different company for good. The dating company is not losing anything nor getting any compensation for it. OkCupid just keeps on going like normal while the new face-recognition company springs up.

This is AI. This "limited" facial recognition approach doesn't require ownership of the data, they just needed to "borrow" it for a while.