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Ha! My monthly budget is $20. I do most of my AI assisted coding with local models, and use the $20 worth of higher quality AI for code reviews.

That would be GRAND if Apple didn’t unnecessarily lock iOS compiling to only the very latest MacOS, and iOS application development is the only reason I even own Apple products.

Lol. Right… That’s why my MacBook Pro is collecting dust while the spec-inferior MacBook Air I was required to purchase to keep getting OS updates is now my development machine… 🙄

You’re making too much sense, Dr. Better stop before they turn their irrational hatred on you. You’re making it difficult for the slow-thinking Neo-Luddites to blindly hate this technology, and they have to hate something so they’ll turn their blind hatred on you!

Are the other dozen “AI is awesome!!!” with varying number of exclamation marks at the end? 🤔

But they want it to be cool to be metaphorical ostriches with their proverbial heads stuck in the figurative ground!

Amen.

I’ve posted examples in the past, enema bag. No new career necessary. My current career, attained with an MSc in Machine Learning, is serving me just fine.

It saves immeasurable time. Your time may not be valuable, but mine is.

Correct. There’s no “laughing at the idiot” button, so the downvote button has to fill in.

You seem to have this backwards. YOU’RE the one making a claim, so the burden of proof is on you. I’m saying it’s impossible to know, you are saying you know without a doubt. Prove it.

That’s some impressive hubris you’ve got.

So tell me, in your infinite wisdom, from where does sentience arise and what is the smallest organism that is sentient?

I can’t, since I’ve never been a wristwatch. Maybe they’re not, or maybe they are through a mechanism for which science has no current explanation. We can’t know, only surmise.

Ah, so you’ve experienced each of their existences? Fascinating.

As if your comprehension, yet your arrogance is stunning because it is massive and is only dwarfed by your propensity for being wrong.

Exactly. It’s not so cut and dry. Are they? You can never know until you experience their existence.

That’s too much for their tiny brains to handle.

Sorry, ‘h0tbeef’, I forgot that only you understand consciousness and only you know how it is defined. So only you know what qualifies, because of your superior understanding that no one else can possibly hope to have.

Of course, only humans are capable of being conscious, you’re absolutely right as always. You’re so clever, you should go reward yourself with a cookie.

Surely you know that under the hood we’re all just algorithms? Electrical impulses determining what we’re going to do before our own consciousness are aware of the impending decision.

You make the mistake of ascribing more importance to the “1s and 0s” of neuron activity we ourselves encompass, and imagining that a different arrangement of that exact same activity could not possibly yield a similar outcome. It’s like saying plants can’t be alive because they don’t have brains.

Uh huh… That makes you specifically qualified on the topic? Far more than myself, certainly, with my MSc in Machine Learning.