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In 2016, Google’s boss Sundar Pichai was talking about “AI everywhere”. Possible?
Remember what happened with Google Maps.
"Way back in the mists of time," writes John Naughton, "the Google co-founders decided that they would map the entire planet. It was a stupendously expensive and ambitious project, made possible only by the fact that their company had money to burn. But they did it, in the process creating one of the networked world’s most useful resources.
"And now? Try booking a hotel, a restaurant, finding a garage, a sports venue, or almost anything else that has a geographical location, and under “location” on its website you find the relevant segment of a Google map, which is incorporated into the site using the company’s Maps Embed API.
"Something analogous is already beginning to happen with ChatGPT: in time, whenever you encounter a text box on a website or in an app, you’ll find yourself dealing with ChatGPT (or one of its digital peers) courtesy of an API. In this way, Pichai’s idea of “AI everywhere” will be realised, even if the AI in question isn’t particularly intelligent."
Below: these two persons never existed, but were pieced together with digital A.I.
...there was a sober silence in the room. Samuel Adams, a key figure in the American Revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, spoke up to say,
“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
Colonel Douglas MacGregor predicts a continuation of the Iran war soon, once all sides have replenished missile stocks.
"Washington’s political class manifests much less regard for the long-term strategic interests of its own citizens—their security and prosperity. As a result, Washington pays an exorbitant price in reputation and treasure for policies that confront Palestinians with the choice of death or expulsion from their homelands.
"Assumptions of tacit acceptance or rapid capitulation are implicit and dangerous.
[The Muslims will not 'do a deal.']
"When Hitler was briefed on the expected Soviet reaction to Operation Barbarossa, Major General Ernst Koestring, a Prussian officer fluent in Russian from a family that had lived in Moscow since the reign of Catherine the Great, advised: “Initially, German forces will advance rapidly. The various peoples on the Soviet periphery will likely welcome the German forces. Resistance will be weak. But when the Germans advance into ...
