If spam filtering counts as "AI" then yes

I doubt it does given the spam filtering has again, been there for 2 decades.

We’ve had AI for decades, just not the kind of low-value, high-priced slop generators that are synonymous with AI today.

I assume Google just wants to rebrand Bayesian analysis as “AI” so it can claim it’s been doing that for decades.

PR can be a lot of bang for your buck.

https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

But can't be bothered to avoid Palantir or Microsoft.. that would be TOO tough! Learn all those new buttons (once) and that confusion with ~ instead of C:\. Oh the difficulties! :D

Your analogy kind of falls on its face considering `C:\` is `/` not `~` which would be `%USERPROFILE%`.

How do I get to d:\apps from c:\

It depends on your shell. I think MINGW bash has `/mnt`? maybe it's just `/c`, `/d`, etc.? but for cmd, it's the command `cd D:\apps && D:` and powershell handles it gracefully with one command for drive changing `cd D:\apps`

So cd /path/to/ and cd /d c:\path\to\d:\path\?

Until China decides they don't want to sell to them that is.

FeatureToggles.swift

eligibilityd

https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Eligibility

It's not clear what the US plan even is. Move all manufacturing back home and compete with China ASAP?

Even if it’s a goal, it’s not a plan. The article talks about it, but Biden’s push for manufacturing wasn’t very aggressive, and Trump has basically stopped it. We’ve seen a loss in manufacturing jobs from tariffs and Trump idiotically deported Korean engineers working in local battery production plants. Simply protecting our existing companies (which are not very efficient, see shipbuilders) is not even close to enough to competing

With trump at the helm, do you think there is much of a plan?

The US doesn't have a plan, it has a framework. The framework allows it to be nimble in a way that centralized economies (like China) can never match. My money's on the US out-competing everyone else in the long run.

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or if you are serious. The USA’s framework is to just wish for things to happen and then be surprised when those things don’t happen. There is basically no executing plan beyond grifting money to a few corporations because they supported the president during the election.

Seriously, and we have one of the most centrally planned economies in existence, it's just controlled by the elites rather than through democratic norms as it was during the new deal coalition.

Plan?

They don't even have a concept of a plan.

The "US plan," is driven by the executive office. That is to say, the by the US president.

Insofar as there is any plan, the current officeholder's priorities are to project the appearance of personal power on television. If you're wondering what's going on strategically, don't go thinking that there's some grand plan, or even an intention to benefit the United States in the long term. There are some people in the cabinet who are thinking long term, but that's not universal, and that's not what they're selected for. Every action that is taken is to satisfy the president's narcissism and ego in the present moment. You have to understand the "US plan" in this light for anything coming out of the executive office to make sense.

The US plan is to enrich oligarchs who are friendly with Trump and to enact white nationalist policies.

Anything beyond that is just like a kid playing an arcade game without putting any quarters in.

It all falls into place if you contemplate the possibility that there is no US.

There's stock market bros, kill people bros, government welfare bros and some mega business bros.

None of them want to know anything beyond my kids go to private school, get nepo baby job.

This is what humans are capable of - not just in USA, as a species. USA's 'plan' or rather inevitability is to fall apart. China will be the next power and it'll also fall apart, like USSR fell apart and USA is falling apart for the world to see.

Maybe in another few thousand years it'll be different, I doubt it. Read Plato's Republic you're above 140 IQ - it spells it all out so nicely that one you grok it, you need not know much of anything else regarding politics.

American cinema is awash with special effects since Jurassic park or so .. with a few good films in between :)

Social media businesses for sure have seen benefits

for sure, but I am interested in the actual use-case and some real world examples and statistics about the value AI provides. Like, +50% social media post engagement which leads to +X% revenue.

Reviewing the year is good practice