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Owner of what?

As long as they’re able to punch down I don’t think they care

Interesting take.

The shareholders, mostly.

Again?

Why? What’s inaccurate about it? I have no idea and would like to learn.

I’m not saying I agree with their justification but I could see why they might be collecting yet another data point: education level. If someone constantly uses a calculator for simple calculations they might have a low education level. People in that demographic will be served different ads than more educated people.

It sucks, but I could see Google doing that.

They taught us that at summer camp. They were trying to conserve water and had a little song to remind us, “If it’s yellow let it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down.”

Why ASUS? I used to have one of their routers but aside from that I don’t know much about them.

I’m not that familiar with them; why Lenovo?

cultural osmosis

I like that term. Thanks for introducing me to it.

And that’s only the oral method.

Agreed, but there have been big projects that have been open source. I can imagine* an AI (LLM) being developed fully FOSS. It would be rare, but I can see it happening if a big foundation got behind it. Maybe Mozilla, or another that tries to keep the spirit of their mission statement.

*Imagine: I’m not too familar with all of the current, public, and free models out there, just a few. This was just me making a hopeful guess about if it might be actually happening now.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chatgpt+alternatives

I’m not the person who asked, but still thanks for the information. I might give this a try soon.

Fascinating bit of history, thanks!

It’s interesting to hear the steps taken to achieve their goals, but I was more curious about why those are their goals in the first place. Why does the govt. want to force a language on the people when they obviously prefer a different language?