By this logic, we already have AGI. About 98% of people, I guess, never invent anything in their lives. They basically exist to live, work, reproduce, and die without improving any facet of life. To be clear, I'm one of those people, except I've yet to reproduce, and I think I've missed that opportunity.

Yes, I know, but AI companies have received investments totaling trillions of dollars, and a single invention like this doesn't bode well for the industry as a whole. There's been too much hype around AGI while "general" is few and far between.

Again, I still want AIs that can be fed all the information known e.g. prior to Maxwell or Einstein and see these models invent the Maxwell equations or the special or general theory of relativity.

What's the new test that AI is supposed to pass to be considered generally intelligent? Given that humans are defined as generally intelligent, it has to be a test that a below-average human would pass.

Arc-AGI-2: http://arcprize.org/leaderboa...

The best models currently perform at 4% versus a human panel at 100%.

Personally, I still don't think this is a valid test. A valid test would be an AGI making discoveries from existing data or offering testable, falsifiable theories. As far as I know, nothing has been done yet.

1. The people in question are not stuck. They live happily.
2. Those systems work like clockwork. They don't usually need replacing.

For all 1000 people in the world? Should I tell you how popular IRC or Jabber are? Hint: hardly anyone uses them.

And then are you willing to host all the user data? Because Skype had its chat history stored on Microsoft servers.

Finally, the mobile client sucks. Very slow and buggy. Are you willing to rewrite it?

Sorry, never going to happen. That ship has sailed.

That's probably the main reason for its downfall. With other messaging apps that use your phone number as an ID, you don't have to share anything. All your contacts are already there.

With Skype you have to share IDs that can be misspelled/misunderstood or lost as you need some app or an actual piece of paper to write them down. With a phone number you just add it to your contact list. Boom, done.

Relatively cheap international calls and even calls to other cities of your own country.

Google is not perfect as a steward of Chrome, but any other company or government agency could be a thousand times worse.

<p> will get you a new paragraph :-)

This is an announcement for... Certificate Authorities and all the 400 people in the world who do that job. It's almost completely irrelevant to the other 8 billion or so people.

The most important metric, the number of Nobel winners per million people, is conspicuously absent.

Chrome is not running as a root user. The helper exists only to drop even more privileges and it ceases to exist once you've launched the application. There's nothing to exploit.

You can run `ps faxu`, `top` or SysInternals Process Explorer to see it for yourself.

According to VirtualBox documentation video decoding acceleration works only if both your host and guest are Windows 10/11 and I'm a Linux user:

Enable 3D Acceleration: If a virtual machine has Guest Additions installed, you can enable accelerated 3D graphics on the VM. See Hardware 3D Acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9).

With 3D acceleration enabled, the VM also uses video decoding acceleration if the host also supports video decoding acceleration. The host must be x86_64 running Windows, and the VM must be x86_64 running Windows 10 or Windows 11. The VM can use video decoding of all media formats that are supported by the host, and CPU load is reduced during playback of these media formats.

Chrome Sandbox has actually made it a lot more secure vs. it running as a normal user process. Firefox actually features sandboxing as well, though it's more limited in its scope.

Right now we basically have two browsers: over 90% of them use the Chrome engine, and Gecko/Firefox is a distant second. That's it, and good luck with it.