Sorry, cutting in for a sec then ducking out again as threads go in different directions w/o me. (Not good or bad, just a thing.)
On this one I apparently picked a good title as it has definite interesting lasting power where I put it.
Pure accident, trust me. No, I did not find any of this laughable - no rotflmao. Not looking for that anyway. To me it simply was/is what it was/is. The series of criticisms and attempted putdowns is simply, to me, de regeur. It simply IS - nothing more. It's when people go beyond that that the good stuff comes out. (line from Maggie Smith in a Dev Patel flick)
As to linux replacing win, there is simply too much inertia and things will remain sorta the same until something replaces them and we probably cannot conceive of that now.
Present AI as commented here seems mostly a threat to screenwriters, TV, movies, fantasy, dynamic RPG and other games, etc, ( and by threat, it may actually vastly improve areas that rely mostly on regurgitated themes to sell popcorn and AI does that better and faster),
but not at all to an operating system which like the old ARPA net (with HASP and ASP) could take in a stack of jobs, process it, and disperse the answers to the appropriate place. I don't think that will come from the likes of GROK, but from other directions that we are not seeing yet or are simply not being publicised.
So, the flavor of this keeps returning to AI and am finding pieces of that interesting. I hope this interjected comment does not dampen that direction. Later.
I think computers, (back before Greek times) were intended to do "work", Now they are mostly for entertainment, and AI really adds to what it can do with that.
