> I thought that the chasm that AI couldn't cross was generality. By which I mean that you'd train a system, and it would work in that specific setting, and then you'd tweak just about anything at all, and it would fall over. Basically no AI technique truly generalized for the longest time.

That is still true though, transformers didn't cross into generality, instead it let the problem you can train the AI on be bigger.

So, instead of making a general AI, you make an AI that has trained on basically everything. As long as you move far enough away from everything that is on the internet or are close enough to something its overtrained on like memes it fails spectacularly, but of course most things exists in some from on the internet so it can do quite a lot.

The difference between this and a general intelligence like humans is that humans are trained primarily in jungles and woodlands thousands of years ago, yet we still can navigate modern society with those genes using our general ability to adapt to and understand new systems. An AI trained on jungles and woodlands survival wouldn't generalize to modern society like the human model does.

And this makes LLM fundamentally different to how human intelligence works still.

Trump and Elon still afford to look stupid, you can do it your whole life.

"The people I think are smart are those that try to look smart", that is the most plausible. There are probably many smart people who aren't afraid of looking stupid that you think are stupid for that reason.

Personally I dislike people who never say stupid things, because they are focusing too much on appearances and too little on trying to figure things out.

> Its still adding to the debt

Not really, this increases the profits of American oil and gas exports, USA is one of the countries that benefits from higher prices.

You could argue that just benefits petrol companies, but overall USA doesn't really lose on this its mostly the rest of the world that pays for it, and it might redistribute a bit inside USA.

But you don't need to put the military under the direct command of the civilian president like US does, if parliament can take military action against the civilian president and civilian action against the military leader then they have ways to deal with both.

American president is too powerful to deal with since he controls both the civilian and the military side.