For Hindi speakers, it varies from region to region. For some everyone except close friends get the honorific 'you', for some you've got to be minimum two generations older.
Nah, there's a place to exercise your sense of fashion like special events in school. Good schools encourage independent thinking in other avenues.
Also, authoritarianism and conformity don't always go together.
Sizes are different. Before "AI" went mainstream, those in machine learning were very excited about word2vec and reinforcement learning for example. And it was known that there will be improvement with larger size neural networks but I'm not sure if anyone knew for certain how well chatgpt would have worked.
Given the costs of training and inference for LLMs, I doubt you can see nerds doing it. Also, previously you didn't have big tech firms. Not the current behemoths anyway.
To give examples of inefficiency - we have five fingers and surely one fewer makes no difference in capability, we have 2 legs whereas 4 will be more stable and faster, eyes can't see in uv or ir.
There are some things that don't really effect robots but shows poor design like complexity of nose and throat being a choking hazard :D.
Managing to be successful as a species is just evolutionary competence, which is a "random walk" through genetic changes that happened to create something better than others (not the best, just better than rest) for a larger set of environments
Dude, humans are not perfect general purpose solutions. That's why we use machines or animals.
Also, I don't get what you're saying 'baseline understanding of interactions and tasks'?
In the age of broadcast media, that is of TV, newspaper, etc., there is a common perspective and culture being set. Now we're in the "feed" age. There is greater variety and speed.
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