They run for Uber and don’t charge extra. Regardless, they aren’t profitable, and last year they lost $5 billion, see https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2026/02/waymo-losses-about-5-billion.html

So, helping for the worse?

How?

They aren’t making any profit with self driving taxis, though.

All the top “open source” models have been created by Chinese and US private companies.

And they aren’t giving anything away because of the love in their hearts.

The hard thing will be to tell if they are actually afraid.

By that definition, pretty much everyone is part of some problem, which makes the statement a tautology, like saying that all men are human, or all the fish need water to survive.

So, good job on contributing nothing.

Because they didn’t load absolutely anything.

I guess most people here are too young to remember that even drivers were loaded at a per program basis, e.g. you would need to configure each game you played to use specific video and audio hardware. Nowadays that doesn’t happen.

A dishwasher also “boots up” instantly, and they come with WiFi now! The point is that they are not comparable.

Modern phones shouldn’t need the same level of bloat as modern computers, so your Linux argument fails there as well.

I see. You haven’t any working understanding of computers or logics. That explains a lot.

People like you are so detached from the actual complexity of modern interfaces like USB, you don’t even know that there was a time we couldn’t even plug in a mouse without having to restart the whole computer, or that there were six different video interfaces incompatible with each other, etc.

This fake ass “things were faster before” is laughable. Yeah, go ahead and display a 32-bit color image in DOS while playing a sound file. Oh, it doesn’t have a complex compositor and a window manager? It cannot handle multitasking? It doesn’t even load your sound card drivers outside of an application? No shit.

Sure, let’s compare a single user, 16 bit, text only OS, with Windows.

Apple, Commodore all booted into their OS instantly. Disk drives worked, no BIOS needed.

Again, apples and oranges.

I/O drivers were stored as part of the ROM in both Apple and Commodore. That’s your ancient equivalent to BIOS and kernel. But they loaded essentially nothing, and didn’t need to handle a myriad of different devices and interfaces. The whole thing took a few kilobytes of storage, and obviously, wouldn’t handle anything that wasn’t very specifically supported.

A modern Linux kernel would also boot in a couple seconds if we were to strip every single driver from it but the handful needed to handle a monitor, an input device, storage, etc. The moment you plugged in a mouse, it wouldn’t work, and without an UI or even an interpreter, it would be useless. And I can assure you, it is way faster to load zsh in a modern computer, than any BASIC interpreter on an Apple II.

It’s easy to “boot up instantly” when not even the OS is loaded.

Modern BIOS load also instantly. Care to explain what you can do with that?

Computers in the 80s took so long to load anything, I could go out, get some coffee, and come back before they finished, e.g. any Spectrum or Commodore would take 20 minutes to load stuff from the tape drive. Wyse network terminals would leave you hanging for ten minutes and then fail netbooting because some shit with the token ring network.

So, no, they didn’t “instantly boot”.

Models aren’t retrained from zero. They can be fine tuned or they could even have added a routine to handle specific cases like this.

For example, Claude used to have a routine that would call external tools embedded in the app to parse structured data and transform it. Not sure about how it does it now.

You really think one cannot be scammed if they agree to a price beforehand? Regardless of surge pricing, or the fact that, in many cities, Uber is more expensive than regular cabs?

The other is service quality - never heard of a cab you can call with an app where it shows you how far it is and how long you have. At least where I live, you have to call for one and just hope they show up.

Again, sorry that you live in a country where cabs suck ass and aren’t properly regulated I guess.

I’m sorry you live in a place where cabs aren’t regulated, I guess. Because where they are, meters are mandatory.

good luck knowing if you’re being ripped off when you don’t know the streets.

How is Uber any better on this regard? Agreeing on a price beforehand doesn’t mean that it is a fair one, at all. Surge pricing is a thing.

Yeah, the forklift analogy doesn’t work either.

“Exceeding human capabilities” is not always a good thing.

But anyway, the compiler analogy doesn’t work. Compilers aren’t statistical machines.

They weren’t. Uber isn’t either.

Your point?

It’s funny you say that, because I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve been cancelled on by Anglo uber drivers.

Where do you stay that you cannot find nice hotels at that rate?

$150 a person is $300 for a hotel room, and I get fresh towels and bed sheets every day.