I'm wondering why would Woz care tht much about this publicity, even through a Serbian friend connection (tennis player Tipsarević). Serbian tech scene is getting stronger every year, getting some big tech presence, but still I doubt Woz would really care about it.

But how is this different than Google or any other company provide their services only through native apps? They can choose today to cut anyone who is not using native app and they are choosing not to do so.

The web is flooded with people complaining that their google accounts were terminated for seemingly arbitrary or random reasons. They are choosing to do so.

A good number of those companies only provide native applications for mobile, and web applications for desktop (Google Docs/Sheets is a good example). If forced to use only native apps, you'd be locking people using desktops out for the most part.

So, in principle, how is this different approach than DBT?

dbt is a tool for defining and orchestrating in-database transformation jobs. Typically you write SQL statements to define the transformations (plus some template language to pull in additional context if needed).

PRQL is an alternative language for writing queries which compiles to SQL. There is a dbt plugin which presumably allows you to define the transformations in PRQL instead of SQL, while everything is still orchestrated by dbt.

So you said it yourself, it's not really a 100% utility as "someone" decides what is a spam and what's not. Try running an email service yourself. Being open protocol still gives leverage to someone to decide who can and cannot use the service, and who can monetize ads.

What _does_ count as a utility, then? I expect anything that is considered (or even legally classified) as a utility is going to have rules and "someone" to decide who to kick out; e.g., the electrical grid, or the water supply, or the telephone system, or council rubbish collection, etc.

I'm from EU, and i've been driving both manual and automatic transmission. I can testify that auto transmission is safer, your hands are 100% at the steering wheel. Most people cannot turn and change gear at the same time.

I've also spend quite a bit time in US driving. EU is safer as narrower streets/lanes and smaller number of lanes (on highways), closer parked cars and pedestrians/bicycles forces you to pay much more attention.

> Most people cannot turn and change gear at the same time.

That's just not true. If you cannot do that, you won't get your driver's license in most countries.

Sweden has very strict tests for the drivers license, and afaik you can easily pass those without ever turning (more than a fairly small bit) and changing the gear at the same time. With the planning you are supposed to learn this is kind of a natural consequence.

Part that I dont understand, whenever new tech comes up why affected dont use it at their own advantage. Why don't creators don't use it to create their own (better) summarization (for example as a short video), and work with (new) aggregators?

Do you think that AI summarization is better than your own, of your own video? If there is a value in summarized version, create it and leverage it.

Well, maybe bot asked that question.

KITT talking scene is so relevant to 2023

Indeed, but my objections aren’t placed due to higher productivity, but rather about personality and accountability.

Imagine someone stalking you, imitating your way of communication and professional style and then emulating work for a high stakes project.

Body doubles happens right now within IT space but having people reduced and used as a text generation model would be another level.

To offer counter perspective, how is this different than any craftmanship being replaced for centuries by mass scale factories and automation. Is this is just the last wave of workforce displacement by automation?

Steven Zapata has a really good video on Youtube about "the end of art". He offers this analogy:

If a factory worker at a car manufacturing plant was handed a screwdriver, and he claimed it was "replacing" him, we would know that he is incorrect; it is a tool designed to make him more productive. But the day they rolled out the robotic assembly lines, however, he was correct: those were designed to replace him. And they did. And now he lives in the Rust Belt with a degraded quality of life and few job prospects because he didn't just lern 2 code.

Yeah, a tool = increased productivity => output = worker time x multiplier a robot = automation => output = machine time (without human) + worker time (part that cannot yet be automated)