I didn't realize Bing was actually successful, but it makes sense. I hate Microsoft with a passion and only started using their search engine somewhat recently, because I've been farming bonus points (don't tell Bill Gates). That's about 5 to 10 dollars worth of Amazon vouchers a month. Not exactly a fortune but good enough for just searching stuff. I'm still using Google for "serious" searches, but I guess I'm using Bing as a glorified vocabulary trainer. Or to memorize all 50 American states, or something. I wouldn't call it all smoke and mirrors, but it makes you wonder about official numbers. It's like with bots on X. I remember having an account and the only people engaging me were porn bots, who kept following me periodically.

That said, I even ended up installing Edge on Linux, which is about as perverse as it sounds like. I guess their social engineering department really got their hooks into me, like with those give-aways. ChatGPT for that matter is pretty decent despite Microsoft's involvement, which brings me to AI. It's not all there yet but I'm pretty confident it will keep improving for the time being. Don't know if it will reach human cognition, or self-awareness rather, but then I don't see why it shouldn't (superficially speaking). We're kind of a biological computer ourself, even if that's an oversimplification. You know, with us putting the logical into bio and so on. I'd say argue even our emotions are really just rational mechanism with a purpose, or aren't as random as it one might think (malfunctions aside). Evolution and such. If I remember correctly some AI people might've argued that implementing emotions could proof iself necessary in order to keep pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence. Or like some degree of apparant randomness, even if I'm contradicting myself there.

Makes me also think of I have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. One of the lesser known dystopian stories about the subjugation of humanity. Makes Terminator seem upbeat and optimistic.