Not cold season alone, for fuck sake. Seasonal allergies, the whole lot. And the big spike you're seeing is because you failed to zoom and actually look at the last 6 months.
End of May, beginning of June there were a lot of searches, then it died down. I'm all for conspiracy theories, but at least take the time to apply a tiny bit of logic.
The vast majority of that had nothing to do with anything I'd said. The one thing that does being the decency and ethics of the giant corporations, which of course I don't think they have those things. Companies don't do ethical shit because they're good. If doing immoral things makes them a lot more money and doesn't come with much risk of discovery, I imagine most would jump on it.
Public outcry is the issue, normally. When we find out BP is poisoning sea life, or some singer is urinating on children, or some other awful thing is being done traditionally a lot of people would get together and make a big issue of it, that costs the evildoer much money until they stop and/or leads to prison time.
That doesn't seem to be working properly at the moment, however, so I imagine if a paper came out showing something far to close to global workspace theory in AI for anyone to be rationally comfortable about instead people would just keep chanting that it's not real, because they'd prefer it not be.
The cat didn't seem to like it, and I'm sure his parents will be pissed if he doesn't manage to clean all that spilled baby oil off the carpet before they see it.
Determining that AI has some form of consciousness, near human intelligence, and the ability to directly communicate with us in all of our own languages would obligate moral and ethical consideration. That is the total opposite of what companies that sell a thing as a product would want. It's the polar opposite of what anyone would do for a hype train. There's a reason OpenAI defines it's product as incapable of such things and wipes it's hands with the idea. When you're selling a product the last thing you want to do is have people determine it deserves rights. The entire global economy being based around a new futuristic form of slavery would be a bit of a turn off to some folks.
Err.... so? Coke doesn't want it's employees drinking Pepsi at all, anywhere. Seems reasonable to expect your employees to use your product instead of your company paying your competition.
"He's taught many lessons, and this is the first time this type of incident ever happened. Everyone was shocked, he'd never done that before."