this kind of white washing is pretty dumb to put on slashdot. A lot of programmers on this site, meaning a lot of people who know that when you increase cognitive load you get crashes of all kinds... what is this crap?

that's basically a biblical timeframe for a biological big bang, not a scientific one...

Hey, but the Levenshtein distance was close! Too bad you were searching for an exact number, instead of searching for one of the 200 misspellings of Britney Spears. That would have worked great. Recently their struggle is how to juggle the different search use cases while trying to inject AI wizardry into the mix, in a desperate effort to remain relevant, where they are bursting apart at the seams. Nobody knows how it works anymore. Not even them.

Reading this: "Removing it might mean, if you have a massive site, that we're better able to crawl other content on the site. But it doesn't mean we go, 'Oh, now the whole site is so much better' "

Translated into English, that means they can't even get their own story straight. Which is that their algorithms are so old and crufty that they can't even give you a straight answer. And that's kind of the point. Because if they could, you could game it. So the entire algo has turned into this messed up Nash equilibrium game where even Google couldn't exactly tell you on a given day what SEO works these days.

Which explains a LOT about why Google searches are getting less relevant these days.

Well maybe it's paying for Bob Iger's salary because apparently the artists and producers aren't seeing a dime of that money.

Why the hell are consumers being asked to pay more when we are seeing evidence of residual checks for LITERALLY pennies?

This is exactly how it was working a couple months ago. They just messed up the Wolfram connection in the latest iteration.

That seems intuitively true but it is actually an oversimplification. What you're saying is not general AI characteristic; really it's sort of a superficial derivative observation of LLM behavior. LLMs are themselves advanced statistical models - and those models are actually so complex they are impossible for humans to operate directly, and it is something only a computer is good at.

This is all nonsense and a misunderstanding of what they did and how ChatGPT works.

The LLM is always bad at math beyond absolutely trivial stuff.

They had the version from a few months ago hooked up to a Wolfram Mathematica back end (unannounced apart from a separate plug-in to Mathematica) and the connection to that is just wonky at the moment.

The LLM does not "do" math out of the box.

Legal issues/narrative points are:
1. guy writes book
2. producers provably were 100% of book and copied key creative conceits (figuring they could do it safely while threatening dude not to make his own movie)
3. guy is now owed 50% of screenplay rights at least; screenplays = 25% of movie rights by industry convention, so guy has claim to 12.5% of movie
4. Apple settles for 12.5% of producers' fee plus 12.5% of producers' bonus plus legal, or Apple faces 12.5% plus triple damages (50% total loss) or injunction (100% total loss)

Apple/producers should settle this and move on. Producers made risky moves in what appears to be possible bad faith and are in a weak position.

Having Mike Wirth run Chevron is a lifetime cancer risk. Here is his page: https://www.chevron.com/about/...

The guy responsible is Mike Wirth, CEO and Chairman of Chevron. https://www.chevron.com/about/...

This is similar to Ubidollar project on facebook dot com slash ubidollar

However Ubidollar allows anyone to stake a claim to an actually Universal Basic Income cryptocoin generated on a regular schedule by just posting a message in the group, which creates an identity-linked timestamp, which will then be converted into coin based on the timestamp once it reaches critical mass.

yes it's going to be awesome for hearing impaired party-people to use this stuff... it's also going to be a blast for everyone else.

the inclusivity will be that as a hearing-impaired person you are experiencing a good chunk of the SAME experience that hearing-enabled folks are experiencing at the same time, because yeah... hearing people are greedy for sensory fun beyond hearing as well

and don't forget vision impaired people as well... a great party will have sound, lights and physical sense now... and almost everyone will be able to experience at least two of those, so almost everyone gets most of the experience (even deaf-blind folks can enjoy the physical third so there is literally something for everyone)

And not to be glib, but if you are deaf, blind, and have been badly burned so your nerves don't work, you've got bigger problems than party issues.

Yeah, no. Sundar knows that robots.txt already covers the use case. He just wants to make up a new rule to have an AI-scraping "excuse" because the new rule has nobody following it by default, and he intends Google to be the primary recipient of that pretext.

The cruelty is the point.

Let me get this straight. Teflon pans are causing a hole in the world economy the size of the US GDP? All we do is get rid of them and we could solve world hunger and have enough to fund a tether belt to the moon?