Legged robots are little more than 'reflexes', continuously responding to various sensors to keep from tipping over. As for "trying new things", keep in mind that you're watching propaganda. Take anything seen or said with a few grains of salt.

You're deeply confused. The parent is talking about autonomous robots, not generating text. Companies have indeed been "faking it" for years, sometimes with dancers dressed like robots, sometimes with proper robots controlled by a remote operator.

As "gramatical perfection", you seem to have confused the whole of AI with silly chat bots. Those also "fake it" in countless ways, thought I should probably point out that grammatically correct output is the easy part. Still, Joe Weizenbaum's Eliza proves that we can not only fake "gramatical perfection" in a chat bot, doing so is trivial.

You'll find that a lot of the superficial 'human-like' things have been little more than smoke and mirrors for about as long as we've been making humanoid robots. A mix of actual technology and stage magic will get you a vacuum-tube robot than can respond to voice commands in 1939.

The rush is that burning it is buggering up the planet. If the US refuses, it becomes a security issue and we be dealt with appropriately.

While there is no "NLP layer", and LLMs do fall under that category, he's not exactly wrong here. A surprising amount of tinkering with the input and output outside of the model goes into making them seem less silly. As for "communicating with a system in natural language", having pretend conversations isn't quite the same thing, is it? If your goal is to translate messy NL input into precise commands, LLMs can only really fake it. Sure, it's good enough for things like function calling, as long as the stakes are low and the alternative is almost certain failure. Given how they work, however, this is not something they'll ever be able to do reliably enough for anything that actually matters.

These are the kind of nasty little services you see in Asian countries where people are working 12 hours a day 6 days a week.

Basically you don't have time for anything so at some point if you have an errand you need to run you end up having to pay somebody else to do it even if it's something as simple and stupid as this.

You justify it by saying that you're getting paid at your job enough to cover this but you're actually massively overworking yourself and you will eventually burn out. Meanwhile the company you work for is using you up and eventually when you're dried up they will throw you out like used toilet paper.

When you see stuff like this it's a sign of a failing system.

There's a huge number of small business owner types that desperately want to run their own businesses and will do anything and risk anything to do it.

I've got a buddy of mine that I've kind of been out of touch with just with work and such but I remember that he absolutely killed himself in a desperate bid to avoid working for somebody else. He used to run a local car audio place but couple of his employees basically poached all his customers and then a minor economic downturn finished the business off. After that he spent decades doing little tiny computer stuff for just enough money to keep his trailer held together by tape and glue. His wife also worked full-time as a waitress.

So you find somebody like that and you dump the franchise on them. Let them work 90 hours a week trying to make it profitable. Most won't but there is a nearly unlimited supply of those guys and you can just keep cycling through them. Usually they've got some savings kicking around or maybe a relative died and left them some money.

It's one of the many ways large corporations extract wealth from the working class. Basically dangling the dream in front of people with the full intention of scamming them out of money

I doubt those stores have more than five or six people so that's probably not very many of the 15,000 that are getting shit canned.

Even if a store has 20 or so people that's still only 4,000 out of 15,000. I don't use Verizon I'm on T-Mobile but at any given moment there's usually only two or three people even in the bigger stores and those stores are only open during regular business hours.

The judge shouldn't allow open-ended searching. NYT should submit candidate search phrases to be used during discovery.

When is Microsoft going to face a similar situation in biz-ware? I doubt MS can change its spots back to nimble quick enough, and will go the way of IBM (who is strangely still alive, barely).

The quantities of water and salt involved are not on human scales.

Not yet, but we are getting fatter.

I thought I wouldn't use the pen, that it would not recognise my handwriting. It actually works really well. It's a decent way to enter and edit text.

Ironically Iceland is green, and Greenland is ice, relatively speaking. Greenland was allegedly named by a shipping marketer trying to downplay the ice.

Here's a fix: sell them to Trump just before they start really freezing over. Since Trump doesn't believe in climate change, he'll deny he's being duped, believing the current cold is just random weather that will change back.

(Some argue he knows, he just wants stuff here and now to brag while alive, the future is Eric's problem.)

...not enough people or nations will do anything to prevent this. I'm just the messenger. There are basically 3 categories of people:

1. Those who care and are willing to sacrifice money or time to do something about it.

2. Those who care, but get distracted by other concerns such that they mostly ignore it.

3. Those who believe subject matter experts are liars or exaggerators, and thus ignore the problem.

Each of these is approximately 33%. Thus 2/3 (#2 & #3) won't do much about it, and this reflects leaders who happen to be charge of a nation at any given time.

If we get lucky, we'll figure out geoengineering without accidentally breaking something else. Otherwise we are hosed, figuratively and literally.

Most people who make a living off of AI produced music probably select from multiple candidate tunes made by the bot, and tweak the ones they like with prompts, and/or editing via old-fashioned sound editors.

Thus, humans are becoming vetters and tweakers rather than direct creators.

It's best if the bot generates the music as seperate tracks for each part (instrument & voice), as that makes hand-tweaking easier.

The company that makes the prescription antihistamine I'm on fired the staff responsible for making sure that I get my prescription.

It took me about 4 months to sort that out during which time they lost about $400 in revenue.

The thing is they just don't seem to care. In the past there would be competition. But there just isn't any anymore anywhere. Like not too long ago my doctor would have just put me on a different drug that was easier to get and had the same effect. Those companies have been bought out and they just don't exist anymore.

It's an entirely new kind of economy. Capitalism without competition. They can keep raising prices and screwing us over and firing us and making us work longer hours for less pay and there's basically nothing we can do about it.