Sure, because Millennials and Zoomers *never* buy a pile of novelty crap they don't need and have it shipped from overseas.

Weird Luddite who won't even use digital cameras says technology is dangerous!

Actually, the FBI did not call him the Unabomber. They called him the UNABOMER. All caps, no second B. It's the media that was like "That's dumb, we're putting it in lowercase and adding the other b."

I tried Mastadon. All I saw was people saying "Hey everybody, I left Twitter for Mastadon!" ...and virtually no other interesting or useful interactions.

Google+ and Yahoo 360 tried to "respond" to Facebook. Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts tried to "respond" to TikTok.

In every single case, the "response" does nothing but damage the responder's brand.

It seems like tech giants never learn their lesson when it comes to trying to steal the lunch of some service that has already achieved critical mass...

There's some theory here that he suffered financially quantifiable damage as a result of reading an inaccurate sentence about himself in the privacy of his own home? Come on, now.

When I asked GPT-4 about my band, it claimed I wasn't even in the band and that the songs were written by someone else. You don't see me leaping on the phone to complain to a lawyer. All that would get me is laughed at.

GPT hallucinates. Everyone knows that. It has about a million disclaimers to that effect.

...this is not news. Everyone knows that the four seasons are Winter, Spring, Fire, and Fall.

>Carbon Health claims 88 percent of the verbiage can be accepted without edits

Yeah, I buy that. Then again, this is perhaps the situation where I *least* want to encounter the 12% of the verbiage where it hallucinates wildly.

I sometimes use GPT-4 to summarize corporate meetings, and yeah, 88% accuracy feels about right. It once hallucinated that our CEO opened the meeting by discussing the sacred indiginous land upon which our campus was situated, though. Which is inaccurate in about four different ways.

"She's allergic to sulfa drugs," "She's not allergic to sulfa drugs..." hey, they're both valid sentences that can be produced by language. That's the goal of contemporary LLMs, after all.

>But the carmakers say that only the federal government has the authority to enact such a law.

I wonder if they might not have a point, here. Certainly Massachussetts can ban the *sale* of closed-source cars. But if the automakers simply shrug and stop selling cars in Massachussetts, can the state government legally prevent Bostonians from driving an hour to Providence, buying a car there, and driving it back home? And does anybody *want* such a situation?

Having it communicate with a spine implant is the obvious first step, that everyone will agree is ethical. Having it communicate with a robotic helper monkey, so the elderly can live independently, is probably the next step. The third step... ehhh... quite possibly involves military robots...

It's almost as though they're saying that you have the right to repair anything not manufactured by a company represented by a powerful lobby, such as farm equipment, game consoles, medical devices and motor vehicles. Well, at least you have the right to repair, um, your vacuum cleaner.

They could try making it so that when I come back to my phone, I still have most of my battery life!

We're losing our monopoly on pointless, ineffective climate policies that serve only to make certain politicians seem more electable while having no actual effect on the climate itself.

A solipsist might claim that there is no meaningful difference between intelligence and the appearance of intelligence. After all, I have no evidence that you are an intelligent being rather than an advanced script. But your words are going to have the same effects on my mind and my way of thinking, regardless.

"The White House will hold a listening session with workers to understand their experience with employers' use of automated technologies for surveillance, monitoring and evaluation. The call will include gig work experts, researchers, and policymakers." And so, amidst fears that our culture is about to change in ways that make the Industrial Revolution seem cute, the White House has boldly scheduled a Zoom call with various employed people.