The amount of hype and BS surrounding AI and in particular ChatGPT, GPT4 is pretty off the dial.

ChatGPT isn't much more than a stochastic parrot. You can get it to say pretty much anything with the right coercion. It simply responds with most likely / probable response to the input it gives.

Just like a parrot has moments when you think it understands what its saying and is conversing with you as a human being, likewise ChatGPT has moments when you realise its just a parrot, rather than something that can converse with you like its a human being.

i.e. at any point in time the parrot has about 1% chance of sounding convincing... versus 99% of the time ChatGPT sounds convincing.. but they're both still parrots.

+1 I would need a link to this video with Biden bragging about it too... it seems like +5 BS not insightful

As with Microsoft, this will drag out and by the time its coming to a conclusion, technology will have moved on, the paradigm will have shifted and Google will be just another player in a market that didn't exist at the time the legal action commenced and the whole premise of the legal action will have become outdated.

It just provides a better user experience than most of chat apps i've tried which include, Whatsapp, Line, Teams, Messenger and Slack, i.e. media sharing / libraries, search facilities and client support for macOS, linux, windows, android, ios and a web client.

So far its offered unlimited cloud storage of millions of users photos, videos and chats for free. There really isn't that much you get with Premium version that you don't get for free. The Premium version increases some of the limits. I use it a lot and I've never hit any of these limits and I probably never will.

I think the premium version is really about people voluntarily offering monetary support for the platform.

And people do pay for these things, take Slack for example, the free version only keeps the last 10,000 of your organisations messages.

This article is utter rubbish.

No we haven't solved harder problems...

No we're not going solve the problem, all we can do now is damage limitation.

The climate and oceans... they don't handle like a sports car, taking your foot off the gas and applying the brake isn't going to instantaneously bring climate change to a halt. The climate and oceans are more like a massive 20km long freight train. We're still increasing greenhouse emissions, once action is taken, it'll take decades just to begin slowing down the changes already occurring. it's likely the planet's oceans and climates will take thousands of years to return to their pre-industrial state.

If I had a dollar for every slashdot revolutionary battery tech article that's ever been published, which never made it to mass production I'd probably be able to retire.

Different implementations for different platforms, it's unsurprising they're different.

I'd imagine their Linux branch probably lags behind the Windows branch. Linux users probably need to wait a little longer to receive updates and improvements.

I wonder what wonderful ideas Black Mirror will have on offer for the CCP this season.

Both the Taliban and Trump have attempted to bring down democratically elected government of the United States. The difference is Trump actually came pretty close to succeeding in that goal. When it came down to it there was just a single capitol hill defending a corridor which lead to the stairwell down which members of congress were fleeing. That officer had a horrible decision to make, shoot Ashli Babbitt or end democracy in the United States, unfortunately for Ashli Babbitt he chose the former.

Trump not only revved up his supporters he stood down the forces that would have protected the building.

forgive the grammar

It's been a while since I upgraded, but when bought a phone with Android 11.

I was surprised to see whilst exchanging SMS messages with people, I was receiving notifications when the other person was drafting a SMS message to me, like I was using messenger or whatsapp. Obviously this isn't supported by SMS, I had to be receiving push notifications from google, and the other person's phone must have been sending information as the other person was drafting an SMS notifying google of who they were messaging. With SMS you would normally expect only your telco carrier carries involved in the exchange of SMS would be aware of who is texting who, but no so on Android.

It occurred to me at the time this was slightly dodgy, but at the same time fairly cool.

I guess it's that impressive it needed two postings...

I think NFTs are actually more legit than crypto currency. Allowing ticketing companies to release tickets as NFT smart contracts would allow them to ensure they have some control over how tickets are resold and even give them a cut on the resale of tickets.

Returns on pyramid schemes decreasing over time? What a relevation !

All these digital currencies are created by people who've usually already mined hundreds of millions of coins. As with all pyramid schemes the value of the coins go up until those initial coins start to get sold (converted back to fiat). As soon as that happens it represents a transfer of real wealth from those further down the pyramid to those who got in above. All these coins are the same, bitcoin has only held its price because the coins mined by "Satoshi" have never been sold, if / those coins ever started getting sold the price of bitcoin would completely collapse.

I'm absolutely staggered that bitcoin has become so legitimized when the creator "Satoshi Nakamoto" is actually a fiction, created by people who've chosen to remain anonymous. Everyone's too busy being greedy to think about who these people are and why they've chosen to remain anonymous. If these people still have access to these millions of coins, and they started selling them, it would be the greatest swindle of all time, they'd literally be stealing billions from their "investors".