Good movies have both.

Hard disagree. There's absolutely nothing preventing a fun movie from having decent writing (i.e., "treat your audience with some basic respect") aside from cheap studios and hack producers. Michael Bay and JJ Abrams should have been warnings, not instruction manuals.

Sometimes critics focus on silly or tangential things in movies that average people don't care as much about, but critics are also much less willing to let incoherent plots and repeated non-sequiturs pass just because CGI and EXPLOSION.

Ironically, Altman agrees that AI is a bubble:

A bubble doesn't mean the technology is fake, it means it's being overvalued.

Does it? I wouldn't be surprised if you looked at an index of dot com companies twenty years later and it came out with a pretty good return, even comparing to the height of the bubble. Certainly the "tech" industry, which is mostly dot com web software companies plus a few picks and shovels suppliers like Microsoft, has beaten the pants off other sectors.

Bubbles are a lot of people looking for a quick buck investing in a new thing and then panicking. Long term many of them don't look so bad.

Monkeys like to talk to each other. LLMs do that, so they get press coverage. They're not useless either: we have an enormous amount of natural language data that was previously very difficult to deal with and is now much more accessible to conventional computing, from the freeform comment boxes on surveys to physician notes and regulatory documents and scientific literature.

Do not confuse what you read in the popular press, or what Slashdot editors post as clickbait, with what's actually being done.

OTOH there are actual Apteras on the roadways... only about three of them, but they do exist, at least in prototype form.

Apparently, Amazon meetings have an empty chair. It is supposed to represent the customer in the room.

Do they now use the chair for 'Pin the tail on the donkey' games?

From personal experience, Prime video has become unusable after I refused their shakedown to pay extra to skip ads.

Which Bitcoin is that? Bitcoin Classic? Bitcoin Cash? Bitcoin Satoshi Vision? Bitcoin Gold? eCash? One of the alt-chains? SlashCash, which I just minted this morning?

n that paper Gutmann argues that the experimental support for the notion quantum can reverse 2 factors is zero alongside time travel, FTL movement, and the startrek transporter

This is pretty silly. There's also zero experimental evidence that RSA with a key longer than 829 bits can be broken, but we all use 2048 anyway. There's theoretical evidence for both that and quantum factoring, which there is not (quite the contrary) for time travel, FTL and transporters.

Personally I don't think anybody will build a QC useful for breaking 2048 bit RSA keys any time soon, if ever, but if I had something I was super keen on keeping secret for the next ten years plus and I just had to use public key, I'd include something quantum resistant.

In general, nothing. But rich people buy sports cars for the same reason less-rich people buy video games that let them pretend to race sports cars, i.e. so they can have fun "going fast". Driving a sports car without cool engine sounds (however you want to define them) would be like playing an auto-racing game on mute -- less fun than it might otherwise have been.

Not anything. I'm sure when Federal troops take over the State Capitol and Newsom is put in prison for unspecified but certainly horrible crimes, the military governor that takes his place will make sure none of this kind anti-corporate nonsense continues.

The irony of the two stories being together on the front page, "More Screen Time Linked to Lower Test Scores For Elementary Students" and "Microsoft to Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools" is just too good to fail to mention.

And so I'm replying to the both First Posts with it.

The irony of the two stories being together on the front page, "More Screen Time Linked to Lower Test Scores For Elementary Students" and "Microsoft to Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools" is just too good to fail to mention.

And so I'm replying to the both First Posts with it.

Yet, you'll have no problem with a Ring camera.

People need support and monitoring where they are vulnerable. You may be vulnerable to a criminal at your door, but feel confident in your home with your door closed.

Many elderly are vulnerable within their home, and would accept and benefit from monitoring you find intrusive. Especially if they were assured that no human would watch the video unless the monitoring AI flagged trouble.

Of course, ideally you would always have two nurses monitoring each other.

I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.

Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.

I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.

But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?

You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.

30% might well be the "biggest single factor." That study compared genes versus everything else combined.

The genetic contribution could be higher today too. That cohort was people born between 1870 and 1900, when there were a lot more environmental things that might kill you early, including two world wars.