â¦but then, that is what it does, without any hacking.

I donâ(TM)t know about Fortnight, but some games, like War Dragons, are indeed designed in every aspect to suck you in and consume your whole life. Rewards hung just out of reach that you can win with extra time/logins, âoeclaimingâ required for everything, expiration of opportunities, things to react to that require notifications, and the whole social engineering side designed for players to push each other further and feel like you let your team down if you donâ(TM)t do your part. It starts as entertainment, and turns into a job. So happy I could quit it. I would totally support putting legislative limits on such game design choices.

Most commenters somehow assume it is going to be just soulless text to speech, but modern style transfer techniques, trained on a good body of examples, might be able to produce much more impressive quality.

Some may argue that good quality requires full understanding of text, as well as professional voice actor training. I think that may remain the gold standard for high profile texts, but AI generated audiobooks might soon pass an equivalent of the "Turing test", get better than most of the cheap human narrators, and produce valuable, good quality results for the other 99.9% of the books.

Yes, I have to adjust my expectations to the fact that many books are overrated. I avoid picking or prioritizing books based purely on rating. I value friends opinion higher than strangers, I read multiple reviews, and I sometimes drop a book that is too disappointing. Still, Goodreads works well to help me discover new books, maintain my reading list, and occasionally share a recommendation.

Agreed. Goodreads is one of my favorite online services. Yes it is a bit clumsy and could certainly be improved, but the article does not do it justice. I discovered hundreds of cool books via lists, ratings, and suggestions there, and exchanged dozens of recommendations with friends, which would not have happened otherwise. Also, just having a large organized reading list which I can sort by rating, length, or custom order, keeps me turn pages more actively, and read more books I enjoy.

In 90s, web browsers used to ask for confirmations to save cookies. That was lame and annoying, and most people turned it off, so the browsers stopped doing that by default.

Now we have stupid laws that require every website to add those lame buttons at application layer. People still just click through them mindlessly. I guess there must be some browser extension that does it for you. The only difference is that even more human time is wasted, and even more annoyance created.

This is another weak attempt for a technical solution to a social/economic problem. For the 0.1% of population that cares, it's enough to enable the central browser settings again, and make them more usable and fine-grained. For the rest, it's a privacy education problem that should not be every mom blog's legal responsibility.

It will have nice towers of 100 copies of the same app, and live staff to regard you with contempt.

For the life of me, I cannot understand this tradition.

It is freeform text.

Okay, okay, they built some sort of Turing machine with existing cards.

You have a point, but the study is bullshit. I can easily disprove it by asking a control group to grade cyclists on the scale of human to God. See, instant more than human!

Counter-example: I have an Alcatel Idol phone, and while I love it for the form factor, the value/price, and the original functionality, I had to roll back and *disable* system updates, because Alcatel chose to push some horrible, intrusive bloatware with them, which pops up annoying dialogs at inconvenient moments, and slows the phone to a crawl. You know, those "optimizers" and "inspectors" trying to upsell you to some antivirus or "über-optimizer". Exploits like this one scare the hell out of me. I might be better off.

Samsung phone I tried earlier, on the other hand, worked fine in Germany where I bought it, but locked itself out when traveling abroad, which took over a month to work out with their "support".

Android ecosystem is completely fucked up. I might just bite the bullet and switch to iPhone on next upgrade. At least it works and is (slightly more) updatable.

You don't have to be so condescending. It may not make you an omniscient space opera superintelligence, but just being able to learn a language quickly, or remember a unique password for every website is a useful upgrade. Use your imagination, there are thousands of useful applications for a neural interface that can save you the time and unnecessary mental effort, allowing you to think more about "what to do with that information", effectively making you "smarter" by many practical definitions.

No new information here, just a rehash of the Axios/HBO interview from two months ago: https://www.axios.com/elon-mus...

Also, I think "AI hardware chip" is just a made-up clickbait title. It is more about an interface. One may lead to another, but this misrepresentation makes the Neuralink mission sound more outlandish than it is. There are already "we are nowhere near true (general) AI" trigger responses in this thread.

In copyright troll friendly countries like Germany, you should now think twice before using the streaming websites, too. They might well put you on some distributed download network, exposing you to 3rd party tracking and accusations of "facilitating unauthorized copying".

TFA may be junk, but Slashdot reaction is just sad (I mean several most visible responses here with jokes about imperfect cars, Go game, general lack of brains, million monkeys, etc). Okay, AI is over-hyped, but advances with real-world value are also happening, and they become increasingly relevant for states economy and military power. And major breakthroughs like AGI are low probability but huge impact events, which states also cannot ignore.

Also, brain drain is always something to consider; definitely not a sign of a booming economy.