Great to see Steve Jobs' spirit of being a shitty deadbeat parent still lives on in apple products.

These family sharing features really show how companies think. Microsoft for instance - after enabling family mode - disallows installation of Google Chrome (they allow every other browser), and disables LAN play for games, forcing you to play over their xbox cloud.

I think a big part of this is that a lot of companies (especially big tech) massively overhired during corona, making critically needed personnel be unavailable, nearly crashing the economy, and fully crashing the labor market.
Them saying 'AI made them redundant' sounds a lot better to the people in charge than basically admitting that they were total idiots for hiring so many people they had no work for in the first place.

They pushed hard to get a lot of people into tech and then rugpulled them, insanity.

Look at Google's genie 3 page. Especially the credits. Half of those people are marketeers, people from agencies, and video editors. When you critically look at the video you basically see some poststamp size video generations that are OK looking, but no better than like open source models like hunyuan. They show two videos with impressive consistency but like 95% of the vids are just a couple seconds long. It is suggested that the generation is realtime, but there is no indication of what kind of hardware is used for it.

Also we get no indication of the amount of cherry-picking used. Knowing google that if they'd ever release it to the world, it would be nerfed to the point of having zero fun.

As far as I know the 'world model' name comes from openai that called sora a 'world simulator'. It very much turned out to be cool but have very little knowledge on what real world physics looks like.

I believe it when I can use it.

Firm Fixed-Price contracts definitely do exist and are fairly common too

I thought it was impossible for companies to handle their workers not sitting in their local office together with their team?

Will they suddenly find out how to do video calls when they have to pay a little fee?

That's really not how courts work though. There is a range of measures that can be used to stop people that keep breaking the law. First one is usually to send a message, perp usually won't like the second round in court.

Oh hey just like that pledge not to use AI for weapons that they used to recruit top AI experts. After they did their work the pledge vanished.
Google's words are apparently worth nothing.

Of course they are well within their rights, given that they are part of the group of billionaires that purchased (or I guess leased) the governance of the united states.

Are you like retired and don't follow news and not inside big companies? This is happening right now.

NY Times: https://archive.is/8HaGW

India numbers: https://timesofindia.indiatime...

Companies are hiring overseas in massive numbers. Why would they be hiring there if these US hiring stops and layoffs are because they need fewer people because of AI? There is just one reason for these layoffs and that is that companies prefer to have cheaper workers elsewhere.

About just the same level of intentionality. Microsoft just forces thist stuff on you. For the o365 copilot they will even charge you for it despite not wanting that shoveled garbage

saying that the sales numbers for this year's longer event could still surpass those of last year's shorter one

They should just double the length of this 'day' every time, just to keep growth numbers in. Can't wait for the decade long prime day.

And here I was thinking days were getting shorter.

Say anything right-wing or pro-trump and they'll happily demonetize you and then make sure nothing from your vid will corrupt their pure model.

You aren't wrong about people charging large markups, but the big providers are up there as well. The price for chatgpt audio tokens is around $80 per million tokens, which adds up to around $10 per hour for a call. That is just purely for the chatgpt audio model, but you need a lot more stuff to actually make a useful product. Then in many cases the AI can't actually solve the issues and you still need a human (more cost), and then the customer is frustrated (potential loss of business is more cost).

They are the patsy. They sign off on all this training data and take the fall when the lawsuits come.

He seems to be having a little memory issues about which things he said that were causing the uproar.

Reminder: It was the Duolingo CEO says there may still be schools in our AI future, but mostly just for childcare.