It would be nice, but it's far, far more likely that the web will become - literally - nothing but ads cleverly (not) disguised as "content."

And if you think about it, part of the reason for doing just that would be to reach the ultimate goal of having your advertising on a site spit out the other side of AI that crawled your pages, so that AI is the one broadcasting your advertising to a wider audience.

AI is very naive, it seems like it could be tricked this way, using similar approaches that people take to poisoning AI today.

You mean, kind of like how you can install software on Windows and Linux from any old random website? Where's the rage about that?

I have been raging about that for decades now. There are not many that can handle that level of computer openness.

Not to say we should lock it away but that for most people that is not secure, and we have COUNTLESS examples of now that is true - not just for those choices but MacOS as well. Malware, viruses, etc, the list and harm to real people is endless.

Tha's why I say there are already insecure choices, I should have mentioned traditional computer OSs but I am including the lot of them.

Do you really buy Google's and Apple's marketing that says they lock down the app stores to protect users?

For Android it's not relevant because you can use alternate app stores with pretty much all Android devices.

But for Apple - yes I in fact KNOW they lock down app stores to protect users, because as a developer I have had to adjust apps I produce in ways that do inherently protect users. App review is real, iOS App Security is a strong force. It's not foolproof but it's a billion times better than MacOS or Windows, in terms of something I can hand to my mom and not worry she'll be letting random apps have her banking info, steal her identity or brick her device and make her pay to have access to personal data again.

I think this law seems like a *good* idea.

I truly hope you and all those you love suffer the full consequences of your cavalier approach to computer security for the normals. Maybe then you'll understand.

I am all for opening up freedom of payment options. I think it would hurt Apple (and Google) but I am pretty sure they would survive because of the ease of paying via their systems. So that recent ruling along those lines was I think a good thing overall.

But a mandate for support of third party app stores on all platforms is insane. The more wide spread this becomes, the greater the opportunity for malware creators to target the vast numbers of people who can't manage computer security themselves - think of all the seniors who have installed malware on laptops and lost banking info, now multiply that by 10000.

There is no need other than regulate this since Android already party functions in this way. People have a choice if they want an inherantly insecure ecosystem. Regulating away the only meaningful attempt to secure an App Store results in less choice, not more - it truly brings the Internet of Shit down on everyone with dire results.

I've used CoPilot for iOS development and it's a real mess there.

There is a plugin for Xcode but it's pretty crude.

There's a better version (as you'd expect) that you can use with VSCode that you can point at iOS projects, and that does technically work.. but it's still hard to really get it to increase context to a large number of files.

Fundamentally coding models I've found have a lot of issues with getting larger requested changes right. They were more helpful in the role of suggesting small blocks of new code, but even there I found I took maybe 10-20% of the suggestions, which meant that using CoPilot was kind of like having pop-up ads in your code editor, with all the annoyance that metaphor implies as a pup-up would sometimes randomly spring up when I was simply trying to read through some code.

The college's are so expensive because they know the loan infrastructure is willing to make loans that should never be made to people who should never take them.

Make the loans possible much more realistic and college costs will come down to where they should be.

Until then even more people will simply not go.

But on the other side of the coin I don't think anyone NEEDS to go to college anymore, for many professions. College is great for dragging you up into a career but you can do the same job yourself if you put your mined to it. So don't be bummed if you cannot afford college, realize that most colleges are not worthy nearly as much as they are charging and build your own life yourself for much less!

But moving production to India is a big risk, because you can't predict if there'll be higher tariffs on India

You are missing out on the big picture here. Apple has had a shift to manufacturing in India for years - amusingly for Tariffs FROM INIDA.

However on an even bigger picture, Apple benefits greatly from moving all U.S. manufacturing out of China - because that will finally shake the notion that U.S. iPhones are produced by some kind of slave labor in China.

Right or wrong, that allegation has dogged Apple for years no matter how much Apple tried to make sure that factories used for assembly treated workers fairly. Moving to India removes concerns that various sub-cultures in China are being exploited to make the phones for the U.S.

Don't forget that China itself is not the most stable partner either (introducing it's own tariffs that could affect the manufacturing costs of iPhones), so it's a REALLY good idea for Apple to diversify manufacturing across several nations if possible.

The glasses will help me understand them but I can't reply unless they have the glasses.

I can see two paths for how it could work:

1) You whisper an answer, and the glasses show you your words translated back, along with feeding you an audio of the text so you can speak the response out loud. A bit awkward but the person you are speaking to would get the idea pretty quickly and accept the delay.

2) AI comes up with a response for you based on the goal of the conversation, which you've already laid out ahead of time - so basically then it gives you the audio, along with a translated version of what you are saying and an English version so you can make sure the AI did not make an awful mistake in what to say next.

Now I have no idea if it does work this way, but It could.

I guess also someone really good with those one-handed keyboards could hammer out an entry to be translated quickly.

Well I'm not quite sure either but let me tell you what I experienced on an older Intel iMac Pro - (2017).

I loaded up the largest model possible just to see what it would do... I entered some initial question, I forget what, and then got about 10-20 minutes of a "thinking" message.

Then, I got... an "H".

A few minutes later... an "I".

Yeah it too about 30 minutes to begin a message with "Hi", I gave up after a few hours.

So 20 tokens a second is sounding pretty good compared with that!

Assuming they are going to declare bankruptcy and re-organize, I assume the new name they continue business under will be "22 And Me" after they decrement.

It was always a counter!

The real question is if it's 0 or 1 based.

If an LLM doesn't understand something, the solution is to give it more context until it does...

So while "what month is it?" doesn't work with Siri now (I tested as well), what does work is "What month is it in Utah". It gives you the current date and time which you didn't ask for, but it does include the month and it does work.

But don't think I am excusing Apple here, I do think it's absurd they replaced a fairly functional Siri with something that can run into walls with simple questions... and as noted because context is important, probably simpler questions hi walls like this more often!

There are indeed weed "pulling" robots

Used the scare quotes because it's not technically pulling but if the weed is dead and gone who cares.

That kind of stuff trickles down over time so it will reach smaller operations. Until recently though it really is cheaper to hire illegal aliens at far under minimum wage to to some jobs, which also stunts the expansion of robots in farming... but over the next few years I think you'll see a rapid uptake of existing technology.

Robotics first use case should be companies, factories, farming

Farming is already highly automated, giant machines doing all kinds of work.

When a teacher assigns an essay to a student, it's not because the teacher needs that essay, it's because the effort of drafting that essay will cause that pint of bean soup the student is carrying in his skull to become more capable.

That's too bad, not gonna happen,

So the next best thing is what I said, have them use AI to generate output... but then they have to carefully screen what was output, maybe even edit it further to distill a point or correct something.

You are still building, just somewhat different muscles.

Your world is dead, get used to it and adapt or die.

How then do you explain Twitter ran better than before the Musk purchase (observed fact, still running with more features, no Fail Whales in ages) after 80% of the workforce (or more) were let go - (also widely known fact).

Given those absolute facts, why did it work for Twitter if not for the reasons I mentioned?

why look to examples of UK incompetence rather than examples of German success?

I thought Germany abandoned the Linux stuff as well, are they still using it? I figured it was all the same between the UK and other countries in the EU that had gone the same path, but if there was a good outcome I'm all ears...