Comment Re:Apple doesn't have any games (Score 1) 19
And they don't do AI, either... So WTF are they doing with that hardware?
Tim Cook thought AR (augmented reality) was the future, that's why he started putting in the beefy hardware. Turned out the future was in chatbots.
Now Tim is not in charge anymore, the things he liked at Apple are like old leaves flowing away in soft autumn wind.
Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 93
Many working class people felt abandoned by the Democrats and then voted for the Republicans, believing in the lies being peddled by Trump.
By his second term, most people understood that Trump was a liar.
This wasn't a distinguishing feature since the other team lies, too.
Comment Re:Its eggs the of 90s (Score 1) 47
You should have at least read the abstract.
Comment Re:Welcome to the 1980s panics (Score 1) 47
Comment Re:Its eggs the of 90s (Score 4, Insightful) 47
For individuals there really is only one reasonable course here. Ignore the sensational studies and news.
Man, if you're getting your science information from news stories, the problem is you.
We live in a world where the actual study is a click away. At least read the abstract.
Comment Re:Once again (Score 1) 52
Comment Re:Don't think it will work (Score 1) 40
Their target audience will be happy with the solution if they can set it up without thinking. Which one has more features mostly won't matter.
Comment Re:How about take that retired Win 10 box . (Score 1) 40
And Cursor has quite a bit of control over how many tokens it takes to do either one.
Comment Re:Once again (Score 1) 52
However, this is a significant extension of entanglement. Understanding things in this arena are central to breakthroughs in quantum computing.
Indeed, getting entanglement to work right may be the biggest barrier to quantum computing currently.
Comment Re:user consent (Score 1) 86
Or they'll sell the "anonymized data", including calculated bra sizes.
This is a pretty invasive move on Comcast's part. Only the lawyers will win this one.
Comment Re:Almost (Score 1) 64
How do we prevent abuses from the police?
Comment Re:Crisis of Trust but not in the way he thinks (Score 1) 90
There are no barriers to how humans get "replaced" by AI. Are we here to benefit humanity or benefit tech bro stock prices?
The whole marketing campaign behind AI was targeted at CEOs to cut their labor costs. This makes them salivate like Pavlov's dogs.
Did the marketing appeal in a "work smarter, not harder" way? No. It was aimed at laying off huge swaths of workers. Not just worker bees, but the creatives in coding, systems management, development, but also other worker bees.
Not everyone needs creativity in their work, although it helps.
People now pump their own fuel in most states. You now walk up to a checkout and scan your own stuff. You order at a screen at McDonalds. Heaven forbid walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee at the counter.
All of these are small cuts, and ultimately, fealty to the stock price on any given day. Job creation through AI isn't quite the goal. Lowered cost-of-goods is the goal, and the goal of capitalism in general. Do the profits filter down to worker bees? Unlikely.
Take Internet search as an example. AI engines seek to trap the thousand results and deliver you a neat package of "an answer" even if it's wrong. Any stupid AI engine can deliver believable results, subverting the thousand others that have the same answers-- perhaps authoritative, even trustable result.
Comment Re:Crisis of Trust but not in the way he thinks (Score 5, Insightful) 90
Yep. Trust is built.
1. Rapidly iterative and successive models, all of them looking like dot-zero problem children do not imbue trust.
2. Rapid inter-cross dealing tech companies, all fighting with each other for dominance using the dot-zero madness does not imbue trust.
3. Models that fight each other, jump barriers and hack into companies at will, does not engender trust.
4. Digesting rivers, streams, farmland, for data centers whose parts can't even be purchased, does not build trust.
5. Creating turf wars between the models of different countries does not earn trust.
6. Creating incredible parts shortages and pumping component profits does not become trustworthy for supply chain users.
7. Bozos like Sam Altman and his merry-go-round of allies makes many people very queasy.
8. Jamming Co-Pilot down the throats of users, changing ToS to fit more mad infiltration goals to the desktop does not make people want to trust Microsoft, specifically.
9. Inability to show that AI helps, rather than lays off workers does not build trust.
The man is a fool, and so are those that become hypnotized by early success, ignoring pretty frightening failures in AI and the chains of monopoly grabs that are going with it, not to mention data center densities that are clearly unsupportable, financed by pump-and-dump Wall Street fans.
Humanity? Did you say humanity? War, even tech turf wars, leave many suffering humans in their wake. That didn't used to be true; computers were enablers, not *disablers*.
Comment Re:Wired-Only Wireless. Version 6. (Score 1) 39
Interesting idea, but now you’re making me wonder just how easy life will be for the Attention-Defeated generation of perpetual doomscrollers who struggle to finish a shit without a screen by the age of seven.
LOL the house of the lotus eaters was just a room with walls covered by infinite scroll videos you wanted to see.