It didn't tell me what to select. It did a side-by-side comparison of the various attributes of each plan, comparing things like deductibles, coinsurance, max out of pocket, etc. While I don't doubt that Gemini and its kin will offer product placement, it's a whole other thing to distort such a comparison.
According to CDC data, more than 90% of Americans have measurable levels of these chemicals in their bodies
Toxicity is always a function of concentration. Always. Even water is toxic if ingested at high enough levels.
What is the spread between "measurable" and "toxic" for these plastics?
And what health *benefits* do we sacrifice if we give up plastics?
Sealed plastic containers are highly effective at controlling bacterial growth, for example. Flossing your teeth with plastic (nylon) is universally recommended by dentists for dental health. Plastic tubing is universally used in IVs. Many of these health-*positive* uses would be very difficult to reproduce with other materials.
The author argues that shorter sentences are just the result of using periods where semicolons or colons used to be used.
Oliver argues that much of what modern datasets measure as declining sentence length is actually just changing punctuation habits. Writers now use periods where earlier generations used colons and semicolons.
But I'd argue that these long sentences, made up of clauses joined by colons or semicolons--*are* harder to read. Using periods instead, forces the author to write sentences that are shorter and more self-contained.
It's like the old quote that "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." Writing thoughts concisely does take more effort, but it results in text that is easier to digest.
Yes indeed, Google Flights is *the* best way to search for good flights and good prices. Once in a while, Google does something good and hangs onto it. Well, for now at least.
So now, instead of Google, you're using Bing. Yeah, if you use DuckDuckGo or Brave, you're using Bing. Good move.
This experiment will soon show up on https://killedbygoogle.com/
I used Gemini in Chrome just yesterday.
My son was signing up for his company's health insurance plan. He had three choices, and the options weren't easy to decipher, and the text was long. AI was able to show me a nice three-column comparison of what was different in the three plans, just by reading the text on the page. I spot-checked its findings, they were right on.
Despite the backlash from many, there are many ways in which AI helps people in very tangible ways.
The recent-graduate unemployment rate now sits slightly higher than the overall workforce's
Is that really an indication that the hiring process is breaking down, or that we have a catastrophe on our hands?
Creepy
This problem goes away if the law changes to require that purchasers of securities or stocks *hold* them for at least, say, one day. Or better yet, six months. Do that, and suddenly investors will start thinking about long-term returns, instead of microsecond returns. And that might lead them to think about the long-term health of companies. What a concept!
They also only claim to support a free/fair market (unless your company is based somewhere other than the US).
I think we are imagining different definitions of "requires."
My company, for example, uses an AI scanning tool to look for code vulnerabilities. It turns out, the tool produces *so* many false positives, that it requires human developers *more* time to research and refute the false positives, than it took to find and fix vulnerabilities the old way. AI automation didn't reduce human effort, it increased it.
Maybe AI is even *less* capable than we had imagined.
It was Ford's approach that *attracted* me to the Lightning. I didn't want something that screams "I'm electric!" I just want a truck that is functional, and *is* electric.
You might not be replaced by AI just yet.
It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -- Phil White
