They are desperate. They had multiple massively valuable IPs, including their own, and they ran them into the ground by putting out woke slop. To compensate, they are trying everything except making good movies.

They probably can't move the movie up. Knowing Disney, they'll probably still be doing reshoots the week before.

> One of those s[c]ents that everyone is programed instinctively to move away from.

If that were true Antifa riots wouldn't be a thing.

How many supervillain plots in comics, TV or movies started with the villain's corporation introducing some kind of tech like this, only to later use it to manipulate people?

I think the idea is to keep shitting out 4.X releases until openai releases GPT-6, at which point anthropic will release whatever version of "mythos" they have mostly working that day as Opus 5.0 on the same day, or the next. They'll probably claim it's so operful they're skipping 5 and just calling it Opus 6 for marketing reasons

> well above stuff like Star Trek.

In 2026, "Blue's Clues" would be above Star Trek in terms of science.

I have a lot of criticisms of the movie, but it was fun. It was funny. It was entertaining. And because of that, I can give it a pass.

Everyone has to stop what they're doing for an entire day, travel to the training center, which costs money, they have to rent the training center, which costs money, they have to pay the training person to present the training materials, which costs money, and they have to develop the training materials/course, which costs money.
 
And then the next day is going to be complete chaos, because the training materials were developed against v0.7 of the software, and everyone is using v1.3 of the software, and nothing will get done for, minimum, 2 days, and you won't actually be at the same level of effectiveness for 3-6 months, and in some edge cases, 18-24 months, possibly longer.
 
I was at one company, and the 80 year old lady, Wanda, who ran payroll, worked on a specialty windows 95 computer, because she could not be retrained and didn't want to learn new software. And nobody messes with the payroll lady. This was in ~2014. I just looked her up looks like she passed away finally, probably still using Windows 95 all the way until 2023 bless her.
 
Anyways TL;DR for digital soveignry $2000/user is a trivial amount especially as a one time cost

Yeah I'm kind of done feeding Google every scrap of information about me for advertising purposes. I switched to private search and email last year for about $100/year and don't miss them at all.

As someone who's been using Samsung phones for about 15 years, I had no idea there was a thing called "Samsung Messages". I tend to tune out all the shovelware that phones come with (and take steps to remove or disable them).

I really like Samsung phones, but their software ecosystem is abysmal. Everything they provide is inferior to other options.

Half the world runs on VBA for Office applications (or used to, it's probably less now), and VBA for Office has never been officially supported by Microsoft. You're on your own if you choose to use it.

output is about 6 tokens/s with 16k context window i'm not having any issues since it went live this afternoon. it's not sparkling like opus 4.5/6 but gets the job done

i generally send it a voice note via telegram while driving and then check back in like 1-2 min, or it is sending me a reminder about something on our shared calendar. it's still faster than texting my buddy about making plans for this weekend or whatever.

I'm using a $200 used ~5 year old (from the ebay listing) HP EliteDesk 805 G6 DM Desktop Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE 3.3GHz 32GB RAM 512GB SSD WiFi in cpu mode... you don't need a gpu to run single user local LLM... just a bunch of ram. This isn't 2022 anymore

It's about 5 tokens/second which is totally fine for an async assistant. 20 tokens/second is about the lower limit for usable in realtime. You can also set it up to use a smaller model for quick questions (what are the next 6 items on my calendar/to-do list?) and drop through to the bigger slower model for harder questions (can you add this feature to my internal ticketing system and redeploy?)