I can completely understand why the US doesn't want Chinese companies bidding for US Military contracts. National security is maybe a legitimate concern when it comes to anything that contains electronics or software, which is virtually everything now.

However, I suspect the real reason is the simple fact that US companies would not be able to compete if forced to bid against Chinese manufacturers. The result being that the US military will get overpriced and underperforming equipment from US companies, proudly (and - possibly - poorly) made in the USA by the lowest American bidder, who won the contract through relentless lobbying (i.e. quasi-legal bribery).

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You sawed right into our trade secrets! We'll sue you so hard!

Well, let's see... first of all, the brain is not digital and all of our computers are (quantum notwithstanding) - so I reckon they will be fundamentally incapable of the kind of power efficiency they're talking about. Biology manages to do a lot with relatively little energy, computers - not so much. Unless they're going to run this on literal brains in jars I think they're going to find themselves butting heads against the reality of the power requirements of digital processing, just like every other AI company.

Second, from what I've read, humans have developed specialised language circuits. These brain regions are dedicated to language processing and seem to underpin our entire linguistic system. Even if we deduced how the language centre of the brain works, mimicking it by raw simulation is simply impossible with our current computer technology - we can barely model the neural network of an ant.

Finally, their entire proposal appears to rest on the existence of something like an innate Chomsky-esque universal grammar, or another computational-linguistic model. We have absolutely no idea if such an "algorithm" even exists, so it'll be interesting to say the least to watch them chase their tails as the money dries up.

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Did you really just try to make a point by citing Copilot? Why didn't you just slaughter a chicken and read the entrails?

Shakes magic lobbying 8-ball...

Sorry, DMCA says no.

Seriously, just put a picture of his face on each of the instruments and call them "Donald J Trump Ocean Observatory Instruments, Many People Say The Best Instruments" and suddenly he won't be so keen to remove them.

I don't want to sound alarmist and I am obviously not an expert but... we know what happens when you remove a species from the food chain. 1. Their predators die off. 2. Other species rise to take their place. While obviously mosquitos are the most harmful-to-humans animals on the planet, have the scientists really figured out what the potential adverse long-term effects of permanent mosquito reduction will be, or are we rushing headlong into solving one problem just to create a worse one further down the line?

"It looks like you're writing a letter. Want me to eat 20% of your battery life churning out some generic slop you could have done yourself in 30 seconds?"

Well nVidia and Microsoft are excited about it which is a good indicator that consumers should not be.

On the other hand, depending on how the real-world non-AI performance shakes out, it's just another nail in the coffin for Intel.

Wonder how they're gonna get the RAM (presumably LPDDR5) for their laptops made when virtually every fab has pivoted to making HBM for datacenters.

If you had an administration acting in the best interests of the American people, maybe. But no, we have the Goof Troop in the White House with their "distract 'em all!" foreign policy objectives. A string of worthless, chickenshit half-threats, own-goals and blunders will be the foreign policy legacy of this administration.

Ooh, look, we can capture a guy from Venezuela! It was really hard, you guys. We totally needed 2 whole helicopters! No, I didn't draw that picture. I never draw pictures. I've never even seen a picture! USA! USA! USA!

Ooh, we're going to take Greenland! No timetable, just sometime... later... really. We will! I'm telling you! We're really scary! Epstein who? Never heard of him. USA! USA! USA!

Ooh, we're going to take out that big, bad Iran! Oh no! Now all the oil is stuck. Why isn't anyone helping us open the Strait of Hormuz? Wait, I mean we don't need help but you should help us anyway. Actually, never mind, it's totally open. Mission accomplished! Don't verify that tho, don't film anything, just trust us. It's all fine and this isn't a massive ongoing waste of time and money. We totally won already, but we have to keep bombing because of reasons. Classified reasons, I have them in my bathtub, it's a great bathtub. ISRAEL! IS.. I MEAN USA! USA! USA! Have you forgotten about Epstein yet?

That is the opposite though. The judge in the 1973 case was removed from office and it's not hard to see why; he was a moron:

I don't think it's an absurd application of puritanism to remove someone who is manifestly unfit for office. This guy genuinely disrupted the judicial process with his behaviour. It's not the same thing.

OPFS is designed specifically NOT to ask for permissions, because it's not touching any existing filesystems. It creates its own little sandboxed file system per-origin that is completely opaque to the user; only the origin site can access it.

src: https://web.dev/articles/origin-private-file-system

This is all part of the long-term plan to turn all consumer devices into thin-client/terminals. You won't have local compute - at least not enough to do anything useful. All processing will be done in the cloud. The browser has long been morphing into a catch-all VM that just hands stuff off to cloud services. However, since we're in an interim period where we still have local apps and network accessibility cannot be 100% guaranteed there needs to be some local storage for caching stuff in case the network disappears. OPFS solves this by providing a sandboxed filesystem that is invisible to the user and accessible only by the origin (i.e. the website that created it). I'm not arguing for it, I'm just explaining why it exists.