It’s interesting to think how deep they’ve sunk into AI such that it may support the “growth mindset” psychobabble and that it may hose them for years.
Not that they won’t be able to weather it, just that it’ll take a bite out of them which was totally avoidable.
Man, quantum computers has been about-to-break-encryption since the 90s. The hype never ends, just a new crop of people first hear it then figure out it’s bullshit.
As soon as I read that, years ago, I thought “Well Dropbox. That was a very poor choice.”
I haven’t considered it since.
“You can use it with Dropbox!” they say.
Yeah, nah.
Was Condi Rice one of them?
It is pretty neat. Plus the kind of music-box music in the background is . . somehow appropriate for floating in space.
They see nothing wrong with it, because money.
It’s an old, old story.
Okay
Welp. Can’t defend that.
I suppose that’s a little like working to save the earth and working for big oil. Yes, one could do both but . . why?
Agreed.
we can think of it as a person who can think quickly
No.
Do not do this. This way lies madness. It’s a text prediction system which is incredibly complex just to get it to barf out three sentences that sound about right. It is not “thinking” shit.
TFW you continue fucking around with Windows rather than learn Linux
Art is subjective, but this isn’t really art, it’s just AI slop. It’s incredible to me that this is what OpenAI thinks we should be excited about.
It was neat at first but now, two years later, as Schmidt is arguing we should abandon environmental goals to power AI, and billions in venture capital has been thrown away on this instead of actual, useful, functional technologies, it’s clear this isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
This is their flagship video, already couched in “dreamy” and “fantastical” descriptors and it’s terrible. Generative AI is garbage. Actual data science and ML isn’t sexy and the profit margins are less.
They were magical.
When Microsoft released IE6 2001 they didn’t bother releasing another major version for 6 years as they were so dominant.
They were also, eventually, much too late to matter, convicted of being a monopoly as a result of the IE money grab.
Oh it took me a solid month of trial and error, scrolling through xda and other forums reading every how-to and watching plenty of vids and I finally got it to work. But it was not even fun. Yes starting with a Pixel is better, but f* teh googlez.
It’s a good start tho
This sort of surveillance is only possible because of the mobile advertising ecosystem. Location data is sometimes used to build profiles on device users and better target advertisements to them. Much of that advertising relies on a MAID, the unique advertising ID, on a phone. The MAID acts as the digital glue between a device and its associated data.
But that same underlying system, of Google and Apple linking a unique identifier on the phone to a user’s activity, allows Babel Street and others to build their mass monitoring products. In many cases, a device’s MAID is also displayed inside Babel Street.
So periodically refresh / replace your ad id as well.
Having just done that for the first time I feel confident in saying anyone who’s still using facebook or Xitter or tiktok or whatever - is not going to do that. I wish they would but that’s an order of magnitude more technical than where they are.
If they get a warrant, sure. Sell it I dunno. There’s more legal cases about cell tower data simply because it’s some form of technology courts have at least made an effort to understand at some point.
Shock jocks don’t typically include research though, or extensive background information, or very detailed descriptions.
Are there any shock jocks still out there? Who listens to drive time radio?