Whew. Good point. And sobering.
Whew. Good point. And sobering.
When will Jim Jones’ supporters wake up? Cults do extensive mental rewiring to people’s brains. Their minds literally cannot conceive of their leader doing anything evil anymore.
No, the question isn’t when his supporters will wake up, it’s when will the people who still think he’s “bad, but the lesser of two evils” wake up?
Did he finally wrest the reins from Gwynne Shotwell? She was calling the shots pretty effectively for a while.
They never think their gonzo opinions through to their logical conclusions.
Yeah, and I use a Pixel, so I don’t even really often have to hit any app icons at all, making this even more of a nothingburger.
Sure, which is why I didn’t put “again” after that, but it was really just necessary for the joke (because yeah, it’s obviously ridiculous).
There are some who call me…Tim?
Honestly who can tell at this point?
Much like Google Chat became Google Hangouts which became Google Chat, Google Wallet became Google Pay which became Google Wallet again.
How long before Google Play becomes Android Market again? Or YouTube becomes Google Video?
Also, technically the Flag Code isn’t the law. Not that that occurred to them when people were using it for progressive protests.
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And binds but does not protect anyone else.
The past 40 years of complete inaction on the part of businesses determined that was a lie.
I think that anything benign that separates evil people from a significant portion of their cash is fine by me. That’s millions of dollars they can’t use to break up unions, or replace human workers with AI, or pay for campaign ads (or hush money, or legal costs). And it’s not something that’s aiding them in those pursuits, so it’s generally just money they’re losing.
I think. That’s just my initial idea.
I get deported back to my own country constantly. Every day, against my will, I find myself here.
The fact that we don’t even know the ratio is the really infuriating thing.
AI, used in small, local models, as an assistance tool, is actually somewhat helpful. AI is how Google Translate got so good a decade or so ago, for instance; and how assistive image recognition has become good enough that visually-impaired people can potentially access the web just as proficiently as sighted people. LLM-assisted spell check, grammar check, and autocomplete show a lot of promise. LLM-assisted code completion is already working decently well for common programming languages. There are potentially other halfway decent uses as well.
Basically, if you let computers do what they’re good at (objective, non-creative, repetitive, large-dataset tasks that don’t require reasoning or evaluation), they can make humans better at what they’re good at (creativity, pattern-matching, ideation, reasoning). And AI can help with that, even though they can’t get humans out of the loop.
But none of those things put dollar signs in VC’s eyes. None of those use cases get executives thinking, “hey, maybe we can fire people and save on the biggest single recurring expense any corporation puts on their balance sheet.” None of these make worried chip manufacturers breathe a sigh of relief that they can continue making the line go up after Moore’s Law finally kicks the bucket. None of those things make headlines in late-stage capitalism. Elon Musk can’t use any of those things as smokescreens to distract from his mismanagement of the (formerly) most consequential social media brand in history. None of that gives former crypto bros that same flutter of superiority.
So the hype gets pumped up to insane levels, which makes the valuations inflate, which makes them suck up more data heedless of intellectual property, which makes them build more power-hungry data centers, which means they have to generate more hype (based on capabilities the technology emphatically does not have and probably never will) to justify all of it.
Like with crypto. Blockchain showed some promise in extremely niche, low-trust environments; but that wasn’t sexy, or something that anyone could sell.
Once the AI bubble finally breaks, we might actually get some useful tools out of it. Maybe. But you can’t sell that.
Does anybody remember “Cha-Cha?” This was literally their model. Person asks a question via text message (this was like 2008), college student Googles the answer, follows a link, copies and pastes the answer, college student gets paid like 20¢.
Source: I was one of those college students. I never even got paid enough to get a payout before they went under.
Also Mozilla.