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Comment · 10 months ago
I had that same issue, and to solve it, I connected to the TV with ADB and disabled the default launcher.
Comment · 10 months ago
I agree. My Google TV with Projectivity Launcher shows zero launcher ads unlike my Apple TV. As a bonus, it lets me install SmartTube and use DeArrow and Sponsor Block.

I just wish I could get something similar as a native iOS app. Although I can use Safari extensions, the Safari YouTube experience on iOS is terrible.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
They could benchmark the price against comparable countries/regions. Pay no more than, say, 110% of the average cost of the drug in Europe.
Comment · 1 year ago
Right. If it were trained through August 1939, how much prompting would be necessary to get it to predict aspects of WWII.
Comment · 1 year ago
I had a similar thought but about asking the LLM to predict “future” major historical events. How much prompting would it take to predict wars, etc.?
Comment · 2 years ago
A plausible alternative explanation for asking Johansson:

  (1) They cast the current actor to test the technology and have a fallback.  The actor sounds somewhat different from Johansson but the delivery of the lines is similar.  

  (2) They then ask Johansson because they want to be the company that brought “Her” to life.  She declines.  

  (3) They try again shortly before the event because they really want it to happen.

  (4) They proceed with the original voice, and the “her” tweet happens because they want to be the ones that made it real. 
Asking shortly before the release is the weakest link here. It’s possible they already had a version trained or fine tuned on her voice that they could swap in at the last minute. That could explain some of the caginess. Not saying it’s what happened or is even likely, but it feels like a reasonable possibility.
Comment · 2 years ago
I’m not sure of the meta factors have driven it recently, but at least in some large US metro areas, it became enough of a problem that some coffee chains have recently switched from having in-store seating and restrooms to pick-up only without those amenities.
Comment · 2 years ago
I wonder how much this has to do with LLMs making the essay portion of college applications (and even high school grades) somewhat useless at distinguishing among students.

Having a tightly controlled exam without the possibility of AI assistance seems to be the best option left for determining scholastic aptitude.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
> In other words, and I'm hardly the only one saying this: ChatGPT is not a replacement for people. It's an augmentation. It's a bicycle for the mind, to steal Steve Jobs's famous metaphor.

This is the analogy that jumped out to me as well. LLMs seem to be more of a vehicle than a destination. Like a bicycle, LLMs need to be operated with the direction and effort of an operator to ensure it stays on course and doesn’t veer into traffic.

Continuing the analogy, I suspect that LLMs will open up traditional white collar jobs to more people. More people can get to the destination on time with the aid of a bicycle than on foot.

Comment · 3 years ago
The vaccine was the shingles vaccine and it was administered in 2013.
Comment · 3 years ago
How do we know that these are the actual confidential rules it follows rather than text it “made up” given the prompt?
Comment · 3 years ago

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