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I asked Gemini the parent question and got a very comprehensive answer. I didn't want to cut/paste it here because the villagers have torches. Your summation is very good and took some effort, thanks!

This is Iceland, a very homogenous population.

And what-about the effect on teachers and staff? Don't they matter?

I'm being a bit dismissive. This is however a very very small study.

Just using an iPad trains me to touch the screen. Non touch laptops are the holdouts. This will all be forgotten soon enough because a non-touch display is archaic. My opinion doesn't matter it's only a matter of time. Please name displays in your life without touch (large TV for sure but even they will eventually have touch).

It's expectation. Think of all the screens in your life that you interact with and when you can't touch them it feels broken (at least to me). So I don't use my laptop as a tablet but when some dialog pops up I want to touch the cancel button. Or I'm helping someone with a task and reaching to move a window directly is natural.

So it is just table stakes at this point.

Spelling Orge is just a QA test. Details matter but so does the larger picture.

I appreciate you diving into the details, that's helpful to me. I've reread their post. They do say Claude many times so yes it's clear they are framing their work this way.

We have seen how these large models learn high order levels of understanding that is unexpected, e.g. physics in video generation. That makes me not want to dismiss the work in this area particularly when paired with orders of magnitude more computation being applied than us normies have access to.

This almost seems like catch-up to Google DeepMind stuff where it is research for research sake. So in that sense I can see the skepticism where one can look at this as taking Claude and pouring it over a problem like sweet LLM syrup that will make it all taste great.

Hopefully that's not the case.

I am confused. Someone put in place a system that would allow journalists or citizens to meaningfully engage with the law in a much better way than they can now.

However you are proposing that journalists as a homogenous group do some extra work. I think that's a great thing but I don't get why you say the press aren't doing their job when they are at an historical low of compensation and respect.

If sounds like you are outsourcing your rage at the legislature and the press and journalists are the problem?

Sticking to the FTA someone made a first step in version tracking legislative texts but you do not think they've done enough?

Calling these "machines" LLMs seems to sell the process short. Using the same style of attention in a different domain is very valuable. An LLM wasn't what created a video of a panda on the moon. I am not remotely an expert, just a software person with a lot of interest over the years.

I didn't see any comments related to that - now I understand. Your reply does not seem to be in good faith, then you pick on the poster not the message.

Interesting. In TFA they don't focus on that, they say:

"Developing a drug involves many varied tasks: doing early research to identify a target for a drug and the right type of drug to engage it, designing a molecule with the right properties, optimizing it to be manufactured reliably at scale, drafting the regulatory filings needed to run clinical trials, designing and administering those trials, and much more.

Our strategy to realize AI’s medical benefits is based on having AI increasingly involved in all of these tasks."

I'm super glad that you've been hopeful for this! But we must always focus on the wording.

I am again so disappointed with the discourse about AI in these threads. It rarely if ever focuses on anything remotely technical. People just trot out their agenda and their opinions (much like what I am doing now). We are building civilization level tools and the most technical analysis I see is that the blog post announcing it was written by an LLM (it wasn't) or that an ogre riding a unicorn into the clouds of Venus was missing a claw (wth?).

Yah, meta is discouraged here but why are we as a community putting up with this level of meta disruption? I guess I'm supposed to adapt to the new community but there's nothing there there.

I will stick with the more technical posts here and avoid anything to do with a new AI model and the complete and shocking thoughtlessness of the commenters (most of them).

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It starts at $1500 not $1700

First known use of factuality was in 1859. It's a "real" word. You can look it up.

Interesting. I researched what you referenced. This is a fantastic "hobby project" level of engineering but if one is truly tasked with this level of metrology there are still many aspects that need to be addressed and corrected for. Usually that means there is a lot of money on the line and one can't mess it up. Hence the high price tag of established industry accepted solutions. -whew- I wrote that myself.