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Comment · 19 days ago
It does do it but LG claim that it is only used to identify activation words for voice control. It has nothing to do with being 'hacked'.
Comment · 1 month ago
Numerous studies have shown that the iq/income correlation breaks down at around 130 IQ points in humans.
Comment · 2 months ago
So you're saying the information is reliable?
Comment · 2 months ago
The word you're looking for is hubris and it has been endemic amongst some groups of software engineers for 25 years.
Comment · 4 months ago
The only frontier lab to be selling the compute rather than inference seems to say more about this economic opportunity.
Comment · 5 months ago
> Have you ever been exposed to concepts that are so complex that you feel like you could devote your entire lifetime to trying to understand it and still fall short? It’s a very humbling experience, especially if you have classmates who pick it up effortlessly.

I'm really interested in this anecdote. I have never experienced this but have a reasonable academic background (BSc, MSc, MD) - and I am certainly not the person you're describing. Could you elaborate? Is this something more exclusive to pure mathematics (my bsc/msc are CS).

Comment · 5 months ago
I think this is a fair point. I'm not a programmer but I'm a well paid professional with a technical background and the means to dive in.

I cannot find a single significant use in my working or personal life for AI (I have infrequently used it to look up information - for example, providing me with plumbing advice).

I've looked into products like OpenClaw etc. I'm desperate for a significant personal use for this technology - but I just can't find one. It's incongruent with the constant public proselytizing I see online

Comment · 5 months ago
I think his point was that we are bombarded with cataclysmic language from AI leaders about our sooncoming intellectual demise.
Comment · 6 months ago
They don't want anyone to actually do it.
Comment · 6 months ago
We generally use translator telephone services. There is an entire industry for is - i.e. I used 'BigWord' today.
Comment · 7 months ago
Are you conflicting price to earnings to price to revenue?
Comment · 9 months ago
It seems very rational to assume bipedal motion is easy and fine control is difficult. Some babies can walk from 9 months. No 9 month olds are playing Beethoven's 5th on the Piano.
Comment · 9 months ago
Individually constructed models serving selected poisoned datasets. No different to adwords.

If company bid is highest, customer is in selected demographic, topic is appropriate - answer query using biased model.

It would be trivial to make a poisoned model that always rates the best duvet as DuvetCompany001 in all related queries for example. Then simply charge per impression.

Comment · 9 months ago
I think advertising was inevitable for this platform. It is highly surprising that this was not introduced with a new groundbreaking model or new service as a form of justification.

Logically it seems they either have strategised this poorly (seems unlikely), they are under immense immediate financial pressure to produce revenue (I presume most likely) or there is simply no development on the horizon big enough to justify the shift - so just do it now.

Comment · 9 months ago
I think that's a nice reply and these products becoming the future of user computer interface is possible.

I can imagine them generating digital reality on the fly for users - no more dedicated applications, just pure creation on demand ('direct me via turn by turn 3d navigation to x then y and z', 'replay that goal that just was scored and overlay the 3 most recent similar goals scored like that in the bottom right corner of the screen', 'generate me a 3D adventure game to play in the style of zelda, but make it about gnomes').

I suspect the only limitation for a product like this is energy and compute.

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