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Curious where is the reality

A solution:

New AI features are available for use offline, they will make you able to translate offline, get answers, summaries, etc, would you like to download / install them (~4 GB)?

It is going to fix the experience in the UI. It's a significant misstep by Google in its form (probably lazy/hasted/bureaucratic release), but on the move itself, this is actually a very user-friendly initiative from Google.

It's quite unfair in that specific case to say that Google = evil, and when Qwen = good. It's just about informing the user better so the bandwidth and space is not wasted. Giving user choice.

They will fix it eventually, especially after raising the issue.

But shouting here "Google = bad, me uninstall Google, if you use Google Chrome you are an idiot" are not a productive feedback for a product owner there.

It's free, multi-language, well tested, respecting privacy (no cloud needed), nothing extra to install. Quite nice actually.

Like what iPhones do, and everybody is ok with it. Chrome is not just a browser, it's a Window (ahem) to the web, almost an operating system considering the wide scope.

Average game is 80 GB, Call of Duty 200 GB+, etc

It's a quite oriented title:

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

The same news can be read as:

Amazing, Chrome now includes a fully offline AI so you don't have to send your secrets to ChatGPT

A proper journalist would have found the middle ground, explained that this is by default, can be made optional and to raise the issue to Google as "Cons: this uses bandwidth and user is not aware of it".

Always the same political excuse

They all carry political weights, because humans behind defend their interests, and are promoting some social values.

https://pastebin.com/hjhvsBFg

This answer from Claude is so biased that it is ridiculous

Well, there is this little conflict of interest

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759754

deadline supposed to come from delay but it is incorrect use in French. cabinet is toilet. etc

It's an artificial invented variant, like a kid would invent its own language to speak to other kids, not something that was born out of habit and unified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto shares a similar issue but at least it's cute and more logical though.

AI would be good at creating an international language

Could it become true ?

Well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_fetishism we live in the future already

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x9TdqrvDHWY

Especially the arm clamp is the same shape, the actions are practically the same (take object and put in basket, teleoperation with live camera).

The type of thing you have lot of fun for 5 minutes.

Cheaper Unitree robots that starts at 4,900 USD are impressive in comparison.

    Weave says the robot blends autonomy with teleoperation (remote assistance by a Weave specialist) to guarantee that we complete every fold

It's like this bicycle meme where the person puts a stick in its wheels.

It's for the same reason that petrol cars are encouraged in the US.

Punishing SpaceX will lead to a bigger financial crisis, an upset Elon Musk who might refuse to fund the next democratic election and dozens of thousands of lost jobs (fortunately they already became millionaire, riding the right rocket) for a problem that most of the rich population doesn't care about.

Because in the city, it's about your petrol car, big trucks, and nobody to see the stars and a bit more pollution doesn't change much at that scale from their eyes.

CFCs (these gazes destroying ozone) were a notable exception, because it would lead to death of everyone (the same way that petrol with lead), except death, universally there was no advantage to defend.

But a space filled with US satellites is a great advantage for the US, since they are the only ones with the capabilities to deploy thousands of them, and it's a big business for military intelligence.

I can imagine the main reason they are going to regulate, is so that older satellite debris don't destroy the new shiny satellites, but beauty of the sky is going to be the very least important factor.

With SACEM, if you have a cafe, then you have to pay 4000 USD per year to support musicians, etc etc.

Of course, this is only broadcasting rights, you have to acquire the music (or rent it) on a B2B platform.

If you play AI Lofi in theory you don't have to, but don't worry that inspectors will find a way to fine you.

Ironically, the human band you are playing will get zero, and it will go to the big rich and popular artists.

They would benefit much more from a have a better recommendation and ranking algorithm that carefully monitors all metrics, recommends high-performers, and excludes unpopular content from the feed.

You can use the fact it was AI-generated as a signal, but it is just a signal among other criterias, not an outright ban.

Essentially, explore songs and artists, exploit winners.

    Lot of people abort a song/artist/creator/etc.

    Lot of fake listens.

    People don't like the song of an album

    Creator is historically with a low score

    etc...

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit )

Then you judge the popularity of a song, an album, a creator, a playlist, etc not its creation method. Exactly like a genre type. It's not because you don't like country music that everybody should be forbidden to listen to country music.

It's good for them too, the more streams they do, the more money they get, and the more their audience is engaged. If the person doesn’t like “AI-generated genre” then just downrank it heavily on its recommandation feed, like YouTube or TikTok does.

Let them do, if they like to listen, whom are you to say their tastes are bad ?

> 97% of people can’t tell the difference between fully AI-generated and human made music

https://newsroom-deezer.com/2025/11/deezer-ipsos-survey-ai-m...

The first: Has no clue about anything and therefore no useful knowledge and cannot challenge me

The second one: Is proven to willfully give wrong information and will make me do mistakes for sure.

The LLMs will do their best, even if imperfect, since they summarizes what appeared in books.

I prefer to be grounded on what Airbus / Boeing manuals, or on what pilots training book said, than two far more unreliable sources.

OpenEvidence claims

    "More than 40% of U.S. physicians use it daily, and it handled around 20 million clinical consultations per month. Over 100 million Americans were treated by a doctor using it in 2025."

This is the real root issue.

At 75 years old, he was stubborn. Is that reasonable ? Yes, perfectly. Could he have been right since the beginning ? Certainly. Did he deny evidence ? Yes.

Zero doubt that he was intelligent, everything points toward that direction, but that doesn't make a person less stubborn, because accepting the evidence, is also accepting that you were wrong if you initially postured yourself as adversarial instead of cooperative.

He would have read Wikipedia, scientific papers, etc, even without AI.

He did not want to be convinced. It works both ways:

https://www.foxnews.com/health/woman-says-chatgpt-saved-her-...

or

https://www.today.com/health/mom-chatgpt-diagnosis-pain-rcna...

Nonetheless, someone very smart, just didn't want to move from his position.

Like any domain, when you have questions or need a solution, you make research first, then you ask a specialist.

If you explain well the symptoms and context you can have proper advices and then decide on the path next:

    Case A) It looks benign and advices / information that you collected seem reasonable, then you go your way.

    Case B) You need second opinion of a specialist because the subject is too complex, or there are medications that you need approval.

At home you have the time to assess the options, pros and cons of each approaches, the possible questions to ask and then challenge the doctor.

Shared decision-making is an actual evidence-based model of care, and patients who arrive understanding their condition and carrying specific questions tend to get better attention and better outcomes.

Some doctors get annoyed, because they have big ego and choose to be patronizing, but it is exactly their job to answer such questions.

    With LLMs, it's quite good, you get nuanced and rather useful answers.

    Before LLMs, no matter the topic you searched for, the answer was the same: "you have cancer / an [obviously deadly] rare disease"

    • The doctors are not affordable
    • They are too busy for you (< 15 minutes)
    • You may need to wait months to get an appointment
    • They are not good (country-side is an example, and sometimes even country-level)

So, you have something deeply bothering you, your only appointment is in 4 months. It would be insane not to take the time to explore different solutions and not to come informed about the topic.

If you express your prompt properly and do not rely on imagery, you can absolutely have top-tier advices.

Vendor-lock is quite high, possibly higher in the US.

Look at iPhone, hardware is behind, restricted, unauditable privacy and questionable software in terms of performance (especially starting iOS 26, where you lost the choice for Liquid Glass).

Impossible to reasonably sync AirPods or watches, Macbook or choose the firmware version.

In comparison, the irony is that China offers the freedom (like with Qwen).

On these supposedly evil Chinese devices (phones, headphones, watches, etc), you have an open platform with great hardware, that you can modify as much as you want, and the only people who restrict you is... Google (making sure you cannot root without losing to important apps, so technically you can root, but practically you can't).

All the claims about "China = bad hardware and bad software" were true 20 years ago, but this is not the case anymore.

That being said, should certainly be quite cautious about default setup... you have US surveillance, PLUS, Chinese surveillance.

The main flabbergasting stuff about Coca-Cola is the fact that they choose to use HFCS in some countries, and sugar in others, and this is due to... protectionism again that artificially skews competition like for electronics.

Protectionism policies are blocking low prices (what about tariffs ? what about monopolies ?) and are benefiting only the ones holding the knowledge and factories at the detriment of the rest of humanity.

Can't wait for ASML / TSMC / Zeiss equivalents so we can have access to memory sticks and GPUs / AI accelerators to run Qwen Super-Large distilled on Claude Zulu model, GTA VIII or whatever will come at that time.