I'm sorry but I blame the old powers like the NYT a lot more for the current predicament than I blame the current president. For all their hemming and hawing about China leading "global production in multiple industries" they sure were silent during the 80s, 90s, and 2000s when the business elite of the country were busy offshoring and selling to the highest bidder to make this situation a reality. I think the corporate media in this country is an absolute disgrace.
It's like, what are they even trying to say here? Do they mean to imply that if Trump hadn't cut funding to public research or whatever, this situation would be fundamentally different? Completely ridiculous. If they're mad about the rise of China, then they should be blaming the people who allowed China to catch up in exchange for a quick buck.
You're absolutely right. It's not intelligence in the way we have traditionally understood it. It's a pattern matching system that uses massive scale to handle a vast number of cases, and it's very useful, but it routinely fails on even basic tasks. The labs are just playing whack a mole with the failure cases because fundamentally the architecture doesn't have common sense in the same way we do. Your moniker of "statistical code synthesis" is probably more accurate but this is a capex intensive technology and you're gonna get a lot more investor interest by playing to people's imagination with terms like "intelligence" or "superintelligence".
What a basket case this lady sounds like. The venn diagram of people who are OK with a relationship with a polyamorous sex worker who brags about getting gangbanged for her birthday, and the group of stable, emotionally secure, successful men that she would be interested in, might as well be two circles. Best of luck to her looking for a possibly nonexistent needle in a haystack.
Is this really so much of a shocker? Video games are awesome. They're one of the best things about living in the information age. In an overcrowded, unequal and stressful time to be alive, it's awesome to have an escape - a portal to another universe that is far more engaging than any other forms of escape that came before it. And far more economical, too.
If Google is able to ignore the pressure to bring in revenue from AI and is able to outcompete the others at automating AI research itself, I think they will win the war. It seems that they certainly have an advantage, with limited pressure from outside investors, their own hardware stack, a constant flow of cash through the other lines of business, and a head start against most of the other giant tech companies.
I really don't think this is a likely outcome in the 'several quarters' timeframe. The world just spent 2.5 decades going onto Google. There are so many small business owners out there who hate technology... so many old people who took years just to learn how to Google... so many ingrained behaviors of just Googling things... outside of the vocal tech crowd I think it's exceedingly unlikely that users stop using Google en masse.
I wouldn't bother with the official Gemini app. I don't know why Google even bothers with it at this point. I only interact with 2.5 through AI studio and it's great through that interface.
I mean yeah, of course they could. That's probably exactly what's happening. I'm not aware of any laws against it unfortunately, previously we relied on Presidents to do what is best for the nation rather than their friends, but we live in unprecedented times.
I think Grok is the best for asking about current events but I kind of hate how it always tries to turn everything into a conversation. But that's just my opinion! What do you think is the most annoying feature about Grok?
Isn't the brain kind of just a predictor as well, just a more complicated one? Instead of predicting and emitting tokens, we're predicting future outcomes and emitting muscle movements. Which is obviously different in a sense but I don't think you can write off the entire paradigm as a dead end just because the medium is different.
The media FUD around top tax brackets continues to astound me. I'm seeing articles saying that taxes will be hiked for "the richest americans." And then you look into it and they're actually talking about the highest earners. Which is COMPLETELY different from the "richest" people. And then there's this, where the headline reads "millionaires" and in reality it's people earning over 1m per year... basically the opposite of the first scenario.
Are journalists really just this stupid? Do they not understand the difference between wealth and income?
This is such crap. It's just like the Replit CEO saying that software engineering is dead, or Altman saying AGI is imminent. They're stating a version of the future that they would like to appear because that would be the best outcome for their businesses.
But in reality movie theatres are in no way dead. People like the experience of going to a theater with friends, buying yummy snacks, watching a giant screen with really high volume. Seeing the interstellar relaunch last winter reminded me of just how LOUD the movie is, that's something you just can't get with 99% of setups people watch movies on at home.
Pretty cool. Notebook LM is one of the best AI tools I've used. My friends love playing really complicated board games with big rule books and I've had a lot of success uploading the rule book PDFs to notebook LM to quickly resolve any questions we may have about the game rules.
There's no theoretical limit. That's what the concept of a "zero day" is all about. It's entirely possible that some undiscovered vulnerability allows an attacker to remotely hijack your entire PC, steal all passwords, and completely ruin your life just by opening a webpage. Is it likely? No. But in terms of the "worst thing possible" there's really no upper bound.
Google screwed up so massively in this whole AI race. It blows my mind that they had the technology available internally years before OpenAI released ChatGPT but didn't do anything with it and in fact lost top talent due to their hesitation to release it (as the article states about Noam Shazeer). And now, for basically every non-techie person, ChatGPT is synonymous with AI in the same way that Google was synonymous with search. What a disaster. Quite frankly shocked that their executive team is still in place.
Episode 1 of this series was just god awful, I couldn't even make it through the episode. What is it about this show that's so good? From ep 1 it seemed like kind of a shitty cheesy procedural crime show.
I picked up the old blade 18 during the pandemic and I was very happy with it. Great build quality, comparable to a mac. Best windows laptop I ever owned. But I have 2 friends who also got blades (not the 18) and had nothing but problems with them. So YMMV.
I do think that XMR is the one crypto (at least that I'm aware of) that actually delivers on the original vision. But that's exactly why governments despise it. It's very difficult to buy. I am really into the tech behind XMR. But I do feel that a bet on it is a bet on a future where governments completely lose control of things. And I am just not convinced that it will come to pass. As you say, surveillance is winning.
I'm glad you've had good experiences with it. The experiences I've had are not great, to say the least. I rode in my friend's Model Y over the holidays and it drove slower than all other cars on the road to an unsafe level, nearly rear ended a car, and came to a full stop at a green light twice. For me personally, I just don't really trust it.
I know it's common for everyone to shit on Google here on HN, but I have to say, I do like the AI overviews. They're easy to ignore and sometimes helpful... and I've seen lots of non-tech friends and family using them. I really don't get the vehement hatred the tech / HN community has for this feature (nor do I get the common complaint that "Google search is useless," it works better than all the others for me...)
Congrats on your success! Making games is what got me into programming and while I'm currently doing the same big tech stuff you were, I would love to become an indie game dev after this phase of my career ends.
The biggest challenge I've had in my various personal projects is the art, for sure. I may have programming skills but I certainly have no art or animation skills. How did you get over this hurdle? I've made so many cool prototypes for games that I end up having to shelve due to hitting a progress wall when it comes to art or 3d modeling.
It does feel liberating to me after you get through security and you have nothing to do except just chill and wait for boarding. There's no sense of guilt, no sense that you should be doing something that you're not.
Lol, is that all you people can ever come up with? "I disagree, therefore you're a Nazi?" Hasn't the events of the past 6 months shown you that this dumb "gotcha" style debating doesn't work?
There's a big difference between outsider activists protesting the actions of a company, and the actual leadership of a company choosing a less profitable path in order to seem more morally pure.
The measure is stock returns in the last 5 years. The whole point of public companies is to generate wealth for shareholders and Google just simply isn't really delivering on the same level as Palantir.
In fact, when you look at the last decade of Google saying they're an "AI first" company and literally inventing transformers, and look at what their stock price has done and how they've performed in relation to other major companies involved in this current AI spring, there is simply no way not to be disappointed.