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It can be turned off. You get a pop-up as soon as you open the site.

I’m on the other side of this and I think this is a great social feature for websites.

One thing the web currently lacks is multiplayer mode, and this is one way of doing it.

It does make more sense to have something like this in sites where you can move things, and canvases, but I do think it would be nice to have this + a chatroom in websites. Some sort of “good old internet” feeling.

But isn’t that kicking the can down the road? Isn’t that the reason housing is incredibly over valued and wealth inequality is a huge problem here and around the world?

I suppose they saw them as IRL items that are more at risk of being robbed than spoiled maliciously.

At least we now know that making things go bad is yet another attack vector they have.

Thanks! Solid input.

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An anecdote on Apple:

I was in Colombia a couple of months ago and I got my phone stolen (iPhone 16). I rushed home to mark it as stolen using the find my feature using my Mac. It went through and I felt incredibly relieved. Then, a couple of minutes after, I receive a bunch of emails from many of my online accounts sending auth codes and making sure it was me changing the password. I then spent several hours in a back and forth trying to get a hold of the situation which thankfully was solved. I just know that my grandma would’ve had a different story to tell…

I’ve heard the same story from friends that have had their phones stolen also.

So, how secure is Apple? I think it is and feels like it’s transforming to an it used to be.

It feels like anything that’s now connected to the internet holds a back door waiting to be discovered sooner or later.

So, from what I’m learning, it’s not really about stopping the breaches because it’s hard to say you’re ever going to be free from breaches, but creating a system of data storage that takes potential breaches in mind.

As the target audience for this white paper, I’d appreciate HN’s take on the accuracy of this. Whether it misses something, deserves praise or any resources you can point out to make this advice even more actionable.

What’s your advice to a non-technical / non-tech savvy small business owner? Say, for example, people used to buy anti virus as a solution. What could they do now that resembles that?

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I work with lots of non-technical / non-tech savvy small business owners and many of them are showing concern. So, I’d love to share as much as possible with the people who are not Palo Alto networks clients.

Thought of the same! Cue George Orwell facepalming in his grave.

For the ones thinking this is great, have you actually tried to talk without making sounds?

I don't think it is an intuitive action at all and I became self-conscious about not making a sound rather than talking like I normally would.

I suppose it would require some "getting used to."

Regardless, I think it is a cool idea and a real problem. Sometimes I don't want to type nor talk out loud so I find myself whispering at my phone like I'm telling it a dirty secret.

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As I'm writing this, I think this kind of product might not hit the market for consumers, but I'm seeing this used by Flock like companies to spy on people's speech, so kudos on making machine lip reading a thing!

I agree with people having excess memory on their computers.

What I don’t like is the idea of rationing it and making it more and more expensive when you promise an era of abundance.

No thank you.

And I’m not proposing anything. I’m simply using my imagination here.

I appreciate your points of view. I’m not trying to figure out the 12D chess these companies are playing nor I’m convinced these are the salvation of humanity. I just enjoy exploring all perspectives possible before arriving at a conclusion. It’s my defense mechanism against echo chambers.

You just made me think of LLMs as useful translators. I know they are not going to be the ones leading to the discoveries other ML mechanisms can. But LLMs are a great way to communicate though to a machine. Before it was only for those able to code, but now that problem is being resolved.

That is not to say that computer scientists are no longer useful, but it is now possible for everyone to talk to the computer and viceversa.

I said we, when I shouldn’t because I accept it. But I don’t think the majority of people what sidewalks to become bike lanes. That’s why there’s that distinction.

I guess I’m more on the side of skaters who I’ve seen get the most hate from pedestrians.

I just don’t like seeing people up in arms because someone says they don’t want a robot on the sidewalk and then the same people make yelling at skaters for doing the same thing. I guess it’s because the robots look cute and don’t need deodorant.

I still don’t understand how these are allowed to roll down sidewalks. They’re called sidewalks for a reason… they are meant for walking (acknowledging scooters and wheelchairs for those who need it to mode around) but we generally don’t accept someone on a bicycle or someone skating.

Either we let the sidewalk become a free for all or we don’t. I don’t think it’s fair to make exceptions for robots on wheels.

Maybe they can’t keep the discoveries secret… idk.

But what they can do with them can make a difference. Especially with the access to compute and resources they have compared to anyone else. So, they still have a competitive advantage.

The one current example I can think of is Google. They have Alpha Fold and Quantum Computing. I believe they’ve seen advancements to the way they work and an improvement to the speed of progress. It’s just that it’s not what it’s talked about.

I think that’s what VCs do. Only a fraction of investments succeed and the ones that do pay off big time.

Now, imagine having a mechanism that will constantly improve, so you can go from 1% success rate to 5% success rate in say a year.

I see your point. What I think could be different is the speed at which things can be done compared to conventional ways of discovery.

Think of a COVID/MRNA like solution for other areas.

Oh, I see it. I’m just thinking 5–10 years down the line not short-term volatility.

Could there be more ChatGPT moments down the line in other areas like science, genetics, space and something we haven’t considered? I think there’s a chance.

I also think AI is here to stay and there may be some confirmation bias from the community regarding open source models. It’s like someone saying back then that Linux was going to take over… (?) Open source software seems to be served for technical people. Not for the average Joe looking for an answer or help generating a social media post or help writing an email.

Great take and useful for the thought experiment.

I just feel like your taking it all as a given/fact. And maybe you’re right, but I’m not that well versed into it to say things for sure.

What I'm trying to get at is that if we’re considering a black swan event, why not consider both the bull and the bear case or even the neutral one and at least accept that we don’t know which one it will be and it may well be a coin toss…

Perhaps using “cancer” deviated things into a specific subject, but it could be anything. A drug discovery, quantum computing, etc.

Again, I’m no quantum physicist or chemist, but as a world citizen, these feel within the realm of possibilities. Just like it destroying humanity or simply just being yet another technological advancement like the computer or the internet was.

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I guess the people working on computers could have argued there was a 10% chance it was going to end humanity and so the people working on the internet because AI was going to come about.

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I’d say that my final conclusion is that we don’t really know and the signals we’re getting from founders, investors, the market, here, and other people we talk to is that NOBODY KNOWS. All we can do is to continue to speculate and make bets based on hunches.

Public closed-source models remain superior on paper, to the best of my knowledge.

Now, consider they have one, two or three generations of models being tested and toyed around before being released.

Those would be the ones used for breakthroughs.

I don’t think the cure for cancer will be the result of the prompt “tell me the cure for cancer. Make no mistakes.” But instead applying real AI and ML supercharged by recent advancements to identify genetic mutations that could possibly cure cancer or other diseases.

By reading the comments I wonder if perhaps OAI & ANT are not going to be “model” companies and they are going to be the ones innovating in many fronts and cashing in for the benefits of those advancements…

What I’m trying to say here is, what if, they are staying closed strategically so they keep their most advanced models close to their chest until they make an incredible discovery. Say they cure cancer. In this case, they are taking that IP collaborating with big pharma and cashing in on the upside of such discovery.

So, what if on top of being just another enterprise and consumer product that accelerates the way we all work and live, it also becomes this factory of breakthroughs and that’s where open source models can’t compete with them.

Just speculating…

AI for me I just another balancing act. Lean too hard on it and it will be noticeable and detrimental, lean to hard away from it and you’ll be left behind by those who learn how to balance it.

Good boys! You found the AI written parts!!! here's an upvote for you.

Might need a nose guard for you too!

I think it's important to see if this could happen on a larger scale. What if it wasn't only French supermarkets but also important supply chain chokepoints of food worldwide? What would happen to food prices?

You're right. I'm not sure.

I even thought: next time my partner gets a headache I'm just going to give her a vibrator and test it out.

Pleasure is not only about sex, it can take many forms, and us humans re the ones that really learned how to get pleasure from a lot of sources.

Good point on the first paragraphs. The why seems to be that it’s mostly about pleasure.

Although not essential for survival, pleasure seems to be programmed in us as a species, so the body evolving this to give women the balance of a complex pleasure organ to make up for the pain — in so many levels — they go through during birth.

So maybe nature was like “they suffer a lot during birth and pregnancy, let’s give them a clitoris that gives them REALLY good pleasure that the male counterpart won’t be able to ever experience or comprehend.”

I think you’d be surprised by how many people just see the vagina as a whole you stick a penis in. But agree with this not being a big mystery being unlocked.

This article feels like it's full of no big mystery being unlocked other than the clitoris non-sexual stimulation being used as pain treatment during labor, but I'm sure not as effective as just some potent pain killer.