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I think this what the demo's with sources do. But they might still run into the same problem - the LLM summarization might be a bit wrong and so now it is saying one thing and the source has a slightly different opinion.

Ugh. GoDaddy. I default to namecheap these days with cloudflare for the DNS. Works pretty well and is also, eh, cheap

You say you have no current skills related to your education or previous employment, but in today's world updating your skills isn't all that hard if you want to - there are so many resources online. Wife, kids, house and meaningful work all are things you can still achieve in your forties and even beyond. It's not too late! You seem to be suffering from what the Germans call Torschlusspanik and maybe more. Get your mental health in order and the rest will follow I would think.

This does look interesting but as other comments have pointed out without data or weights it's not clear how well this works. The training notebook seems to suggest it is not actually improving all that much on the training data

Not the game then

With a budget of 8.5M Eur/Usd. Alphabet spends 200B per year. If 40% of that is spend on search, their budget is 10 thousand times larger.

Yep I did. I thought this was about some new network architecture that needed loads of RAM but also produced, I guess, weird results

This seems overly focussed on the best selling phones rather than really the evolution of Camera Phones. The HTC One M8 was I think the first camera to use multiple lenses for depth and different zoom. The first Pixel might not have been all that popular, but was the first phone to take computational photography to the next level (night mode, background blurring that was adjustable after the fact). The Samsung S20 with 10x optical zoom and 100x total zoom might have been also not a complete success, but was really an eye opener.

I am looking forward to the day computers are better at coming up with things humans can do better than computers than humans.

We used to argue that face recognition and the ability to play go were the hallmark of true intelligence. Meanwhile thinking machines are replacing humans all over the place

Not very realistic I have to say. Who is going to take a 5 dollar bet serious in 2061?

The Germans requiring everything on paper with people witnessing signatures is of course rather silly, but whether it takes 3 weeks to form a company or 3 days is ultimately not going to be a real difference. I think the thing here is more that American companies have trouble handling non American companies and hence the flip. I sold a Dutch B.V. to an American company once except they didn't want to buy the company because they didn't understand it and instead we ended up selling the assets and taking a tax hit.

Also if you are in the EU you can just start an Estonian company and run that in Germany

> MSCI China has returned over 12%

Not per year: https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/aa99c3a4-d48b-44ac-8caa...

More information on the exact ad campaign run would make it easier to understand all this. Who where they targeting? What was the max cost per impression? You might not like Yahoo! or Foxnews but surely if your ad campaign is such that Google thinks your target audience can be found there, they should show your ad there?

Agreed! But that's not really the point the article is trying to make. Once you know DALL-E, it is pretty easy to see which are DALL-E and which are not. Just like you get to know an artist. But in 10 years, if we have 100 DALL-E like networks and you compare them to 100 artists, can we tell the difference then?

This reminds of people in the olden days saying that computers can't actually play chess. It's just a well trained excel spreadsheet. But they don't actually play the game.

The article doesn't mention the Turing test. Isn't that the relevant criteria here? Can an expert tell the work in museums from what DALL-E produces?

Wow. thanks. Doesn't seem like it would replace all that much lithium then

It's a bit suspicious that the article doesn't actually mention how much power the system uses. The processor it powers doesn't need very much at all, so it makes one wonder

I dunno if Sadhguru is the best guide when it comes to depression: https://www.altnews.in/depression-the-myths-falseness-of-sad...

Also: they are running Google Cloud at a loss which at some level means that they are selling compute below costs which would suggest that Google could be paying more.

I don't know. If you live your self repeating life and weeks become months and months become years and then you go to say Korea for half a year and make new friends and pick up new routines and eat new foods and then you go back to your routine, isn't your life just better than if you hadn't gone? The new stuff might still become a routine, but it is still extra.

Not sure if the article misses the point then. If Google satisfies your "digital morons" by making it slightly harder for the more advanced users to get the results they want, couldn't that be the right thing to do? For example, over time, Google has been using synonyms more so that often the word you searched for doesn't appear in the page. This works for most people very well, but makes the self proclaimed experts complain

Ah, good catch, thanks

I'm confused about the calculation. They say we are approaching 2T a year on military spending. Over 5 years that's 10T. 2% of that is 200B - a fair sum, but no the 1T advertised. What am I missing?

This does feel like there's some selection bias here. The assumption is that intelligence hasn't developed before humans. If a planet wide civilization would have sprung up say with the dinosaurs, would we have gotten a shot? It seems somewhat plausible that such a civilization would either have survived ruling any subsequent rise out or have blown up the planet in a way that none would arise either.

> Based on personal experience living in Europe, a society can function quite well even with a pathetic level of customer service

I don't know. In my experience customer service in Europe is better than it seems. In the US my customer service agent will tell me very smilingly that unfortunately there is nothing they can do for me right now but is there anything else they can help me with?

In Germany where I lived before coming to the US, whomever answers the phone will take the time to point out why it is really my fault we got into this mess in the first place but will then grudgingly tell me that by exception they can fix it just in this one instance.

This question always reminds me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project - preserving the Domesday Book digitally by way of a laserdisc. The technology used became obsolete almost immediately and the actual book, now 935 years old is still fine.

The actual lawsuit: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-federal-circuit/1878050.html

The headline and the first line of the article are not all that much in sync. Joining or considering to join:

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chipmaker, and Sony Group are considering joint construction of a semiconductor factory in western Japan amid a global chip shortage, Nikkei has learned.

Strikes me as almost the definition of survival bias; the species that survived have these properties and therefore survived. We don't know that much about the species that didn't but let's assume they didn't have those properties.