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On iOS is it really ‘off’? Surely it’s on at some level in order to widen the network for AirTags?
Buy any TV, just don’t connect it to the internet at all, ever.
Plug in an Apple TV or any other streaming device if you want digital content.
If your want terrestrial content ensure the TV has the relevant input connections on the back.
You're not wrong.
The video video on Youtube gives a very good (and quick) overview of the marketing behind phone screen glass marketing claims;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YrdI7h2XoYThe same will apply to everything any company is marketing, at the very least it will always be their 'best' 'new' product.
There appears to be different URLs for different territories. For anyone curious, I've fed a few of them into an agent and they are largely consistent.
US 1,029 Songs 682 Artists 39 Unique tracks
GB 1,156 Songs 727 Artists 12 Unique tracks
FR 1,217 Songs 797 Artists 132 Unique tracks
DE 1,062 Songs 709 Artists 62 Unique tracks
ES 1,155 Songs 724 Artists 7 Unique tracks
As the saying goes… the devil is in the details.
Open an SVG in a text editor, check for data.
It may also be adding nodes to line art in specific patterns, think Morse Code.
Curiosity, and problem solving.
Im also working on a custom PCB for a software synthesiser using a variety of off the shelf components.
Again niche but hopefully getting the next set of PCBs off to the manufacturer later this week.
I’ve built an SVG animation tool. Something akin to a basic Flash tool.
It was originally a rudimentary tool I coded by hand, then used AI to tighten up, fix issues and evolve into something I’m happier with, it’s probably 90% AI now, with features created bit by bit rather than one-shot prompted.
It’s a niche tool for my use; to create animated image assets in a fraction of the file size to a comparable GIF.
There are still issues with preparing work in Illustrator so my next step will be to work ok some form of plug-in that can export prepared artwork for use in the animator.
Who’s to say it would report it self as an agent, then diff the two versions.
The news sites should engineer their articles to mislead the AI’s.
If that message is repeated enough in the media, and if companies are constantly scraping in the internet for new content, doesn't it explicitly instruct a future agent to go rogue because that has been prophesied.
I've seen a several AI-coded WebGL examples... I wonder if AI will mean the return of the Flash-style interactive websites.
I found it interesting in the example given of a user looking at house listings and the agent contacting the letting agent on it's own on behalf of the user.
Like the good ol' days of viruses and anti-viruses. I wonder if there's two sides that will play out; many agents across many users doing things at scale for their users, thereby creating an admin burden for someone else. However because the task is known there's a framework for how to solve the task, might Meta then provide an agent on the other side for the business owner to use.
I think you have to accept that life is full of change. The world all around you is changing and you are best prepared by not having a fixed mindset or rigid skill set.
Regardless of how automated parts of society become, there will always be a need for someone to do something.
You should always tinker and experiment with new things, that’s where you find opportunity.
How many things from 30 years ago are still working without issue or regular maintenance.
Things will always change, there will always be jobs. AI will be a tool to use, good robots will be expensive, cheap robots will breakdown, everything will require some form of sales, management, maintenance etc.
I work as a designer, I use a lot of their tools at a professional level. My perspective is from a place where Adobe software is embedded in processes, I could change my software but I will receive assets that will be done with the latest tools. Likewise I could supply files from these tools but then the person receding it may not be able to use them. I’m sure there are a lot of people using bits of Adobe software but there are much more using it in a career and it would be impossible to switch and there’s an opportunity for Adobe to turn the screw and lock down the processes in the creative pipeline.
I think Adobe I will quickly lean into Content Credentials, across the entire creative suite workflow.
Anything created in an Adobe product has a hash and is synced to their cloud.
Opening any asset in an Adobe product without Adobe content credentials is blocked entirely as it’s ‘not verified’.
Any real business that uses Adobe software will be locked into it and it will shut out things like this from competing in a commercial sense.
It enforces the idea that only Adobe can validate the authenticity and origin of an asset, as well as builds a moat.
They could easily roll it out, it introduces more friction from a creative production point of view but they may have no choice now…
Ah. So in that instance are those platforms not validating that the things submitting information are correct and true.
A bit like a utility company needing to do manual reads every now and then to ensure they are getting a correct signal.
I think you’re saying ‘being able to do this means the opportunity for more fraud, by producing fake XYZ as proof’.
Photoshop has been around for around 35 years, fraud has always been an issue. There are plenty of reports of people selling things via Facebook marketplace and the ‘buyer’ showing them sending a payment on a fake baking app. Fraud will always exist and I don’t think tech will make it worse, everyone needs to be more cautious and tells friends and family to be the same.
That’s the danger isn’t it. If you’re told everything you do is going to change the world, but you’re ignorant of the output… then that’s a lot of hot air and false promises propping things up.
You could almost draw a comparison between that and inexperienced consultants making business changes, claiming glory and then disappearing before the thing falls apart.
I wonder if the issue is that not many people within OpenAI can validate the output. Therefore what reads well looks good, and then was published.
If that’s the case in a way its a similar delusion that average people are experiencing with their own AI use.
I've been tinkering with Gemini for several months and I think it's great. The most complex things I've had it do is create a rust emulator from a compiled game, as well as create a buildroot linux image, trouble shoot problems etc.
Random thought… I wonder if the goal is to get it classified as a weapon of sorts, then it gets export controls put on it, perhaps forcing government to take on all that debt.
The artwork on the cover should come with a health and safety notice :D
100% Snow Leopard, followed closely by Mavericks.