About the animation, I said that half jokingly, though the tech behind it is more than you think. It’s just not really important for normal people.

I doubt you’ll be satisfied with any folding phone in the near future, let alone Apple’s.

Even in a fantasy world where Ai was 100% safe & all data centers were running on green energy under the Sahara, even then there would be people wishing them grave ill.

There are two innovations kind of worth noting. One is that the software animation when closing or opening the phone looks very cool & the second is that Apple’s plastic screen protector is using a somewhat clever matte nano tech that hides the crease -and reflections in general- quite effectively.

Imo folding phones are not really worth using, but the Iphone Fold is especially bad. Not only is the hinge design itself obviously flawed causing all these breakages, but also the hinge internals are sealed really poorly so you get some dirt in there & gg.

Luckily New Mexico doesn’t exist anymore.

Not saying other antivirus software suites are not useful or much better, just only that defender is shit. People think it’s great, but it fails at basic scanning reliability & is reliant on Windows Update actually working ok too, which is a pretty shitty problem to have for security software. My expectation is that if I download malware the binary is not allowed to execute until scanning happened, Defender only sporadically fulfills this on real actively used computers with aging Windows installs.

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What I’m somewhat curious about is that typically to what degree are smart appliances usable without their app & the network.

I have a smart air fryer & a smart scale. Neither has been set up to connect to wifi or my phone & both work just fine …

Awful use of ChatGPT, yes. Though in a perfect world where intentional bias could not exist, then it could be good for people that are lazy to do their own research to summarize the life, past policy decisions & promises of the candidates in an easily digestible form. In that hypothetical world could be better than still going to the polls without knowing anything, like so many people do.

I actually asked ChatGPT out of curiosity about James Talarico vs. Ken Paxton & it cherry picked things that were really said by KP, but are bullshit from a republican. Then again looking at Talarico’s side makes me waver if there is intentional bias at all, but overall it still feels like both candidates are shown in a relatively good light, with KP obviously gaining more.

Just the fact that ChatGPT and other LLMs are resistant to say bad things about politicians in general makes the results inherently biased & potentially very damaging.

said that she uses Anthropic’s chatbot like a “diary.”

That’s a pretty good defense, I hope it works out.

I understand the anti Ai sentiment, but “any way” is quite broad. Yes calling it super intelligence right now is a grift, but saying current frontier models are not better than humans in any respect is just as ridiculous. They are better at reviewing code for example, can make sense of large sections of unintelligible spaghetti like no human can.

Some people have lasting cognitive problems after COVID, I think Satya Nadella is one of those people.

and manipulate the feed.

I’m pretty sure in this regard there is no difference. Odd entries show up on my front page every day.

Sony etal are doing their best to make PC the main gaming & entertainment platform again and Microsoft is actively pushing everyone to Linux. It’s an interesting timeline we are in.

Can vibecode a winamp-clone in like 5 hours & the resulting app would never try to monetize me. Of course I don’t have to because Foobar -or rather Fooyin on Linux- is better than Winamp ever were…

I don’t think it matters anymore. Litigation against someone that distilled from a model that distilled from another seems futile. Even on the first grade it’s not nearly as straightforward as right owners would have us believe.

I wouldn’t put it past Apple that newer Iphones wouldn’t be compatible with PS & Xbox controllers anymore.

Youtube has served me weird out of place political content before, I don’t know. Like in an ideal world they would have a recommendations tab, that’s separate from the chronological feed from my subscriptions.

I think It’s incredibly hard to predict where this is going and at what rate. Public sentiment is largely biased based on AI hate…

“Dumb” agents given too much power could do an untold amount of damage already, we wouldn’t even need further breakthroughs. For example I can totally imagine that some degree of Ai control could act as a trigger for the Kessler effect, this is plausible today.

I think SK Hynix’s projection is incredibly naive. I’d be surprised if by 2028 the Chinese haven’t captured this market yet, inevitably impacting prices.

You don’t have to be an oracle to expect this, it is a fact that CXMT is already scaling up consumer DDR5 production. Yes they are behind in technology, but home users won’t care much as long as they can put them into their DDR5 mobos & run them in dual channel…

Anyway my prediction is that 2 years from now the prices will be significantly down, but still high compared the business as usual & the moment the bubble pops -if it does & not before 2029- prices will go down to what’s normal or even below normal for the larger sticks.

Who cares if it gets it right 99% of the time? Who cares if the next model is 99.9%? It’s not 100%! That means it’s a ticking clock until something major fucks up!

This is a really weak argument. Getting right 99.9% of the time is extraordinarily good in many fields, superhuman even. The human brain is also a non-deterministic system. Surgeons make mistakes too, there is no such a thing as a 100% reliable human.