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My company buys it. No idea what they use it for since I work in IT and I don’t use it for anything.

So you are saying that you ban anyone that wants a intelligent conversation and mildly disagrees with you?

Fortunately logic and reality are not really things that dictatorships really all that interested in. So I guess carry on.

Right so why can’t the same sections be simulated? If you accept that the human brain is simply an organic implementation of a neural network, then you have to accept that a synthetic implementation can achieve the same thing.

The idea that the human brain is special is ludicrous and completely without evidence

Right just as soon as all the people proclaiming that can point to the soul bit of my brain. There is absolutely no reason to say that AI cannot be creative there’s nothing fundamentally magic about creativity that means only humans can do it.

iPhones don’t support multimedia messaging over anything other than SMS. On Android when you send an image to someone you’re sending the actual file (the original file with all its bytes intact). If you try to send it to someone over SMS it’ll just goes “nope, you shouldn’t do that you should send the actual file”, and seamlessly intervenes and just does it.

But since IOS can’t receive files, instead preferring to use their proprietary AirDrop system which they don’t feel like making available to other developers, Android phones are forced to send it as an SMS. Problem with that is there is a max file size and the image has to be heavily compressed in order to fit.

So then iPhone users (who typically know less about technology than my grandmother) start to complain about the terrible quality of Android photos, even though it’s actually an issue with transferring the file, and it’s not Androids fault. So what’s going to happen is that next year the quality of Android photos is massively going to jump really weirdly 🤔.

Matt Booty sounds like something a German would say.

It’s LinkedIn, I find it hard to believe they even need 700 plus employees.

So some drivers are not installed like I said

I’m not casting judgement on whether the drivers are good or not I’m merely pointing out that they’re not preinstalled and a lot of people don’t even know what a driver is.

If Linux isn’t out of the box simple easy like Windows people are never going to switch to it no matter how terrible Microsoft become. They will go to Apple before they go to Linux.

First of all they’re going to have to release a distro which actually has, shock horror, proprietary drivers installed on it, because your average user isn’t going to understand how to install them.

I’ve said this a few times but no one wants to hear it, I understand why they can’t have proprietary drivers, but the fact that they don’t have them is a major reason as to why Linux isn’t more mainstream.

There is no cheat code here.

No one said there was one. This isn’t about looking for way to break the law and get away with it, this is about the people who want the law to work a particular way not understanding that it doesn’t actually work that way.

The output of LLMs is illegal.

No its not. There is no way in which the output of an AI can be illegal. All can be proven is that the various providers did not pay for the various licences but that’s not the same as saying the output is automatically a crime, if it was then we’d not even be needing the case. The law is incredibly vague in this area.

Sam Altman’s goal in creeping around Washington is to try to get laws changed to carve out exceptions for exactly the types of stuff he is already doing.

Yes and that’s a good thing. Think about it for 15 seconds. If it weren’t for people like him AI would be limited to the mega corporations who can afford the licensees, we don’t want that, we want a AI technology to be available to anyone, we want AI technology to be open source. None of that can happen if the law does not change.

You seem to be under the impression there is some evil sadistic overlord here trying to force artificial intelligence on the world when it does not wanted, but nothing could be further from the truth, if anything artificial intelligence is being developed in a way that is surprisingly egalitarian considering the corporations that are investing in it, and vague unclear unhelpful broken copyright law is getting in the way of that.

I can quote work that’s already been published, that’s allowable and I don’t have to get to the author’s consent to do that. I don’t have to get consent to do that because I’m not passing the work off my own, I am quoting it with reference.

So if I ask the AI to produce something in the style of Stephen King no copyright is violated because it’s all original work.

If I ask the AI to quote Stephen King (and it actually does it) then it’s a quote and it’s not claiming the work is its own.

Under the current interpretation of copyright law (and current law is broken beyond belief, but that’s a completely different issue) a copyright breach has not occurred in either scenario.

The only arguement I can see working is that if the AI actually can quote Stephen King that will prove that it has the works of Stephen King in its data set, but that doesn’t really prove anything other than the works of Stephen King are in its data set. It doesn’t definitively prove openAI didn’t pay for the works.

I used to have a career in software development and I’ve never heard of any of these projects.

I generally took the view though that if I didn’t understand what an earth a program was even for, I probably didn’t need to worry about it and could ignore it.

Don’t import phones it’s a waste of time, particularly if you’re importing into the US because for some reason the US has this weird standard that nowhere else uses, because reasons. But that’s just an issue with imported phones in general.

I’ve got a folding phone so I can unfold the screen into a small tablet and it’s so much easier to type on it.

It would be nice if Samsung would put decent cameras in the fold, but I’m still going to get another one because I’m not going back to a teeny tiny screen.

I feel sorry for the employees, but ultimately the company chose the CEO it’s not like he turned up and forced himself on them or anything. They were really pleased when they announced him as well, as if he was going to be some kind of asset.

It’s the investors fault for having no business savvy. Sod em.

He worked for EA. He has no idea how the industry works.

Yeah screw Michigan and it’s awful children.

“adults”

I’ve never met anyone over the age of 20 without kids who even knows what Roblox is.

Review embargoes are a pretty well understood concept.

Sometimes the review embargoes don’t end until the game release or just before it. Not this was a review so that wouldn’t matter anyway this was just directly recording the content which is always going to be illegal.

I don’t know about anyone else but my ISP auto blocks pornography unless the account holder goes into the settings and enables it. They also block piracy sites, which again you can just disable the block in the settings, so I don’t know what the point in that is.

It’s not a great solution because it’s either all or nothing but the options are already there if a little poorly implemented.