NounsAndWords

NounsAndWords , 2 months ago to Technology in Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants

whatever the hell ‘X’ is supposed to be

It's the social media company he founded, obviously.

NounsAndWords , 2 months ago to Technology in Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants

Or, if you're trying to make it more directly comparable to 17 million (because humans aren't great at implicitly comparing that many zeros), that would be 56,000 millions. It's not how we normally say it, but 17 vs 56,000 feels different than 17 million vs 56 billion.

NounsAndWords , 2 months ago to Technology in ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it

Which is why AI should tell end users “I don’t know” more often.

If you feel this is a simple solution, I strongly suggest you write up exactly how you do this and make yourself a billion dollars.

NounsAndWords , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in Finally beat cancer

"I paid off all of my student loans myself, it's not fair for the government just forgive loans from other people!"

NounsAndWords , 3 months ago to Technology in Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV

If I purchase a TV, that I now own, and after I own it the company "updates" my TV that I now have to watch ads in order to use the TV I purchased without that condition?

At minimum it's a breach of contract

NounsAndWords , 3 months ago to Technology in Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

Increasing profit margins....which is the thing our society puts above all else.

NounsAndWords , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft Copilot has been banned for use by US House staff members, at least for now

Until we either solve the problem of LLMs providing false information or the problem of people being too lazy to fact check their work, this is probably the correct course of action.

NounsAndWords , 3 months ago to Technology in ‘Mamma Mia!’ Stage Star Sara Poyzer Replaced By AI On BBC Show To Recreate Voice Of Dying Person — Update

I'm not making any moral judgements one way or the other, but I have a strong feeling kids today are just going to grow up with this stuff and it will be normalized and we are going to be the weird old prudes who have a weird sense of personal identity connected to our physical appearance and voice while they're going around looking like SpongeBob and talking like The Fonz.

NounsAndWords , 3 months ago to solarpunk memes in why waste time sleeping when you could waste it paying for your CEO's lambo

It's where all the adults today got their ideas about the future.

NounsAndWords , 3 months ago to Antiwork in Women earn less than men in 8 of the 10 most common jobs

Annual earnings? Weekly wages? Hourly wages? Are they taking into account things like voluntary overtime?

The study points to a growing gap up to the 54-59 age group and attribute it to women raising children, but I wonder if there is more of a generational gap there between the salary demands (and perceived self worth) of women who grew up in the 1970's compared to more recently.

NounsAndWords , 3 months ago to Technology in AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead

The hype around AI language models has companies scrambling to hire prompt engineers to improve their AI queries and create new products.

Who is hiring all these prompt engineers? Who is 'scrambling' to find people for this? The jobs I do see have basically replaced "developer" with "prompt engineer" with the same job requirements.

NounsAndWords , 3 months ago to Technology in How Quickly Do Large Language Models Learn Unexpected Skills?

Emergent behavior is pretty much anything an old model couldn't do that a new model can. Simple reasoning, creating coherent sentences, "theory of mind", basic math, translation, I think are a few examples.

They aren't "amazing" in the sense that a human can't do them, but they are in the sense that a computer is doing it.

NounsAndWords , 4 months ago to Technology in HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It

Do "printers" have an approval rating? Because I bet it's low.

NounsAndWords , 4 months ago to Comic Strips in Ren Faire

Kricfalusi's lawyer confirmed that "for a brief time, 25 years ago, he had a 16-year-old girlfriend", but denied that Kricfalusi's "avid pursuit" of Rice was sexual harassment or that he had ever possessed child pornography.[100] Kricfalusi released an apology to the women and his fans for his behavior, which he said was motivated by undiagnosed bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as "poor impulse control".[5] Byrd and Rice criticized Kricfalusi's statement as a non-apology and an attempt to deflect the blame.[101]

NounsAndWords , 4 months ago to Technology in Doctors Concerned About Neuralink's First Patient

or some high person in charge decided to go all-or-nothing

I don't see what Elon's drug use and increasingly irratic decision-making have to to with this.