NounsAndWords

NounsAndWords , 4 months ago to Technology in Elon Musk Says First Neuralink Patient Can Move Computer Cursor With Mind

If it doesn't continue to receive software updates/support I would almost hope it can be disabled. Like what happened with that bionic eye company recently.

NounsAndWords , 4 months ago to Technology in OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model

If you actually need the end result to be good though, you’re gonna be waiting a while.

I agree with everything you said, but it seems in the context of AI development "a while" is like, a few years.

NounsAndWords , 4 months ago to Technology in Dude, where’s my self-driving car? The many, many missed deadlines for a fully autonomous vehicular future.

I don't think he's an incompetent moron so much as he's made (himself) a ton of money in multiple industries by lying to manipulate stock prices confidently overestimating his products and deadlines.

NounsAndWords , 4 months ago to Comic Strips in [Rob DenBleyker] small talk

........I'm not supposed to be talking about that?

NounsAndWords , 4 months ago to Technology in Social networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurch

Hey! It took years of hard work to develop the good will necessary to get into a position to take advantage of their data!

NounsAndWords , 5 months ago to Technology in "We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic)

Middle management only cares that it looks like you're working (and thus their job of supervising you doing the work is necessary (apparently)), and upper management only cares that you're making them money.

NounsAndWords , 5 months ago to Privacy in Cryptographers Just Got Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches

Just in time for all the searchable information to be completely drowned out by low quality AI content.

NounsAndWords , 6 months ago to Lefty Memes in be unreasonable

I find both parts of that troubling and unsurprising.

NounsAndWords , 7 months ago to Technology in Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV

Frog: "Hey, did any of you guys notice the water get a couple degrees hotter?"

Other Frogs: Already boiled alive

NounsAndWords , 1 year ago to 196 in time-travel rule

It seems very easy to change the future in unintended ways, and much less easy to change it in expected ways.