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drawerair ,

Yes, 👍 apps.

The issue with touchscreen kiosks is that some have short arms.

On another note, I get the benefits of computer-voice-operated drive-thrus. No need to use your phone. If your phone's 🔋 is 3%, you can still buy food.

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1 of the 👍 points that were brought up was artificial gatekeeping. Many techies know it but I guess many non-techies don't know it. Phone makers intentionally not putting the newest features on the old phones to boost the newest phones' sales should be widely known. I wonder what the public opinion will be.

drawerair ,

My Samsung a70 doesn't get major software updates anymore. I'm OK with it. I'll use this as long as possible.

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I like that the writer thought re climate change. I think it's been 1 of the biggest global issues for a long time. I hope there'll be increasing use of sustainable energy for not just data centers but the whole tech world in the coming years.

I think a digital waiter doesn't need a rendered human face. We have food ordering kiosks. Those aren't ai. I think those suffice. A self-checkout grocer kiosk doesn't need a face too.

I think "client help" is where ai can at least aid. Imagine a firm that's been operating for decades and encountered so many kinds of client complaints. It can feed all those data to a large language model. With that model responding to most of the client complaints, the firm can reduce the number of their client support people. The model will pass the complaints that are so complex or that it doesn't know how to address to the client support people. The model will handle the easy and medium complaints; the client support people will handle the rest.

Idk whether the government or the public should stop ai from taking human jobs or let it. I'm torn. Optimistically, workers can find new jobs. But we should imagine that at least 1 human will be fired and can't find a new job. He'll be jobless for months. He'll have an epic headache as he can't pay next month's bills.

drawerair ,

Moondrop space travel

drawerair ,

I'm doubtful. I wanna hear more from security experts.

drawerair ,

Live captions is usefuuuuul.

I've liked Windows 11. Hope they don't degrade it by putting many unneeded ai tools in it.

drawerair ,

I open my vid in Vlc player then use the Windows live caption feature.

drawerair ,

What do you mean? When I lurk here, I ignore the sites that Idk. I rely on sites that I know are legit like Verge, Techcrunch, Engadget, Cnbc, Bloomberg, Ars Technica and Electrek. The sites that Idk may be legit too but I don't wanna spend much time researching the legitimacy.

drawerair ,

The article is too long for me. 2 of its main ideas are "Everyone using large-language models should be aware of ai hallucination and be careful when asking those models for facts." and "Firms that develop large-language models shouldn't downplay the hallucination and shouldn't force ai in every corner of tech."

There was already so much misinformation on the Web before Chatgpt 3.5. There's still so much misinformation. No need for the hallucination to worsen the situation. We need a reliable source of facts. Optimistically, Google, Openai or Anthropic will find a way to reduce or eradicate the hallucination. The Google ceo said they were making progress. Maybe true. Or maybe generic pr lie so folks would stop following up re the hallucination.

drawerair ,

Nvidia is making so many Hopper and Blackwell cards, but is there a severe oversupply of gaming graphics cards (RTX 40 series)? I did a quick search. The Hopper can't do games. Or if there's a workaround, it won't be as 👍 as a 40 series card.

drawerair ,

Re real leaks, Mark Gurman seems legit. When Gurman reported something, then I awaited Apple's announcement, the official thing matched what Gurman said.

drawerair ,

The 3-nanometer thing was classic anticompetitive behavior right? Will the European union or the American government investigate Apple?

Tsmc surely is in a class of its own. The other Arm cpu makers are lagging.

I'm awaiting the M4 Macbook air. I wanna see the performance comparison between it and a Windows 💻 with a 2024 Intel cpu.

drawerair ,

Please try Copilot, Claude 3 opus and Gemini. Please use whichever you prefer. :)

I prefer Claude 3 opus.

drawerair ,

I guess Altman thought "The ai race comes 1st. If Openai will lose the race, there'll be nothing to be safe about." But Openai is rich. They can afford to devote a portion of their resources to safety research.

What if he thinks that the improvement of ai won't be exponential? What if he thinks that it'll be slow enough that Openai can start focusing on ai safety when they can see superintelligence's approach from the distance? That focusing on safety now is premature? That surely is a difference in opinion compared to Sutskever and Leike.

I think ai safety is key. I won't be :o if Sutskever and Leike will go to Google or Anthropic.

I was curious whether or not Google and Anthropic have ai safety initiatives. Did a quick search and saw this –

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e67e9034-1bb6-4807-a1dc-d180f0fe1384.png

For Anthropic, my quick search yielded none.

drawerair ,

Huge blow to Huawei, which is a firm I dislike.

It seems they can't buy x86-architecture processors from Intel and Amd. How can they make x86 💻?

If Windows arm will succeed in the far future (this is a big if for me), I wonder if Huawei can buy Mediatek chips for Windows arm 💻. I did a quick search. It seems Mediatek wanna design arm chips for 💻.

A Reuters article said Qualcomm licensed their 5g tech to Huawei. I guess not being able to buy from Qualcomm isn't a big issue for Huawei. Huawei has their own 5g tech.

drawerair ,

We don't know. Maybe someone else would, maybe not. Before Chatgpt 3.5, ai was just a buzzword. It's a bigger buzzword now, but at least tech firms have large-language models that they can market.

drawerair ,

Heavily investing in Openai was 1 of Nadella's best decisions.

drawerair , (edited )

Eventually, people may stop writing, stop filming, stop composing—at least for the open, public web.

Strong statement by the writer. I guess that 1 of the things that may happen is that the firms behind large-language models will pay creators. I get that creators wanna link or interact with the human audience and that this payment model won't accomplish that, but if it'll be good cash, some creators will continue producing public works.

The fog of the future is thick. We dunno if large-language models will revolutionize the web long-term, or will fade in about 5 years. It's an interesting time.

drawerair ,

I googled. Isn't it 45% Youtube and 55% vid producer?

drawerair ,

I use Revanced. Out of curiosity, I tried going to youtube.com on Firefox + Ublock origin on my Samsung a70. Full screen, "double tap to forward 10 seconds", "double tap to back 10 seconds" and captions work.

drawerair ,

I googled. I read that Youtube took down Vanced. True? Can Youtube use the way they took down Vanced for Revanced?

drawerair ,

In my nation, Apple pay and Google pay aren't famous. The famous way to pay with a phone is using a qr code. It's frictionless too. Paper bills are still famous here too. I think my spending behavior is the same whether I use paper bills, my phone or my debit card. Re using my phone or my debit card to pay, I <3 not having to deal with change.

drawerair ,

Yes, paper bills if you're so private. To avoid spyware, use a phone that has a removable 🔋, like the Fairphone 5. Connect the 🔋 only when you must use the phone.

drawerair , (edited )

There'll probably be no more diskette makers in the future, so the train operator should stop using diskettes. I did a quick googling.

In January 2024, Japan announced it will no longer require floppy-disk copies of government submissions.

I did a quick search on amazon.com too. You can buy diskettes there.

I'm assuming the folks doing the upgrade know what they're doing. Train operation is key, so to be sure, they may need to slowly move away from diskettes and slowly integrate ssds or whatever the replacement will be.

drawerair , (edited )

I still use large-language models for fun. My fav phone reviewer is Marques Brownlee. I compared his best big phones in his phone awards to Claude 3 opus' best big phones – I asked Opus. I wanted to see the similarities and differences for fun.

I've been :) with the tight competition too. Claude 3 is making Gpt 4 and Gemini sweat.

drawerair ,

I asked Claude 3 opus to summarize –

Intel disclosed deepening operating losses of $7 billion for its foundry business in 2023, a significant increase from the $5.2 billion in losses the previous year. The company's chipmaking revenue also declined by 31% in 2023, leading to a 4.3% drop in Intel's shares after the SEC filing. CEO Pat Gelsinger expects 2024 to be the worst year for operating losses in the chipmaking business, with the goal of breaking even by 2027. Intel's turnaround plan involves investing $100 billion in chip factories across four U.S. states and persuading outside companies to use its manufacturing services.

drawerair ,

Is Yahoo news legit? I go to bbc.com for world news.

drawerair ,

When I think of Instagram, I think of selfies, food pics, landscapes, pet pics and other pretty pics.

Political feuds online can be nasty right? There are long toxic conversations. Folks spend much time arguing on the platform. Meta likes that long session. But it seems Meta is promoting positivity? Seems Meta wants a long positive session.

drawerair ,

Were they posting things re laws related to gender? If yes, maybe Instagram treated those as political and maybe those content didn't reach many folks – due to the limit setting discussed in the article.

drawerair ,

Instagram should fix its algorithm then.

China and Norway Lead the World’s EV Switchover (spectrum.ieee.org)

Globally, according to research by the Rocky Mountain Institute, EVs will comprise two-thirds of the world’s car sales by 2030. However, according to the World Resources Institute, “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at...

drawerair , (edited )

👍 article.

Electric vehicles are 👍 if the energy used to charge the 🔋 is from renewable sources. If most of the energy used for charging is from fossil fuels, wide adoption of electric vehicles doesn't aid much in resolving climate change.

A long time ago Veritasium said that vehicle making had a big environmental impact, so it was eco-friendly to use your old vehicle as long as possible. I did a quick search and didn't find any relevant info. I asked Bing copilot and didn't get a definite answer. But the joy that a new electric vehicle brings is sure. I may lean on buying a new 1.

Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)

The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....

drawerair ,

Chrome is worse now? What did you experience?

My main browser is Firefox. My secondary is Chrome. I'm still :) with Chrome as a secondary.

drawerair , (edited )

Duckduckgo –

We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

I use Duckduckgo for pic searches. I can easily go to the link of the pic. On the other hand, Google takes me to the site containing the pic.

Another concern of mine re Google is –

Say I'm searching re a car. The search results are riddled with carmechanic.com, carexpert.com, moderncar.com, carstoday.com and others. Idk if those are legit. There's been a lot of misinformation on the Net so I've been careful.

drawerair , (edited )

Youtube works 👍 on Firefox Windows 11 with Ublock origin for me. I could view 1440p. No major issue. Aside from adblocking, I use Ublock origin to block tracking cookies and remove "accept cookies" banners on sites.

drawerair , (edited )

This may excite some, but I value sustained real-world performance more. For example, the fast processors tested by Gamers nexus.

drawerair ,

I can tell Chatgpt to use scientific sources only, right? :)

drawerair , (edited )

I viewed this – y2u.be/URoVKPVDKPU

The vid showed that Boeing seemed to have questionable quality control. The focus was maximizing profit. Boeing outsourced the ✈'s parts to different firms but seemed to have a loose grasp on the whole thing. As the main firm, Boeing must have keenly supervised the crucial things. It's a key part of quality control.

Also, some knowledgeable Boeing folks left Boeing. Brain drain.

drawerair ,

Apple's focus on polish makes them a not-1st-mover. The Apple vision pro isn't the 1st virtual or augmented reality device. The Airpods max isn't the 1st pair of wireless headphones.

drawerair ,

I appreciate Dave2d's "M2 Macbook air versus Windows" vid. Hope he'll make an M3 Macbook air versus Windows.

drawerair , (edited )

Idk Mx chip. I googled. Is it a chip for smart home devices?

The demand for gaming 💻 has been high. Firms made names like Rog, Legion and Predator as they've wanted to give a considerable amount of focus to gaming.

Also, there can be high profit in high-end gaming 💻.

There's high profit too in thin and low-mass 💻. For example, enterprise sales. Say a firm with 10000 workers buys 💻 from Asus. High profit.

Idk which generates more profit.

drawerair , (edited )

The process of buying a sensor for a phone then developing computational photography is different from making a digital cinema cam. I wasn't :o that the cam in the Red phone wasn't as 👍 as an iPhone's cam.

drawerair ,

Tech Youtuber Marques Brownlee has liked Red cinema cams. Nikon wants that sweet Marques $. :p

drawerair ,

Applications such as Chatgpt and DALL-E have captured the world's imagination, but ai companies are focused on something else.

This can be improved. the author's point is that 3 of the things that the tech world is focused on now are –

  1. more chips for ai
  2. develop own chip to decrease reliance on Nvidia
  3. higher demand for electricity due to the ai boom

But the tech world is focused on making better ai chatbots and pic generators too.

Anyway, 👍 article. I learned that Nvidia is the backbone of the ai boom.

Chip components have been getting tinier. I hope ways to work with or around the quantum behaviors will be discovered.

I hope there'll be more research re higher-output (megawatt) renewable energy plants and cheaper renewable energy.

drawerair ,

It beat Claude 3 on math and reasoning when analyzing images.

What beat Claude 3?

No free version of Opus, so I can't try it.

It's 👍 that the ai competition is sizzling.

drawerair , (edited )

I encountered many New York times articles behind a paywall. I was :o that this wasn't behind a paywall for me.

I use archive.md for paywalls.

I hope the New York times doesn't sell user data. If it does, public rage can move it from being 1 of the top news sites to the bottom.

drawerair , (edited )

I learned that Wikipedia has a "reliable sources" table thanks to this. I'll check it out.

I can't recall a time when I went to Cnet to read re tech. I get tech stuff from Youtube and Verge.

The Wikipedia folks didn't demote Cnet after 1 week of discussion. Not 1 month. Not 6 months. Were they giving Cnet time to change for the better?

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