When your preview function can compromise the user, you know that you've fucked up. Again. Why is anyone trusting MickeySoft with their business secrets? I'll never understand that. They are literally known for making insecure crap.
I guess the "features over everything" attitude somehow does vibe with the right market segment. Which I fear has influence on purchasing decisions far beyond what their competence justifies.
In a full-blown trade war, both sides lose. That's obvious.
Yes, it is.
But there are first and second losers.
In China, economic problems would lead to who knows what.
Tianamen Square ?
If the Great Leap Forward with its mass starvation (most likely the worst in human history) didn't lead to a change, you seriously think that a few export problems will?
It's short sighted of a special kind, even.
2-3 decades ago, it was car manufacturing. Every car maker by then knew that the Chinese would steal the tech. There's a famous example of a Mercedes Benz factory making busses which for the first year or two sold like hot cakes. Then demand suddenly vanished. Research found that the chinese joint venture partner (you had to joint venture in those days, not sure about now) had copied the entire factory, brick by brick, one city away. An exact copy making the exact same busses, just without Mercedes Benz in the loop. And, of course, slightly cheaper.
Everyone knew that.
And yet everyone went to China. They figured that it was still profitable to accept that risk.
Of course, the fact that CEOs these days change every few years and get a severance package large enough that they can immediately retire doesn't exactly make them long-term thinkers.
- Seafood - stop getting cheap frozen seafood harvested by China's fleet
Heck, stop getting any food that is available locally. It's insane that I can buy some food that was grown in South America, shipped to Asia for processing and packaging and then shipped to Europe for less than the same food grown in Europe.
There's quite a bit of utter insanity there.
If a full-blown trade war broke out between China and the G7/friends, China would be forced to overload poorer countries with its exports, which is not sustainable
Yes, but this cuts both ways. These days, a LOT of essential day-by-day supplies are manufactured in China. If China and the G7 stopped all trade tomorrow, the damage to the G7 would be bigger and more immediate than that on China.
The problem for China is that a huge trade surplus is a drug that would bring huge withdrawal symptoms if the drug were not available.
True. Germany is learning that lesson now that cheap energy from Russia is no longer available and its export business can't compete anymore.
Apple is following the rest of the computing industry, which embraced touch-screen laptops more than a decade ago.
Then they'll find out the hard way that Steve was right.
Correct.
If you are not a tech person, right now from all the hype and news and bullshit, you would rightly assume that AI is an amazing revolution and you would barely have heard about its shortcomings.
Though that might've just been him thinking "stupid Europeans know only Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk. I'll just say Moscow, close enough."
They had set out to descend after sunset, and I don't remember seeing any lights on the path. Even a paved road can be dangerous in pitch black.
This. I've had to descend a mountain as the sun was going down once (got stuck at the top due to weather for some time, and when it let up enough for a safe descent, it was late). It's absolutely not fun, even when there's still some light. Had it been dark, I think I would've taken my chances staying at the top rather than going down.
That said, anyone not a complete idiot checks things like "time of last cable car" a) in person, b) at the day, c) at the location. Because even there is an official website that is well-maintained (and that's already two big if's) things might change at the location due to weather, workers being ill, no tourists that day or whatever.
Also, checking in person means at least one other person knows that you're up there.
AI is a tool. And like any tool its introduction creates proponents and enemies.
Some might say I'm a semi-professional writer. As in: I make money with things I write. From that perspective, I see both the AI slop and the benefits. I love that AI gives me an on-demand proof-reader. I don't expect it to be anywhere near a professional in that field. But if I want to quickly check a text I wrote for specific things, AI is great, because unlike me it hasn't been over that sentence 20 times already and still parses it completely.
As for AI writing - for the moment it's still pretty obvious, and it's mostly low-quality (unless some human has added their own editing).
The same way that the car, the computer, e-mail and thousands of other innovations have made some jobs obsolete, some jobs easier, and some jobs completely new, I don't see AI as a threat. And definitely not to my writing. Though good luck Amazon with the flood of AI-written garbage now clogging up your print-on-demand service.
YouTube says the AI aims to "deepen your listening experience".
Right.
Yes, I guess it will. By hopefully making people switch away from YT music en mass.
The human using the LLM, obviously.
Trivially obviously not. The LLM wasn't trained on texts exclusively written by the human using it, so it won't ever speak like that particular person.
If someone wants to train a specific "Tarrof" LLM - go ahead. I'm simply advocating against poisoning the already volatile generic LLM data with more human bullshit.
That is true but also besides the point. Communicating like "a human" is the point here. WHICH human, exactly? We already have problems with hallucinations. If we now train them on huge data sets intentionally designed for the human habit of saying the opposite of what you mean, we're adding another layer of problems. Maybe get the other ones solved first?
Of course. This is a forum, not a scientific conference, so I'm not speaking in the most precise language.
It doesn't change the point.
Make piracy the better alternative in every way and people will pirate.
Make a legal transaction the better alternative in every way (ok, except money) and people will use that.
It really is so simple, even an executive should be able to understand it.
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