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ben_jones
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Comment #40837921
In real time we’ve seen “LLMs are the future” becomethe AI research into AGI is the future”. What’s the next movement of the goal post?
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Comment #40810839
Have you ever seen an instagram post where someone flashes wealth they don’t truly have? Be it a rented Lamborghini or a stack of twenty dollar dolls? Or a stack of ones with a cou…
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Comment #40803820
Hi Philip! This tool looks amazing! My company specializes in selling to underserved communities in the AMEA region. Can your product help me connect with LGBT customers specifical…
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Comment #40750918
> If the Challenger launch had been pushed back what major effects would there have been? An administrator would’ve missed a promotion.
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Comment #40727984
Thus the conclusion should be heavily scrutinize future infoq .com articles and perhaps future articles by the same author Eran Stiller. We shouldn’t detach responsibility from the…
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Comment #40671962
People need to stop giving Musk credit for the macro economic conditions of 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. A lot of the stock gains had nothing to do with Teslas executive decisions d…
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Comment #40621911
Also Boudica
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Comment #40621439
> It doesn't really matter if the result is called AI or not I strongly disagree. Wildly overvalued companies disrupt the economy and present huge risks - see Tesla or Nvidia (curr…
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Comment #40621107
I bought it for iOS and it failed to load on my iPhone 15 pro despite showing compatibility and successfully installing (multiple times). I have no clue how they can sell games tha…
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Comment #40620984
My prediction is it’s going to increasingly call traditional software under the hood but credit the AI as innovation.
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Comment #40619751
“Knowing somebody at Google” has long been the best customer support route for non enterprise customers, which represents almost all google customers (per capita).
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Comment #40605100
People like watering down good versus bad as if it were binary. They don’t care to think a good person can sometimes be bad, or that many crimes are crimes of opportunity, because …
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Comment #40581229
> Housing prices are still set by supply and demand. You can't charge LA prices in Atlanta no matter what kind of fancy scheme you run. And yet the market can remain irrational lon…
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Comment #40528865
Facebook, I mean Meta, has benefitted from the enshittification of the tech industry. Next to TikTok they’re better moralistically. Next to Sam Altman, I mean OpenAI, they’re bette…
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Comment #40506855
> it's only us white collar workers in high paying fields like Tech, Finance, etc that have the dry powder to execute on purchases With inflation, layoffs, and lack of union repres…
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Comment #40495043
Is there a way to turn it off other than an obscure query parameter in the URL? An honest release of this feature would have a “turn it off” button right next to it and I’m not see…
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Comment #40488128
People push back on the Crypto/NFT LLMs comparison but I think it’s spot on. Crypto failed because it could never be honest about its trade offs and the reasons for centralization …
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Comment #40476529
Institutional investors panic > board panics > executives panic > evps panic and dictates incentives to ship AI > directors, ems, and below, who actually know how shit works, take …
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Comment #40443253
The risk is AI laundering the rest of America’s middle class wealth to the 1% resulting in falling healthcare outcomes, education outcomes, and life expectancies, and much worse wo…
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Comment #40435155
We’re talking about reaching out to an individual for consent, not getting consent, and then deliberately choosing a voice actor to circumvent that lack of consent. Sam’s statement…
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Comment #40345820
CAC as in Customer Acquisition Cost if anyone else was wondering
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Comment #40339245
Shhh we’re raising trillions for this technology remember?