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Comment #49177824
You seem to be baking-in the assumption that extreme precision is what can make the difference when driving a car, but I put to you that the vast, vast majority of human-at-fault a…
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Comment #49177760
If he/she was an LLM I don't think it would've forgotten insurance among the costs.
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Comment #48945123
Could multiple Chinese characters be counted as a single token?
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Comment #48933081
I've been contemplating that recently. You're of course correct that subsidized tokens won't be forever, but that might only be half the story, since there's two opposing forces in…
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Comment #48687757
Presumably you'd be paying for that, right? What if the CEO of that one will come along and notice all the fat stacks of money he's leaving on the table by not advertising to all o…
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Comment #48658434
In this case it seems like a bit of coaching could have retained a talented employee who has a preference for taking initiative. I have a hunch that the order of the day within big…
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Comment #48518412
I'm surprised explanation is necessary, but OK. Even if the criminals don't themselves consider the presence of cameras, the cameras likely ensure they will not have freedom for to…
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Comment #48499019
But they might stop it from happening again if the perpetrators are imprisoned as a result of the footage.
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Comment #48499012
They might not, but there is a further defence against their lack of consideration about consequences. It's called incarceration.
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Comment #48474198
The entire concept of a review is that it's one person's opinion.
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Comment #48431525
As I see it, you're making a few mistakes in your thinking in this post: 1. You assume that the recent change is that we are close to building in space, but actually what's changed…
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Comment #48166798
If you read his articles over the years you would continually think that Tesla should go out of business in the near future, yet they never do. He might not specifically lie, but p…
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Comment #47933072
Fair, but actually you'd surely want your choice of those three, right? And what's being discussed here is what the better implementation of option 3 is. My point is that if you're…
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Comment #47922085
Why are you pretending those are the options? The options are: 1. 22GB per website 2. 22GB per browser 3. 0GB / No AI capabilities By having this in Chrome they are simply ensuring…
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Comment #47921865
Good for Google Cloud, bad for Gemini = ??? for Google
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Comment #47918572
Also much better than every website wanting its own 22 GB rather than the 22 GB being a shared resource.
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Comment #47918559
Doesn't sound great, but consider how much better this is than every webpage trying to load their own models. If it turns out useful enough I'm sure browsers will just start includ…
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Comment #47844378
> those days seem so long gone now. Well, Musk v OpenAI kicks off in one week from now with the objective of forcing them back to their roots. A jury will be deciding whether a non…
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Comment #47813890
> ... because of how homogenous the internet has become... Designs have been settling on a local maxima. If you are aware of a better hill to be climbed, please do let everyone kno…
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Comment #47777029
It can write (some) code that works. Just roughly guessing from my use, but I think of it as being a bit like ChatGPT circa-2024 in terms of capability & speed. Disappointing if yo…
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Comment #47746713
These are speed bumps for you but they make it nearly impossible for something to go mainstream, so rest assured they work extremely well on others.
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Comment #47746696
Suspicion is in the eye of the beholder.
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Comment #47735690
Really cool! Is this using a Google API? How is it not costing a small fortune?