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Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by RandomThrow321 »

eertami wrote: post #142
maxfurman wrote: post #28

Am I the only one excited for this conference? My Pixel 4A can't hold a charge any more and I've been holding out for the 7A.

I've had a 4a since launch but I was planning to wait out for the 9a. (The cheap OnePlus I had before survived 5 years so I'd hope for at least the same.) Battery degradation hasn't been an issue for me at all, but maybe I'm using my phone less than average. Still goes from morning to bedtime without me thinking about or looking at the charge.

I had a OnePlus 1 and later a 3t for an impressively long time. I wish they would go back to the flagship specs / mid-range price model with the build quality they used to have.

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Post by pyth0 »

fomine3 wrote: post #228
VirusNewbie wrote: post #183

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Airpods are in a category of their own. Multibillion dollar business that redefined the headphone industry

Great as a business and it's made well, but not much interesting for tech.

I am consistently surprised by the battery life and quality of noise cancellation given their size. Although none of that is revolutionary and just improving on existing tech, I think the complete package (hardware+software integration) was leaps better than what came before.

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Post by RandomThrow321 »

lucidyan wrote: post #287
adt wrote: post #247

PaLM 2 paper: https://ai.google/static/documents/palm2techreport.pdf

Not paper, but the report that lacks any details (even more than OpenAI latest about GPT-4)

Yeah, it's more like "models used, results, example capabilities" and "how we're going to use this responsibly".

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Post by kabes »

deltree7 wrote: post #175
nailer wrote: post #170

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Worked at Google, pro Elon, anti Zuck but mainly for his failures (Metaverse), not from the far left and still think it's clear Google's last major product (major meaning category defining, like Search or Maps or Android) was 15 years ago.

Lot of Googlers are anti-big-tech, anti-corporation :) 1) If you think Transformers weren't category defining, I don't know what to say. 2) Metaverse isn't a failure. That's like saying in 2019, "Chat Agents are a failure"

And they would've been right in 2019. The hype was not matching the technology. The fact that gpt got so good is pure coincidence and not a result of the chat agent folks being some kind of visionairies.

Maybe some technological breakthrough comes along that makes the metaverse not suck. But if you're gonna build your company around such hopes and it works, then you're not smart, but just lucky. Or you need to build the breakthroughs yourself, but it doesn't look like that's what zuck is doing.

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Post by nirav72 »

nr2x wrote: post #253
r0m4n0 wrote: post #64

I find it interesting the sentiment in the comments... Yesterday we had an Apple post where everyone was losing their minds all day about Final Cut Pro on iPad (which in my opinion as a Software Engineer is the most boring thing I’ve had to read all week). Today we have probably a massive lineup of a bunch of new AI features to be announced for products most of us use on the regular, or could use as devs, and 90% of…

I tuned into the livestream for a minute and they were just demoing things I’ve been using in GPT for months. They’re playing catch-up, it’s boring.

>They’re playing catch-up, it’s boring.

yeah, doing pretty bad at that. I just tried out Bard by asking it a question on an almost 10 year old .net library for interacting with a popular CRM platform's API. It came back with:

"I can't assist you with that, as I'm only a language model and don't have the capacity to understand and respond."

Went over to ChatGPT and asked it the same question in the prompt word for word. It came back with a concise explanation on how to use the library. Specifically one specific set of API calls. Bard is a joke.

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Post by latchkey »

shmoe wrote: post #302
latchkey wrote: post #195

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Ok, so nothing in about 2.5 years and some of these I wouldn't even call products. They also haven't deprecated anything on GCP since March 31, 2021. https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation At the end of the day, I'm super glad they have experimented with things and it seems weird to hold that against them.

It all goes back to reader. That's when it went sour. They eroded all trust. No one forgets that one.

March 13, 2013, a decade ago and RSS effectively died along with it. Being upset at this for 10 years is right up there with being upset that Gopher protocol never took off.

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Post by nr2x »

nirav72 wrote: post #316
nr2x wrote: post #253

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I tuned into the livestream for a minute and they were just demoing things I’ve been using in GPT for months. They’re playing catch-up, it’s boring.

>They’re playing catch-up, it’s boring. yeah, doing pretty bad at that. I just tried out Bard by asking it a question on an almost 10 year old .net library for interacting with a popular CRM platform's API. It came back with: "I can't assist you with that, as I'm only a language model and don't have the capacity to understand and respond." Went over to ChatGPT and asked it the same question in the prompt word for wor…

And yet the only people laughing are Altman and Nadella.

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Post by mmsnberbar66 »

david_allison wrote: post #214
seanalltogether wrote: post #165

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I'm not sure if it'll ever come back. I loved my Pixel 3 at 5.5" but nothing else for the past 5 years has come close. I eventually relented and got a Pixel 6a at 6.1"

Display size isn't a consistent means of measuring the physical size. My S21 (6.2") is within a mm of my Pixel 3a (5.6") due to the reduction in bezel.

It's relevant enough if you're concerned about RSI or CTS and such

In that case display size is a measure of how much strain you're putting on your hands to navigate the huge screen. A smaller screen means less reaching.

Also smaller display size means less content, less instagram posts, less twitter feed, less interest on your phone in general in my perspective

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Post by elliotec »

Melatonic wrote: post #267
maxsilver wrote: post #237

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Final Cut Pro is a thing people already use in their workflow, becoming more convenient for them. People have depended on this as part of their production-ready workflow for over 20+ years now, and FCP-folks seem to have a lot of trust in the application and related tooling, that Apple isn't going to leave or abandon Final Cut anytime soon. Google's AI features are not something most of us use in our workflow, and ar…

Final Cut is definitely not the industry standard - most pros abandoned it after they completely rebuilt it from the ground up years ago and it sucked hard

What is? Adobe? Davinci? My assumption was also that Final Cut Pro was _the_ one.
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