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Remember the good ol' days when we fully owned and controlled our devices? I want that back!
When was that? When phones used wires?
(well, unless we start to bikeshed on the exact meaning of "fully control")
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The bingo card: https://i.imgur.com/kHPXHal.jpeg
I could see this image in my mind before I clicked on it, before even consciously considering what it might be. Is this how an LLM feels on the inside?
The keynote was the most boring for me. I paused it to go to the bathroom, and even forgot that I was watching it. I think they've lost track of the meaning of IO and its keynotes for users. They should rather have a separate Gemini event like they had a separate Android one last week. They're collectively losing track of their product verticals because they're too focused on shoving AI down everything. Google Home i…
I wonder what's in store for the local Gemma models, as well as Flutter. I've been making fully local apps that either download Gemma 4 2B or use the built-in AICore in Android and Apple's Foundation Models. Local models are getting really good these days including web search and tool calling such that for many use cases I don't even need cloud models.
I mean... I don't really expect anything since Gemma 4 was released recently
Theres no way Google won't win the AI race $INTC and $GOOG are good buys right now!
Funny how you are saying this now, but not 2 to 3 years [0] ago when OpenAI and Microsoft was eating Google's lunch and even 9 months ago when everyone on this site thought Intel was "dying". [1] Now you want to buy Intel and Google just as I am about to sell it you at 9-10x and at a 3x multiple? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527133 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066995
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Getting a text based model to design voxel art really doesn't seem to be a good benchmark... Better leaderboard: https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text And the order of the top players is very different...
All the frontier LLMs are multi-modal.
For other modes like image generation, the model has a dedicated image head, and is jointly trained.
Watching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks like it) makes me appreciate Steve Jobs presentations from the past so much more. Steve really had product presentations down. I wish people at least tried to copy him.
Watching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks like it) makes me appreciate Steve Jobs presentations from the past so much more. Steve really had product presentations down. I wish people at least tried to copy him.
People have definitely tried. Like Sinofsky when he announced the Surface Laptop several years ago. Or countless founders announcing their stuff. Steve was an absolute natural at the keynote and tech demo. Some people are just born like that, I think.
the vibes are way off. i miss the old days when i/o was all about android and we were all full of optimism
It went from "Google's take on Apple's WWDC and launches" to "AI everywhere all at once". Like, look at how much awesome shit Google dropped between 2008 and 2020! Really sad.
To be clear, it's not just Google. This is happening to all of the big conferences. Nothing but AI. Okay, maybe not CES. But still.
Watching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks like it) makes me appreciate Steve Jobs presentations from the past so much more. Steve really had product presentations down. I wish people at least tried to copy him.
People have definitely tried. Like Sinofsky when he announced the Surface Laptop several years ago. Or countless founders announcing their stuff. Steve was an absolute natural at the keynote and tech demo. Some people are just born like that, I think.
Look at the MacBook Air launch. Jobs didn't have to say anything about how thin it was, or list product dimensions on a spec sheet. He just pulled it out of an envelope.
Likewise with the iPod. "1,000 songs in your pocket" not "It has a real hard drive with 5GB of storage."