Why do so many people hate this?

If I want a single player experience, I’ll go read a book. There’s far better and far more stories available.

Games are for playing with other people.

Factorio’s space age expansion

LLMs

For example if I need to generate a long formula for excel or power apps, I could write it myself or I can just tell the LLM the parameters and it will do it in 1/10th of time.

If I need to create course material, I can shove in bullet points for my key topics and have it expand it into a first draft for me. This concept I actually use a lot more than just for course material. It’s great at generating drafts of everything from statements of work and quotes to presentations (Co-Pilot in 365)

I know how to do the job without it, so hallucinations are easily caught and cleaned up. It’s a tool to speed me up, not replace me.

Business process automation. I use it for everything from communications to programming.

I automate office processes, improving productivity. So literally the opposite of a bullshit job.

If it’s so useless, why am I using it all the time for my job to speed up my work?

Still considered a laptop, they have low power modes for unplugged use.

The only problem I have with this is that USB-C PD can only go to 240w, which is fine for most laptops but my current gaming laptop has a 240w power brick and it only has a 3060 in it. The 3080 and 3090 variants had 300w+ bricks IIRC.

I don’t live in India, but I hope gaming laptops get some sort of exception if their power draw can exceed the specification limits.

I’m going to be the odd one out on this.

I prefer ultra customized recommendations, I wish they were even smarter. Especially if I’ve already bought something, I want them to know so they stop advertising that product to me.

I’d rather see ads for products that I may actually buy rather than for shit I don’t have the slightest interest in.

I rarely buy products without significant research, so ads aren’t likely to trick me into buying something of poor quality. I just need to have awareness of things I don’t even know exist.

I was slightly too young to get one, but I remember them coming out. I didn’t get my first GPU until AGP became a thing, when I was able to get a Voodoo Banshee (which was the 3rd? Generation) from these guys.

I don’t think a lot of people actually understand the concept of how big the Chinese population is today.

They could lose a billion people, and still have more people than the US.

There are more licensed medical doctors in China than there are people in the state of Oregon.

Now that being said, China’s going to collapse. It’s population tree currently looks like a nuclear cloud, and they have next to zero immigration to deal with that situation. Their population started declining two years ago, and the next 40 years are going to be rough as they are expected have a net loss of 400+ million people.

This particular implementation doesn’t really apply to those situations, there are already existing technologies which can pre-train on specific voices they could be using for that since the target is known. The main “improvement” from this system is that you can train it on any target subject, even with background noise, in only a few seconds.

It’s most useful in scenarios they’ve outlined in their study, like using it with your friend you ran into on the bus, your tour guide, etc.

It’s already boosting productivity in many roles. That’s just going to accelerate as the models get better, the processing gets cheaper, and (as you said) people learn to use it better.

AI will help with that too, it’s going to be able to process entire codebases at a time pretty shortly here.

Given the visual capabilities now emerging, it can likely also do human-equivalent testing.

One of the biggest AI tricks we haven’t started seeing much of yet in mainstream use is this kind of automated double-checking. Where it generates an answer, and then validates if the answer is valid before actually giving it to a human. Especially in coding bases, there really isn’t anything stopping it from coming up with an answer compiling, running into an error, re-generating, and repeating until the code passes all unit tests or even potentially visual inspection.

The big limit on this right now is sheer processing cost and context lengths for the models. However, costs for this are dropping faster than any new tech we’ve seen, and it will likely be trivial in just a few years.

No need to defend it.

Either it’s value is sufficient that businesses can make money by implementing it and it gets used, or it isn’t.

I’m personally already using it to make money, so I suspect it’s going to stick around.

You, along with most people, are still looking at automation wrong. It’s never been about removing people entirely, even AI, it’s about doing the same work with less cost.

If you can eliminate one programmers from your four person team by giving the other three AI to produce the same amount of work, congrats you’ve just automated one programming job.

Programming jobs aren’t going anywhere, but either the amount of code produced is about to skyrocket, or the number of employed programmers is going to drop (or most likely both of those things).

Initially we’re going to (or already) see some absolute garbage. Rushed projects using AI poorly trying to capitalize on the boom.

There will be some hints of treasure in the trash, and developers will learn from these successes and especially the failures.

The second and third generations will have better outcomes, and we’ll see some amazing things.

That’s also happening.

It’s “taking the piss”

Amd it has nothing to do with urine consumption…

You can have an opinion that is grounded in basis of logic or fact.

In my opinion, the sunset appears pinky/purple. The basic foundation of this opinion (which others may disagree with due to slight variations in atmospheric conditions) is still rooted in fact. Someone else may think it looks red/purple. Both are basically correct, reasonably speaking.

Not even Urban Dictionary has a definition for “Too big to fail” that applies here, and it’s got one about taking a shit.

VALID - (of an argument or point) having a sound basis in logic or fact; reasonable or cogent.

No, not all opinions are valid.

1. No they aren’t. They’re saving me multiple hours a week at my job. They’re a productivity multiplier for many tasks even in their current early state.

2. If you don’t think every single cellphone manufacturer isn’t trying to jam a local model into their newest devices, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

That’s not what that term means…

The C rating can absolutely still be used when talking about recharging, it’s just usually less relevant.

It’s an opinion, but it’s hardly valid. It’s a knee-jerk fear reaction to something new.

People had the same opinion about computers, cellphones, even electricity…

You can’t ban LLMs at this point, they’re too useful, it’s impossible to track their use, they could be run anywhere on the globe, and even open source models that you can run locally exist.

The cat is out of the bag as they say.

There are materials possible that will completely change the world.

Theres probably a room temperature superconductor for example.

The number of possibilities is effectively infinite though, since its not just which atoms, but also how they’re arranged.

Shirts were automated 33 years ago too. I was comparing them to pre industrial revolution clothing which was heavy and itchy.

As for Nordstrom, those are luxury goods not consumer goods. You’re paying for brand names or fancy fabrics, neither of which are necessary to your life.

There are at least 3 different app based food delivery companies (uber eats, skip the dishes, door dash) in the city near me, on top of the fact that a lot of places have their own dedicated delivery people (Grocery stores, pizza, even liquor stores)

There’s clearly a competitive market in this space.

Self-driving vehicles are not only here to solve food delivery.

In the US, the average American spends about 365 hours a year driving, about an hour a day.

I’d much rather use that time to work, read a book, or a dozen other activities. It’s over 6% of my waking hours.

Parts of the USA never had self-scanning due to theft concerns.

Now there are stores that are pulling out of specific neighborhoods due to theft even with a cashier in place.

https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-ceo-stores-will-close-if-theft-at-retailer-doesnt-decline-2022-12#:~:text=Walmart CEO warns company will,theft doesn’t slow down&text=He said that along with,billion in theft each year.

This is such a common misconception, if companies never passed savings on to us, we’d be paying absolutely astronomical prices and you couldn’t afford to buy anything at all.

Shirts used to be hundreds/thousands of dollars or days/weeks of your own time, a lot of people had to weave their own fabric and make their own clothes because they never earned enough money to afford to buy one pre-made since all their work went into feeding themselves. Average people didn’t own more than a handful of sets of clothes up until the industrial revolution. Almost all of the benefits of automation in fabric production has all been passed down to you.

You can now pick up a t-shirt from Walmart for $5, or a dress shirt for $50 both of which are far higher quality than what used to exist.

Profit margins for most consumer goods industries are not that high usually around 50% from creation to consumer (split between the manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer) and some industries are much lower even than that.

For the first bit, sure, but it won’t stay that way for long. The price of these vehicles is dropping, and the price of humans is going up.

This is exactly what I expected to happen, it’s taking a bit longer than I thought, but that’s not surprising.

Enterprises, sure.

Homes? Why? I can’t even find a good use for a single gigabit download for personal use. Being able to download a new game in 3 minutes rather than 5 isn’t something I’m willing to pay additional money every month to get. Remote desktops, video streaming, gaming, there’s nothing uses that much bandwidth even in my household of 5 people.

Anonymous from who? None of what you’ve mentioned will keep the police out for long if you’re doing things that catch their attention.

While there are some frustrating parts I’ve found that it gets the job done reasonably well and integrates well across the products. I’m a power user so I can often find workarounds for even the things that bother me. Teams communicates well, sharepoint stores the files for my group just fine, office does what it always does, then I get these other useful tools for forms, databases, video sharing, etc.

I think the biggest problem for most people is that they never received adequate training. I trained myself so I skipped that limitation.

I’m pretty heavily in favour of the Microsoft 365 platform, but loop has not found a spot in my toolkit at this point. I’d rather just use OneNote.

I get that these tools are supposed to make collaboration easier, but it really doesn’t add much in my opinion.

The fact that it’s not junk in 3 years is worth a bit of a premium.