1 of the 👍 points that were brought up was artificial gatekeeping. Many techies know it but I guess many non-techies don’t know it. Phone makers intentionally not putting the newest features on the old phones to boost the newest phones’ sales should be widely known. I wonder what the public opinion will be.

Moondrop space travel

What do you mean? When I lurk here, I ignore the sites that Idk. I rely on sites that I know are legit like Verge, Techcrunch, Engadget, Cnbc, Bloomberg, Ars Technica and Electrek. The sites that Idk may be legit too but I don’t wanna spend much time researching the legitimacy.

The article is too long for me. 2 of its main ideas are “Everyone using large-language models should be aware of ai hallucination and be careful when asking those models for facts.” and “Firms that develop large-language models shouldn’t downplay the hallucination and shouldn’t force ai in every corner of tech.”

There was already so much misinformation on the Web before Chatgpt 3.5. There’s still so much misinformation. No need for the hallucination to worsen the situation. We need a reliable source of facts. Optimistically, Google, Openai or Anthropic will find a way to reduce or eradicate the hallucination. The Google ceo said they were making progress. Maybe true. Or maybe generic pr lie so folks would stop following up re the hallucination.

The 3-nanometer thing was classic anticompetitive behavior right? Will the European union or the American government investigate Apple?

Tsmc surely is in a class of its own. The other Arm cpu makers are lagging.

I’m awaiting the M4 Macbook air. I wanna see the performance comparison between it and a Windows 💻 with a 2024 Intel cpu.

Re real leaks, Mark Gurman seems legit. When Gurman reported something, then I awaited Apple’s announcement, the official thing matched what Gurman said.

Huge blow to Huawei, which is a firm I dislike.

It seems they can’t buy x86-architecture processors from Intel and Amd. How can they make x86 💻?

If Windows arm will succeed in the far future (this is a big if for me), I wonder if Huawei can buy Mediatek chips for Windows arm 💻. I did a quick search. It seems Mediatek wanna design arm chips for 💻.

A Reuters article said Qualcomm licensed their 5g tech to Huawei. I guess not being able to buy from Qualcomm isn’t a big issue for Huawei. Huawei has their own 5g tech.

Heavily investing in Openai was 1 of Nadella’s best decisions.

Eventually, people may stop writing, stop filming, stop composing—at least for the open, public web.

Strong statement by the writer. I guess that 1 of the things that may happen is that the firms behind large-language models will pay creators. I get that creators wanna link or interact with the human audience and that this payment model won’t accomplish that, but if it’ll be good cash, some creators will continue producing public works.

The fog of the future is thick. We dunno if large-language models will revolutionize the web long-term, or will fade in about 5 years. It’s an interesting time.

I googled. Isn’t it 45% Youtube and 55% vid producer?

In my nation, Apple pay and Google pay aren’t famous. The famous way to pay with a phone is using a qr code. It’s frictionless too. Paper bills are still famous here too. I think my spending behavior is the same whether I use paper bills, my phone or my debit card. Re using my phone or my debit card to pay, I <3 not having to deal with change.

I still use large-language models for fun. My fav phone reviewer is Marques Brownlee. I compared his best big phones in his phone awards to Claude 3 opus’ best big phones – I asked Opus. I wanted to see the similarities and differences for fun.

I’ve been :) with the tight competition too. Claude 3 is making Gpt 4 and Gemini sweat.

👍 article.

Electric vehicles are 👍 if the energy used to charge the 🔋 is from renewable sources. If most of the energy used for charging is from fossil fuels, wide adoption of electric vehicles doesn’t aid much in resolving climate change.

A long time ago Veritasium said that vehicle making had a big environmental impact, so it was eco-friendly to use your old vehicle as long as possible. I did a quick search and didn’t find any relevant info. I asked Bing copilot and didn’t get a definite answer. But the joy that a new electric vehicle brings is sure. I may lean on buying a new 1.

Applications such as Chatgpt and DALL-E have captured the world’s imagination, but ai companies are focused on something else.

This can be improved. the author’s point is that 3 of the things that the tech world is focused on now are –

1. more chips for ai
2. develop own chip to decrease reliance on Nvidia
3. higher demand for electricity due to the ai boom

But the tech world is focused on making better ai chatbots and pic generators too.

Anyway, 👍 article. I learned that Nvidia is the backbone of the ai boom.

Chip components have been getting tinier. I hope ways to work with or around the quantum behaviors will be discovered.

I hope there’ll be more research re higher-output (megawatt) renewable energy plants and cheaper renewable energy.

I viewed this – y2u.be/URoVKPVDKPU

The vid showed that Boeing seemed to have questionable quality control. The focus was maximizing profit. Boeing outsourced the ✈'s parts to different firms but seemed to have a loose grasp on the whole thing. As the main firm, Boeing must have keenly supervised the crucial things. It’s a key part of quality control.

Also, some knowledgeable Boeing folks left Boeing. Brain drain.

Youtube works 👍 on Firefox Windows 11 with Ublock origin for me. I could view 1440p. No major issue. Aside from adblocking, I use Ublock origin to block tracking cookies and remove “accept cookies” banners on sites.

Political campaigns? A political candidate may want to know his opponent’s supporters and may think he can do a more targeted wooing. 1 may say it’s advertising too.

Also, he can send bots to the political discussions that folks participate in. The bots can start nasty political arguments.

A greedy religious figure may want to encourage more to join his religion. More members, more cash.

“The European Commission has exempted Bing and Microsoft Edge from DMA oversight due to their non-dominant market position.”

I wonder if Microsoft’s legal department advised Nadella to abide by the spirit of the law (despite the exemption) to prevent possible headaches in the future.

This is 👍 news. I don’t use Edge. Google is my search engine, not Bing. 1 may change Edge’s default search engine, but I never bothered.

Microsoft has been betting big on ai. They may be OK with “competition”, “fair playing field” or “pro-choice” things if ai will give them billions in profit in the future.

It’s 👍 that alternativeto.net is still around. I’ve been going there to find alternate programs.

I used Avast when Windows didn’t have a native antimalware. It was free, fast and reliable. Getting malware from usb drives was common. Avast protected my 💻. This news is :(. How hypocritical Avast was to offer privacy solutions and sell user data secretly.