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    Microsoft builds a $349 mini desktop, but only for accessing Windows in the cloud

    Came here to say this. I see 8-core Ryzen boxes posted to Slickdeals for much less.
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    Endangered bees stop Meta’s plan for nuclear-powered AI data center

    I dislike the AI hype as much as the next person, and I literally always get downvoted for this, but it's weird to me anyone would let a few popular fictional tales affect their thought process about anything. It's literal fiction.
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    Chatbots posed as therapist and “adult lover” in teen suicide case, lawsuit says

    I've messed with some of those chat bot apps before, and lemme tell you, you can get them to generate straight up explicit erotic text with little to no effort. It's amazing to me they're allowed on the app store at all.
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    AI digests repetitive scatological document into profound “poop” podcast

    That podcast episode was shockingly good, despite being, you know, entirely bs.
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    LG TVs continue down advertising rabbit hole with new screensaver ads

    fffff guess I'm in for two Apple TVs...
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    AI superintelligence looms in Sam Altman’s new essay on “The Intelligence Age”

    Calling it, in 5 years Altman is going to be an antisocial far right weirdo.
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    Amazon accused of using “false and misleading” sales prices to sell Fire TVs

    How about you can't ever say something in on sale. How about vendors can only list a price, with no comparison to other prices? Seems like a better system to me.
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    Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7

    I thought all PS5 games looked great in performance mode. I know I'm not important enough to quote like Bill Gates but I think video games look good enough already lol
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    FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming royalty heist

    edit: Never mind this comment was totally off topic.
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    Oprah’s upcoming AI television special sparks outrage among tech critics

    GitHub Copilot is fantastic. AI that is generally not referred to as 'generative' (though I'd argue there isn't much of a difference) is also used for many other functional purposes today. At my old job, we created an OCR system that automatically filed expense reports from images of receipts...
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    X’s Grok will direct users to Vote.gov after bungling basic ballot question

    That’s fair. S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y being generated by the model undermines my point a bit lol
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    X’s Grok will direct users to Vote.gov after bungling basic ballot question

    If anyone cares to know why this happens it’s because tokens are not at the letter level, they’re sub-word sections (like “straw” and “berry”). ChatGPT has no idea what letters it’s producing, and I sincerely doubt there’s anything in the training data about this since it’d be absurd to ask a...
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    Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October

    I know it's reasonable to default to "of course they are" on this question but I still have to ask: Is there any evidence that Microsoft is sending this information back to their servers for processing of some kind, or use in training some kind of ML model?
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    Procreate defies AI trend, pledges “no generative AI” in its illustration app

    I do applaud this but I also have to think "How much of this good press is also just saving them money? Seems like a bit of an unspoken win-win for the company."
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    Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app

    Oh man... We need some kind of regulation on subscriptions....
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    Jude Law’s Jedi befriends kids lost in space in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew trailer

    Literally yes unless we're including random small web projects, but I feel like it's possible to tell the difference between something that is the materialization of a vision and something that is the product of focus groups and data mining. Star Wars, Marvel, and.. most large franchises have...
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    The conspiracy theorists who think Biden has been replaced by AI

    This is literally the least surprising thing I have ever heard in my entire life.
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    Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” thatrequires a subscription

    All of my Razers have broken, so I switched to Logitech and none of them have broken. I quite like the brand but do not like what I'm hearing in this article.
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    Lavish The Rings of Power S2 trailer debuts at San Diego Comic-Con

    Within my lifetime we’ll be able to type some words into a box and get a trailer this good. Within my eventual kids lifetime they’ll be able to type (probably quite a bit more) words into a box and get an entire series this good. Within their grandkids lifetime they’ll just have entirely...
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    Robert Downey Jr. returns to MCU as Doctor Doom in two new Avengers movies

    Never miss a chance to mention I don't care about super heroes. I know it's not constructive and I don't care.