Where are the posts, "Without these purchases of firearms, my husband would still be here."?

From what I remember, 'the good old days' could be every bit as terrible as today, and sometimes much worse.

Team OpenAI closes ranks.

I read CNET about once a week and already had assumed they automated almost all of it.

Amazing that they can throw this up in the time in once took just to offload the DV tape.

Pay to play in Elon's sandbox.

That is true, but politicians need cover. So, they can hold hearings and pontificate and pass a law that is unenforceable. Then they will brag about it during their re-election campaigns.

Of the 73.7 million Americans under the age of 18, 20 million are under the age of five. It seems likely that very few of them are TikTok users. My point is that at least 75 million Americans, roughly the number who voted for Trump, were identified as TikTok users and, therefore, potentially voters. Given the state of our politics, I believe they made their point to those elected officials, who will grumble about it and move on.

Yes, social media has shown limited regard, at best, for user privacy. "The user is the product" has been their mantra. TikTok is no different. Like all 'too big to fail' social media companies, TikTok is making its point, "We are too big to ban."

True, 'average' can be vague. If TikTok had every American under the age of 18, it would still have the average user as adult since only 73 million are below 18. Given they have 150 million Americans users, the average being of voting age is the only conclusion. While the document goes into great detail about how TikTok protects children and the privacy rights of all Americans, the paper presented to Congress led by stating that their American users are adults, hence of voting age, regardless of whether we look at it as the mean, median, or multi-modal distribution.

"More than 150 million people in the United States use TikTok on a monthly basis, with the average user today being an adult well past college age." Refers not to the average age but the average user, a reference to the median or the central tendency of the distribution. If he has said 'average age,' you would have been right to call him out. However, his remarks were pre-published, and the nuances seem well polished.

Startups are juvenile businesses. When a major corporation tries to claim anything 'startup' it is like a fifty-year-old trying to sneak into a high school as a 17-year-old student.

Soon, someone will build a FactCheck AI bot that will critique Bard, ChatGPT, and whatever else comes.

Let me interpret, "Most of our users can vote."

Her - life imitates art.

There is a mat made of diatomaceous earth that should work. It rapidly wicks away the water, too.

This reminds me of 'copywatches' made in China. They were once obviously cheap knock-offs of Rolex watches but gradually approached a level of craft that could fool experts. Their prices rose accordingly.

I wonder how ChatGPT will evolve once Google's LaMDA and others become mainstream. Competition tends to drive these things pretty hard.

One hundred million down and a billion to go.

The problem with using generative AI like ChatGPT is that it does not lead you to what you are looking for. To do that, it would be asking more questions than providing answers. Without the dialog, the context of a query is never factored into the search. When AI can determine the context of a query and refine it to the true need and its parameters (e.g., timeframe, cost, quality, purpose, etc.), then it becomes a concierge of discovery. However, to do this requires a lot more processing power and storage than what drives ChatGPT.

Next will be for generative AI datacenters, we always find a use for these things.

Filtering this kind of stuff is a software Wac-A-Mole.

People fear the unknown, and these software applications are new, but the problems they highlight are age old.

We allow people to raise their children to be 'antisocial' to those far outside their cultures simply by making them good citizens within their own. And when they grow up and away from their home cultures, they often act offensively to those of other cultures, which becomes a problem. The Internet has allowed people from many different subcultures to mix, and social networks are considered disasters for it. This is just another level of homogenization. As they say, "You cannot make an omelette without breaking some eggs." One way to solve it is to just shut it all down. Who is for that?

21st century mercenaries know their assignments are temporary. However, getting 'laid-off' may have a difference meaning within organized crime.

Its greatest strengths might be within its ability to evaluate different approaches, essentially performing simulations and recodes (not random walks), many times faster that a human could test and review code. Given enough processing power, it could cover far more cases in far less time than crews of test engineers and coders.

Imagine that you were a true genius with an amazing 'photographic' memory that could recount almost everything you ever read. Imagine winning awards, getting a premium 'Ivy League' education, publishing award-winning original essays, and becoming a revered scholar. Now, imagine every publication such as the WSJ coming after you for 'using' their published content to make yourself so smart.