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There's reason to believe that Google has what it needs to do this right but the problem is that I don't trust them to do what's right. I love my Chromebook and I've been dreading this transition however the other day I had an epiphany I found out that my pixel phone has a desktop mode and all...

I don't want to be that guy, but I think it's worth saying that the tariffs were always illegal. We just got that confirmed by the courts. That's why they're being rebated retroactively. So we can just call them Trump's illegal tariffs.

Yeah I think the important distinction is that the "there is only one electron model" (A speculative idea thought about by Feynman and Wheeler, which they concluded didn't work) is based on the fact that positrons are effectively time reversed electrons so that an electron can go forward through...

Before: Creationists- Complex organisms appeared all at once, evolution doesn't work! After: Creationists- Complex organisms existed alongside transitional forms at the same time, so evolution doesn't work! They were all on the ark together anyway.

I would like to see an experiment where you just random seed sentences off the internet and then construct chats based on two AIs talking to each other based on that and then train an AI only on those chats. Then take that model, have it talk to itself the same way and rinse and repeat. Who...

Hey Dude, Uhm, want to play a game of, er, global thermonuclear war?

How am I dogmatic? There is zero evidence that our minds are anything but physical systems, governed by the dynamics of physics. We are physical systems, that are conscious. Therefore physical systems can be conscious, and perceive, whether they are biological or not; biological has nothing...

yeah, wonderful (NOT). That paper is one of the bedrocks depended upon by people who deny that true AI could ever possibly be intelligent. Which puts them at odds with pretty much every computer scientist and physicist (Roger Penrose excluded. Nobelitis is a bitch). The brain is a physical...

Strange memory: I long ago learned a form of this. I would swim and float under the surface of a pool, and bend my body so that my body above the waist and body below the waist were at different angles, and then rotate that bend in a 360 rotation, and I would spin like a top.

Yes, because now it goes up to 11.

I know I'm getting beat down in the votes but I totally agree with the people that are downvoting me. In fact, I am just clinging to hope. Please let there be a hope. I am trying to imagine futures that aren't as grim as the high probability ones, but whose realization requires us to make...

Yeah that's what they want to try to do. But the point I'm trying to make is that people's fear of getting dementia as they get older becomes a pretty overwhelming worry, much bigger than people's worry about covid. For them to argue against something that will actually prevent dementia, that's...

I think the most effective way to fight this moronic behavior is to zero in on an area where they just can't defend themselves and that's described in another article on Ars at this very moment, which is the very strong evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents dementia. That means everyone...

There are tools for managing persistent guidance like that. You can go to "settings/saved info" to input those, or use Gems. (Gemini)

This is certainly true, but the question is more about whether you should than whether you could. It is famous and cherished, and poorly written. I would really prefer to read AI responses that were not trained on Harry Potter writing style. I'm sure this will enrage Harry Potter heads, but...

The funniest part about this post (which is very funny) is something that isn't there: the missing edit:. Missing text can itself be funny!

There is a question as to how much of this sycophancy was intentionally built in; I think there is an additional effect that might be hard for them to remove which is that it is learning from human conversations on the web and those tend to be sycophantic by nature. People are trying to be...

I will care when Fox is subjected to this too.

They may want to lock-in users. But that depends upon backward compatibility as they evolve ChatGPT. Given that each new version has different strengths and capabilities, that may break previous prompt engineering, I'm not so sure that will be easy to do. I suspect that people actually using...

They better still sell Chromebooks, running Aluminium or not. They better make Aluminium as secure and easy to administer as ChromeOS; that was the whole point. Managing an Android phone is far less secure and easy. Otherwise I'll be out. I want a chromebook to be a secure, simple appliance...