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And remember - before you dismiss AI slop, look at Harlequin romance novels and the Transformer movies. There is obviously huge market for regurgitated stories in whatever format. I think that it won't take long at all before a "decent" movie comes out that has a majority of its content...

"An arrest affidavit from the Palm Beach Police Department reviewed by a local CBS News affiliate alleged that Lettera’s scheme did not start until March 2024, about four years into his Best Buy career as an “experience manager.” A switch seemingly flipped, as Lettera allegedly conducted dozens...

Funny thing, I was thinking almost exactly the same. Unfortunately, the pace is still accelerating; we're already seeing Trump's team using it. By next year, we won't be able to trust pretty much any news source/video including from "individuals". Even if it is legitimate, it's going to be...

If you were horrified there, don't go to places like fox news or national review... As far as they're concerned, the country died during the last (x) democratic administrations, and only by the heroic efforts of Trump is it being revived. So, naturally anything that his government does is good...

Fortunately, you can still get shoes that use Velcro. So, not even tying shoes will be needed! ...I have to laugh because otherwise I'll go (further) insane.

This is incredibly optimistic; I'm sure you'll see something even worse by the end of next week (at best).

Lots to unpack here... Tariffs - How does this work exactly? To start with, it's a disguised sales tax - any middle man that is paying increased costs passes it to the consumer, that's Capitalism 000 level class history. Furthermore, as others have said more eloquently, you can't start a...

This illustrates exactly where this is going. There are plenty of people that will say "Well, that would take a lot of (effort/money/time) to do this project, but now there are these tools out there... It won't be great, but certainly good enough." Most people don't want to spend years of...

"A mistake" where she didn't bother to even look up the whole time of the ride? Absolutely reprehensible. I know it's part of the trial process where they plead for mercy, but as a human being it disgusts me.

At the place I still work at, when I was just starting on computer support (Windows 3.11 era) we had to toss some older PCs that may have still worked - Gateway 2000s that were "good enough" for what we were doing. However, they had gotten waxed to the floor; we literally had to break the...

...because the best use for an Internet enabled TI calculator would be to access ChatGPT. Wow. Yes, I know it said that isn't the only reason, but that is what the headline emphasizes. I'm amazed at what people can do with hardware these days.

That's exactly what I thought too. According to the article it's been University people that have been testing out these new substances so far, but are the end product recipes "owned" by Google? I can't see them being released in an open source fashion, but stranger things have happend.

I agree that the parrot is definitely dead, but I'm just saying that good luck convincing ~70-80% of the population of that. I work with plenty of people that still don't want to use computers, and are still longing for their Motorola flip phones. I'm pessimistic, and I don't think people...

It's amazing to me how many people are thinking "oh, you should just assume all pictures/videos are fake". I can guarantee that will never be the general public's thinking, and we shouldn't want them to think that way anyway. One relevant example - the recent proliferation of videos of people...

Quantities of 100? I forgot that we could even do that here in the US before the stupid WoD things happened. I used to be on actifed, and loved being able to get a 2 pack of 100 from Costco. Now, get to spend a crapton more money for Allegra which works ~70% of the time. Whee.

Journal - oh, good, now my phone is assigning me essay questions! That must be something that "creative" types want, doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.

Because most consumers don't care at this point about horsepower in an electric car beyond a certain point, and fuel efficiency is basically battery life (yes, I'm simplifying here...) .They don't want to all compete on length of life because it's affected by so many factors and/or makes it...

I think that's the general problem the traditional auto manufacturers have with electric cars - they can't use any of the traditional points (More horsepower! Greater fuel efficiency!) so they're just trying out whatever terms they can think of to differentiate themselves. Personally, I look...

What I don't understand is why I had to find this out from the AP/Washington post yesterday, before it hit any tech news (that I saw at least).

Since people have been asking about this capability practically since it was announced, no surprise here. Only surprise to me is that they waited this long to talk about it as a real product. Having said that, looking forward to it also. If it's usable that way, that puts a lot more pressure...