Oh. I thought it could walk/run, which would have been 200% scarier (and totally overkill, surely).

Turns out that in action the thing looks more like Curiosity with a creepy furby on top of it.

Well, we need a defence against terminators.

Glasses with high correction don’t look that great with thin frames IMO. Even when you get thinner lenses, there still quite thick on the edges.

Thin frames also have kind of an uncanny effect when the lenses warp the size of your eyes a lot. Better have a bulky, obvious thing instead.

There is a distinct rift between what the AI companies are trying to sell and what they can actually do. Anthropic is among the worst, they basically communicate on how astonished they are about their AI every other week (including the mythos claims that have been vastly disproven).

They don’t “claim” it. They suggest and deliberately exploit people’s imagination. Because if they don’t nobody would be buying their shit.

Well, if all it takes for your super-intelligent thinking machine to be evil is just someone to suggest it might be evil, something doesn’t add up.

Some of them are even basic post-it functionality.

Also : these (valid) authorized applications should be completely offline solutions. Because privacy, and because you don’t want your aid failing at random times because it’s relying on some corporate server and network.

Oh shit, they actually said that, “they” being the American department of justice.

“How dare those people try to apply laws to mega corporations?!!”

I have a Quest headset, and I have no idea. But of course I don’t want anything to do wih their “metaverse”, so I would’t be able to see where most of their work went.

What I can tell you is the parts I did use, like the system UI and app store, are complete shit and never improved one bit through the years.

The app store is especially terrible for a company with those resources. It’s using the worst machine translation I ever saw (forget LLMs, this is a lot worse than 2010 google translate). It has terrible search and discoverability options for a store that has comparatively so little content.

Whenever I find something interesting in it, it’s also regularly failing transactions with a major bank in my country. I’m almost listing that as a pro since it discouraged me to get stuff from a headset-locked store that will be completely abandoned very soon.

I’m really curious how “AI” helped him golf, other than providing basic advice he could have found just as easily anywhere else.

He’s lucky his AI is not Mr Meeseeks from Rick & Morty.

Your graphics processor identified itself as or similar.

Ah yes, Or similar, great GPU, love it.

I have stopped using chrome on mobile too.

Problem is, on a stock android you can’t remove chrome, only hide it. So my point is, if they decide to force the model download on a chrome update, even if you never use it, it’ll still ruin a good chunk of your storage space.

At least gemini isn’t a forced install… on my device it isn’t, in any case. I sure hope it stays that way.

Next time I change my phone, I’ll look into it (and probably choose it for that purpose). I don’t want to risk ditching official support on this one just yet.

Google aside, I chose a phone that comes relatively crap-free.

I haven’t had desktop chrome anymore for quite some time, and I certainly never will again after that.

But I certainly hope they are not planning to push that shit on android. Leave my fucking storage alone, google

It’s not a good thing if you don’t want a freaking LLM to begin with. Hidden 4GB download for a feature I can’t give a sungle fuck about is ridiculous.

The kind of social media they know about, anyway.

I am not ashamed of anything I say here, but I am never doing it with my full identity accessible to whomever. Basic online hygiene.

They’re literally half the ads Youtube sends me. Crazy long ones too.

They’re also powerful enough that they can get a lot of ad spots on national TV channels too (France), and only have to print a tiny unreadable warning about risks, while having a giant tagline saying “The important part is winning”.

All this time I assumed destroying the world was just an easily dismissed, unfortunate consequence, turns out it’s their main objective after all.

Don’t give them ideas, they’ll start drilling for new volcanoes.