They are not conflicting. Yes oil production is higher but that’s mostly in response to OPEC producing less.
Overall fossil fuel use is in decline. Probably not enough decline to arrest the greenhouse effect, but that ship has already sailed.
If I gave a worker a pirated link to several books and scientific papers in the field, and asked them to synthesize an overview/summary of what they read and publish it, I’d get my ass sued. I have to buy the books and the scientific papers.
Well, if OpenAI knowingly used pirated work, that's one thing. It seems pretty unlikely and certainly hasn't been proven anywhere.
Of course, they could have done so unknowingly. For example, if John C Pirate published the transcripts of every movie since 1980 on his website, and OpenAI merely crawled his website (in the same way Google does), it's hard to make the case that they're really at fault any more than Google would be.
Isn’t learning the basic act of reading text? I’m not sure what the AI companies are doing is completely right but also, if your position is that only humans can learn and adapt text, that broadly rules out any AI ever.
Of course not. Google is a competitor to Facebook.
But much of the long tail of Android phones bundle Facebook shovelware.
I'd say I slowed down my usage, as I looked for alternatives. But yeah, once Apollo stopped working, I cut out Reddit cold turkey.
I don't really see the benefit anymore. My current device lasts ~40 hours on a charge, so I seldom find the need to swap anything out. Even if I did, those little USB battery packs that charge multiple devices are more practical. On a long flight, my wife and I just share one and it works on the Switch and tablet too.
Sealed devices have way better water resistance, less plastic makes the batteries themselves bigger, and wireless charging (especially with magnets) will be challenging to add to a battery that's also the back cover.
I'm sure I'll be in the minority on this, but, I don't really have any interest in a removable battery, especially if it involves other compromises on size, capacity, and features.
IMO, this is also a reminder, however, that the US needs better privacy laws in general. It won't always be just to spam you.
Think about your buying habits and consider whether they might be useful to, say, an insurance broker.
Twitter was fine. It’s on a single Person - Elon Musk - who bought Twitter. All changes after it were through them.
I don't think that's necessarily true. It wasn't about to collapse, but its stock was also anemic and it was flailing. It wouldn't have decided to alienate advertisers and fire its whole trust and safety team without Elon, but it was eventually going to have to do something to "monetize" users more effectively.
I'd say it's been a bit mixed. The software is at times a bit wonky and unpredictable. Some features are surprisingly missing (like, as an admin, just listing out users on the instance). I've had a few bugs from the client and I'm not always able to pull in content.
Having said that, I see a lot of promising stuff going on. My friends and I set up an instance and while it's tiny, we're sharing links we like and commenting on them, just like the old days of the internet. We'll be around, I think.
I mean, no.
I think at most it's somewhat comparable to sitting down at an old fashioned desktop computer. It's your primary focus of attention. When you're not using it, you take it off.
The example of a dad doing a real-time recording of himself playing with his kids is cringy AF.
You meet them online, but they’re a vocal minority. Especially when a smaller phone means a smaller battery and worse camera system, two of the consistently top priorities for consumers.