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Presumably the AI scraper would also have OCR, and would sidestep things like this?

Or that perfectly legitimate software can’t be used in nefarious ways. Teamviewer, for example.

I don’t know, Moxie feels like a DreamWorks character popped inside of a plastic casing. Especially with that image, it comes across like a render or a movie character than a real thing.

Personally, I’m more partial to robots that don’t have a human-like face at all. Like Jibo, whose “face” was a simple flat circle on a screen. Cosmo might be the upper end, where it has two “eyes” (squares) on a screen, but no other features.

IMO there’s a bit of a mistake in trying to have human faces on robots. Not only do you then have to contend with the uncanny valley, but you don’t really need those to convey the same thing. Pose and things like that work equally as well.

We don’t have people walking around trying to put human faces on cats and dogs, but we can understand them well enough all the same.

This seems like it would be a sizable target for ransomware. Why include an encryption program if you can have the OS do it?

All the ransomware needs to do is make iOS think it’s a payment provider.

Gesundheit

Anthropic’s still considered a startup? I’d have thought that they would be too big for that.

I’m half-expecting for it to turn out that he was being wholly compliant, and he’s being accused of destruction of evidence because they were looking for something that never existed to begin with.

The garden might be walled, but apparently nobody’s bothered to check for weeds.

You also have the benefit that, since it’s a single memory pool, it can be used for other things, and allocated dynamically.

Where in a conventional machine, VRAM is exclusively for the GPU to use, and RAM is generally for the system. The capacities are usually fixed (I think it’s possible to offload GPU memory into system memory for some uses, but that’s about it, and your performance usually falls off).

Downside is that because it’s a shared memory pool, everything uses it, so you lose some of the actual capacity for things like your OS.

Interesting. I had no idea genetic damage was linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Thought it was chance/inherent genetics, a bit like cancer is.

That’s not true, though. There’s nothing to corrupt. The human genome is 41% fruit fly, 60% banana and 8% virus simultaneously. Hugh Mann Georg, whose genome is 131 billion percent human is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Plus natural selection isn’t solely random by nature, nor is it independent of humans. It doesn’t magically go away, even with sci-fi gene technology, since people would naturally select genes that they find attractive, make them superhuman, or won’t give them some nasty disease. Humans deciding that they want a gene that gives them breasts all-year round because they find them attractive is no different to humans selecting for the trait over generations, for much the same reason.