"Pixie, book that car service for me and remind them they promised a free brake fluid replacement"
"Pixie order all the ingredients I need to make my wife her favourite dish"
"Pixel, buy everyone in my family birthday presents"
I will 100% pay for that capability, and as someone that uses GPT4 to basically do my job for me, it really does not seem that far off. And I do think Google has an advantage here over Apple or anyone else, not just in Hardware, but in the enormous amount of data and information they have about both people in general, and specifically me.
I won't let any AI read my e-mails, let alone reply to them. I discuss car services when I drop of the car at the workshop, and the workshop confirms the details. I don't want an AI to know anyones favorite dish, and delivery services suck for fresh ingredients anyway. And I think about presents before buying them, that is a crucial bit of gifting things to people, especially if you care about them.
By the way, if I would use ChatGPT for my job, let alone letting it do for me, I'd be fired, worst case go to jail. And even if not, what would prevent my employer from firing me anyway if a basically free to use web service can do it at the same level I can?
I think you'll find yourself in the minority soon.
My grandma said, "I won't send any email through a computer, I prefer to write it by hand and have it delivered by a human being".
Although maybe it will be even weirder with AI assistants sending birthday greetings to other people's AI assistants and then your AI assistant summarizing who sent you birthday greetings.
The fact is the next generation moves on and uses new tools. I don't think AI will replace our jobs but people who are good at their jobs can, with the help of AI, outcompete people who are just good at their jobs but don't use AI.
The parent you were replying to may currently be able to automate what they are doing with the help of AI but I don't think that will last long as jobs end up requiring a mix of human and AI capabilities.
Replying to email is one thing - a pita to implement securely.
But reading? On-premise? You already allow basic algorithms to read your mail, for spam control and whenever you search through your messages. Having a better algorithm (as long as it's still on device) has no difference in terms of safety.
Similar. Waited ages in Australia for the Y to arrive, then Elon went nuts, then real competition started to arrive. Everything from Audi to BYD here now, some even have buttons where buttons make UX sense.
An electric Audi in Australia has an entry level 2022 sedan model price of AUD157,000 is hardly "real competition".
A Model 3 2023 Tesla entry level 2023 has a price of $61,000.
BYD Atto3, sure. Entry level order price is AUD48,011.
But if one is so sensitive and basing purchasing options on an American billionaire's behaviour then surely you would also take into consideration that purchasing a BYD is financing multiple multi-millionaires who are members of, and have close ties to, the human rights abusing and despotically led CCP.
If you tie your company to the your identity person as tightly as Musk has done, you shouldn't be surprised when people make purchasing decisions based on the political and social views you espouse so loudly. Nobody knows who BYD's leadership is unless they look really hard.
I randomly chose a Spotify playlist recently called "Programming music". Was a few hours in, and was like, "hmmmm, this music sounds weirdly familiar", checked the playlist, it was a few hours of Deus Ex music! It was perfect to write code to!
I don't think they expect to do they? They are just using an unlimited bankroll to punish people they perceive as their enemies with hugely expensive and stressful litigation.
Because generally UK judgements can be enforced in the US (and other places).
There are good reasons to expect that in this case they would be unenforceable in the US, but that isn't a guarantee-- and if they are you don't get to go back and fight the cause you lost by default and would have expected to win on the merits. So you're risking a kafkaesque situation where everyone is saying "yep, it's wrong and unfair, now hand over all your assets. thems the rules".
It's also the case that ignoring a judgement in the UK can get you found in contempt and subject to prison should you happen to find yourself (perhaps accidentally) in the UK in the future. Personally I have no problem never going anywhere near the UK in the future, and though "outlaw in the UK" has a nice ring to it, this does add to the incentives.
The person who runs the bitcoin website was sued by the same con for distributing the bitcoin whitepaper, and defaulted because the UK wouldn't allow him to defend himself without divulging his identity. He took the whitepaper down from the UK under threat of arrest (if they ever find him) and now facing hundreds of thousands of pounds of the opposing side's legal fees under threat of potentially losing the domain name (and/or prison, again if they can find him). There really is no silver bullet.
Default judgements can be the basis of internationally-targetted lawsuits aimed at enforcement of same; they can form the basis of arrest warrants, which implies never travelling to places where the UK can send police officers to arrest you, and while it would likely be an amusing basis for someone to start turning e.g. Linux into fiduciary liability for the purpose of legal trolling, who wants to facilitate that?!
Worldwide? Definitely. Enough that also have the resources to pay? Not 100% sure, but I would imagine so. I think I read 500,000 Australians alone live in places with very little internet connection, or are currently served with Geo-Sync internet heavily subsidized by our government.
The IIHS tests vehicles with automatic emergency braking at 12mph and at 25mph.
When these systems were new, many vehicles were only able to decrease collision speeds. These days, many vehicles completely avoid crashes at both 12 and 25mph.
I tested it a little bit during the 2019 Honda Odyssey test drive. It seemed to work.
FWIW, Then unintentionally I had a bit of real world confirmation: a few months ago a car in front of me in slow traffic made a very sudden and complete stop.
I stepped on the brakes; after a second, as I slowed down, the brake feel completely changed and became harder, and I realized that I hadn't been alone - initially, car was braking for/with me, as confirmed with the massive orange letters on the dash board. Then as the system felt it was out of most immediate danger, it released and it was just me braking (that was the brake pedal feel change).
I do occasionally have it engage stage 1 of 3 (1 Visual -> 2 Audio -> 3 Auto Brake). It happens once a month predictable on very slight curves when it thinks I may be accelerating into oncoming traffic.
Why would we not tax the source of the problem. ie dirty energy generation via a carbon tax? That would then incentivize all energy use to become greener, rather than ad-hoc singling out individual use cases? A decent carbon tax would eliminate most dirty proof of work mining, as electricity is the major cost
We absolutely should, but it seems unlikely that we will anytime soon. And to reduce Bitcoin's emissions it would have to be a global tax, which seems even more unlikely. For most products, a country can tax imports when other countries don't have corresponding taxes, but that's not really possible with Bitcoin.
Lol. If you dropped the average westerner into Chennai, they would either: a) stop moving b) kill someone