"Hey Siri, what is 99ft 7in in meters"

Regarding the introduction to this essay..

Isn't some of the magic of being an agent in this world taken away when you are following a set of instructions to a T?

Unable to make decisions for yourself without consulting your "virtual assistant" about something as trivial as if you can use y milk in place of x milk seems like a sad reality to me

Really?? Scams On HN now?

turn on showdead and you'll often see them around

Apple is the undisputed king of never putting actual benchmarks in their info-graphs

Yup unless there's a LINPACK comparing it to VAX 11/780 it's deeply unserious.

Unfortunately I am a noob and even after googling I don't really understand the connection. Could you enlighten me?

I'm unsure if it is running as good as before. I have noticed more issues over the past week than I ever have using Twit.

Particularly, a nasty bug that keeps the timeline refreshing while scrolling and is constantly moving content around on the screen.

Curious if anyone else has run into something similar.

yup!

i dunno, they can google it pretty easily

Over these last couple quarters in school I have consistently put some of my homework questions into GPT-3. Actually cancelled my Chegg (boooooo) subscription because of it.