Here’s my results from PocketCasts. Niche AF I’m guessing

Currently binging the backlog as we speak. They just hit Covid lol

‘The Rest is History’ is how I’ve been getting my world history. Great banter from two British hosts

Nothing like some crowdsourced help to fine-tune the google search for your kink.

IIRC, the music industry was in decline long before Spotify was made. The transition period before Spotify was just illegally downloading everything through Limewire/Kazaa/Napster etc.

Also, the reason podcasts make money is because they can produce something that brings audiences in on a weekly basis. The music industry OTOH has artists that make an album a year or less. It’s not as sustainable and it’s harder to sell ads against.

I don’t think more segmentation is a wanted solution by consumers either. Consumers would much rather use one app for all platforms than have to buy a different streaming service every time they want to listen to a new album.

I can’t speak to 5G but my Mint 4G service was non-existent when I was at a concert. It was otherwise great the other 99.99% of the time fwiw. Been a user for ~7 years

How does the duopoly have full control if Republicans have the majority in the House/Senate/Supreme Court?

Two out of 10 Linux users agree that insert name here is the best distro

Your reaction to the uncertainty that comes w/ quitting your job is normal. IMO that is the aspect to investigate and try to accept what is and what isn’t within your control

I also expected better from The Guardian. This feels like it should be a sentence in a Wikipedia page not an article that introduces her to the public

The author from the article did. It’s a bit of a stretch as are the last 2-3 pieces of the list 🤷🏾‍♂️. The first few are still pretty big.

Is super-intellignence smarter than all humans? I think where we stand now, LLMs are already smarter than the average human while lagging behind experts w/ specialized knowledge, no?

Source: https://trackingai.org/IQ

Do you have an example of human intelligence that doesn’t rely on pattern recognition through previous experience?

At what point do you think that your opinion on AI trumps the papers and studies of researchers in those fields?

Respectfully, none of the aforementioned examples are simple, or else humans wouldn’t have needed to leverage AI to make such substantial progress in less than 2 years.

I’ve been using AI to troubleshoot/learn after switching from Windows -> Linux 1.5 years ago. It has given me very poor advice occasionally, but it has taught me a lot more valuable info. This is not dissimilar to my experience following tutorials on the internet…

I honestly doubt I would ever pay for this shit.

I understand your perspective. Personally, I think that there’s a chicken/egg situation where free AI versions are a subpar representation that makes skeptics view AI as a whole as over-hyped. OTOH, the people who use the better models experience the benefits first hand, but are seen as AI zealots that are having the wool pulled over there eyes.

Any thoughts on the paragraph following your excerpt:

The most persuasive way you can demonstrate the reality of AI, though, is to describe how it is already being used today. Not in speculative sci-fi scenarios, but in everyday offices and laboratories and schoolrooms. And not in the ways that you already know — cheating on homework, drawing bad art, polluting the web — but in ones that feel surprising and new.

With that in mind, here are some things that AI has done in 2024.

• Cut customer losses from scams in half through proactive detection, according to the Bank of Australia.
• Preserved some of the 200 endangered Indigenous languages spoken in North America.
• Accelerated drug discovery, offering the possibility of breakthrough protections against antibiotic resistance.
• Detected the presence of tuberculosis by listening to a patient’s voice.
• Reproduced an ALS patient’s lost voice.
• Enabled persecuted Venezuelan journalists to resume delivering the news via digital avatars.
• Pieced together fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh, one of the world’s oldest texts.
• Caused hundreds of thousands of people to develop intimate relationships with chatbots.
• Created engaging and surprisingly natural-sounding podcasts out of PDFs.
• Created poetry that participants in a study say they preferred to human-written poetry in a blind test. (This may be because people prefer bad art to good art, but still.)

I will say a large swath of the country moved to the right (anti-immigration, anti-trans, etc) and so trying to push progressive values in a time where people believe progressive values are what led to inflation is a losing argument as well that wouldn’t have gotten much national support.

There were literal commercials framing Kamala as a villain for having empathy about trans people in prison.

Yes, I’m sure that will cancel out the increase in genocides and human rights violations likely to happen under Trump’s admin

There is a Gaza to give completely to Israel tho