Yahoo and MySpace come to mind. Probably could count Nokia and Blackberry, although they were more phone/hardware.

Possibly AOL, but their “death” may have been more than 20 years ago.

And while technically some of those companies “exist” in some capacity today, I don’t think we’d consider any of them except Yahoo as anything but a name/brand at this point.

There is no way to know someone is connecting to you via a VPN. They just blacklist known IP addresses, so there isn’t really a way to implement this. Sure, you can blacklist well known VPN providers, but anyone can rent a PC in another location to VPN through.

Thanks for providing the actual numbers.

I think one of the more concerning things is, what if you think the answer is in the documents you provided but they actually aren’t. What you think is a low error rate could actually be a high error rate.

Just for context, this is the error rate when the right answer is provided to the LLM in a document. This means that even when the answer is being handed to the LLM they fail at the rates provided in the article/paper.

Most people interacting with LLMs aren’t asking questions against documents, or the answer can not be directly inferred from the documents (asking the LLM to think about the materials in the documents).

That means in most situations the error rate for the average user will be significantly higher.

I know in the US there were general subsidies for any electric/low-emission vehicles. Maybe they mean any kind of subsidy going forward will only be available to EU made vehicles.

I was going to ask how this is different than a Reinforcement Learning algorithm but then they called out Deep Minds Alpha-Go

Healthcare before the current admin did recommend both. You’ve got a really bad doctor/Healthcare support system if they aren’t telling you eating healthy and exercise do a lot for your wellbeing.

The big issue is that medical research is a lot harder and more expensive than just “be healthy”. Cutting back funding/efforts there has long term cascading effects.

Am I missing something? SQLite is great, but it isn’t really comparable to most other SQL databases, unless you’re talking about nosql alternatives?

They probably want that, but also at the same time, that would kill software development.

My example was just to highlight that the “average user” may not be as technically capable as many in this thread propose. But that’s also why I called out I may be underestimating the average user.

It’s possible that I underestimate the average user, but I did work IT at one point in my life and I still vividly recall needing to point out to someone that their computer wasn’t turning on becuase it wasnt plugged in.

Usability.

Windows and Mac are both easier to use for the standard user.

I’m a technical person and even I struggle with what/how the hell I’m supposed to even install applications on Linux:

Should I download the binaries? Should I use snap/flatpak/etc? If I do one vs the other which is more up to date? If I can’t find it in the software store can I trust random online sites?

And that’s just finding applications. Most people don’t have hours of free time to read forums to understand how to fix something that broke (assuming the distro they choose even has a thread relating to the issue).

Yeah, I don’t know why this is so difficult. Can even have players that autoread the signature to tell you the source/etc.

Yeah, I was going to say that TV wasn’t much of a news source to begin with. The real issue is that social media for news is probably worse - now everyone can be spoonfed the news they want.

Pretty much anything handling unstructed data (audio, video, text) is using training data that has copyrighted content.

Star trek touches on it a bit. Some people definitely still cook in the shows, but it’s almost seen as a thing for special occasions.

Definitely, and that’s why hard/strict laws or rules can be dangerous. Much like the famous “I know it when I see it” judgment on obscenity.

The biggest issue with this line of thinking is, how do you prove it’s CP without a victim. I suppose at a certain threshold it becomes obvious, but that can be a very blurry line (there was a famous case where a porn star had to be flown to a court case to prove the video wasn’t CP, but can’t find the link right now).

So your left with a crime that was committed with no victim and no proof, which can be really easy to abuse.

Edit: This is the case I was thinking of - https://nypost.com/2010/04/24/a-trial-star-is-porn/

That’s always been the issue with laws like this, just causes people to find worse things.

Banning alcohol lead to people dying from bootleg. Making drugs illegal lead to things like people huffing paint (maybe cost too).

I think the issue is they hit market saturation and haven’t been able to develop any real revenue streams beyond the sale of devices (which is one time cost while maintenance and development constantly drain them of any profit).

I suspect the increased enshitification is because they need other revenue streams. Just take a look at their stock price and it doesn’t paint a great picture for them.