If they have a solid product and do not want to make “energy drinks and lunchables”, the best financial move would be to optimize it. Find ways to make it smaller, lighter, and most importantly, reduce costs.

But if I were in charge, I’d seriously think about trying to eat DJI’s drone lunch now that there are FAA rules around foreign drone companies. GoPro is headquartered in San Mateo. Drone design is well known enough that there aren’t any hard problems in the way of introducing a decent DJI mini replacement. There may be patents or other non-technical stuff in the way though. But if they could get in on that, it could be immensely lucrative, especially if they can get government contracts.

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I’m having flashbacks to the end of Detroit Become Human at the “recycling center”. That was such a traumatic scene. That game is such a great exploration of social dynamics, ethics, AI. Beautiful game too.

Right, and I’m not saying that playing video games is bad. I’m saying that addiction is bad, and that AI can be addictive, and can distort your sense of value so you think something is good for you when actually it is bad.

Fun, joy, and pleasure are indeed things we should be chasing in life. A lot of us lose sight of that while working on our careers.

That’s kind of Inception-esque

I use many of these tools, but I didn’t need them. I can’t afford to maintain any of them

That’s it. He doesn’t need them. But in order to maintain them, he’ll use up even more of his time, and probably spend a lot more on AI to do the maintenance for him. In the end, what is the cost, and what is he getting out of it?

I think for a lot of people, AI is like so many addictive video games. They take our attention and make us feel like we’re getting something out of the interaction. Each prompt is like doing a run in Sling Kong or Jetpack Joyride. Didn’t go well? Try again. And in the end we’ve wasted a lot of time on something that has little to no value, that nobody else is going to use, and the net result is a lot of wasted time with very little to show for it. We have a high score, we have some collectibles, and we’re no better off than we were when we started.

I think one answer to this is more focus on the problem, and less velocity. Velocity is not helpful if you’re not pointed in the right direction, and even if you are pointed in the right direction it’s not useful if you overshoot your destination.

You know what the car industry should do? Design more luxury vehicles! Obviously! That’ll definitely solve the problem.

I really didn’t understand his argument. How do LLMs replace a networked operating environment and all its APIs? There has to be some application protocol to communicate between the two systems. Is he really just arguing for open standards?

That is surprisingly literally true.

Today I finished a book that I picked a while back from a Little Free Library.

You say data, I say data

You say gif, I say gif

Data, data, gif, gif

Let’s call the whole thing off

As they say, “no rest for the wicked.”

whoops! deleted it because it was posted elsewhere in the thread but i hadn’t noticed yet.

here it is in case anybody wants it. https://gist.github.com/sidward35/cea28bedd0ec0b1bceec8c2b22c163c4

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Not really. I actually got rid of my Amazon Fire Stick because it didn’t work offline, but Plex did. I discovered this because my TV automatically showed the Plex shares as browsable media sources, which were being broadcast over DLNA.

I mean… yeah. OpenAI is a California software company and it’s the biggest lobbying force behind the age verification bills.

OMG, I never noticed that he had bags over his headphones. That scene was the first thing I thought of when I saw OP though, so thanks for showing me that extra detail.

sandstorm.mp3

“CEO said a thing” reporting is exhausting.