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Any chance this will lead Microsoft to re-evaluate its use of AI?

Launching October 1st, Gemini For Home is a suite of new AI-powered features for Google’s smart home hardware and software.

The biggest change: Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on all of Google’s smart speakers, all the way back to the original Google Home speaker. This LLM-powered upgrade, announced at Google I/O, will be available through an Early Access program at first, with a wider rollout planned for next year.

On smart speakers, Gemini brings an entirely new voice assistant that uses and understands natural language, can interpret context, and can pull in more real-time information. You still activate it with the wake words “hey Google,” but Google Assistant has been evicted.

“Gemini for Home is the intelligence for your entire home,” Anish Kattukaran, head of product at Google Home and Nest, tells The Verge. “It’s not going to just replace Assistant on speakers and displays, but it’s going to upgrade your other devices as well, your cameras and doorbells, where you interact with those devices, and bring those smarts collectively to your entire home.”

I’m not excited for Apple to invent smart homes after this, completing the duopoly of LLMs being in everyone’s homes even harder than before.

Long live Home Assistant

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I downvote because it’s paywalled.

Paywalled links are just ads with extra steps.

Corporations don’t have stable political identities.

They’ll promote trans people if it makes them money.

And then sell trans people to ICE the next quarter if it makes them even more money.

And then use a shell company to sell trans merch to the people boycotting them.

You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!

Imagining the astronauts recording TikToks in between their very serious space experiments.

I know there have been viral videos from space before, but like…

“Jerry? You’ve been on the space toilet for three hours.”

“My bad. I got caught up scrolling Lemmy on my space phone.”

Literally how??

I didn’t even know could access your own back records from space, let alone pull off Ocean’s Lesbian.

I read the word st*le in your comment and was forced to take candy from a baby.

Please, censor your comment to protect the innocent.

Those are definitely words.

“We show that by exploiting the physics of specular reflection, an adversary can inject phantom obstacles or erase real ones using only inexpensive mirrors,” the researchers wrote in a paper submitted to the journal Computers & Security.

“Experiments on a full AV platform, with commercial-grade LIDAR and the Autoware stack, demonstrate that these are practical threats capable of triggering critical safety failures, such as abrupt emergency braking and failure to yield.”

I’d be fooled, too, at first - and suspicious (who’s fucking around with mirrors on the road?) - but I’d probably figure it out after a second.

My main concern is people could use these kinds of exploits to “jailbreak” robo-cars (or whatever we’re calling them) to behave in dangerous ways in real traffic.

It will not. The article is nostalgia and hopium-baiting.

Restarting a mass-manufacturing production line for something like once super-common CRT TVs would require a major investment that so far nobody is willing to front.

Meanwhile LCD and OLED technology have hit some serious technological dead-ends, while potential non-organic LED alternatives such as microLED have trouble scaling down to practical pixel densities and yields.

There’s a chance that Sony and others can open some drawers with old ‘thin CRT’ plans, dust off some prototypes and work through the remaining R&D issues with SED and FED for potentially a pittance of what alternative, brand-new technologies like MicroLED or quantum dot displays would cost.

Will it happen? Maybe not. It’s quite possible that we’ll still be trying to fix OLED and LCDs for the next decade and beyond, while waxing nostalgically about how much more beautiful the past was, and the future could have been, if only we hadn’t bothered with those goshdarn twisting liquid crystals.

The Epstein files are the first thing that got a meaningful portion of MAGA to turn on him.

Leftists aren’t going to take down Trump on their own, when half the country apparently wants to put women and children and everyone brown into cages.

So if Epstein is the ONE issue we can use to get his supporters to drag him down, then yes, that’s what I’m going to harp on.

I don’t want to win an award for Hating The Right Thing At The Right Time on the internet.

I want to stop Trump.

Apple is one of the few companies whose cult I think could rival MAGA.

Tim Cook gets no brownie points from me for sucking up to 40-whatever-number-he-is.

Their policy to not be evil.

The content was great. The furry art between every paragraph was completely inoffensive and sometimes cute.

Using a picture of your (I assume) furry avatar presenting their ass in my general direction as the header/thumbnail almost made me not click.

It’s not even a furry thing.

It’s a you-look-so-unserious-right-now thing.

Went to the comments to follow up on that URL and had a lesson in the history of unfortunate website names.

This seems like a dumb benchmark.

ClockBench evaluates whether models can read analog clocks - a task that is trivial for humans, but current frontier models struggle with.

What do you mean trivial? Most humans I know can’t read the most basic white-background-big-black-numbers clocks.

Someone rigged the jury to get 90% on this:

There’s a difference between

“A pedophile committed a crime in my house (but I had nothing to do with it).”

and

“Gee, the pedophiles seem to think my house is a great place to do crime, because they keep doing it, but that’s none of my business.”