I mean, it should say something like, 'Sure thing, we don't just use cookies for our servers, but to track you through half the internet, to know exactly what you want even before you know it. Please feel free to accept it or piss off.'

I don't like those lawyers either, but they are not the primary problem. The problems are tracking systems that don't just track you across one website but across multiple sites, like those deployed by Google and Facebook. And since Cambridge Analytica, we know that those are not just hypothetical scenarios and that they actually have an impact on elections and where our society is heading.

This is just proof that it can't be used in real-world applications.

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I solved the issue by building an extra Android Launcher for the kids, where you can add apps and videos, but then you have the problem that you can't configure your own launcher on all tablets (e.g. Fire Tablets).

I think this is one of the big issues with today's MCP servers. Most are based on Node.js and take a lot more memory than they should, compared to the complexity that the job requires. Just run a few MCP servers locally, and all your RAM is gone...

When was the last time you counted to eight billion and thought it would be a good idea to build an app that would require that many bits of information to tell someone the weather forecast for the next week?

And this comparison is somewhat unfair since all numbers from 0 to 8 billion can be represented with just 33 bits...

However, there are very challenging tasks that can help to build experience in smaller groups. Like talking about a topic you just received a second earlier, without preparation, in a group of 10 where everybody takes turns and knows the experience from both sides.

I see a lot of people hyping AI and condemning it, but very few seem to be interested in working on what our future should look like.

I don't know what everybody is complaining about AI-generated content. In the past, nobody cared how the content was generated (ed, vim, emacs, VS Code, ...). It either was good or it was not.

Personally, I don't care if the content is AI-generated as long as it is good. But maybe that is, because I think that it is possible to generate good content using AI.

But ultimately this is just a matter of training data. I do not say that it is easy to obtain the required data, but it is not a fundamental problem LLMs can't overcome.

Not being able to use VPNs might be a problem in corporate setups (e.g. debugging an issue in production environments).

When I heard what the model did, I wasn't surprised one bit. When I read that it was 'unprecedented', I think yes, that is right, but not because it wasn't possible before, but because nobody else did it yet. I am sure that the Anthropic models could have done the same for a few months.

So probably just an experiment gone wrong, and the PR department found this an opportunity to capitalise on (literally).

Without personalized advertising, the surveillance of users would be much less lucrative. And if the same rules applied to all players, it should not have such a bad impact on the advertising market overall.

AFAIK, that case in 2019 was the only time an e-mail went missing.