TechnoTalk: Time to Tech

[Polident]

A day after a new iPhone announcement, my old iPhone drops 20% battery in 15 minutes and is getting overly hot. Hmm.

[chronovore]

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I guess we know why James hasn't posted here. 

I thought this wan an Onion piece mocking the exponential returns on cryptocurrency. 

Jesus.

[Polident]

A day after a new iPhone announcement, my old iPhone drops 20% battery in 15 minutes and is getting overly hot. Hmm.

Literally got this message earlier today.





Is it because my iphone 10s is five years old to the date? Unlikely. It's the deep state forcing me to upgrade.

[Nintex]

Oh god, the apples are getting into gaming

[Potato]

All for a cool $2500.

Nintendo is clearly doomed all over again.

[Potato]

Battery life on my Pixel 7 is reminding me why I like mid-range phones.

[Nintex]

The fact that you need a third party external cooler for your $1500 iPhone so it doesn't overheat is just icing on the cake. 

[Potato]

Vadim definitely lives at home with his parents

[TylenolJones]

Apple does this every 3 years. The last time they added the m1 to the iPad they got Divinity Original Sin 2 and others ported over and then they forgot about it till now. 

The lack of cooling is a big issue, you’ll max the game out in graphical settings, but after 5 minute it overheats and the game gets very laggy. It drains the battery fast too. 

IMO the base iPad is a worthwhile pick over the switch, anything else and you’re spending too much money on an ecosystem that’s more closed down than Nintendo. 

I just want them to allow outside sources so I can throw emulators onto my iPad easily. The current process to do it is a pain, but the iPad will run up to GameCube without an issue. 

TLDR: 

[Potato]

Apple does this every 3 years. The last time they added the m1 to the iPad they got Divinity Original Sin 2 and others ported over and then they forgot about it till now. 

The lack of cooling is a big issue, you’ll max the game out in graphical settings, but after 5 minute it overheats and the game gets very laggy. It drains the battery fast too. 

IMO the base iPad is a worthwhile pick over the switch, anything else and you’re spending too much money on an ecosystem that’s more closed down than Nintendo. 

I just want them to allow outside sources so I can throw emulators onto my iPad easily. The current process to do it is a pain, but the iPad will run up to GameCube without an issue. 

TLDR: 

This is what people like this Vadim idiot don't understand. 99% of users don't want the hassle. If you can't just plug and play, you're not going to convert anyone.

[Besticus Maximus]

Dualsense and PC via Bluetooth. I had it working great, somehow. As expected. Vibration, haptics on the right games. Something happened with an update to do with something to do with DS4windows and now I can only use DS4windows to play anything with it.

Just let me connect the dual sense to the PC and use it. It makes no sense.

[Nintex]

Apple has been out-appled

[Potato]

Is the term "from the ground up" the most irritating tech term or is something else more irritating?

[Uncle]

coded to the metal

revolutionary design

"ergonomic" = something on it somewhere is concave, in a way that is entirely obvious and doesn't deserve mentioning

"our engineers" = fuckin Gary who wishes for death each day, who shrugged and cobbled together whatever random code he could find online before being fired when he was no longer needed

[Polident]

As I was dozing off during that presentation, it clicked how they’re just trying to make the Star Trek combadge.

[Potato]

Oh hey look, Apple is moving into the 21st century!

[Nintex]

Whenever they use "apple users" like that it always sounds like a special solution for disabled people.

[Nintex]

They fired the CEO of OpenAI

A member of OpenAI’s leadership team for five years, Mira has played a critical role in OpenAI’s evolution into a global AI leader. She brings a unique skill set, understanding of the company’s values, operations, and business, and already leads the company’s research, product, and safety functions. Given her long tenure and close engagement with all aspects of the company, including her experience in AI governance and policy, the board believes she is uniquely qualified for the role and anticipates a seamless transition while it conducts a formal search for a permanent CEO.

Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.

In a statement, the board of directors said: “OpenAI was deliberately structured to advance our mission: to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all humanity. The board remains fully committed to serving this mission. We are grateful for Sam’s many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI. At the same time, we believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward. As the leader of the company’s research, product, and safety functions, Mira is exceptionally qualified to step into the role of interim CEO. We have the utmost confidence in her ability to lead OpenAI during this transition period.”

Sounds like they want to hold back progress.

Murati started her career as an intern at Goldman Sachs in 2011, and worked at Zodiac Aerospace from 2012 to 2013. She spent three years at Tesla as a senior product manager of Model X before joining Leap Motion.[6][4][7] She then joined OpenAI in 2018, later becoming its chief technology officer, leading the company's work on ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Codex[8][6] and overseeing the company's research, product and safety teams.[9]

She is an advocate for the regulation of AI,[4][10] arguing that governments should play a greater role therein.[11]

[Potato]

Whenever they use "apple users" like that it always sounds like a special solution for disabled people.

If the shoe fits...

[Nintex]

OpenAI cofounder quits

It's over

[Uncle]

it probably kind of is

founders are a special kind of insane that care about what they're doing and charge forward based on their vision regardless of everything else

the people they bring in now will be willing to compromise and make deals left and right, neuter the whole project at the request of governments and various interested parties

would not even be surprised if this was a CIA op

[Nintex]

Yup, if you look at the big tech players OpenAI is a big threat to them.

Google is getting hammered and can't keep up, the Facebook 'metaverse' imploded, Apple is focused on AR/VR as well and with the GPU resources as limited as they are it's hard to catch up to OpenAI. Microsoft of course benefits from OpenAI but they mostly see it as a tool to enhance their existing software (like Adobe) not to replace it.

OpenAI circumvents all the privacy/data/oversight/commitees/censorship etc. regulations that have been put into place to 'regulate' the internet and big tech for the past 20 years or so. Most of that regulation has also been designed to mostly benefit the big players like Facebook and Microsoft. Giving stuff like Custom GPT to the community means that anyone anywhere can create their own army of AI bots. After so much time and effort has been spent to take away power from developers with red tape OpenAI hands it back to them in a back way.

Internally at openAI there was already a rift. Sam wanted more people to use it and popularize it and throw resources at that so he could raise additional funds for expanding research. While the research team considered all these 'toys' and marketing a waste of money and wants the resources put into research first and foremost while limiting best models to a select few until it is deemed 'safe' for consumption.

They want to trickle this out through the appropriate corporate channels but I think it's too late and the cat is already out of the bag. 
It will slow them down from making more progress as fast though allowing corporations and legislation to try and catch up.

[Uncle]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo



oh wait, we actually needed him, wait wait oh fuck

https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1726509045803336122



WAIT NOOOOOOO

[Cauliflower Of Love]

What a hustle

[Nintex]

And with that Microsoft becomes the second biggest player in AI after Nvidia.

[Uncle]

and now without even the thin veneer of it supposedly being open

[Nintex]

Yeah it's all moving so fast that folks hardly realize what is happening and what Microsoft pulled off  

[Potato]

Holy shit. That's amazing. What a massive fuck up from the board.

[Uncle]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23967223/sam-altman-returns-ceo-open-ai

[Cauliflower Of Love]

DOJ was like "really?"