Recent comments in /f/Futurology

pilotavery t1_jcsmxrh wrote

There's tons of hydrogen ions just floating around in space, not necessarily in deep space but near our solar system. Maybe it's just using that and a magnetic field as propulsion. Kind of funneling in ions and then accelerating them

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moodRubicund t1_jcslyhd wrote

Sometimes I would ask it for book recommendations. For example, I would ask it for "a fantasy novel starring a transgender witch". It gives SUCH convincing synopses of a bunch of books but any time you ask it to clarify any of them suddenly it apologises and says it made a mistake. I got taken in by a description of The Priory of the Orange Tree which was a good enough book, but man, the supposed 'dragon-riding sword-wielding witch' was actually three completely different characters and none of them were trans.

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moodRubicund t1_jcslkqx wrote

I basically use it to draft generic advertisements from clients, particularly the ones who get SO MAD if you do anything other than something completely generic.

I'm not joking by the way. Just slap the client's brief in there, try to spice it up, somehow they're happy with the result. And if they're not well at least I didn't waste more than three minutes on it.

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billetea t1_jcsjyie wrote

What China does is pump out a literal wall of science papers and journal submissions with next to no actual results (or fabricated results). What they are doing is giving themselves the ability to challenge any and all IP developed in the rest of the world. The problem with IP law is that any science journal submission no matter how spurious or lacking scientific rigour can still create an IP claim if real research is then undertaken in that field. They may even be aware of the development of a tech breakthrough in say a US university and they create fake research to be able to access the IP in discovery.

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blueSGL t1_jcs9g8e wrote

Have you seen that Microsoft are directly integrating it into their office suite under the banner of "Office 365 Copilot"?

Here are some timestamped links to the presentation.

Auto Writing Personal Stuff: @ 10.12

Business document generation > Powerpoint : @ 15.04

Control Excel using natural language: @ 17.57

Auto Email writing w/document references in Outlook: @ 19.33

Auto Summaries and recaps of Teams meeting: @ 23.34

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jusdisgi t1_jcs8xny wrote

>It gets lot of headwind partly because theory removes possibility of dark matter and lot of people in science circles are affraid of losing their funding.

Well, it could be getting lots of headwind because lots of people in science circles look at a company promising world-changing results without spelling out in detail how they are to be achieved and not working with anyone else in the scientific community and conclude it's likely not real. Or your conspiracy idea.

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jusdisgi t1_jcs84mu wrote

>It is also not surprising that a company with possibly revolutionary tech keeps quiet about how it does what it does it the public space.

The normal approach to that is patenting the technology, which requires explaining exactly how it works. If it's the real deal the secrecy approach might work for us regular folks but isn't likely to keep the likes of ULA or Spacex from figuring it out for long. So I don't think that's really a good explanation.

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