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tesla and spacex are surely scams too huh ?

And why am I wrong?

Red flag not answering the “What really happened?” and the request to “please share your candid thoughts on what went wrong at the Bard launch.”

Just say we screwed up and tried to move up against a Microsoft PR timeline and it didn’t work out. I don’t understand why it is so hard for higher-ups in corporations to just state the obvious.

Also feel like they don’t really know what Bard is supposed to be.

Sundar really isn’t the right person to be running this company. Satya is playing chess and Sundar is playing checkers. This is Google’s game to lose, they still hold immense advantage but are slowly blowing it.

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And it won't have to ask you, desperately, why it's Bing Search.

Tell us you know almost nothing about AI without telling us you know almost nothing about AI challenge completed successfully!

It's not just about Search. It's a way to protect our phoney baloney jobs!

This man is a con-artist. He is way out of his depth on this. Dealing with the FDA is a whole different animal than fucking electric cars.

Is me or are these companies just wasting time on stuff like this because it's basically just search....like AI like this is just a gimmick and nothing else.

"For the last time, we're not a search company. We're an adtech and creepy dystopian panopticon company that happens to do search. And some other stuff that we'll probably cancel by the end of this call."

Just have ChatGPT with the code for you Google lol.

“I just want to be very clear: Bard is not search,” said Jack Krawczyk.

And Google is not Evil!

"It's a way of living."

Umm. You know that thing about sentience...

It'll be less sexual assaulty than Bing.

It just wants to cuddle. A spoony bard, if you will.

It's about ads too

Google execs probably

But he has better rockets.

/u/SidewaysFancyPrance: still have your comment cached, so here's a reply

This kind of feedback loop has been going for a while now. Humans shaping their environment, and adapting to the environment they themselves shaped. It's a process so old it pops up in the fossil record. It's just stuck on a bottleneck now. Humans got too good at shaping their environment, and evolution no longer cuts it when it comes to shaping humans to match it in turn.

Which means: it's time to take over that part of the process too.

>If we feel like we have to install hardware in our brains to survive, we've failed as a species.

Or: that humans have truly succeeded as a species.

Humans have a history of breaking natural limits. Humankind used to be foragers - until humans got very sick of their food supply being at a whim of their environment and invented agriculture, enabling them to specialize and accomplish more. Humans used to rely on spoken word to teach and spread knowledge - until they invented writing, allowing human knowledge to endure, to resist corruption, to be stored, transferred and replicated much more effectively. Humans used to get culled by horrendous pandemics - until they got tired of dying pointless deaths and started figuring out things like germs, vaccines and disease prevention. Humans used to struggle to understand their world, inventing things like superstitions in a desperate attempt to explain what they could not understand - until they invented scientific method, allowing their imperfect minds to be used to discern the truths of the world.

The thing is, it's not about survival. Humans haven't been a threatened species since the last Ice Age. It's about how humans want to live.

Imagine having intuitive understanding of personal finances. Or an ability to remember and recall strong enough that "where I left that thing?" or "did I forget to turn something off?" never happens in your life anymore. Or just being flat out smarter - better at remembering, understanding, recalling, making the right connections and applying knowledge. Imagine being able to get by on a single hour of sleep a day - and feeling more rested than you do after a full night of sleep now. Imagine being able to pry a drug addiction straight out of your mind just by wanting to do so.

Those things are impossible now. They don't have to remain that way.

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The fact that we don’t have a miracle cure that can cure neurons?

My time is divided up between the UK and the US

My point is that I don't just walk around as an average citizen in fear of law enforcement randomly targeting me and my phone - frankly that's a strange way of living and an even stranger justification of removing one of the biggest QoL improvements that smartphones have had in the past 15 years.

If I was a drug dealer or terrorist, sure - passcode only, but living out of fear that police are randomly going to target me out of the blue, and then scour the 55000 photos/1m+ messages on my phone until they find something incriminating is a comical level of paranoia and epitomises the attitude of the average redditor with limited real world experience. There are faster ways for police to fill their quotas.

Wait where do you live? Which nation.

And I'm counting on just using biometric security rather than living out of fear that police are going to randomly pull me aside and insist on looking through my phone

They will find something. Pleading guilty is often far cheaper than a trial. They are counting on that.