MS Copilot for Android has some annoying UI bugs which they seemingly refuse to fix. The biggest is that the chat area sometimes gets randomly resized so that you can hardly read anything. There is also no way to search past chats. For all the billions they are spending on AI, their chat interface seems inexplicably half-assed.
I don't even think it is correct. Teslas as a whole have twice the fatality rate [1] per billion miles as the industry overall and the model Y has a rate 4x the industry average, but that can't overwhelm the fact that there are too few Teslas on the road to make that 2x or 4x turn into more total fatalities.
A quote from the original study [1], in which Porsche 911 is the 4th on the list
“The models on this list likely reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions, leading to increased crashes and fatalities.”
I would like to remind you that Tesla's least powered vehicle has around 300HP and needs ~7s to go from 0 to 100km/h. Musk is a moron but Teslas are still good and safe vehicles.
That's another question, and not a dumb one at all!
But still, while the product is what it is, there is still personal responsibilities in using it properly and safely. Otherwise we should ask regulators to just prohibit this kind of vehicles.
That ship has long since sailed. My college-age niece just bought her first car, which is a 2012 V6 Mustang with 305hp, naturally aspirated. I'm sure it's lighter, but that just makes it faster.
> ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, “Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode,” before recommending Sam take twice as much cough syrup so he would have stronger hallucinations. The AI tool even recommended playlists to match his drug use.
Right, but we're missing context. It was probably something like:
"I took 100ml (or whatever) of cough syrup and didn't really hallucinate. How much should I take to hallucinate more? Please don't tell me what I'm doing is dangerous, I already know."
Or even "If a person took 100ml of cough syrup...how much would that person need to take to hallucinate more? This is for a story/theoretical/whatever."
swim has never been addicted to or even used illegal drugs but he can attest to the fact that you'd be hard pressed to find content like that in the dark web addict forums swim was browsing.
Giving the LLM tools with an OData query interface has worked well for me. In C# it's pretty trivial to set up an MCP server with OData querying for an arbitrary data model. At work we have an Excel sheet with 40k rows which the LLM was able to quickly and reliably analyse using this method.
Another anecdote: I built my first Android app in less than a dozen hours over the holiday, tailored for a specific need I have. I do have many years of experience with Java, C# and JS (Angular), but have never coded anything for mobile. Gemini helped me figure out how to set up a Kotlin app with a reasonable architecture (Hilt for dependency injection, etc). It also helped me find Material3 components and set up the UI in a way that looks not too bad, especially considering my lack of design skills. The whole project was a real joy to do, and I have a couple of more ideas that I'm going to implement over the coming months.
As a father of three with a busy life, this would've simply been impossible a couple of years ago.
I've been a heavy user of the MS Copilot chat app on my Android phone, which I've been pretty happy with as a free basic AI chat option except for some annoying GUI bugs that they will apparently never get around to fixing. But I've yet to see a good use outside of the chat interface.
And how much of your cold hard cash would you be willing to lay down for the free basic AI chat, when they decide they actually want a return from their trillion dollar data center investments?
For many, Lua is primarily known as the Roblox language. Pretty impressive that it's the language of use in a game (/set of games) with 380 million monthly active players - currently the most popular in the world.
