I use Siri for cooking (on the iPhone it can still only handle one timer at a time), for adding to Groceries, turning some lights and fans on/off, and playing music.
I enabled 'Always Show Speech' and even if the text indicates Siri understood what I said, it still often does the wrong thing anyway.
Well, that all Siri can do right now. If it could add something to my grocery list (3rd part app) or tell me what the gym schedule looks like tomorrow (in another app), or turning navigation voice on or off while driving, I would be doing that a lot!
On the one hand, gaming is one of the few industries where generative AI can have a big impact on producitivity today. It's easy to be cynical, but used well it could reverse the trend of excessively expensive AAA game development.
On the other hand, who would trust the CEO of EA / EA in general not to do all the wrong things with AI to save a buck.
TL;DR: Generative could help a lot, but big publishers will use it the worse ways possible.
I don't trust EA, no, or many of the large publishers. I do, however, trust many small- and medium-sized publishers, and particularly indie devs/publishers.
In short: I trust the industry at large to adapt properly.
(As others have pointed out, there will be growing pains)
I feel like the correct answer is proper oversight of how the system is used, not a blanket shutdown in case it's misused. Perhaps these charities who complaining should be involved in that?
The goal of the service seems sensible, especially when you consider how often public services have made serious mistakes due to "information silos".
I don't believe he bought it by accident anymore. He had friends all around him goading him into buying it, and he's delusional enough to believe them when they said he could turn it around.
I think the real story is that this is all part of David Sacks' reactionary war against progressivism. He just knew he'd need an idiot's money to do it.
This is quite a flawed and obviously biased analysis.
To use just one example. If the UK hadn't had locked down when it did, it's likely the entire health service would have collapsed, leading to more excess AND Covid deaths.
Unlike the author, I don't pretend to have the answer, but anyone with a functioning brain can see this "analysis" is without merit.
This seems to be a common theme among substack articles, at least those that make it into the top 60 on HN (pages 1 and 2). Poor reasoning, politically motivated bias, etc. I could be wrong, though; I certainly have my own biases.
I don't know if the UK system has unique characteristics that would have made it likely to collapse (whatever that means) but I equally sure it wouldn't have happened in the US. I waited in vain for stories of people dying because no more beds or ventilators were available and never found one. I ready plenty about how we were close. The way probability works if we were really close, there would have been many examples of it actually happening.
Either way, that doesn't really answer his analysis unless you can account for the collapse not happening in Sweden
Let's be honest - it was nothing new. They're saying the same thing since at least 2014. Anybody who watches this topic in news could've composed the same tweets. Many do.
That's not really proof of having 1st person contact with anyone. Propaganda has a way of spreading into useful idiots who then carry the message without any clue where it came from.
Except for the very very few who have actual knowledge about things, we're all falling for it. And it's kinda fine, being fully knowledgeable about these things would be a full-time job that not everyone's qualified to do. Besides, most of us have other things to do.
It would be nice if those who were not knowledgeable about things would at least proceed on that basis. When combined with confirmation bias and a pinch of paranoia, it leads to a lot of people patting themselves on the back for being "contrarians". In fact they are not merely dead wrong, but incapable of evaluating the notion that they might be wrong.
Users: Hey Siri, set a 30 minute timer.