Prediction markets were expecting today to be the release. So I wouldn't be surprised if they do a release today, tomorrow, or Thursday (around Nvidia earnings).
Senior Raya Osagie, 16, said she has to “think more in class” because she used to Google answers or use artificial intelligence. “Now when we get computers, I actually have to [do] deep research instead of going straight to AI,” she said.
This kind of blew my mind a bit, as I had always imagined AI being used to do homework, hadn't occurred to me it could be used during a class as well.
That just sounds like lazy teacher discipline in class. Decades ago we couldn't even use calculators on some tests, but now (or up until recently) they could practically have a computer in their hands all class?
Allowing kids to have their phones in class, even if they weren't allowed to use them, was setting teachers up for failure. It's easy to call them lazy, but if you've ever tried to police the phone use of a bunch of screen-addicted adolescents you would understand. The calculator comparison is not a good one.
I encourage you to seek first-hand accounts of what teaching in a contemporary public school classroom is like. Teacher discipline can account for so much.
Teachers are widely hated by the "stupid" class, which is most people. The students are set up for failure by their parents before they even enter the classroom. This has been going on for 50+ years.
I commented on this elsewhere, but at least one local school recently simultaneously did the following:
1. Required teachers to have kids turn-in their phones for the duration of each class period
2. Banned teachers from kicking kids out of the class who did not turn in their phones.
Teachers don't enforce the rules here because they don't believe the administration will have their back if they try. They can assign detention for students not listening, but many students don't show up for detention, and meanwhile that student still has the phone.
When I was in university, I had a math teacher that brought extra chalk to class everyday because if he saw you on your phone, he'd snap a piece off and throw it at you pretty damn hard. Maybe that wouldn't exactly work in a high school but damn if Dr Murphy didn't have me paying attention in that class.
That being called "literal violence" is one thing, but now a teacher telling a student "you should be ashamed with yourself" is also called "literal violence."
What's also funny about that quote is that by "deep research" she's likely referring to googling the answer or using Wikipedia. Remember when Wikipedia was loathed by high school teachers?
The insistence of people, in every era, on staying in a previous technology tier instead of reforming society and culture around the present ubiquitous technology, doesn't really make sense.
Thanks for clarifying. But to be serious, I think it's the drive for culture in action. I think culture comes from people glancing at each other and doing what they do, reacting how they do. I think it can be healthy actually.
Surely reading comprehension is still required for, well, reading AI-generated text. Perhaps it's not their intention but I read an implication that using humans to source facts is outdated, which is... well, I'll just assume that I'm misunderstanding their perspective.
A diplomatic passport from a third-world country? ;-)
Seriously, if the stock market is going to plunge, Pepsi stock is also going to plunge. The simplest way to reduce your exposure to the stock market is to shift assets toward cash: sell shares, keep dollars, maybe in the money market rather than just as cash. Dollars are exposed to the risk of inflation (hyperinflation hasn't happened yet in the US but it's so common that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation doesn't even attempt to list all historical episodes of hyperinflation, just dozens of notable ones) so investors commonly try to move to metals to balance that risk. Cryptocurrencies have emerged as an alternative, and they have the advantage of being more portable in emergency evacuation situations.
It is not known whether Satoshi was a theist, but I was surprised at how many Christian fundamentalists there were on Cypherpunks in the early days. So, possibly that was the idea.
One can't time the market, though. Every time in the past, where I thought to myself, "I should diversify away from the US stock market," when I looked back and did the math, I would have lost more money doing that than leaving it invested. The only way I would have come out ahead was if I sold everything the exact right month in 2000, the exact right month in 2008, and the exact right month in 2020. Who knows in advance what that correct month is?
Diversification is a tool for reducing risk, and reducing risk does reduce the expected return of your portfolio. You can make money by running in front of a steamroller picking up pennies. But most people are not risk-neutral.
> That's not the only way to one could encode innate knowledge.
Maybe sections could be read from DNA and broadcast as action potentials?
There's already ribosomes that go over RNA. You'd need a variant which instead of making amino acids, would read out the base pairs and make something that causes action potentials to happen based on the contents.
Sorry for possibly an ignorant question as I don't know much about research.
Do you think if you manage to have an exit from a startup, you might be able to return to research (at a university) but then be your own funder, so that you could then research whatever you want?
I'd probably just continue working on projects I care about. I don't see a need to do that in a university context. At this point I've spent way more time as a software developer and founder than as a researcher. I'm not sure I'd want to get back into publishing necessarily. Publishing really is just a means to an end. A marketing tool. If you have something exciting to report, fine. But most published work is more or less the opposite. For every ground breaking article in Nature there are hundreds of thousands of workshop and conference reports, journal articles, etc. I got used to and addicted to more rapid cycles.
Exactly, felt like the wristband was the big thing. I don't want the glasses, but I'm somewhat curious if it'd be useful as an extra input device when using a computer.
they've been bragging about how good that neural wristband is for years. It's strange they haven't ventured to make a smartwatch with it. Maybe because Zuck has been so focused on AR/VR
The vision here is much more ambitious than a smart watch, and it probably helps them to introduce it as something that doesn't compete with the Apple Watch / Google Pixel Watch / Samsung Galaxy Watch. The neural wristband is meant to go on the right wrist, so potentially it could complement a more traditional smart watch, or pair with some future Meta smart watch.
I'd buy it if I could use it as a dumb bluetooth keyboard. As it stands he's ambitious for a vision that has no use in my life—I'm generally trying to escape digital interaction, not constantly immerse myself in it.
For Roblox I haven't seen the returns getting smaller. I've had a bunch of smallish games there for a few years, and it has been stable.
While there is a ridiculous amount of competition, so far it has been offset by platform expansion. When I started in 2020 the whole platform had about 30M daily active users. Now over 110M. Maybe my share of plays has shrunk, but it's now from a much bigger pie.
(I don't know if this holds true generally or if my games have somehow persisted better than the average game)
They're still on it though. The new headset prototypes with high FOV sound amazing, and they are iterating on many designs.
They're already doing something like ~$500M/year in Meta Quest app sales. Granted not huge yet after their 30% cut, but sales should keep increasing as the headsets get better.
The bucket name "deepmind-media" has been used in the past on the deepmind official site, so it seems legit.