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> There's a supercut of the event on YouTube which solely shows every mention of the term "AI." It's about a minute long and by the end you want to cover your ears to shut out this sound and fury.

Amateurs. Apple would never allow something like this to happen.

Oh, wait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-CPfqZgWTk


I don't think 5G is deeply unpopular like AI is though. Maybe that was the article's point.


I've actually seen more real life protests against 5G than against AI.


Ha, that's interesting. I don't know who'd be protesting 5G I guess, but in my area people are frothing-at-the-mouth enraged at the very idea of data centers going up. All three surrounding counties have had public meetings on data center projects that resulted in them being denied by county supervisors, and one has already enacted a 5-year "moratorium" on them.



Having people put up anti-5G signs and groups of people showing up to events was sadly not uncommon in pre-pandemic era, at least here in Europe.

Most of those folks seemed to have moved into antivaxx waters after covid though, haven't seen so many of "No 5G!" signs after that.



IntelliJ was unsupported ("community supported") when I joined in the summer of 2015. I built a new protobuf editor plugin during that period as a side project, mostly for myself, which suddenly became used by thousands of Googlers when IntelliJ became the supported IDE again in ~2016?

I eventually handed it over to JetBrains and I think it ships by default with IntelliJ now.


The settings in the internal version are "Antigravity User Settings". Pretty sure they're the same.


That's been Alphabet's site since the restructuring happened back in 2015. The site has barely changed in a decade.


from doc.new to blog.google, they are on top of that


Also they have got some cool ipv4 range like 8.8.8.8 too

(Edit I had confused it earlier with 1.1.1.1 which is from cloudflare)


What is the half-screen display? On my Samsung S90D (new within the last year or so), I can set it to skip the "home" screen and go directly to the last input on power on. It works well.


A manufacturer can target multiple markets and make different choices for different markets.

The Samsung S90D (a 65" 4K model) you bought appears to sell for about $1000. Looking at Best Buy's site, you can also buy a Samsung 65" 4K TV for as little as $180 (model DU6900).

Yes, there's other differences. LED vs OLED etc. But at a glance they seem equivalent to a consumer...and one costs 5x more. The $1000 TV is targeting a market that expects more from their purchase and would potentially grate at a persistent sign-in notification. The <$200 TV is targeting a market that wants a big TV and hasn't thought much past that.

There's definitely a chance that on some models Samsung would be more aggressive about enabling smart features, because those models are expected to be subsidized by ads.


While all of that is certainly true, even the DU6900 has the "Start with Smart Hub Home" option that defaults to enabled but can be disabled according to its manual. I assume that's what OP is seeing; it's a common thing to want to disable on Samsung TVs.


I'm not at home currently so can't check, but you might be right about what it is. I'll definitely have to check! I do remember being nagged to connect to wifi though, but it might be a combination or something. I appreciate you mentioning this because if I can just disable it, that would actually improve my life :-)


It's like poor people living in the crowded business district with little peace and giant billboards shining in the bedroom window.


There are free TVs now that are completely subsidized by ads: https://www.telly.com/

But don't think people who can afford the more expensive TV are also more tech-savvy. Some just want a nicer TV. Also, they are a much more lucrative target market than people who cannot afford the nicer TV.


I finally saw one of these in person last year!

It was as fascinating as it was terrifying.

It had a noticable array of sensors and (I think?) microphones along with a camera smack dab in the middle. Above that was its permanent ad display. The TV also has access to its own portal, which was what was on when I saw it. An AI-generated reporter was talking about entertainment news.

Not even Orwell could've imagined a better telescreen than this. You know it's chock full of anti-defeat protections to prevent curious minds from scoring a free TV.


Back in my day, we didn't need AI to accidentally drop production databases.


Feature request: put the original title in a tooltip (or similar).


If you look at web traffic when making Gemini web requests, you'll see that Bard is still in the URL (so are LaMDA (pre-bard) and Assistant (pre-GenAI)):

gemini.google.com/_/BardChatUi/data/assistant.lamda.BardFrontendService/StreamGenerate


That's interesting! I wonder how many parts of their other dead projects are used in current projects.


Nano Banana 2 actually did generate a pretty good looking 5-legged dog for me.

https://gemini.google.com/share/e7a8b902ff67

But it didn't actually think it had done so, aligning with your observations. The last bits of its thinking were pretty sad (for it):

Analyzing Missing Anomaly

I'm focusing on the discrepancy - the persistent absence of the fifth leg in the generated images. Despite multiple attempts, the output consistently depicts a four-legged dog, contrary to the explicit requirement. This ongoing failure necessitates a shift in approach.

Acknowledge Leg Omission

I've made a final check, and unfortunately, the image still lacks the anomaly. The consistent absence of the fifth leg necessitates admitting my limitation. I'll provide the best image I could generate, clearly stating the missing feature.


Google's summary of the thinking process isn't as detailed or accurate as what is actually being thought out.

For instance, look at what other reasoning models show you about their thinking. You can tell Gemini is not giving it all to you, so I don't put full trust in it unless it routinely is giving me an issue that I can catch in there.

For instance, it doesn't show you all the tool use that it can use nor distinguish the different types where I really wish it would. Especially because I force it to in a Gemini personal context instruction as well as many prompts and it does do them


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