It can mean that, but it’s also possible that he already had psychological issues. While the entire thing stinks and my first instinct is to assume foul play as well, it’s still important not to jump to conclusions. The reason is simple: If there’s a real case of corporate murder, then people will take it less seriously due to past conspiracy theories.

Yup. One of several reasons why the Shield TV Pro is still the best streaming box. Using a smart TV after having gotten used to this device is painful.

What you’re asking for is a monitor, not a TV. The last TV I’ve seen that is this limited still had a picture tube - and it wasn’t even the last CRT TV I’ve used (we actually had a very late one with HDMI). Regardless of how silly AI features are, there’s a middle ground.

This model would not exist without the work done by OpenAI though, given that the Chinese company secretly used ChatGPT to train it.

Not really, given the media frenzy surrounding this model.

I was looking at 4 and 8TB Seagate drives at various German online retailers a few months ago and there were indeed a few suspiciously cheap ones that could have only been disguised used drives. It irritated me so much, it made me postpone a server expansion.

Because it’s designed by a genocidal imperialist regime and intended to increase its global influence. It’s a heavily censored model that spreads Chinese government propaganda and distorts the truth.

I can’t be the only one who wants to see both of them losing this fight.

let’s all stop thinking about anything

You’re way ahead of us on that front.

Haven’t you heard? The truth is sinophobic. Obligatory:

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Saying that “everyone is doing it” is called hypernormalization and a common propaganda technique used by autocratic regimes like Russia and China. It’s meant to instill feelings of hopelessness and indifference. It is also usually extremely dishonest, since it relies on false equivalencies (like in this case) and/or comparing current state crimes with past state crimes of others.

If anything, this is just the start of an arms race. Do you really expect the Western competition to just stop what they are doing, because a single Chinese model performs well in a handful of synthetic tests that it was probably optimized to score well in?

I’m not a fan of AI slop either, on the contrary, but let’s be realistic here.

Don’t distract. I knew where exactly in the Chinese capital this square is when I was six years old. Your accusation that I must be some ignorant American who can’t find anything on a world map is wrong on both accounts.

Once again: What happened there? I want an honest answer from you.

At least China is honest about what they’re doing.

Peak comedy right there. You’re proudly defending an imperialist regime that is engaged in multiple genocides right now and has the worst body count in all of human history - but as long as it’s under the red banner, that’s fine by you. How shallow can you be? Are you willfully ignorant of all of these past and current crimes against humanity or does the goal of a Communist utopia (as if hyper-capitalist China would ever get there) justify it all?

So tell me, what happened at that square in 1989?

Here’s a challenge for you: Write something that is actually critical of the Chinese government. Can you do it?

Mini PCs usually don’t have a battery. The use case for this conversion is on the go with AR glasses.

About that: TikTok has been caught manipulating discourse on this war. Compare page 14 and 23 of this report:

https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

It’s incredibly dishonest to equate Chinese state censorship with what the West is doing.

There’s a strong argument that any consumer facing chatbot AI is “censored”.

Please don’t use whataboutism to downplay state censorship.