In addition to what others say, for me the biggest sin is just how maddeningly slow it is. Trying to scroll a conversation back in time is just miserable. Coming from approaches where scrolling arbitrarily back in history has felt pretty much instant for over 20 years, it just feels horribly backwards. The reasons for that sluggishness is that it’s just a terrible design vaguely wearing a passable layer of paint to make it look approachable.
To add to 2, it’s kind of like a chat platform built atop SharePoint. It’s so bizarre to try to dig into it from a bot/automation perspective. It’s like everyone complained how crappy it was trying to build business applications on to of SharePoint and felt compelled to prove those folks wrong even though they are pretty much right
SMS 2FA is notoriously compromised by various means.
Of course, yubikeys implement passkey… Passkey is the new buzzword after lackluster success with the words used, webauthn…
This was roughly the state of affairs before but the state of things have relented where software password managers are now allowed to serve the purpose.
So if a hardened security guy wants to only use his dedicated hardware token with registering backups, that’s possible.
If a layman wants to use Google password manager to just take care of it, that’s fine too.
Also much in between, using a phone instead of a yubikey like, using an offline password manager, etc.
Passkey is essentially a branding of webauthn. Instead of typing some code that changes, you just do something with some sort of device or key manager.
Plug in a yubikey and touch the button to authenticate. Easier.
Nothing like having an config.sys/autoexec.bat menu to make sure you have the right TSRs and XMS or EMS configuration to run this game or the other. The ecosystem forced you to learn things you may have never been inclined to learn to get at the experience you actually wanted.
Eh, analogy will be imperfect due to nuance, but I’d say it is close.
The big deals are:
I also think this is on the back of a fairly long relatively stagnant run. After the folks saw the leap from GPT2 to ChatGPT they assumed a future of similar dramatic leaps, but have instead gotten increasingly modest refinements. So against a backdrop of a more “meh” sentiment over where they are going you have this thing to disturb some presumed fundamentals in the popular opinion.
In some contexts you aren’t going to have a lively enough community to drive a compelling product even as there’s enough revenue to facilitate a company to make a go of it, but to say ‘no open source software has acheived that’ is a bit much.
Spy kids 2 IIRC
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.
Go ninja go ninja go…
“Do you think God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he’s created?”
There is a lot about working where they just don’t trust employees and want to watch them.
They can try to make metrics to varying degrees of success, but ultimately they live in fear of those metrics being gamed.
Usually I’ll see something mild or something niche get wildly messed up.
I think a few times I managed to get a query from a post in, but I think they are monitoring for viral bad queries and very quickly massage it one way or another to not provide the ridiculous answer. For example a fair amount of times the AI overview just would be seemingly disabled for queries I found in these sorts of posts.
Also have to contend with the reality that people can trivially fake it and if the AI isn’t weird enough, they will inject a weirdness to get their content to be more interesting.
Unfortunately, this time around the majority of AI build up are GPUs that are likely difficult to accomodate in a random build.
If you want a GPU for graphics, well, many of them don’t even have video ports.
If your use case doesn’t need those, well, you might not be able to reasonably power and cool the sorts of chips that are being bought up.
The latest wrinkle is that a lot of that overbuying is likely to go towards Grace Blackwell, which is a standalone unit. Ironically despite being a product built around a GPU but needing a video port, their video port is driven by a non-nvidia chip.
This was after applying various mechanisms of the traditional kind. Admittedly there was one domain specific strategy that want applied that would have caught a few more, but not all of them.
The point is that I had a task that was hard to code up, but trivial yet tedious for a human. AI approaches can bridge that gap sometimes.
In terms of energy consumption, it wouldn’t be so bad if the approaches weren’t horribly over used. That’s the problem now, 99% of usage is garbage. If it settled down to like 3 or 4% of usage it would still be just as useful, but no one would bat an eye at the energy demand.
As with a lot of other bubble things, my favorite part is probably going to be it’s life after the bubble pops. When the actually useful use cases remain and the stupid stuff does out.
It is a shock, but at least they received their money without being left holding the bag. They have a committed backlog over a year long, they seem to be avoiding manufacturing more than they have already sold …
I had some files that i knew had duplicates, but didn’t exactly match and while the filenames were not identical, you could tell by looking if they were the same.
Would have been very tedious to do all of them, LLM was able to identify a “good enough” number of duplicates and only made a few mistakes. Greatly sped up the manual work required to clean up the collection.
But that’s so far from most advertised scenarios and not compelling from a “make lots of money” perspective.
Well that’s not quite true.
I have some z-wave thermostats, which I know do not talk to the Internet, just a local system with a zwave dongle.
For a relative, recently set up a similar setup, but with a homekit thermostat. Similar deal, though it really really wanted to connect to a cloud server and you kind of had to trick it to a non apple homekit setup. The follow on model from that brand did drop homekit support, presumably because they wanted to force their cloud servers, which became required for any advanced functionally.
There are ways to get automation friendly devices without a cloud connected requirement, though admittedly you have to be paying pretty close attention. Generally offerings for business are more likely to be locally workable, but that’s hardly a given either
Now that making calls is the one thing that teams kind of does “directly”, everything else is just manipulating a backing SharePoint… which is pretty much why it’s terrible.