I might get one. I've been using a mini for years and am pretty much giving up on Apple ever making one again. The AI features finally seem worth an upgrade, and I don't love the size of the Air, standard iPhone, or Pro/Max models.
If I'm going to have to two-hand it, this is perhaps not the worst. Also, it might be more one-handable when closed than regular iPhones.
Is it very expensive? Yes, especially if you don't opt for the base storage (256 is not enough in the age of LLMs). But I've not upgraded in 5 years, so I've got budget to spare.
The audience for this sort of thing is currently quite limited. It may grow more in the future, especially if prices get out of control, but for now, it's a relatively small subset of people.
Completely agree. I don't think my writing style has changed much, but there are times when I think of writing a sentence and then reconsider because "it sounds too much like AI to me". Scary!
Yeah, when I read this sentence I thought, "well, maybe you're just incorrectly classifying non-obvious LLM writing as human writing, which makes your hypothesis unfalsifiable".
Seems like it's a cat and mouse game that won't end anytime soon. LLMs are constantly getting better at writing, so at some point people won't be able to tell reliably tell the difference anymore. I wouldn't laude Pangram so highly at this point, since we're not at the final round yet.
I'm not absolutely opposed to AI in principle. If it writes things worth reading, I'm not opposed to reading them.
The problem is when it writes things that have the appearance of making sense but actually don't, when it writes what could be better put in 10% of the words, when it writes with no coherent logic. I don't have the time or the mental energy to wade through that on the faint chance that there might be a gem in there somewhere. But I have the same objection to human writers who do the same things.
Write something worth reading. I don't have time for it otherwise.
I agree completely, but how does that relate to my comment (saying it's cat and mouse, the game may never end, and Pangram's current success isn't indicative of future value)?
It's saying I don't actually care. I don't care if Pangram can detect AI writing in the future. I don't care if it can't. I'm saying the question does not matter to me.
I don't care about not reading AI. I care about not reading slop.
But I guess I could care about one outcome of this game. If Pangram loses the ability to detect AI writing, but AI writing continues to be this nonsense that has no real point or logic to it, and so more garbage gets published that I want to not read, yeah, I guess I would care about that.
Weird, I read this in English and don't know why it would have copied the link to the Spanish language page. It doesn't look like I can change the link here, sorry.
> he is currently slogging through 350 direct messages and holding open interviews until he finds the right candidate
> The pay is certainly driving attention. With SF’s minimum wage at $19.61 an hour, dishwashers in the city typically make $22 to $23 an hour, at the most, according to the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.
Also, "living wage" is a made-up concept that is subject to continuous goalpost-moving.
Please, it’s cost was $19B/year. We spend $1T/year on military spending, $1T/year on interest payments on $40T in debt, and $100B+ (so far!) on the Iran war.
Musk cut it through DOGE because he’s racist, not for cost efficiency.
He is after all at this moment talking on Twitter about how he regularly tells people who say they are Jewish that they aren't Jewish and if they don't have DNA tests to prove it he doesn't believe them.
Back to USAID: Musk, a prominent US defence contractor also gave as one of his reasons to cut USAID that it was a front organisation for the American Intellegence community.
So just before a big war he threw a curveball at long running intelligence operations. In his own, public, on-the-record comments. The same man who provides Grok AI to the Pentagon for use on classified info.
He also, when challenged about the deaths, claimed that he hadn't cut any funding for that stuff and that it was all still done by a different department so there was "zero deaths".
Which is a lie, but if you believe his lie, then a) he didn't save any money b) unless you count the stuff that was really the American Intellegence operations.
On the other hand if you don't believe his lie then all the dweebs online defending all the deaths as worth it to cut the deficit are defending a man who doesn't even bother to make that same argument.
If you have a robust resource I can cite in the future that captures all of "weirdness" of Musk, please suggest and I will bookmark for efficiency and completeness. Below is what I rely on today, but more complete resources are always welcome.
Your point about interest payments on the debt doesn't seem to support the assertion that we should go into more debt. It's not like we have a choice about continuing to make interest payments, which makes it a false comparison.
Regardless, I'm pretty sure the definition of murder doesn't include defunding programs with the knowledge that doing so will lead some people to die. If that were the case, then Joe Biden "murdered" the Americans who were killed by the illegal immigrants whom he willingly let across the border (by not funding ICE or allowing them to do their job). It was obvious that by letting in millions of them, some of them would end up killing people. Would you say he is a murderer too?
Going to a war with Iran that cannot be won for Israel was a choice, yeah? There ya go, $100B in savings, no DOGE theatrics required.
It is apparent (hah) you have a rigid conservative mental model, you’re not going to change your mind based on the data. It’s fine. The data and facts stand regardless of talking points socialized.
(native US citizens commit crimes at a higher rate than immigrants, here legally or not)
Going to war with Iran seems like a dumb idea, but I don't remember Elon being involved in that.
It doesn't really matter whether native born Americans commit crimes at higher rates than illegal immigrants. We shouldn't have any illegal immigrants here, so every additional crime is one we should not have had to endure. Also, if you want to look at how crime breaks down demographically in America, there are some striking patterns that might not fit your preferred narrative.
If I'm going to have to two-hand it, this is perhaps not the worst. Also, it might be more one-handable when closed than regular iPhones.
Is it very expensive? Yes, especially if you don't opt for the base storage (256 is not enough in the age of LLMs). But I've not upgraded in 5 years, so I've got budget to spare.
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