ReHacked vol. 318: Reality Check on AI, What Is A Core Memory, And How Do You Create One and more
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Reality Check on AI Perspectives #ai #economy #longread
Anyway, that's not great at all! That's really bad! The Information reports that OpenAI will make "about $8 billion" from subscriptions to ChatGPT in 2025, meaning that 75% of OpenAI's largest revenue source is eaten up by the price to provide it. This is meant to be the cheaper part! This is the one fucking thing people say is meant to come down in price!
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AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships #ai #society
Self-styled prophets are claiming they have 'awakened' chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 | Medium #software #internet
Four major web browsers dominate the market: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple’s Safari. What most users don’t realize is that Google effectively bankrolls over 80% of the development for all of them. But this funding stream is under threat: the US Department of Justice is moving to force Google to cut off its competitors and divest from Chrome, a decision that will simultaneously cripple the development of every major browser.
Google directly pays 80%+ of Mozilla and Safari’s budget
Google pays Mozilla and Apple to make Google Search the default search engine for Firefox and Safari. Google pays Apple about $18 billion each year, and pays Mozilla about $450 million each year.
“In 2021 these payments accounted for 83% of Mozilla’s revenue.”
Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup | PCWorld #software
You know how every annoying Windows program wants to launch as soon as you boot up your computer? Well, now Office is going to do that, too. A new “Startup Boost” function will set Office to load when Windows starts up, which will make apps like Word and Excel launch faster—while making the rest of your computer slower.
What Is A Core Memory — And How Do You Create One? - The Good Trade #psychology
Research on mental health issues shows that memories, particularly traumatic ones, do play a significant role in our psychological foundation. “Memories can be triggered that are buried in the deepest places of our minds by something as simple as the quality of air we are breathing, a song or melody on the radio,” Yoo told me. There is evidence that strong emotional associations can trigger certain memories because they are activated by our amygdala and hippocampus at almost exactly the same time. Whether this is proof that a person’s core values are created from these memories is still up for debate.
Finland bans smartphones in schools | Yle News | Yle #education
The Finnish Parliament voted on Tuesday to approve a law that restricts the use of mobile devices by pupils at primary and secondary schools.
The new rules are expected to come into force after the summer break, in August.
The law does not entirely ban the use of mobile phones at school, and their use will be permitted in certain situations. But generally, the use of phones during class time will be prohibited.
Pupils will need to get special permission from teachers to use their phones, to assist them in studies, or to take care of personal health-related matters, for example.
An Entire Company Was Staffed With AI Agents and You'll Never Guess What Happened #ai
As Business Insider first reported, the results were dismal. The best-performing model was Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which struggled to finish just 24 percent of the jobs assigned to it. The study's authors note that even this meager performance is prohibitively expensive, averaging nearly 30 steps and a cost of over $6 per task.
Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash, meanwhile, averaged a time-consuming 40 steps per finished task, but only had an 11.4 percent rate of success — the second highest of all the models. The worst AI employee was Amazon's Nova Pro v1, which finished just 1.7 percent of its assignments at an average of almost 20 steps.
Speculating on the results, researchers wrote that agents are plagued with a lack of common sense, weak social skills, and a poor understanding of how to navigate the internet.
After 53 Years, a Failed Soviet Venus Spacecraft Is Crashing Back to Earth #space #engineering #history
A 53-year-old Venus probe that failed to escape low Earth orbit is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in the coming weeks. Built to withstand extreme heat, parts of the spacecraft could survive the descent and crash on Earth.
The lander module from an old Soviet spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere during the second week of May, according to Marco Langbroek, a satellite tracker based in Leiden, the Netherlands. “As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive reentry through the Earth atmosphere intact, and impact intact,” Langbroek wrote in a blog update. “The risks involved are not particularly high, but not zero.”
Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all • The Register #ai #economy
In a working paper released earlier this month, economists Anders Humlum and Emilie Vestergaard looked at the labor market impact of AI chatbots on 11 occupations, covering 25,000 workers and 7,000 workplaces in Denmark in 2023 and 2024.
Many of these occupations have been described as being vulnerable to AI: accountants, customer support specialists, financial advisors, HR professionals, IT support specialists, journalists, legal professionals, marketing professionals, office clerks, software developers, and teachers.
Yet after Humlum, assistant professor of economics at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and Vestergaard, a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, analyzed the data, they found the labor and wage impact of chatbots to be minimal.
A message written from within Nazi concentration camp Dachau, which remained undiscovered for more than 80 years, has been found. It tells a tale of survival, craftsmanship, and reveals the only known musical instrument built inside the camp.
Inside a Dutch 'dementia village' built for quality memory care - Upworthy #society #health
The Hogeweyk was the world's first dementia village, founded in 2009. Since then, the idea has been replicated in dozens of locations all over the world. The concept is quite simple: A full, self-contained neighborhood where people with dementia can walk around freely without fear of getting lost, where everyone from shopkeepers to restaurant servers to salon workers are trained in dementia care, and where people who are losing their memory to dementia diseases are treated as people who still have aspirations.
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