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Specialized equipment, like parametric array loudspeakers, can direct sound vibrations to a specific point in a focused beam. However, those in the beam's path can still hear the transmission. Limiting the sound to only the targeted location is still impossible using current technology.

Doesn't sound like this is viable for listening to music without distrubing others. Does seem viable for audio advertisements like in Minority Report.

I wonder how much of this posturing and how much of this is actually going to happen.

Authoritarian leaders love "trademark" project with large numbers attached to them.

Blockchain Capital

Did not know they got money from a crypto firm.

I never joined Bluesky because I don't trust any commercial US-based social networks. The American VC culture is hopelessly corrupt.

Investment from some crypto criminals is the cherry on top.

I really hope indie developers will start moving off Discord. I always really disliked their UI, but it's becoming clear that Discord is not viable in the long-term.

Press outlets reckon that this extremely special item will be auctioned off for charity; the presence of Team Green CEO's autograph and slogan ("RTX ON!") will boost its value severalfold.

For some reason, those fake corporate charity scheme come to mind. The ones where the total cost of the advertisement and its delivery greatly exceeds the actual amount given to charity.

However, as a statement from Ampere reads, the company "is expected to play a key role in future Softbank growth markets, including recently announced AI infrastructure investments like Stargate." SoftBank's AI strategy involves building massive cloud datacenters. Next-generation cloud datacenters for AI are expected to house tens or hundreds of thousands of nodes, which will represent a huge market. If Ampere supplies millions of CPUs to its owner, then its business will expand beyond where it is now. Also, if other Stargate partners — OpenAI and Oracle — adopt Ampere's CPUs as a default choice for their datacenters, this could be a breakthrough for the company. This may never happen, though.

"The future of Artificial Super Intelligence requires breakthrough computing power," said Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. "Ampere's expertise in semiconductors and high-performance computing will help accelerate this vision, and deepens our commitment to AI innovation in the United States."

Sounds like they don't expect the major cloud providers to be big customers (they design their own ARM systems). Instead this seems to be aimed at the Stargate initiative; Masayoshi Son wants to have his own cloud company powered by Ampere ARM CPUs.

I thought the Stargate initiative was for GPUs (AI processing), but Ampere to my knowledge focuses on CPUs. This is confusing.

It would be funny if Masayoshi Son spends many billions (of other people's money) and then it turns out to be a bust. It's that Masayoshi "WeWork" Son's midas touch.

Cheers!

Would be curious to read the LLM output.

I find after reading a selection of LLM generated poetry/short fiction, you start notice signs of a generated text. It tends to be a bit too polished, without any idiosyncrasies and with almost too much consistency in the delivery.

EDIT: So I read the short story. To be honest, I am don't think I would be able to tell whether this was LLM generated or written by a writer. There are some subtle signs, but it's very much possible that I am seeing these signs because I knew it was LLM generated.

One thing to point out is that this is not really a short story, it's less than a thousand words with honestly not much going on and there is lots of colourful descriptive text. I was expecting something in the range of 3K to 5K words.

After reading the "short story", I am not sure I agree with the methodology. Some of their test statements include "I was interested in the struggles of these characters" and "This story deserved to be published in a top literary journal". The story is not long enough enough to make meaningful conclusions about such test statements.

Their approach to willingness to pay also doesn't make sense as it's too short. Here is their graph for the TWP metic:

This seems artificial, no one is going to pay 30 cents in a real world scenario for such a text (irrespective of whether you think it was written by a person or if it was LLM generated). The respondents might rate it at being worth 30 or 40 cents as part of the survey, but that's not the same thing as actually going through with a purchase. I will note they didn't simply ask for a value and they did have a system tied to the survey payout; but this almost seems irrelevant.

S60 series were definitely smartphones. You could install 3rd party apps/games. You could use a web-browser. I believe there was an email client (I just used the Gmail J2ME app and never bothered configuring the client). You could listen to music and watch extremely basic video, I think I even installed a 3rd party audio player.

I would argue it's clearly a smartphone, less refined and without a touchpad, but still having a lot of the functionality that modern day smartphones have.

Thank you for the heads up!

Never knew about the Handspring and Visor. We had Treos in Eastern Europe (one of my teachers had one in 2003 or so, it even came with mobile internet), but never any Visors.

I stand corrected. Thanks!