MudMan

Yes.

Yes, you should.

Because as much as you see it as a domestic throwaway denomination among many, they are extremely and increasingly overrepresented in developing countries (and a couple of European ones as well).

So if you want to know which way the use of contraceptives, the position on gay people or the express support for neofascism is going to go in Africa this is relevant.

It is not about the US or their opinions. And I say this as an atheist.

We'll see where it goes. They aren't exactly transparent about these things, and they've been arguing among themselves for a while. We'll know with the white smoke, I suppose.

I am surpringly annoyed about Americans somehow finding a way to make this about themselves.

In reality I'm much more worried about the likely counterreformist pushback that is likely about to happen. We're about to find out if a remarkably powerful organization's leader was able to seed enough support to secure a politically aligned successor, and if the answer is "no" a bunch of organizations are about to get even more ruthlessly conservative at a time when a new strain of fascism is seeking moral support. The Catholic Church has been here before. It didn't go well.

They actually lampshade this further down the article, at the point where clickbaiting has fulfilled its goal.

It's almost nostalgic being mildly annoyed at some slightly sub-par journalistic ethics displayed by Gizmodo and company. Feels quaint and nostalgic now. I honestly didn't know Gizmodo was still running, if I'm perfectly honest. It's been quite the decade.

Honestly that's because speeding up localizations by having the first pass be machine-made is not something that waited for GenAI to happen. It's been going on for a while using good old machine translators.

Now, Google Translate and similar tools have been reliant on machine learning for ages, people just weren't freaking out about it because "AI" hadn't gone viral. It's been weird to watch this sort of thing play out.

FWIW, if they are using the same loc workflow and genAI works better than good old machine translations for a first pass go ahead and do GenAI. From what I've seen casually it's not necessarily faster or more reliable, but I'm not working on loc professionally. Maybe that's what he means when he talks about using it in "backend processes"?

I mean.. too late? Face recognition has been part of biometric passport security for years now.

If anything my first flag for this is that about 50% of the time I try it I end up having to call over a security person because it tends to flake out a bunch. I've had better luck recently, so maybe it's ready now?

This becoming an app may be the logical next step, but I do think there's some value to carrying a physical copy of the biometric data with you. If we're not losing the paper passport I don't see why I'd need to double up on recognition software. If you're already matching my face to my passport and my boarding pass is also matched to my passport it sure seems like we already have all the pieces in place for this without wasting more money on more contractors and giving them more of our data to store.

Specifically, how is this news and how is this World News?

I mean, start an Elon watch thing if you're into minutia about this guy, but this doesn't belong, as far as I'm concerned.

I mean I, for one, do appreciate the extremely cheap Chinese imports we are about to receive overe here in sanity land. You think nobody in Europe is buying American cars now? Give it a minute, they'll be giving out BYDs in cereal boxes.

Well, that's supposed to be the point of the paper in the first place. They seem to be tracing paths through the neural net and seeing what lights up when they do things step by step. Someone posted a link to the source article somewhere in this thread.

Best they can tell, as per the article, they say the math answer and the answer to how it got to the answer are being generated independently.

This is true. That said, presumably at least some of those have either a pre-existing install base they can keep selling digital games and services to or built-up stock.

Nintendo has zero Switch 2 units in US households and will be expected to honor preorder prices. Who knows how much stock they have in the US at this point. Probably next to zero.

US gamers won't have cheaper choices to buy new hardware, but they sure will have the obvious choice of not spending money on unnecessary new toys at all. Especially because for how messed up gaming hardware is going to get there are going to be entire other market segments getting much worse that you don't get to just opt out of.

This is atrocious timing for Nintendo. But hey, Europe has 450 million people and you weren't going to sell 100 million Switches day one. Shave fifty euros off that sticker and I betcha some of them will take that unused US stock out of your hands and even buy some games on top.

You're antropomorphising quite a bit there. It is not trying to be deceptive, it's building two mostly unrelated pieces of text and deciding the fuzzy logic is getting it the most likely valid response once and that the description of the algorithm is the most likely response to the other. As far as I can tell there's neither a reward for lying about the process nor any awareness of what the process was anywhere in this.

Still interesting (but unsurprising) that it's not getting there by doing actual maths, though.

I've always hated it and eight. I can only remember the ones that are familiar at a glance from the reverse table and to this day I sometimes just sum up and down from those "anchor" references. They're so weird and slippery.