Stoat (formerly Revolt), is a strong FOSS competitor with a Discord-like feeling
https://stoat.chat/
https://github.com/stoatchat

To be fair, capitalism is inherently incompatible with advancements in robotics and AI. Doesn’t mean the technology is destroying the economics and society. The socio-economic system was already broken to begin with.

Apart from games, where this can also be used for more capabable and behaviourally more “interesting” NPCs (including computer opponents or teammates), the used techniques can be transferred to robotics. Quite a cool architecture.

“Kill switch” is a bit dramatic. It’s an on or off toggle. Would be funny though to call every toggle a kill switch. “Yeah, using the kill switch on GPU acceleration may help with rendering on some systems.”

“Use the kill switch for preventing Firefox of starting a new session without restoring the old tabs.”

“Kill all of your browser data upon exiting Firefox by enabling the kill switch.”

“Make Firefox your default browser by enabling the ‘set as default browser kill switch’.”

Extended to other UI interaction classes: “You don’t like English? Kill it by using the battle royale language selector to choose only the one language you like.”

I do as long as it stays open source.

TIL, people consider Mozilla and Firefox a giant.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/

Yes. But we will have to see whether it’s opt-in or opt-out. This can make quite a significant difference.

The logic behind the voice controls sounds pretty questionable, but it’s supposedly backed by data showing that users spend billions of minutes talking in Microsoft Team meetings, according to Mehdi — so they’re already used to talking on the computer, right?

Do they really reason like this? Oh my. That’s stupid. And here I was thinking Microsoft employs clever people.

This is in beta, not available for all users and you can also disable it easily: https://support.ecosia.org/article/994-ai-overviews

As far as I know they are using Bing. They’ve started building their own search index last year in a partnership with Qwant.

It find it unfortunate that you are unwilling to continue this discussion. I can only recommend to you to read more deeply about this topic in order to form a well founded and critical opinion, before judging things you do not seem to comprehend sufficiently.

Let me know as soon as you’d like to continue this matter. I am always open for a good discussion and good arguments.

(I am not sorry for “necroing”, sometimes I’m just not in the mood and/or don’t have the time to reply to various comments. But that’s the beauty of discussion platforms: it’s always possible to pick it up at a later time.)

Well, in that case I wonder why you were criticising the field of AI. Doesn’t seem to be substantiated.

Is it though? By which definition?

What is “thinking critically about thoughts”?
And what is an “independent thought”? Aren’t our brains not just reacting to sensory inputs and dictated by the way our brains are wired?

Maybe we should go even further and clarify what a “thought” even is.

Are animals, who lack the higher cognitive functions, that humans have, therefore not “intelligent”? Are mentally impaired people no longer to be considered “intelligent”? If so, where is the line to be drawn? What are the specific definitions and criteria to correctly distinguish intelligence from non- or pseudo-intelligence?

Not my wording, but the one from the paper I have linked.

“Google stands for free and open internet”

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/keep-internet-free-and-open/

Aged like milk.

/j: joke
/s: sarcasm
/i: irony

Easy:
You take GPU. And then you put GPU.
Understood? /j

Aren’t they already doing that?

That’s a complicated way of saying that Microsoft recommends switching to Linux. /j

I don’t care about votes. I just hope that people start to comprehend this field a tiny bit better .