Mine is that they wanted it to stand out, compared to all the other phones with flat screens at the time, especially with all the design clones.

You would look at it and go “oh that phone looks funny, must be a Samsung”.

If you can somehow lick a gas, more power to you.

It’d be a bit unreliable, though. Not everyone has the same reaction to the same thing, nor do they express it in a similar way.

Someone might think a snake or a spider is cute, whereas another would want to incinerate it on the spot. A third might be concerned because they seem to be injured, etc.

Not to mention that image recognition/emotional analysis has been an ongoing field of research for some time. Making the link is not overly difficult.

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Also great to squeak a little battery in if your phone was flat and you needed to make a call.

You can still turn it off. Not much they can do about your turning it off at the wall.

It wasn’t that long ago that “smart mirrors” were en vogue, which was just a display with a reflective coating.

Although I think that they generally fell out of fashion because people don’t want a contraption for their mirror that they have to plug in and set up.

I actually prefer TNG’s settling down with a Poker game, and Picard joining in with a “I didn’t know why I didn’t do this before”. Mainly because it still feels like they’ve not left their time, whereas the camping scene could be anytime from the start of the second millennium.

The only way it could be better is if the show opened with a Poker game.

And it doesn’t preclude the company just deciding your product is no longer worth supporting/going bankrupt.

It might have been fine and seemingly trustworthy to begin with, and then it stops, a few years down the line.

That is a different kind of machine learning model, though.

You can’t just plug in your pathology images into their multimodal generative models, and expect it to pop out something usable.

And those image recognition models aren’t something OpenAI is currently working on, iirc.

name recognition

Though that is debatable, given how hard that they’ve been trying to shed it for the “X” name for ages.

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Or even a market that let you just buy individual wallpapers as you want them, like how you used to be able to buy individual tracks in itunes instead of a whole album.

A subscription model is a bit silly.

It’s like that aeroplane company who had a chatbot serve answers, and then tried to weasel out of it when the chatbot informed the customer about a refund policy that didn’t actually exist.

If they’re presenting it as an authoritative source of information, then they should be held to the standard they claim.

Bit of A, bit of B?

Wouldn’t it still need overhead to chose those blocks and send them instead of the video? Especially if they’re also trying to do it in a way that prevents the user from just hitting the “skip 10 seconds” button like they might if it was served as part of the regular video.

I like how the company didn’t consider using standard software to do it, and then switch to the in-house system that they made later, instead of just having it done by hand instead.

At least in theory you could still do NLP from online sources, but the sheer amount of work necessary to ensure that you got the bots out makes it unfeasible.

Not just that, but the increasing number of sites blocking or having countermeasures against the tools they use also increases the amount of work/makes it harder.

Several years ago, it would have been easy and cheap to noodle up a quick Twitter or Reddit bot to churn through posts and spit out the posts on the other side. These days, you need to pay for that, and in some cases, pay quite a lot.

X (formerly known as Twitter), for example, wants to charge $100/month, and Reddit wants $0.24 per 100 API calls.

You can scrape, of course, but that risks getting you banned, if you’re not going to run into barriers. The website formerly known as Twitter no longer allows you to see parent tweets, nor replies if you’re not logged in, for example.

Its strange to think that the game is nearly a decade old.

It doesn’t feel that long ago when you’d see a bunch of people playing with it and marvelling at the realism/newly added voice recognition features.

In Voyager, he’s shown to have pips. In fact, switching him over to Command mode shows a deliberate animation of pips showing up on hid collar.

However, it is possible that this is something that only applied on the Voyager thanks to their excsptional circumstances, and regular Starfleet doesn’t recognise it as a “proper” rank.

• Can a self-aware hologram hold rank or a non-com position in Starfleet?

Technically, yes, in practice, it would be a bit more complicated. A lot of the Federation still has issues around recognising the personhood of inorganics, and a good many of them would hold the early Voyager attitude of seeing him as a regular hologram/tool that the Voyager got too attached to, like the Enterprise did with their Data.

• If so, how would the Doctor attaib it?

The regular way, in theory. The ranking system technically doesn’t change depending on what species you are, other than some minor twiddling to account for your species’ characteristics.

It would be silly to expect a species who can’t speak to give verbal commands, for example, or give them a crew who is not receptive to telepathy.

In practice, there’s a lot more complications, like how the crew of the Sutherland nearly mutinied against Data because they believed him to be a dispassionate computer weighing lives at data points.