This isn't an mRNA treatment. The m in mRNA stands for "messenger", not micro. mRNA covid vaccines don't mess with the genome anything like this treatment does, and indeed, this treatment is much more dangerous than any vaccine would be.
Don’t think I read the sequels. I have read other Gibson novels (Pattern Recognition, Agency, The Peripheral, and others I can’t think of right now) and liked them.
No, the user you replied to is correct. Accuracy is indeed a feature, and can be incrementally improved. "Predicting the next word" is indeed a mechanism that can be improved to return increasingly accurate results.
Infallibility is not a feature of any system that operates in the real world. You're arguing against a strawman.
I have been an artist since I was a child and I disagree with you. Some of my favorite works of human creativity have made use of AI, or been inspired by the field.
Yes, there will always be exceptions, especially at the beginning. But economically, human-only art will suffer in the long term as AI becomes more sophisticated and fewer people have the opportunity to make a living from art.
But one or two exceptions, especially on HN (where people are highly addicted to technology), does not make a case for AI.
I don't see what's missing from Claude's summary. Claude doesn't repeat the word "loom", but does explain that Dickens is comparing the appearance of the lamps to that of the sun.
My son read some of these books about a year ago. I'm sure a lot of the content was over his head, but he enjoyed the books enough to continue reading.
I'm expecting him to re-read the whole set at least twice.
(BTW if you're in the UK, you can often find the complete set of 10 books on eBay for £12 including delivery.)
I grew up in the 2000s-2010s with little restriction on internet access and don't regret one bit. Because of this I was able to make friends from all over the world (Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South America, though nobody from Africa) via social media, and self-teach myself programming, art, math, and whatever else interested me. We can't leave out the benefits of social media access from this conversation either.
Very different environment back then. The content was minimal, lower quality, less engaging and there were no sophisticated algorithms. It's been finely tuned to be addictive in the last 15 years and can suck users in for hours and keep them up all night with endless content streams and dopamine hits. I also grew up in the 2000s era and am not disillusioned to think myspace and Facebook were in the same universe as TikTok and Instagram of today. The negatives for kids far outweigh the positives at this point.
An automated dubbed translation service. Supports translation into English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. The other options on the market often have jarring audio artifacts and glitches, which Audiomatic avoids.
My friends and I are currently working on improving the voice quality and adding new features.
