Google turns up a CNET article from 2007 (probably because eEye was "pumping press releases left and right"):[1]
> Researchers at eEye used a standard process of code auditing in discovering the vulnerabilities, [eEye CEO Ross] Brown added. He noted that Microsoft either did not do a 'good job' with its code auditing, or it may not have had enough people working on such a task.
I don't really get this culture of racing to find a bug in another company's product, then strutting about finding one (in Microsoft Publisher of all things) and throwing shade. I guess we should all be so lucky to have a company whose "standard process" is to pull a week of all nighters testing our product.
>If you're reading this, you've been in a coma for almost 20 years because of a car accident. We're trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope we're getting through. Please wake up.
Even if people wake up and "do something", govts will just tire us out. Similar to how online protests against reddit, (or on ground protests like occupy [X], and so on) and others failed. We have no option but to accept what is handed out to us.
Wake up and... do what exactly? Tell others to "wake up" ad nauseum? The whole "wake up, sheeple, you're being manipulated" is both correct and amusingly self-terminating.
Metacognition, for all its benefits, comes with the newfound sisyphean task of being unable to intentionally avoid thinking about a white elephant for an entire minute. "Don't be influenced by the ads/media/propaganda" works about as well.
So perhaps the best way to reduce manipulation is to find a way back to sleep sometimes. A sort of meta-meta-cognition, if you will. It's self-awareness all the way down.
Moat could be things like direct integration into Gmail (ask it to find your last 5 receipts from Amazon), Drive (chat with PDF), Slides (create images / flow charts), etc.
Not sure if their models are the moat. But they definitely have an opportunity from the productization perspective.
Have you tried the Gemini Gmail integration? I have that enabled in my GSuite account.
It's incredible how bad it is. I've seen it claim I've never received mail from a certain person, while the email was open right next to the chat widget. I've seen it tell me to use the standard search tool, when that wasn't suitable for the query. I've literally never had it find anything that wouldn't have been easier to find with the regular search.
I mean, it's a really obvious thing for them to do, I'm genuinely confused why they released it like that.
Yeah - The thing though is, you could build the same thing better in a day's work by using OpenAI's API, or Gemini's for that matter.
I wonder if there isn't a deeper, more worrying (for Google) reason behind that - that AI is killing their margin.
Google has always been about delivering top notch services, and winning by being able to do that cheaper than the competition.
It's "in their DNA" - everyone knows that using links to a website as a quality signal was a really good idea in the early days of Google, but what's a little less well known is that the true stroke of genius was the algorithmic efficiency of PageRank.
Similarly for GMail. Remember when it launched, 1 GB of free storage was just completely out of every competitor's league?
It may just be that this recipe of being smarter than everyone on algorithms and on datacenter operations might just not work anymore in the age of modern machine learning.
The problem with current crop of LLM models is that it makes for a great demo. I am also confident that you can build a working prototype for GMail, Outlook or any other surface. But I am equally confident it will be a massively different ballgame to role it out to a billion users. You'll run into a lot of edge cases and have to take care of a lot of adversarial scenarios as well.
Pretty sure that's the same issue Apple is running into as well, and why they have had to postpone rollouts.
wrong angle - most people aren't trying to cover their crime sprres, they know losing privacy is more likely to make you a victim. Could be robbery, but it could also be high hotel prices.
Good realease but the annoying part is they're very unclear about which types of models they are comparing.
They provide benchmark comparisons for the base models only and arena comparisons for instruct only?
Was that intentional?
Why would you ever do that?
This makes things unnecessary complicated imo and the only payoff is a short term win for google on paper.
Guess I'll just fully test it for my own tasks to know for sure
when trying to run on a mac it only plays in a very small window, how could this be configured?