There’s Gemini nano which will run on phones locally, so I think we can have that soon enough

Altman is also into crypto, so it’s a double whammy

Both of you are right. Space junk is an issue (Kessler syndrome), but that’s for orbits which won’t degrade by themselves, starlink satellites are supposed to be low enough that at time of crash they should mostly crash towards the earth and burn in the atmosphere.

When the government bankrolls you, you’re not allowed to have fun.

It’s been known for over a year that they’re planning to replace it with YouTube music

He used the money from the former to launder his image

That was after it got bought IIRC, but it’s possible I’m misremembering.

That’s exactly what I read

From what I’ve read they didn’t pour any money directly, it’s all in the form of credit to use azure

That’s treating him like an idiot, he might know what Microsoft is thinking and maybe he has no problem going along with it

This is extend, embrace would be when they invested in OpenAI as a way to fund them.

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Second try:

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I did see Chrome users mention a delay (on lemmy) but I haven’t personally checked it out

YouTube didn’t have ads before it got bought IIRC, not that it would have lasted that way even if it was not bought

He’s not the guy who writes code, he’s a VC or management guy. You might say he has good ideas, as ChatGPT interface is attributed to him, but he didn’t make it.

Aah, in this case the board is non-profit, so in that context and given the origins of OpenAI as global good open source AI (though the open source part is gone, in part due to his actions). For actual details on what he’s done specifically, others have shared, but again most of that is in context of OpenAI for-profit arm being a subsidiary of the non-profit one is what makes it weird.

I assume it’s to resign from the board, which doesn’t mean he’ll leave the company entirely. Like they had Greg stay on board despite relieving him from the duties of president.

Do you need to when he’s gone to Microsoft as a reaction to all this?

Second best would be Google, but for him it’s Microsoft because he’s probably getting a sweetheart deal as being in control of his destiny (not really, but at least for a short while)

Google’s AI does give all the sources it used, at least in my experience, but it’s not trustworthy unless you check the links yourself