Microsoft is getting ready to announce an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software maker has started testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles free without a Game Pass subscription.
"The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is currently conducting a case review into the death of renowned journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, at the suggestion of the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office following a request from his widow, Anita Thompson... The review process is expected to take an unspecified amount of time, and there is no firm deadline for its completion."
"We're all going to the same damn places, doing the same damn things people have been doing for fifty years, and we keep waiting for something to happen." He looked up. "You know—I'm a rebel, I took off—now where's my reward?"
I agree that everything is political in a sense, as Godard said. To not directly talk about politics does not mean something isn't political. But for me, the political thing is to protect empathy in a way. The last time I saw Joe Strummer, it was like five weeks before we lost him. He was in New York. He walked me back to my home from a restaurant because I had the flu or something. He stopped at my door and looked me in the eye, and I'll never, ever forget this. I repeated it recently. He said, "Jim, our job is to protect empathy at all costs, and to live groovy lives."
Larry's glasses were the property department's daily heart attack. I was only on the final two seasons and by that time, the glasses protocol was already established, but what I can say is that it is impossible to get the exact frames today. What I was told was that a few seasons before me, a producer went down the rabbit hole in search for the manufacturer of the exact pair of glasses. She was able to find someone in a small cabin in Switzerland to make four pairs, which Larry inherited. So every day, the prop department was in charge of his personal irreplaceable glasses. Remember, in some episodes we even had to drop them in a toilet or bend them!
The researchers demonstrated that hallucinations stemmed from statistical properties of language model training rather than implementation flaws. The study established that "the generative error rate is at least twice the IIV misclassification rate," where IIV referred to "Is-It-Valid" and demonstrated mathematical lower bounds that prove AI systems will always make a certain percentage of mistakes, no matter how much the technology improves.
In the mid-2010s, long before ominous phrases like "generative AI" and "the singularity" became part of public lexicon, San Francisco's burgeoning startup scene could be considered quaint. In 2015, some of the most exciting fledgling companies were flower delivery services, T-shirt design websites, and secondhand furniture marketplaces. The CEO of one workplace social media app, cheekily called Slack, even wore a bow tie like a 1930s marionette. While Facebook was already well on its way to becoming a national political scandal — and Uber was slowly muscling its way toward a multibillion-dollar valuation — the tech scene still had at least some quirkiness and diversity amid its relentless expansion.