Oh. I thought it could walk/run, which would have been 200% scarier (and totally overkill, surely).

Turns out that in action the thing looks more like Curiosity with a creepy furby on top of it.

Well, we need a defence against terminators.

Glasses with high correction don’t look that great with thin frames IMO. Even when you get thinner lenses, there still quite thick on the edges.

Thin frames also have kind of an uncanny effect when the lenses warp the size of your eyes a lot. Better have a bulky, obvious thing instead.

There is a distinct rift between what the AI companies are trying to sell and what they can actually do. Anthropic is among the worst, they basically communicate on how astonished they are about their AI every other week (including the mythos claims that have been vastly disproven).

They don’t “claim” it. They suggest and deliberately exploit people’s imagination. Because if they don’t nobody would be buying their shit.

Well, if all it takes for your super-intelligent thinking machine to be evil is just someone to suggest it might be evil, something doesn’t add up.

Some of them are even basic post-it functionality.

Also : these (valid) authorized applications should be completely offline solutions. Because privacy, and because you don’t want your aid failing at random times because it’s relying on some corporate server and network.

First : the game you’re thinking about is called “Pitfall!” (exclamation mark). There’s actually another game called just Pitfall. Because it’s a common word and there’s a bunch of completely unrelated works (games, movies and music) using it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall

Bonus round : look at all the shit Jonathan Blow adapted when he made “The Witness” in 2016:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_(disambiguation)

Jucika has roadrunner superpowers apparently.

Oh shit, they actually said that, “they” being the American department of justice.

“How dare those people try to apply laws to mega corporations?!!”

Notice how she somehow picked up a missing sleeve between panel 1 and 2. The outfit was just not complete without it.

I have a Quest headset, and I have no idea. But of course I don’t want anything to do wih their “metaverse”, so I would’t be able to see where most of their work went.

What I can tell you is the parts I did use, like the system UI and app store, are complete shit and never improved one bit through the years.

The app store is especially terrible for a company with those resources. It’s using the worst machine translation I ever saw (forget LLMs, this is a lot worse than 2010 google translate). It has terrible search and discoverability options for a store that has comparatively so little content.

Whenever I find something interesting in it, it’s also regularly failing transactions with a major bank in my country. I’m almost listing that as a pro since it discouraged me to get stuff from a headset-locked store that will be completely abandoned very soon.

It’s from Hieronymus Bosch, of course it has.

What are you talking about, we have high intelligence artificial humans

Have you seen the Nexus-6 replicants from Tyrell Corp? They’re models from 2019.

Yeah, roux is a French word for red, either an orange-y kind of red, as in red hair, or in that case, turning to a reddish color (often through heating). That’s what happens when you heat butter (or another kind of fat) in a roux.

I don’t think either rue or roux will be very appreciated when the lady gets back her shoe.

Everything that was not American had worldwide recognition, but there was a question on a random US football team’s facility.

I’m really curious how “AI” helped him golf, other than providing basic advice he could have found just as easily anywhere else.

He’s lucky his AI is not Mr Meeseeks from Rick & Morty.

I know I would. Got 4 too, but there’s 2 more I had guessed and didn’t know the English term for. However one name was autocorrected to the American spelling, and was counted as correct, so, nice.

And of course, one of them was about some kind of US sportsball thing.

So, about that first one. My first reaction was like, are you supposed to steal the girl’s shoe and keep it? Or maybe just “borrow” it and stealthily get it back to her after you’re done infusing it with bits of love shrubs?

But then I went to check what kind of plant rue is. Turns out it’s generally quite toxic and any part of the plant may cause ugly skin reactions just on contact.

That kind.

Magic!

Unfortunately soon everybody will be like “no you aren’t, nobody can afford a real desktop computer anymore, I know you have a phone.”