Or - as you might expect - they will offer a lower cost but same size device, with an edge to edge screen + a larger edge to edge screen device and that will increase their sales volume while slightly reducing average device profit.
That said, they sell 100 phones every minute of every day so there is going to be an upper bound somewhere.
In many cases itâ(TM)s very much like magic, that is exactly why there are many in our industry who are raising warnings - not about what AI is today, but what it has the capacity to become with ongoing advances of technology.
Itâ(TM)s important to recognize that the primary virtue of machine learning is that, in many knowledge domain, it can vastly outperform software hand crafted by humans.
We may write the âinterfaceâ(TM) and we may write the training software but, in many cases we donâ(TM)t even know how the âAIâ(TM) works. We just know that hundreds or thousands of weights somehow align to yield the right answer - like magic.
A $1 million first year compensation package is not that unusual, typically including 'the signing bonus' and RSU's that vest over a four year period. In some financial institutions - in NYC for example - a $1 million ongoing compensation package that includes a bonus would be considered 'pretty standard' for a high demand skill.
Just a $1 million base salary is definitely 'high' but given OpenAI is a non-profit research institution ( so no bonuses or equity ) it's doesn't seem like it's completely out there.
Tesla has a cult following - like 1990's Apple. It's purely psychological.
I beg to differ. Many Apple customers in the 90's were self identified 'apple people' and continued to use what was - at that time - a far inferior and far more expensive product.
I've been driving BMW's for decades, they are excellent vehicles. I now own Tesla S and I enjoy it far more then the BMW I previously owned.
The Tesla is not perfect by luxury car standards. There is many places where it can be improved. But that said, it is a great car and very competitive (luxury) car today and that is why people buy it.
My point was simply that most luxury cars donâ(TM)t get updates. I previously owned a similarly priced BMW and if it got any updates - ever - they were too subtle to notice.
They are a joy to drive. The acceleration is second to none. The handling is great, almost on par with the ( now deprecated ) hydraulic steering on BMWs's I used to drive. The cabin technology is great. I also really like the fact that the car gets free updates that actually improve it on a continuous basis!
I also feel extra pleased with my purchase because I get free EV charging in my office building, premium EV parking at most malls, and I just learned that Tesla will install a supercharger ( which I also get for free ) at my local mall. Heck I even get premium parking and free power at Ikea! ( I would get these with a lower cost EV but their really just a 'feel good' bonus. )
The autpilot is def misnamed. It's nowhere near autonomous. Just now it's more like a junior co-pilot. Would I like it to be better? Yes I sure would. But I will say that once you know it's limitations it is very helpful and - contrary to popular opinion - it does an excellent job in all weather conditions except heavy snow which covers the road. I'd say 70% of my daily commute is now handled by autopilot.
I own an Tesla S. I use autopilot daily, itâ(TM)s awesome.
However you do have to know what it is and what it is not capable of and you do have to be attentive because it can get itself into trouble ( today, for example, it didnâ(TM)t want to let a bus into my lane - the bus came in anyway )
All that said calling the thing autopilot is what gets Tesla in trouble. Itâ(TM)s more of a âco-pilotâ(TM)
"We were all about 'diesel' and we got caught with our pants down so we're just going to cede more customer to Tesla and other EV makers for a few more years until we get our act together. "
My Tesla S can do that. I was doing about 45 mph on one of those country streets when someone blew by a stop sign. The Tesla beeped, slammed on the brakes then sped up again after the car passed.
Actually, most self driving cars don't simply brake. I was in my Tesla S in the leftmost lane of a highway - doing about 65 mph - with auto steer enabled. A car drifted into the lane from the right. The Tesla did brake but it also swerved onto the shoulder to avoid the other car.
This all happened so fast I didn't really have time to react until after the fact. ( It's sort of an interesting question if it knew there was a shoulder to drive onto or if it would have driven me into a ditch if there wasn't one. )
You are right, there are serious problems with the electricity grid in Australia. The problem is fundamentally that there are tangible periods of insufficient energy, at which points the price of energy increases dramatically. Under normal circumstances, when ample energy is available, the prices are very low. However, the consumer pays aggregate energy costs which do include these periods of very high cost. As these periods of insufficient energy increase, so does the cost paid by the consumer.
The solution, needless to say, is an energy source which is available immediately at the point where these periods of insufficient energy occur. As it happens batteries are the perfect solution for this ( and are also the most cost effective because their much cheaper to deploy then new power plants ). The more batteries are added to the grid ( owned by more operators ) the more competitive the market will be and the overall costs of energy to consumers will decrease.
The motivation for going to Mars is rather limited. The two groups of people who would likely want to go to Mars ( at least initially ) are idealists / adventure seekers and the wealthy ( like Elon Musk ) who want a 'plan B' in the event of a catastrophe on earth ( be it natural or man made ). Since the former can't afford it I would wager the later would pay the former to ensure there is adequate laborers.
I envisage an 'estate' with a personal home of 'the gentry' surrounded by food generating biomes surrounded by much smaller homes or apartments of the 'serfs' who work the estate. The bulk of the time - when the gentry family is on earth - the surplus produce of the biomes would be sold off thereby providing additional food for a growing colony population. Only when significant numbers of the gentry relocated to Mars would there be any food constraints.
Ultimately the gentry who manufacture goods or consumables on Mars or just imported them effectively might relocate there to 'manage the business' which would further the colony growth.
Also if idealists / adventure seekers were in short supply you could easily get people in poorer countries to fill the role of serfs. I'd wager that if you offered $30k for a 3 year 'contract' to a person to work for you on Mars for 3 years ( food and lodging paid ) a great many people would sign up.
I am not sure where you live but in NYC a boot camp education ( 12 weeks ) and 0 commercial experience has a starting salary of $75k and 4 year salary trajectory of $100k+.
The US Army doesn't manufacture it's own guns. Indeed, there are other armies who own the same guns and compared to those guys the US Army is, well, like Apple compared to virtually every other company making smartphones.
No one really 'wanted' any biometric security in their devices, and yet Touch ID ( and similar technologies from other vendors ) is used my millions of people today. Face ID is rational evolution of Touch ID and will undoubtedly become pervasive in all Apple devices and no doubt in devices by other vendors because it's easier.
In most cases investors do now want the money back, especially traditional VC's. In one startup I did we established - after launch - that there wasn't the growth opportunity in the market that we expected. We were offered a price for the existing business that would have returned a high percentage of the initial investment back to the investor which we thought was a 'good thing to do'.
In response the VC said: 'If this didn't work figure out what will and then spend all but the last dollar trying to get there. The last dollar we'll roll into a join and smoke it' ( we're in WA so this would have been a legal activity ).
Iâ(TM)ve had a BMW almost my entire adult life. Most recent Iâ(TM)ve been driving 5 series cars. I currently have an X5 for hauling a horse trailer.
When my last 5 series started getting repair bills higher then itâ(TM)s value I replaced it with a Tesla S class. I can assure you that the build quality - exterior and interior is in on par. The handling is likewise on par. The cockpit electronics and acceleration on the Tesla are far superior to the 535xi I owned.
( also, bonus, for an extra $4500 I get a total of 8 years of warranty so I can keep the car for 5-6 years before upgrading again )
The US wants to let the North Korean's know that there will be 'fire and fury' ( and that the US really means it ) so they let their 'war plans' slip to put the fear of GOD into 'little rocket man'.
You have no experience with security do you? A trojan can pop-up a login dialog that only vaguely looks like authentication prompt and 9 times out of 10 a user will enter their credentials - on Windows, Mac OS X, whatever. A technically astute user (0.1%) will understand this should not happen in a given circumstance. A normal user ( 99.9% ) will just do what their told ( because their trained to take action X, when they see prompt Y ). Heck, I could probably create a prompt with a Gmail logo in a place totally unrelated to Gmail and I would still get Gmail credentials a high percentage of the time.
That said, iOS does make this worse. They have my biometrics but they still randomly show an iTunes/iCloud prompt, which is stupid.
Future ( 2018 ) versions of Apple devices will have the TrueDepth camera on the back for use with AR. You can disable the actual Face ID feature and still gain the benefits of TrueDepth.
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Or - as you might expect - they will offer a lower cost but same size device, with an edge to edge screen + a larger edge to edge screen device and that will increase their sales volume while slightly reducing average device profit.
That said, they sell 100 phones every minute of every day so there is going to be an upper bound somewhere.
In many cases itâ(TM)s very much like magic, that is exactly why there are many in our industry who are raising warnings - not about what AI is today, but what it has the capacity to become with ongoing advances of technology.
Itâ(TM)s important to recognize that the primary virtue of machine learning is that, in many knowledge domain, it can vastly outperform software hand crafted by humans.
We may write the âinterfaceâ(TM) and we may write the training software but, in many cases we donâ(TM)t even know how the âAIâ(TM) works. We just know that hundreds or thousands of weights somehow align to yield the right answer - like magic.
A $1 million first year compensation package is not that unusual, typically including 'the signing bonus' and RSU's that vest over a four year period. In some financial institutions - in NYC for example - a $1 million ongoing compensation package that includes a bonus would be considered 'pretty standard' for a high demand skill.
Just a $1 million base salary is definitely 'high' but given OpenAI is a non-profit research institution ( so no bonuses or equity ) it's doesn't seem like it's completely out there.
Tesla has a cult following - like 1990's Apple. It's purely psychological.
I beg to differ. Many Apple customers in the 90's were self identified 'apple people' and continued to use what was - at that time - a far inferior and far more expensive product.
I've been driving BMW's for decades, they are excellent vehicles. I now own Tesla S and I enjoy it far more then the BMW I previously owned.
The Tesla is not perfect by luxury car standards. There is many places where it can be improved. But that said, it is a great car and very competitive (luxury) car today and that is why people buy it.
When the car is doing 80 mph down a highway in a downpour I am certainly at full at attention.
When I am in stop and go traffic I confess I am usually not.
My point was simply that most luxury cars donâ(TM)t get updates. I previously owned a similarly priced BMW and if it got any updates - ever - they were too subtle to notice.
I happen to have a Tesla S and I do love the car.
They are a joy to drive. The acceleration is second to none. The handling is great, almost on par with the ( now deprecated ) hydraulic steering on BMWs's I used to drive. The cabin technology is great. I also really like the fact that the car gets free updates that actually improve it on a continuous basis!
I also feel extra pleased with my purchase because I get free EV charging in my office building, premium EV parking at most malls, and I just learned that Tesla will install a supercharger ( which I also get for free ) at my local mall. Heck I even get premium parking and free power at Ikea! ( I would get these with a lower cost EV but their really just a 'feel good' bonus. )
The autpilot is def misnamed. It's nowhere near autonomous. Just now it's more like a junior co-pilot. Would I like it to be better? Yes I sure would. But I will say that once you know it's limitations it is very helpful and - contrary to popular opinion - it does an excellent job in all weather conditions except heavy snow which covers the road. I'd say 70% of my daily commute is now handled by autopilot.
Yes, exactly! I have a great deal of Apple gear but for the life of me I canâ(TM)t figure out what to do with a HomePod.
- Itâ(TM)s great as a speak but as AirPlay 2 is delayed my Sonos system is far better.
- It canâ(TM)t be used as a general purpose assistant. It doesnâ(TM)t recognize individual speakers. It has poor security.
- Itâ(TM)s reasonable as a HomeKit assistant but that alone isnâ(TM)t adequate to justify itâ(TM)s counter space, never mind the price.
I expect, eventually, that Siri may improve and AirPlay 2 will get released making it more useful but weâ(TM)re not even close to that point.
I own an Tesla S. I use autopilot daily, itâ(TM)s awesome.
However you do have to know what it is and what it is not capable of and you do have to be attentive because it can get itself into trouble ( today, for example, it didnâ(TM)t want to let a bus into my lane - the bus came in anyway )
All that said calling the thing autopilot is what gets Tesla in trouble. Itâ(TM)s more of a âco-pilotâ(TM)
"We were all about 'diesel' and we got caught with our pants down so we're just going to cede more customer to Tesla and other EV makers for a few more years until we get our act together. "
My Tesla S can do that. I was doing about 45 mph on one of those country streets when someone blew by a stop sign. The Tesla beeped, slammed on the brakes then sped up again after the car passed.
Actually, most self driving cars don't simply brake. I was in my Tesla S in the leftmost lane of a highway - doing about 65 mph - with auto steer enabled. A car drifted into the lane from the right. The Tesla did brake but it also swerved onto the shoulder to avoid the other car.
This all happened so fast I didn't really have time to react until after the fact. ( It's sort of an interesting question if it knew there was a shoulder to drive onto or if it would have driven me into a ditch if there wasn't one. )
Because the traffic in NYC moves at 10 MPH during daylight hours.
You are right, there are serious problems with the electricity grid in Australia. The problem is fundamentally that there are tangible periods of insufficient energy, at which points the price of energy increases dramatically. Under normal circumstances, when ample energy is available, the prices are very low. However, the consumer pays aggregate energy costs which do include these periods of very high cost. As these periods of insufficient energy increase, so does the cost paid by the consumer.
The solution, needless to say, is an energy source which is available immediately at the point where these periods of insufficient energy occur. As it happens batteries are the perfect solution for this ( and are also the most cost effective because their much cheaper to deploy then new power plants ). The more batteries are added to the grid ( owned by more operators ) the more competitive the market will be and the overall costs of energy to consumers will decrease.
The motivation for going to Mars is rather limited. The two groups of people who would likely want to go to Mars ( at least initially ) are idealists / adventure seekers and the wealthy ( like Elon Musk ) who want a 'plan B' in the event of a catastrophe on earth ( be it natural or man made ). Since the former can't afford it I would wager the later would pay the former to ensure there is adequate laborers.
I envisage an 'estate' with a personal home of 'the gentry' surrounded by food generating biomes surrounded by much smaller homes or apartments of the 'serfs' who work the estate. The bulk of the time - when the gentry family is on earth - the surplus produce of the biomes would be sold off thereby providing additional food for a growing colony population. Only when significant numbers of the gentry relocated to Mars would there be any food constraints.
Ultimately the gentry who manufacture goods or consumables on Mars or just imported them effectively might relocate there to 'manage the business' which would further the colony growth.
Also if idealists / adventure seekers were in short supply you could easily get people in poorer countries to fill the role of serfs. I'd wager that if you offered $30k for a 3 year 'contract' to a person to work for you on Mars for 3 years ( food and lodging paid ) a great many people would sign up.
I am not sure where you live but in NYC a boot camp education ( 12 weeks ) and 0 commercial experience has a starting salary of $75k and 4 year salary trajectory of $100k+.
Madridâ(TM)s equivalent to UberBlack is a fleet of Teslaâ(TM)s so there is clearly a viable business model using Tesla for Uber.
The biggest issue this person cites is the messaging app. This is not an 'os-level problem' but it is a big deal on a phone.
The US Army doesn't manufacture it's own guns. Indeed, there are other armies who own the same guns and compared to those guys the US Army is, well, like Apple compared to virtually every other company making smartphones.
No one really 'wanted' any biometric security in their devices, and yet Touch ID ( and similar technologies from other vendors ) is used my millions of people today. Face ID is rational evolution of Touch ID and will undoubtedly become pervasive in all Apple devices and no doubt in devices by other vendors because it's easier.
In most cases investors do now want the money back, especially traditional VC's. In one startup I did we established - after launch - that there wasn't the growth opportunity in the market that we expected. We were offered a price for the existing business that would have returned a high percentage of the initial investment back to the investor which we thought was a 'good thing to do'.
In response the VC said: 'If this didn't work figure out what will and then spend all but the last dollar trying to get there. The last dollar we'll roll into a join and smoke it' ( we're in WA so this would have been a legal activity ).
Iâ(TM)ve had a BMW almost my entire adult life. Most recent Iâ(TM)ve been driving 5 series cars. I currently have an X5 for hauling a horse trailer.
When my last 5 series started getting repair bills higher then itâ(TM)s value I replaced it with a Tesla S class. I can assure you that the build quality - exterior and interior is in on par. The handling is likewise on par. The cockpit electronics and acceleration on the Tesla are far superior to the 535xi I owned.
( also, bonus, for an extra $4500 I get a total of 8 years of warranty so I can keep the car for 5-6 years before upgrading again )
The US wants to let the North Korean's know that there will be 'fire and fury' ( and that the US really means it ) so they let their 'war plans' slip to put the fear of GOD into 'little rocket man'.
You have no experience with security do you? A trojan can pop-up a login dialog that only vaguely looks like authentication prompt and 9 times out of 10 a user will enter their credentials - on Windows, Mac OS X, whatever. A technically astute user (0.1%) will understand this should not happen in a given circumstance. A normal user ( 99.9% ) will just do what their told ( because their trained to take action X, when they see prompt Y ). Heck, I could probably create a prompt with a Gmail logo in a place totally unrelated to Gmail and I would still get Gmail credentials a high percentage of the time.
That said, iOS does make this worse. They have my biometrics but they still randomly show an iTunes/iCloud prompt, which is stupid.
Future ( 2018 ) versions of Apple devices will have the TrueDepth camera on the back for use with AR. You can disable the actual Face ID feature and still gain the benefits of TrueDepth.