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  • Apple's wireless tech R&D offices in Irvine expand again

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    Not 630 miles from Apple Park, more like 400.  You had me wondering how tall California is lol.
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  • Samsung leaks that Apple is still working on an all-screen foldable MacBook Pro

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    puiz666 said:
    Yeah, please ruin the one Apple platform where typing is not a traumatic experience. 
    LOL your post reminded me of the New Zealand director Taika Waititi’s Oscar acceptance speech where he literally called out Apple for the lousy Butterfly keyboard.  
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  • Apple has been working on its own ChatGPT AI tool for some time

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    timmillea said:
    There was a time when Apple always led with new technologies - mostly a deeply unprofitable time. In latter years, they work in secret, study what the competition is doing, innovates on top, patents to the hill, then embarrasses the competition. 

    My first degree at Durham University starting 1992 was 50% in AI and 50% software engineering. Then no one I met outside the University had even heard of artificial intelligence nor believed in it when I explained what it was. Now AI is on the main broadcast news all the time. Even now, Nick Clegg of Meta was on the airwaves this morning explaining that the current generation of AI is simply predicting the next word or 'token' from big data. Back in 1992, Durham had a huge natural language processing system called LOLITA which was based on deep semantic understanding - an internal, language-independant representation based on semantic graphs. LOLITA read the Wall Street Journal everyday and could answer questions on it with intelligence, not parrot fashion. For my final year project, I worked on the dialogue module including 'emotion'. Then the LOLITA funding ended and that was the end of that. Had it been in the US, I can't help feeling that LOLITA would have morphed into one of the top corporates in the World. We don't support genius or foresight in the UK. 

    It is truly depressing that 30 years later, the current state of AI is still neural nets trained on mediocre data sets. 


    Back in 1968, 2001: A Space Odyssey was released based on fairly rigorous extrapolations of where tech would be 33 years later: HAL, moon bases, orbiting hotels with artificial gravity, and so on.  As John Lennon said, life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.  The Vietnam War and other factors delayed certain advancements / priorities.  No doubt we’ll have these within a few decades, and possibly a Mars base.
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  • Apple will use 3D printing to make Apple Watch Ultra mechanical parts

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    Whatever happened with Liquid Metal?  Besides the SIM card removal tool, has Apple employed it elsewhere?
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  • Apple playing chess, while others play checkers in march to $3 trillion

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    chutzpah said:
    cg27 said:
    techrider said:
    The difference between a million and a billion

    One million seconds = 11.5 days
    One billion seconds = 31.7 years
    One trillion seconds = 3,154 years

    For a person making a decent salary of $100K/year, making 10 million isn’t likely in their lifetime. 
    Nice example but you only got 1 out of 3 right:
    1 million seconds = 114 days
    1 trillion seconds = 31,709 years

    So the leap from billion to trillion seconds would make your point even more so.
    I’m pretty sure the original figure for days was correct.
    Indeed, and to clarify in same unit of years:

    1 M sec = 0.03 yrs  (= 11.5 days)
    1 B sec = 31.7 yrs
    1 T sec = 31,709 yrs


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