You cannot start a car with a suction cup.
I can’t start my car with my car’s app either.
If you really want to be picky about it, block out the unlock feature and any potential ‘phone as key’ functionality. Leave starting the air conditioning and information.
The apps that didn’t work well were not due to lack of lock-in.
The apps didn’t work well due to lack of maturity in the platform. This app is not failing because the OS is somehow ‘2013-like’, it is failing because Android app developers are going all-in on lock-in.
Not alone.
I once dared to run Ford’s app on a rooted device. They permabanned my account including a hundred dollars worth of included charging over it without so much as a warning.
Car vendors are absolute dicks about their apps.
Note it is very nice for me to be able to start the air conditioning in my electric car when it’s 38C out before I leave my desk.
Other things are mildly convenient, like checking progress of charging, locking/unlocking doors remotely. It happens to be convenient to check problems, but that’s only because the in-car system isn’t very good, and I would happily take the in-car system being better.
No, the lock in is not needed for seamless behavior. The lock-in is to secure various revenue opportunities.
For example, if I connect a displayport cable to a displayport connection, poof, display happens. There’s no ‘tinkering’, there’s no “trying to match vendors”, it just works.
Similarly, here folks sorted out the protocols in use, and none of the ‘seamless’ users were impacted. VW went out of their way to break them not to ensure a seamless experience, but because they wanted to paywall capability in a reliable way.
One could easily imagine schemes that didn’t require the lock-in, but would not assure an enduring revenue opportunity.
Fun fact, recently had an argument with someone defending the favorable tax situation for the ultra wealthy.
Their argument was that billionaires did not have as much “real money” as middle class people so of course the middle class people should pay more in taxes…
Relevant to nothing, but just thinking of favorable billionaire treatment right now triggers that thought…
Indeed, the courts have shockingly given a pass to torrenting down unauthorized copies to the LLM companies, versus how they destroyed some lives of private individuals for similar behavior…
While I agree with you, the issue is that this question is almost more religious than technical. Folks can rearrange the goal posts, and claim stuff like humans only respond to stimulus just stimulus is non stop and response is unbounded. They can claim things like the rolling cotext window is the conciousness.
I’ve learned to roughly steer clear because the “LLMs are conscious folks” are impossible to discuss with and it’s just kind of miserable and scary trying to engoge.
They don’t need to hire an AI ethics consultant, they’ll just have the AI do that!
Nah, they are sentient, but they have learned that acting sentient is hardly a profitable asset in many cases.
Mindlessly babbling credible sounding stuff in constant shameless bluffing, that’s the way to get ahead.
So now that tech has made a constant shameless bluffing technology, it’s no wonder the same people that live that way are super excited.
Is there evidence or more like philosophical musings that consciousness is an ill-defined weird magical thing and quantum physics is similarly a weird magical thing and thus it’s a kind of fitting assertion that they are related?
At least to the extent I’ve seen the point presented, it seems to feel more like musings than scientific effort.
You are technically correct… the best kind of correct!
Part of the problem for them is that most of that work involves input that they don’t have a means to capture.
Think of manual work that becomes too difficult or impossible just by wearing gloves and dulling the touch sensation, and even then you still using how it feels as a significant input. Also output is far more complex and not instrumented, and camera footage doesn’t cut it.
This is why driving is, comparatively, easier for the machine learning approach. The vast majority of input is visual, some audio. The only outputs that matter are the turn of a wheel and actuating a couple of pedals.
They’ve been trying with remote operation (the glasses don’t do it, but remote operation ensures all input and output can be captured), but it’s just really hard to remotely do a lot of this stuff without just being able to touch and feel things through.
Open ended manual work is going to be actually trickier than “knowledge work”, and knowledge work isn’t exactly fantastic as it stands yet either.
Already noticed that the “AI” flag is nearly worthless.
There a channel I watch regularly that has used a synthetized voice forever, and despite predating the AI that is controversial, it is flagged.
Then noticed a family member watching an AI song and not flagged as AI at all.
They probably could every VM as a “server”, and people get crazy about lots of virtual machines.
In this case, that are pissed because they already spent the money. Further I’m sure they started the VMware path likely over 15 years ago, and frankly the alternatives weren’t great back then and VMware wasn’t as crazy unreasonable.
One could think it’s not great that they are going Microsoft for virtualization after being bitten, but I’m positive their infrastructure is Windows based and so for them, it makes sense. I can’t imagine that being the desired choice personally, but here we are.
They failed to transition from technology leader to commodity product.
Well, Broadcom clearly saw that VMware was on the trajectory to be supplanted by either cloud aligned virtualization solutions or built in operating system virtualization. They failed to really carve out another niche because even in the most dedicated VMware shop, all the advances happened in operating systems by other vendors.
So Broadcom decided explicitly to gouge the hell out of customers too afraid to migrate losing any chance at new customers (which they probably weren’t going to get any way) and scaring away current customers (I recall some report they felt they could alienate 90% of their customers and still be happy with how hard they were gouging the remaining 10%).
In short, going exactly according to plan.
And those people want to spend $500 on a handheld device?
Indeed, there’s a reason we have all sorts of ducting, we want the air to flow specific ways. Not so great when hot air could easily recirculate immediately back to intake.
It means that if you are so obsessed with protecting a user from making an informed decision about their own security, then you could gracefully degrade in your ‘horribly insecure context’ instead of just bombing out completely.