Elon Musk is on the stand, to continue the cross-examination from yesterday. If you’ve read Musk depositions or heard previous crosses, this kind of arguing and filibustering is pretty standard behavior. But I think this is the jury’s first encounter with it, and it’s hard to know how they’re going to take it.
We are still dealing with the pretrial motions about the boundaries on safety questions.
We are having an argument about which expert issues are going to be allowed. “We aren’t going to get into issues of catastrophe or extinction,” YGR says. Musk’s lawyers are not happy about this: “We all could die as the result of artificial intelligence.”
YGR has just sat down on the bench. Jury’s not here yet, so we are dealing with some motions and issues.
This crop of smart glasses is the most stylish, affordable, comfortable, and capable yet. They still don’t make sense.
Launched last year, Preferred Sources allows you to customize the outlets you see the most often in Google Search’s “top stories” section. Now, this feature is available in “all supported languages globally,” according to Google.
Users in the US have been able to shrink YouTube videos while they access other apps for some time now, but now Google is expanding the feature to more regions in the coming months. It’s only available for long-form, non-music content on Android and iOS.
Sure, you might not like Sam Altman much. But have you considered how you’d feel about him if your other option was a day spent with Elon Musk?
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To paraphrase John Mulaney: For years scientists have wondered “Can Sam Altman actually appear sympathetic and likeable to the average person?” And the answer is yes, as long as he is preceded by 5 hours of Elon Musk talking.
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