Agreed. I’m a big proponent of more buttons on devices. I think the tyranny of the touchscreen (which is especially noticeable on new cars in recent years) is an a misinterpretation of consumer trends that needs to be fixed ASAP. Not only do some physical features make devices and interfaces more intuitive to use, but…

The thing is, that’s not how “AI” works. It’s just machine learning, so it can only create based on the input it’s given. AI’s aren’t thinking critically and reinterpreting what they’ve consumed, they’re essentially just parroting back the information they’ve consumed. It’s essentially plagiarism. When you write a…

This is correct, not sure where the confusion is setting in. The article even mentions the bot spitting out sections “verbatim,” which is the legal issue here. 

While both OpenAI and Meta make mention that they do not train on copyrighted material... In an exhibit from the author’s lawsuit, the plaintiffs asked ChatGPT to recite excerpts from Silverman’s book The Bedwetter, to which it relayed passages from the memoir verbatim.

Jen, you aren’t as objective as you seem to wish Ethan would be. Calling him out as a fanboy makes you seem more like a fanboy yourself.

What Sony does isn’t relevant to this trial. 

Crazy how Zemeckis was one of the great American directors of the ‘80s and then he became obsessed with his CGI wax museums.

Yes! and I’d even include the old TV series Tales of the Gold Monkey!

Where the hell is Romancing the Stone (and its sequel)? As far as Indy imitators go, it’s not only the first out of the gate, but it was also very influential in its own right. Half the adventure movies on this list steals its its romance dynamic.

No Alan Quartermain or Romancing the Stone?

Its a family that's only special because of bloodlines and who used to be the figurehead of an empire that conquered and enslaved large portions of the world and whom still don't feel like saying sorry about it.  Also most of the members are over 70 and some were over 90.  Its the least shocking thing that they are…

The fact that there’s basically no way that Harry and Meghan could possibly produce interesting content means its pretty much entirely Spotify’s fault that they offered that much money to them without hammering out more concrete terms about how much content they would actually be producing. It’s not a surprise to…

this is a good point. Yoda doesn’t know who is and isn’t around. He knows about Ezra but that was, at that point, like a decade ago. Unless he was palling around with Ahsoka or Cal off-screen his assessment of how many Jedi there may or may not be is flawed.

Other Jedi could beat Vader in a fight. He wasn’t omnipotent and several jedi brought him to an inch of his life in a few occasions. Take Obi Wan for example.

You’re right tho, Luke was the only one who could help redeem Vader and that was the the hope part.

Luke being the last hope isn’t so much about Luke being a Jedi, it’s about him being a son and still being able to reach Vader on an emotional level that nobody else would be able to and bring him back to the light. Ahsoka, Obi Wan, and others could fight him to a standstill, but that’s not really changing anything.…

Broadly, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with caring about continuity, since that’s what enables more ambitious storytelling than a single feature can deliver (ie. serialised storytelling).

It’s weird to me how many people mistake a character saying something in-universe, for an immutable fact being established.

ok, but my point is that

Luke was still the last hope for the jedi. Of those that survived the purge, most of those that remained on the Jedi path died by the end of the OT. The remaining survivors like Ahsoka, Grogu, Cal, and this new character Baylon all turned their backs on continuing/reestablishing the Order. Yes, some of their…

Yoda also kind of lived on a mud ball of a planet and probably didn’t have much outside communications because he was just vibin’ and laying low. Dude probably just really didn’t know how many were really out there.