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computing | 2 years ago | on: California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

I regularly see human drivers intentionally run red lights.

Not just the kind where they try to make a yellow that they clearly weren’t gonna make, but also they stop at a red light, wait to see if there’s cross traffic, and then intentionally run the red light.

computing | 2 years ago | on: Meta Quest 3

I'm sorry, but what about the Quest 3 on paper seems to you to be close to the Vision Pro?

computing | 2 years ago | on: Introducing Superalignment

This is about to breed a new generation of insufferable folks, who’ll introduce themselves as “I work at Superalignment” ala “I work at DeepMind” (no, you used to work ar Alphabet, and now you work at Google)

computing | 2 years ago | on: San Francisco may soon get 24/7 driverless cabs. City leaders are fuming

The SF dilemma:

- can’t own a car because expensive, no parking, will get broken into

- can’t use a bike because roads are dangerous for bikers and bike will get stolen if parked outside

- can’t use uber/lyft because expensive, companies abuse drivers

- can’t use public transport, because it doesn’t cover enough of the city, timetable unpredictable, can be dangerous or unpleasant

- can’t use self-driving cars, because they occasionally interfere with public services, are run by big tech

computing | 2 years ago | on: Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card interchange fee below 1%

Let's be 100% clear on this - nobody is forcing the merchants into accepting credit cards. In fact, many don't. They do fine as cash-only businesses.

The hard economic reality is that accepting credit cards increases your sales, presumably enough to make the interchange fees worth it.

At last, Afterpay, Affirm etc. charge 600 bps (6%) interchange for their 4 split payments offer. Again, no one forces merchants to accept these payment methods, but the ones that do clearly see the benefit to the top line resulting from higher conversions.

computing | 2 years ago | on: Google I/O 2023

image labeling, although even then they had some oopsies with classification in Google Photos

computing | 2 years ago | on: Google I/O 2023

In 2018 an obnoxious researcher working at a company known at the time as DeepMind told me (who was working in healthtech) that "AI in healthcare is a solved problem".

It's 2023 now. AI in healthcare is a rounding error and will likely stay that way for a decade or longer. Google blew a 7 year lead of being an AI-first company to a non-profit. DeepMind is now a team within Google, similar to Ads, Drive, and Shopping Express.

computing | 3 years ago | on: FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank

Libertarian, "small govt" VCs squealing for govt intervention... It would be funny if not for tens of thousands of people who might not receive their paycheck next week.
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