Beautiful

Are you very small, or is it a lot of HO track and engines?

I’m pretty sure it’s Whirlpool, but I think they repackage devices built by other companies.

I don’t want my fridge to play a melody, but it might help if it oinks.

Have you considered more trains?

I enjoy technology that feels like it has a little personality.

I’ve disabled notifications for everything except certain contacts. I was all about news notifications for a while, but that was obnoxious.

Every device should sing its own song. Maybe if you start them together they can form a chorus? Like some sort of appliance band.

Being able to plug in a notification device would be awesome.

Yes

I’m not sure where whimsy fits into that list, but my dishwasher plays a little victory tune when it finishes washing. It sounds like something from an early 90s jrpg. It makes me smile every time I hear it.

if you put the exact same person in the exact same situation (a perfect to the molecular level) they will behave differently.

I don’t consider that relevant to sentience. Structurally, biological systems change based on inputs. LLMs cannot. I consider that plasticity to be a prerequisite to sentience. Others may not.

We will undoubtedly see systems that can incorporate some kind of learning and mutability into LLMs. Re-evaluating after that would make sense.

I’m not talking about the US, I’m talking about US Magazine. I’ve seen other US publications use “sex” to refer to sex.

An LLM is a deterministic function that produces the same output for a given input - I’m using “deterministic” in the computer science sense. In practice, there is some output variability due to race conditions in pipelined processing and floating point arithmetic, that are allowable because they speed up computation. End users see variability because of pre-processing of the prompt and extra information LLM vendors inject when running the function, as well as how the outputs are selected.

I have a hard time considering something that has an immutable state as sentient, but since there’s no real definition of sentience, that’s a personal decision.

Agreed. It just seems like a weird editorial decision. Maybe it’s because I’m not a regular US reader, or I live in a different country, but it seems to slightly obfuscate what happened.

Seconded.

Looks like poorly drawn lines, but I can’t find it on their .com.

OnlyFans star Annie Knight is sharing an update amid her recent hospitalization after sleeping with 583 men in six hours.

It’s bizarre that US uses “sleeping with” to mean “had sex with”. Readers clearly understand, she uses the word “sex” in her quotes, but the magazine/site insists on using that bizarre euphemism.

It was no accident.