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Dave and Chris discuss Disney Plus adding more live channels, Facebook and wildfires, TPG’s acquisition of Dish Network, Google’s defense in anti-competitive conduct cases, , and more.
Bryan’s is ready to bust a gaming myth. This one’s been around for a while, but it’s time to set the record straight. Here’s Brian has for us today.
Dug, unfortunately you wont be able to connect your iPad to CarPlay. CarPlay is supported only by iPhones, but not by iPads.
If you happen to have any old iPhones laying around, surprisingly and to Apples credit CarPlay is supported on phones as old as the iPhone 5, a phone from 2012.
If you dont (because, why would you?), the easiest solution for you would really be to just use Android Auto with your S24. Thats a nice phone that would definitely be able to handle being made the source for the screen.
Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are virtually the same thing, youll have a hard time finding anything one can do that the other one cant and 3rd-party devices that can use one can usually use the other.
As a benefit, youre likely using your S24 for everything as it is, so if you connect it to your car the things you regularly use will be up-to-date. For example, your podcasts will be the ones you havent already listened to on the phone, the map will remember the places you looked up on the phone you use every day, etc.
JJ, honestly Ai is overhyped at the moment, so realistically the best case for Ai is that it becomes somewhat useful without costing too many jobs, using too many resources, or being used for too many scams and manipulation.
The current version of these Ai bots is not super useful, a good piece of advice is: before asking them about something you dont know, ask them about something youre an expert in. Youll see pretty quickly that a very large percentage of the responses are just wrong.
The best case is for that to improve so it can become a more reliable tool, but at the moment its hindered by the fact that it doesnt have context, so it doesnt know what it doesnt know.
You know that dipping a scalpel in drain cleaner probably doesnt improve the outcomes of a surgery because drain cleaner is corrosive, it just knows that drain cleaner and surgery appeared together in a number of articles so they must be linked.
What is called RAG in Ai, or retrieval-augmented generation, addresses that to an extent. Thats where you tell the model read these documents and give me answers only from these carefully vetted documents.
In theory that should mean that you give it a history book and ask it about the American Revolution, and it doesnt end up conflating it with the plot of a movie and telling you about the continental armys stealth bomber. In the real world results vary, but it gives the models less of a chance to hallucinate, and that makes them more useful at least.
Well have to see how things evolve. Today theres a good deal of hype and not a lot of genuinely useful functionality beyond write a blurb, summarize this, and make a generic image.
In time things may improve.
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