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Steve Jobs main contributions are: early Apple computers (made by Wozniak), iPhone, and of course Apple company as we know it. Steve Jobs was definitely part of the smartphone revolution, but to say that Jobs was somehow central in the "modern computing revolution" is a massive exaggeration...

Which researchers? Can you cite a research paper that shows that some computational problem in weather/climate or materials was done with quantum computers, and that computation could not have been very easily done with classical computers instead? No such thing exists. You are a victim of...

Quantum computers are not for everything. The only really credible application so far is factoring. Factoring is useful for breaking encryptions such as RSA. But not all encryption methods. And that's about it. There is a theoretical speed-up obtainable by Grove's algorithm for NP-complete...

99 per cent of quantum computing hype is just pure nonsense. The only real application quantum computers have is breaking some old encryption methods, which are becoming outdated and replaced by something quantum-proof. There is a lot of talk of quantum computing solving all kinds of hard...

What is the best way of calculating the "percentage" of reduction of the temperature? By using the Celsius, Kelvin, or Fahrenheit grade?

Hallucinations are not going to go away, because A) the training data will always be flawed and contain wrong and misleading "facts", or opinions that look like facts, B) you cannot decide "truth" by statistics ("most people seem to think so and that's why it is true"), C) and even if all the...

I myself am not interested in gaming, but it would be good if all CPU reviews would focus on CPU-GPU combinations, as well as display resolutions, that are most relevant for most potential buyers of that CPU. People are increasingly gaming with 4k monitors, and many reviews of "gaming CPUs"...

Hallucination is what kills most LLM applications, as there is no guarantee whatsoever that LLM-generated text or code is correct factually or otherwise. So it will always need humans, or complementary and completely different software technologies, for checking and correction. Not intelligent...

The issue is that these specialized architectures apply only to a minuscule fraction of all computation. Even inside AI. This has been tried for ages, multiple times, but coming up with a general-purpose architecture better than existing ones has so far turned out too difficult. I doubt there is...

"Faster" has not been the term used in comparing supercomputers in the last decades. It used to be, back then when Cray XMP or similar was much faster than mass-produced CPUs. Nowadays the most descriptive measure is simply the number of CPUs and GPUs (together with information of how capable...

That is the flawed thinking I was talking about. If a person can do X then that person can do Y does not mean that if a computer program can do X then a similar computer program can do Y. The mistake now is that LLM is "almost like human" because it can produce text that is often...

I know exactly how much AI is being used. The AI behind LLM and AI image generation is completely different from the AI in many other applications, including the AI used in robotics. AI was already "just about to" drive cars autonomously, but it did not happen, and the AI hype would have died if...

There is a very strong and completely unfounded belief in the IT industry that the same technologies that make it possible to generate images and text are going to solve a large number of actual real AI problems, which have not been solved so far, even partially. The thinking is, "if AI can...

There was a huge AI hype in the form of autonomous self-driving cars a couple of years ago. That hype is gone. Then game ChatGPT, and then suddenly AI was again about to do everything, although the only thing AI still does is generate interesting images and interesting text. What do people need...

Weird problem to solve. Instead of using these monitors with an impractically wide aspect ratio, why not get a monitor that is equally wide but taller? Of two monitors with physically the same width and equal number of pixels, the one that is taller and has more pixels in the Y direction is...