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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ And it’s really cheap. Or 60,000 tokens.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. But Tan reasoned that “if the company just manufactured the player, it would not make a lot of money,” according to a 2005 article in the Straits Times.

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How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV

Clean Fleet Report

This article may contain affiliate links. Even a policy with cheap rates can provide some coverage in case of an emergency. How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV. Tips for Electric Cars To Navigate the Cold Stuff. Electric vehicles are becoming increasingly popular, but they can pose some challenges in the winter.

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

The article is a doozy of automotive ignorance. If Dan Kois wants us to live in a world where we all drive cheap, underpowered cars that are limited to 85 mph, he has that right. I could focus on Fox’s failure to do proper journalism, but that’s beyond our purview and has been covered extensively by journalists who cover the media.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Android running the dashboard means Google Assistant, Google Maps, Google Play Store, and more, are instantly available and work the way you already use them. Until now, it’s had no plug-in option.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning.”. In 1958, a New York Times article quoted Rosenblatt as saying that "the machine would be the first device to think as the human brain.". This article appears in the October 2021 print issue as "The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of AI.".

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Part of the pitch for a private digital currency could be offering people in these communities access to cheap, secure financial services. Google also has a huge base of both consumer and business users. This article appears in the December 2023 print issue as “Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currencies.”