Kind of a disingenuous title. Ubisoft is a publisher, yes, but this is specifically about it's development studio in Montreal. Furthermore, these cuts are in IT, admin, and VFX, and not (so far) in development itself, and certainly not in Assassin's Creed dev teams, which is clearly their cash cow.
I tried having a conversation with ChatGPT. It's annoyingly predictable. Imagine the most boring, chronically helpful therapist who is always brimming with obvious advice, and that's what you get.
I get that people are lonely, but we're still much closer to ELIZA than Her.
Sure. Disney's main problem is streaming. It can't possibly be the quality of what they produce. I mean, it's not like they own half of the valuable entertainment IPs in the world, right?
According to Stephen Krashen's input hypothesis, compelling, comprehensible input is sufficient to acquire a language. That means input that you find interesting and that keeps you engaged, and which you can understand at least in part. That evolving sweet spot can indeed take you from complete newbie to fluency without ever speaking.
In my experience, though, being able to speak with other native speakers is a huge source of motivation and creates its own compelling input. So I wouldn't discount that.
I personally know someone who went from no English to being able to converse just by watching The Simpsons.
The clearest proof that the God of the New Testament doesn't exist is that He was unable to formulate the Bible in such a way that it wouldn't get co-opted by people with an agenda that runs contrary to His central message of tolerance and compassion.
There's a form of recency bias at play. We tend to compare recent middling movies with the ones we remember from the past, which tend to be the exceptions. But trust me, there were some very shitty blockbusters in prior decades as well.
Give it a decade or two, and people will remember the '20s as a decade of amazing blockbusters. I mean, heck, we had Barbie and Oppenheimer in theaters at the same time just a few weeks ago. The fact these two movies were released the same weekend is gonna blow people's minds in twenty years.
Egypt is really the elephant in the room for the Gaza Strip. It's an open-air prison, sure, but Egypt holds one of the jail cell doors shut on their side.
It also reminds me of crypto. Lots of people made money from it, but the reason why the technology persists has more to do with the perceived potential of it rather than its actual usefulness today.
There are a lot of challenges with AI (or, more accurately, LLMs) that may or may not be inherent to the technology. And if issues cannot be solved, we may end up with a flawed technology that, we are told, is just about to finally mature enough for mainstream use. Just like crypto.
To be fair, though, AI already has some very clear use cases, while crypto is still mostly looking for a problem to fix.
Just to add to this... When I first saw the trailer, I became completely obsessed with the film. I visited the website and read a bunch of short stories on there about the world of the Matrix.
And besides all that, when I finally sat down in theaters and watched Neo take the red pill, I had absolutely no clue what was happening. Their marketing material 100% avoided even spoiling the very premise of the film. All they did was build a mystery.
Johnny Depp was a toxic boyfriend and a chronic substance abuser. So was Heard, but the fact she's a dumpster fire of a human being doesn't make Depp a saint despite what the internet tried to tell you.
Just two shitty human beings who made each other miserable.
