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  • If a company invests a large chunk of its money in tech, particularly tech R&D, I'd describe it as a tech company. I don't view that term as mutually exclusive with other things such as automotive manufacturing. To me this is as silly as someone saying "Apple is a phone manufacturer company, not a tech company" or "Amazon is a cloud service provider, not a video streaming company". Companies can be more than one thing.

    Again, none of what I'm saying is predicated on that tech being any good. I am well aware Tesla's software is often dogshit. I'm just talking in terms of where they direct their efforts.

  • Tesla has always been an AI company. They've had tons of machine learning going on in their cars basically as long as they've existed. What exactly is changing? Are they going to start trying to use generative models like GPTs in their cars?

    Edit: lol people really don't like that someone mentally categorizes stuff differently than they do. Sorry I've offended you all so deeply with my differing definition of "AI company"

  • There are lots of articles about how they make their search results worse on purpose for more profit. They alter search queries on the server side to give results for a search which is more aligned with an advertising partner. They inject AI into search results which can be wildly wrong.

  • I mostly prefer ebooks and audiobooks. If I am buying physical books I usually prefer paperback if it's something I intend to only read once or twice like a novel, and hardcover if it's something I expect to open a lot like a TTRPG manual or coffee table book.

  • I don't mind fast food kiosks, but I really hate self checkout at the grocery store. It's literally making me do the work someone else used to do for me of scanning and bagging items. It makes everything take longer. And if you fuck up even a tiny bit, it starts screaming that you are an idiot loud enough for the whole store to hear until an attendant comes to help.

  • Probably not, since Git is federated and decentralized. There are no git "accounts". Git asks for your name and email but those are basically meaningless unless the repository hosting platform does something with them like ties them to an account identity.

    You could maybe use the GitHub activity view by also mirroring your projects from elsewhere onto GH