All those medical professionals who have said it is best not to do anything but sleep/have sex in your bedroom must be screaming right now. As well as everyone who doesn't want to live in the office.
I couldn't sleep with someone sitting right there (making whatever noise). I couldn't work with someone sleeping under me either.
However, while I hate it for the work environment, it's a space saver for those who live in small apartments. Like all those room set ups in IKEA.
The phrasing of the article makes it sound like robots will be replacements for human companionship, which is probably nonsense in any near term like the ten year period quoted, but it could maybe get to the point of imitating a companion animal like a dog or a cat to alleviate abject loneliness and pester people to move around their house. (The Aibo dream can finally be realized in my lifetime!)
Maybe a robot conversation could fool an older person with dementia or something, but I would definitely worry about leaving anyone detached enough to be fooled into thinking a language model is a conversation unattended with one. And if you're not fooled then it's just a spiral.
There’s just so much wrong with this article. The whole website seems to be geared towards people who celebrate tech without understanding any if it. I.e.: tech bros.
Which is why I’d expect to see this article quoted on satire groups like: “did silicon valley reinvent the bus again?”.
In the case of excitons, negatively charged electrons (fermions) bind to positively charged “holes” (also fermions), resulting in their collective spins combining to form a whole integer, thus creating a bosonic particle.
How does an electron bind to a hole? What does that mean? I guess I need to know exactly what a hole is. How does an electron hole have spin?
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