They will refuse and claim that AGI / Sentience has been reached with their model (it hasn't) and that destroying it would be akin to genocide (it won't be). We'll probably see a stunt where OpenAI ask ChatGPT to take the stand and try to get it to argue for its life.
Elon Musk's run for President after Trump is disqualified (yes, I know) means he has less time to deal with Twitter. A renegade band of Twitter engineers quietly builds in ActivityPub support in the hope of salvaging the remains of the userbase. Some Mastodon admins pre-emptively ban the whole server, but most of us are happy to see our old friends again.
BSky tries valiantly with its weird not-quite-crypto protocol, but the momentum will be behind ActivityPub. There will either be an official bridge, or most server will use an unofficial one. Some Mastodon admins pre-emptively ban the whole server, but most of us are happy to see our old friends again.
The Internet is now fast enough. There is nothing meaningful you can do with a gigabit connection at home that can't be done with a 500Mbps connection. Similarly, the max speeds for 5G are irrelevant when you're streaming TV or on a video-call.
But coverage matters. Under pressure from Starlink and OneWeb, the UK begins to build out a proper broadband network. The UK's new Labour government imposes a Universal Service Obligation on fibre providers - or some other trickery - to force them to build out rather than competing over the same set of over-saturated customers.
The same is broadly true of mobile. After the Three/Vodafone merger and the O2/Virgin merger, there will be a greater emphasis on diversifying their mobile networks rather than paying for multiple transceivers to cover an identical area. The coverage may be only 4G - but most people won't care as long as it's good enough for TikTok.
Yes, Project Kangaroo is back! The streaming giants will coalesce around a "Spotify" sort of model. There's only 24 hours in the day, so there's a limit to the amount of content a person can watch. The people who want to watch endless re-runs of cheap filler like Friends will subsidise those who only watch the latest blockbusters.
Perhaps there will be a "Pay £X to watch this specific show in 4K" or "Stream this series a week early for £Y" but - I hope - studios will realise they're interchangeable to the viewing public.
This open access will also give a creative outlet to weird indie auteurs who can grab a tiny slice of the long tail without selling their souls.
With Apple (reluctantly) embracing USB-C, we'll see even more medical and quasi-medical gadgets being released which can plug into a phone. I don't think we'll see a full-on Tricoder, but plenty of diagnostic tools, ultrasound wands, and urine-analysis devices.
Someone like Theranos (only less fraudulent) will release a crappy plastic gizmo which takes a sample of your saliva and which uses the power of your phone to check for 17 different diseases - including a specific type of cancer.
Maybe the false negative rate will terrible. Probably it will send doctors crazy. There will absolutely be lawsuits abound. But everyone will know someone who's brother's girlfriend's mum used it to save her life.
The world will get worse. Maybe the politician you like will get elected, but so will a bunch of bastards. Any gains in peace will be offset by other twunt somewhere starting a war to bolster their ego. Any gains we make in cleaning the climate will be undone when some influencer is paid to tell people to fire their guns at communistic solar panels. A butterfly will flap its wings in Tokyo and hurricane will displace a million people. The next pandemic has already started, but no one will want to wear nipple-shields and we'll all die.
#Mobilfunk-Monitoring der #Bundesnetzagentur: Der Ausbau der #5G-Netze ist 2023 stark vorangeschritten. Die Versorgung durch mindestens einen Netzbetreiber ist auf 90 % des Bundesgebietes angestiegen. Vor einem Jahr lag dieser Anteil noch bei rund 79 %. ▶️https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/995038
Wir haben das IT-Grundschutz-Profil zur Absicherung von #5G-Campusnetzen mit dem Betrieb durch ein externes Dienstleistungsunternehmen aktualisiert und auf das #ITGrundschutz-Kompendium 2023 angepasst.
Spent the last week “swatting” 5G interference in several markets. All were solved with a #5G filter and dish tweaks except one, where we are a couple of blocks away from two different cell sites and it was really bad on the Westwood One transponder 17. Credit John Joslin at DAWN Satellite with a hack he heard from another customer. Use foil tape to seal the flanges. We tried it, and it worked. Gained a full point in EbNo and zero errors since applying it. Remember when you were a kid and you put aluminum foil on the end of your TV rabbit ears? This might be from the same category, but it actually worked for us. (And yes, there were a few bolts missing when the pics were taken.)
Prof. Symeon Chatzinotas is conducting #research aiming at designing, emulating and testing new high-performance systems for the future of #mobile and satellite communications📡. #5g
Random question, but do any of you #game on mobile data?
If so, I'm intrigued on what technology you use for it (e.g. #3G UMTS, 3G HSPA+, #4G LTE, #5G NR), what games you play on it (e.g. Splatoon 3, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe), what your current carrier is (e.g. EE, vodafone UK), what your area is (e.g. West Midlands, England) and how your experience is like for it (e.g. good, bad).
I don't know whether I'll ever get back to making videos, but if I do, one of the ideas I had was making a video about gaming on 4G.
🚀 Als erster Standort in Süddeutschland verwandelt @stadtaugsburg vorhandene Straßenlampen in Mobilfunksendemasten & schafft Voraussetzungen für innovative #SmartCity-Anwendungen.
Diese 5G-Sendemasten im "Gewand" von Straßenlampen ergänzen die bereits bestehenden Dachantennen-Standorte & erweitern Kapazitätsanforderungen an Mobilfunknetze dort, wo sie dringendst benötigt werden. Bislang sind 2 der vorhandenen Straßenlampen umgebaut worden. Weitere Standorte stehen in Aussicht. 💡
Straßenlaternen werden in Augsburg zu Handymasten: Die Stadt Augsburg erlaubt Firma 5G Synergiewerk das Anbringen von Antennen an Straßenlaternen. So soll die Stadt ein leistungsfähiges 5G-Netz bekommen.
Après plusieurs années où tous les opérateurs étaient dans un mouchoir, #Orange prend la tête avec 8 287 sites, suivie par #SFR et #Bouygues Telecom qui sont au coude à coude (7 321 sites pour SFR et 7 178 pour Bouygues). #Free ferme la marche avec 5 432 sites opérationnels, soit 2 855 sites de moins qu'Orange.
Whoa. This is kind of a huge deal if it turns out to be true. Apple has been trying to leave Qualcomm for years and use another modem. It's always been the component they couldn't find a solution for. Signing a deal through 2030 would cement Qualcomm as the top solution in North America for mobile. 👀 https://www.gsmarena.com/report_apple_abandons_5g_modem_development-news-60749.php