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Gemini is natively multimodal, meaning that it can analyze the contents of a picture and answer questions about it, or create an image out of a text prompt. During a briefing on Tuesday, a Google executive uploaded a photo of some math homework in which the student had shown their calculations leading up to the final answer. Gemini was able to identify at which step in the student’s process they had gone awry, and explained their mistake and how to answer the question correctly.
Google Unveils Gemini
Casey Newton
Clout is the values-free currency of the always-online age—both a substitute for hard cash as well as a conduit to it. Clout is a calculus not of what you do, but of how much bulk you-ness there is in the world. You get clout by playing the victim. You get clout by victimizing others. This is something that is understood by the left and the right. If influence sways, clout squats, taking up space for its own sake.
This is what Nietzsche meant by the eternal return, not some metaphysical presence that animates the present through a will to reincarnation, but rather that we as a species are very good at falling back into similar patterns when historical conditions are not transcended or overcome, our social contradictions unresolved. Musk’s Nazi salute doesn’t confirm the Nazi thesis, but his ironic appropriation of a new way to trigger the libs produces meaning they will not be able to control, and which augers a future that could be even darker than it was last time.
The Meaning of Musk's Nazi Salute
Matthew Ellis
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