Our family derives a lot of joy from stylized versions of our photos. For us, it is not a waste. If you do not derive anything positive from it, you will likely not use it, hence no energy wasted either. Your argument is objectively wrong.
Personal anecdote: I've asked Gemini 3 Pro to write a test for a function that depends on external DB data. It wrote a test that creates and deletes a table, it conveniently picked the exact production table name, didn't mock the DB interactions. Attempted to run the test immediately.
I would go further, and say we don't understand how next-token predictors work either. We understand the model structure, just as we do with the brain, but we don't have a complete map of the execution patterns, just as we do not with the brain.
Predicting the next token can be as trivial as a statistical lookup or as complex as executing a learned reasoning function.
My intuition suggests that my internal reasoning is not based on token sequences, but it would be impossible to convey the results of my reasoning without constructing a sequence of tokens for communication.
Have there been catastrophic failures of fission reactors in Germany built by Siemens?
Are you familiar with functional safety classification and how this affects the development of systems? Would you draw conclusions from the failure rate of Siemens vacuum cleaners to the company's capability of building fission reactors?
It would depend on whether she got the job for having a good voice or for having a voice that is associated with a famous person. Would her voice have the same value if it was not sounding like another famous person's voice? That's up to the courts to decide.
> There are ZERO settings exposed to the end user.
This thread is discussing GeckoView, which exposes extensive privacy settings.
There is a (hopefully growing) amount of apps based on GeckoView, which will make use and/or expose different variations of GeckoView settings to the user, depending on the purpose and target audience of the app.
You might disagree, but, for example, I consider the level of detail in privacy settings provided by Fenix (Nightly) to be a good balance between user control and comprehensibility.
> > GeckoView also exposes a WebExtension API
> again to the app.
Again, taking Fenix (Nightly) as an example, the GeckoView WebExtension API is used to provide a growing selection of add-ons, many of which are aimed at the privacy-conscious user, including uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript and Privacy Badger.