Over the Lips, Through the Gums, Look Out Gamers, Here It Comes — Or So It Seems

On the other hand, wherever my eyes moved, something happened. When I opened Microsoft Word, a keyboard floated up. I was told to type using my eyes. I did—or, rather, D-i-d—moving my gaze from letter to letter. For someone used to touch-typing while sometimes ranging his eyes around the room, this immersion in the key-by-key process was a surreal ... See more

• What a modern LLM does during training is, essentially, very very quickly skim the textbook, the words just flying by , not spending much brain power on it.


• Rather, when you or I read that math textbook, we read a couple pages slowly; then have an internal monologue about the material in our heads and talk about it with a few study-buddies; read an

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humanity will soon begin to publish inventions dubbed "thunks," which he describes as "nuggets of thought that can interact with the 'reader' in a dynamic and multimedia way."

"There can still be a classic linear 'passive read mode,'" the developer added, "but that can be autogenerated based on the recipient's level of existing context and knowledge... See more

These features addressed the industrial design group’s worries about VR-induced alienation—they allowed other people in a room to interact and collaborate with a person wearing a headset in a way not possible with other VR gear. For years, the existence of such a display, internally code-named T429, was known only to a small circle of people even w... See more