I'm sure grateful that you did that. I've been surprised by how little online discussion of this app I've seen. It's just extremely cool to be walking around with a real gnu/linux computer in my pocket, which cost nothing to add to the phone, and has no ads or in app purchases.
Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them and "escaping" becomes a near-impossible task.
It's as if OpenAI saw that as an instruction manual, I really don't like the direction they're taking it.
Likewise Ken Liu (the English translator for the Three Body Problem) has a really good short story "The Perfect Match" about the same concept, which you can read here: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-perfect-match... It was the first thing that came to mind when I read this announcement.
Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them. The challenge, then, is to actually operate independent of the technology and the company.
> K.C. is a director of TdeltaS Ltd., a company spun out of the University of Oxford to develop products based on the science of ketone bodies in human nutrition.
So, a specialist with ketones published a study related to ketones; which they stand to benefit monetarily from.*
That doesn't necessarily mean the research is suspect in itself - but there is a reason we need disclosures like this.
"Competing interests: The intellectual property covering the manufacture and use of the ketone ester is owned by the University of Oxford and the NIH and is licensed to TdeltaS Global Inc. K.C., as an inventor, receives a share of the royalties under the terms prescribed by each institution. K.C. is a director of TdeltaS Ltd., a company spun out of the University of Oxford to develop products based on the science of ketone bodies in human nutrition."
On the other hand, in the counterfactual case the reverse critique would also be possible: if he's so sure about his science claims, why doesn't he put his money where his mouth is?
