Posts by john.w 127 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Mar 2008
Some more analysis from The New York Times which is quite damning and includes this statement from Ms. Toner.
The board’s mission was to ensure that the company creates artificial intelligence that “benefits all of humanity,” and if the company was destroyed, she said, that could be consistent with its mission.
A very interesting position for a company board member to take.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-board-fight.html
No, I am pointing out that when you have quotas they dictate appointments rather than ability or best fit for the company. Based on this article describing the board of six I would suggest that some of these individuals might not have been up to the task.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/18/heres-whos-on-openais-board-the-group-behind-sam-altmans-ouster.html
The cultures that have strong representation of women in STEM are the most repressive towards women and conversely those societies that support women to perform any role they choose have stereotypical gender divides. A Norwegian documentary from NRK 'Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox' (youtube) gives a very good analysis.
The only function of the EU bureaucracy is to make regulations that they do not understand. Large corporate lobby groups make sure their clients get the regulations to ensure new entrants have the largest barriers and then they cheat the system they designed. VW car emissions is just one of many examples. Another classic is the dual flush toilets that have lost more water than they ever saved.
Airwave is a point to point radio and a cellular radio and can use a vehicle based terminal as a repeater. The replacement only does one of these or rather will eventually, maybe. It also operates at a much lower frequency than 4G (hence poor data rates) but has much better coverage using fewer masts.
I remember two back to back keynotes at a GSM conference in Cannes, first by Douglas Adams followed by Richard Branson. You can guess which was good and which was bad.
The best line was when Douglas told the audience of phone manufacturers that he had invented the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a portable device with a tiny screen and terrible interface but he was a fiction writer, what was their excuse?
At least get the quote right its "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid i can t do that"
When developing an audio editing system in the 90's the head of the team was called Dave. For a bit of a laugh one of the software engineers programmed every key on a development system to play the clip.
They were simpler days, the mid 90's, our small company was raided by FAST following a tip off from a disgruntled ex employee. Plenty of windows machines in the lab and offices with software that might not have had a full set of licences but they only searched C: drives and we kept all the application software on the D:
Only thing found was as dodgy copy of Flight Sim on the CEO's PC, much to the relief of engineers and middle management.
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