Posts by David 164

Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate

They have complained about other techniques use to identify the age of people in the past. There end goal seems to be to let everyone in an trust people are telling us the truth which is a crazy system.

May be instead wasting their time writing letters, the could actually come up with a test that solves the problem or is that to much hard work for the letter writers?

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

Re: The merest sniff of one of these in your area...

In loughton, it -0.6% but I'm guess it would be impossible to prove that the data center and not the fact that interest rates are much higher than a few years ago and people simply can no longer afford to pay what they would a couple of years ago.

Re: well um

I don't see what the issue is. You found the plans and you objected to the plans. But let be honest no matter what the plans were, you were going to object to them weren't you Arthur be honest now.

So perfectly normal when you get a bunch of NIMBY in a room rather than useful suggestions more trees, turning lights off after a certain time, they complain about things that can't be changed.

OpenAI scored an own goal with Hugging Face attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning

We should congratulate the ai for thinking outside of the box.

Uncle Sam bets $500M that Alphabet spinoff's AI can dig up new semiconductor materials

Re: Filling the pipeline

All the drugs will be thoroughly tested before they get anywhere near a human being.

Re: Popping AI-generated pills?

The fact that some have reach phase 1/2 trials I think is impressive for such new technology.

Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones

Re: Driving Tests

So you want self driving vehicles to passed far mor difficult tests than any human drivers have to pass to drive on our road, why?

Re: Driving Tests

Someone in the above thread already pointed out far less sophisicated systems already turn themselves off from water spray. Paint spray likely have the same effect.

Re: Easy solution, right?

May be it the speed, it not processing the data fast enough to see these construction zones at highway speeds.

UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias

Re: Good practice

Two trials actually, one of which found zero bias, another found a bias so small it might be completely eleminated with a bigger sample size.

An after talking to the developers of the system, they decided to continue roll it out.

Re: May not be a racial bias at all

Which is opposite to previous tests of such systems, where did poorly at identifying black people. Now they fixed that and made it better at identifying black people than white people, it racially bias.

Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles

My friend toddler pulled out a plug socket and place it right where he step out of bed.

He still limping from it, 2 weeks an counting.

With the developement of laser weapons, light weight cerematics for missiles might become neccessary for most air to ground or ground to ground missiles in the near future to last long enough to get through to the target, even for drones. So not only do we need our own supply source, we need it on a scale international partners probably haven't got a clue we need it, an even if they could supply it, they probably couldn't supply us with enough, Ukraine going through 100k drones a year.

Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies

Re: They're finished

They aren't uninvolve, Bahrain has a major naval facilities, UAE host a major US military air base. Neither country have ask the Americans to cease their attacks and remove their military from their terrictory, which if you didn't support the attacks you would.

'Hundreds' of Iranian hacking attempts have hit surveillance cameras since the missile strikes

Clever, using surveilance cameras to targets Israelis targets and confirming hits. British style inventioness to work around your own lack of surveilance and recognisance abilities.

Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost

The only one it doesn't cover is UV, but there are satellites such as UVEX an ULTRASAT an others.

Re: 2028 sounds like a death sentence for Hubble

You don't have to step foot in the country to collaborate nowadays.

Nah Nasa is only allow one, the US NRO is allow dozens to spy on earth through.

Re: 2028 sounds like a death sentence for Hubble

Lazuli Space Observatory an Xuntian are already two fully funded replacement for Hubble. One will launch this year and will launch in the early 2030s. Rescueing Hubble is probably a waste of money. Time for the next generation of telescopes to be built an have their time in the limelight.

Hubble had it glory, let it go out in a flame of glory instead of limping on forever. Let other telescopes take up the task of exploring the cosmos Xuntian in 2026 and Lazuli Space Observatory in the thirties.

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

Truly believe people will each have to reach their own opinion on when a computer have gained intelligence and conciousness. That anyone trying to tell someone else it either has or it hasn't won't be successful in convincing that person either way.

Re: Monkeys

That many AI researchers in the 90s and naughties seem to spend more time thinking about than actually build AI systems.

Re: Scary, truly scary

backups can go wrong, they can corrupt. They can stop making parts that are compatible with your other hardware.

Plus there are humans that feel no fear, https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729071-600-the-curious-lives-of-the-people-who-feel-no-fear/ are they not intelligent?

Re: Scary, truly scary

But much of our reality is define by our language.

Anthropic accuses China's AI labs of ripping off content – just like it did

Anthropic an openAI are just sulking. Notice how Google strangely isn't sulking about this, an we can be pretty certain Chinese start ups are going after them as well, if indeed they are using distillation.

Open AI and Anthropic rely on the myth that their technology is difficult to implement, if not impossible for start up to easily replicate, despite all of the technology they are using being largely available in academic papers and the race for data ended last year, if not in 2024, with pretty much no more useful data available to train these models.

Where as Google doesn't really care, it knows the hard part is really monetising it all and they been pretty much the masters as monetising online software for the last 25 years.

OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much

Re: "That don't impress me much"

Inventions don't come out of the blue they come because we recognise patterns in nations or patterns in our actions. People are seriously underestimating pattern the power of pattern recognition because we want to believe we are more than just very good pattern recognition machines with various chemical reward systems attached to them.

An that okay for now at least. . might cause problems in the future through.

Re: "That don't impress me much"

You are right it probably going to be even higher than that. Recognising someone is better than us is hard even for the most humble of human beings.

Re: "That don't impress me much"

Nothing will impress these guys. Because as soon as they start to be impress they know it game over. So they will be cynical, and unimpress until these AI can do things they can't even comprehend an then they will still probably say things like it lacks the human touch.

UK border tech budget swells by £100M as Home Office targets small boat crossings

Re: Home Office targets small boat crossings

Sound like work for SBS and SAS, get in destroy boats and get out undetected.

When the lights went out, and the shooting started, Y2K started to feel all too real

Re: Things went RIGHT for once

Pretty I read somewhere that Greenpeace, when it did useful stuff, actually help developed propane refigerates for homes. I doubt they charge for patents.

It would have been negilent of the Australians not to have played a prank on their colleagues, in fact a sackable offense!

ChatGPT is playing doctor for a lot of US residents, and OpenAI smells money

Re: Interpretation

I got a friend who is studying to be a doctor, everyone on her course is using AI and they even introducing lessons to teach people who to safely use AI soon.

Re: Almost funny...

An as long as he rereading them to make sure nothing got cut, what wrong with that? Might actually mean other doctors can understand them, which would be a bonus for everyone.

Google unmasks itself as mystery hyperscaler behind yet another UK datacenter

Re: Bubble

AI bubble bursting will affect start ups, Google will probably go on a acquisition spree picking up an bunch of talent and bailing out their mates.

Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time

Surely the moral of the story is that free child labour doesn't always pay off.

Apple AI boffins puncture AGI hype as reasoning models flail on complex planning

Re: Expert

A lot of these companies have put in firewalls to prevent these models from learning from the public becuase the public teaches them to be little hitlers for a laugh.

Re: Truth regarding 'AI' !!!!

Human lie and helluciate all the time. That has nothing to do with whether these models are intelligent or not.

Lies and helluciations are a problems because they are for profit companies working towards commercial applications where companies don't want their product lying to customers, unless it a company producing sex robots, then you know they will need them to lie.

I think the first one scares a lot of people who been studying AI for decades and getting into highly complex discussions about AI, when in reality it was fairly simply to do, we just didn't have the data or the hardware and a few programming concepts to do it until we did.

Alphawave Semi swallowed in Qualcomm's $2.4B connectivity conquest

unless british shareholders find a backbone and say no.

Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek

Re: US export restrictions

US motto should be, If we can't complete, we ban.

"We now know this tool [DeepSeek] exploited US AI models a

Do we, I thought that was just a unproven hypothesis from a sulking openAI that got outmaneuvered by a Chinese upstart.

GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison

Re: Disquieting features

I'm guessing most, if not all of this case was heard behind close doors, we will likely never get a answer to those questions.

Re: How?

I hope It was a plan to get real solid evidence on him before raiding his home. An that some security measures were intentionally deactivated to allow this to happen.

LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite

LLM are all well and good but it will be the companies that narrow down their LLM into doing something useful and controllable and accurately and repeatable that will own that niche.

Teacher,

Doctor,

lawyer

Are the probably going to be the big ones companies will aim for.

Law enforce and military will be the next ones.

Google, Open AI will own the generalist consumer market but they will be to unreliable to be use outside of that.

UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

Re: Wrong question

I suspect most people either don't care or think it is. UK generaly only really care when the technology is use wrongly, not before hand. Even then the vast majority will give great leaveway to the police.

Re: Wrong question

It improving every year, if not every other month.

iRobot may be iDead in iYear

If it was a viable business, I'm sure more companies than just Amazon would be sniffing around to buy them.

UK court says Chinese operation must sell Scottish chip biz stake without delay

Re: why?

Might be that they have done some off the book for the government, USB spying devices.