Posts by erst 12 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2017
I think LLMs make for excellent interfaces to many of those services that you say you use your phone for. It can provide a predictive keyboard on steroids for your texting, read your mail and propose a plausible answer already before you type, create a query for the train database from your natural language query about when the next train will leave, …
If they were the ideal design, I’m sure we would have seen more such reactors than the light water reactors that we currently have.
I think the breeder reactors are riddled with complexity that makes them more difficult to operate safely. For example using molten sodium as coolant instead of water sounds much more dangerous. And the need to cycle fuel around in the reactor and out to the reprocessing plant more frequently than in an LWR creates opportunity for even more problems. Look up the history of the Monju reactor for examples of both of these.
And car makers also want to save every penny they can, so in fact most cars do not have a sensor in the driver seat - it’s assumed that it will be occupied by an adult when driving.
But I agree with the sentiment that Tesla could do more to prohibit misuse of their “Autopilot”. It’s currently in that danger zone where it can handle enough situations to build some trust, but it’s still bad enough to create many more accidents than a human driver if people actually trust it and relax with the needed supervision.
I’m pretty sure the LiDAR registered the woman crossing. It doesn’t rely on the head lights but has its own infrared laser, and it should get returns from a human sized object well beyond 50 m. If I were to guess, I would guess that it’s a logical error in the programming. They seem to be on a freeway or similar where pedestrians are very unlikely to be in the middle of the road, and then the detections were simply considered as noise, and disregarded.
Isn’t it odd that the police publishes the face of the driver like this, before any trial and sentencing...?
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