Posts by AVR 363 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Feb 2020
People do bother though. Whether it's just wanting free (now with a minor cost the user might have been paying anyway) pics made to order or an actual desire to victimise others, it's not going to go away because you personally don't see a use case.
& news outfits don't necessarily know everything immediately - it's less Chinese whispers/telephone game and more reacting to activists yelling at them repeatedly.
That'd catch a lot of games and educational programs in its net, not to mention Clippy and similar. None of which are LLMs, let alone AI. The amount of effort required, and the effective banning of unsupported old games and typing tutors or whatever, would be an unreasonable cost IMO.
According to a book I read (from before it was figured out that the oxygen released in the Viking experiments was from peroxides) it'd be hundreds of thousands of years to get enough oxygen to breathe on Mars with lichen alone. The book was trying to boost the idea of terraforming to be clear. The numbers are so huge that any amount of design work before starting is justified, imagine what the chance of ultimate success is without an incredibly solid plan.
Even with all the equipment to read them, old floppy disks may not actually be readable - my experience a couple of decades back was that time and humidity can have rendered them useless, with no data that can be extracted other than the faded labels on the outside.
As low as the original satellite at perigee anyway, assuming no secondary explosions or collisions. The fragments that go high experience drag only at one part of their orbit and should outlast those which experience drag for their entire orbit, though they will fall eventually. I don't know what 'eventually' means here, but figures like 'generations' for Kessler syndrome crop up. The cascade which is an alternate name for it suggests that secondary collisions with satellites in slightly higher orbits are expected.
Also seen (not at a uni) a reasonably effective system which did need regular maintenance but for which getting programmers or outside help was getting dificult - not just expensive, but plain hard to find at all. There are many reasons to move on. Less reasons to spend $16K per student though, that's fuckups or an over-specified replacement.
Okay, say they don't use the unreliable matches in evidence. That doesn't stop them guiding investigations or even using them to lean on suspects to get an admission of guilt. A fair few people will confess when leaned on hard enough even if they're not guilty of whatever they're accused of. It might all be used appropriately but history suggests otherwise, especially since it seems there's been a cover-up.
NZ's Green Party once sent an encouraging reply to a joke letter requesting regulation of the hazardous chemical dihydrogen monoxide. OTOH none of the other parties show much sign of respecting science or technical knowledge, and some of the Greens will do that.
Tech bros are not fond of competition, and Amazon has skin in this game - their Rufus AI shopping assistant as mentioned briefly in the article. Use of someone else's AI shopping assistant is money that's not going to Bezos, you can't expect him to tolerate that!
“We knew if we couldn’t open the crypto wallet, and if the alleged offender was sentenced, upon release he would leave prison a multi-millionaire – all from the profits of organised crime.”
If the concern was about police planting stuff then he could check what was there before getting access, maybe get a lawyer to witness that. It doesn't sound like they cracked it instantly.
Nah, the fee's still there and still 100K. The negotiate down bit is just that the secretary of homeland security can cancel the requirement for the fee paid to DHS. Once she says so, no fee! The opportunity for graft should be blatantly obvious. If it's somehow not something you can see, I'm sure Trump can.
Yeah, I'm wondering how much money Amazon has really committed to this and how much will only be forthcoming if the glorious new age of AI dawns and all the money taps open. Talk is cheap, making plans and 3D renders not that much more expensive, actual delivered nuclear power plants are many orders of magnitude more pricy.
And then there's false info. Like the AI which picked up the joke on Reddit about putting glue on pizza and didn't realise it was a joke, since current AIs can't. Or on the history side reading propaganda (ancient or modern) as fact.
For another thing there's picking up the wrong info and applying it. Maybe it'll give you some info about configuring a different router if it can't find anything for the one you're asking about and claim it as how to configure this one, which might work or might not. I've seen an AI do much the same sort of thing when asked about an obscure game.
30K satellites with a lifespan of 5 years implies about 16 dying a day when the constellation reaches a steady state. Not 5. The newest ones weigh about 2 tonnes each, so ~ 30 tonnes/day, assuming that doesn't change further. More than a rounding error, probably less than a disaster but I'm not actually an expert here. Just someone who can do a little basic math.
People running certain scams want to avoid those who might ask inconvenient questions before transferring money. Making silly mistakes early on tends to weed out those more than the gullible.
Hence here we have a person from Bain & Co suggesting that the way forward is ever more of the way that they admit hasn't worked so far. Only the majestically gullible would hire Bain to advise them on that way forward.
Oh, they had visas. Whether they're valid for the exact work being done is the question. B1 business visas have been used for this sort of work (setting up factory machines) before but their applicability under the law is unclear, they're supposed to be for businessmen coming in to cut deals and their staff. H1B visas would work, but that involves months of delays and a literal lottery.This would have been arranged by Hyundai not by the people doing the work.
In any case if this battery plant is to be used then they need these people - they're not available in America, at least in the number required. After this treatment (which was terrible, to be clear; the conditions in ICE jails are awful, there were insults flung by ICE bigots who apparently don't know the difference between North and South Korea, and attempts were made to pressure them into signing documents which criminalized them) they won't want to come back. Governor Kemp and President Trump both want the battery plant to work rather than moving it to Mexico so I expect there'll be some quiet deal made eventually. It won't help the near-term jobs figures for Georgia though.
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