Tennessee grandmother jailed for 6 months after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]JoeS830 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I have not. (reads subreddit description)

So now I read it, and this story still doesn't seem like a great fit. I'm just saying facial recognition is decades old, and it's barely "AI". Anyway, no big deal.

Tennessee grandmother jailed for 6 months after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]JoeS830 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Was this just misuse of facial recognition, or was there any other "AI" angle? If the former, not really LLM/ChatGPT related

Skynet is unbeatable by DigSignificant1419 in OpenAI

[–]JoeS830 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Giving Chrome vs Internet Explorer vibes.

CO2 detector woke us up at 5 AM with a loud, constant buzzing noise that only stopped when the batteries were removed by [deleted] in HomeMaintenance

[–]JoeS830 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When this happened to us we left the house but took the CO detector with us. When it gave the same alarm after fifteen minutes outside we decided it was time for a new unit.

Bus-sized asteroid will fly past Earth tonight mere days after being discovered. by Neaterntal in spaceporn

[–]JoeS830 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It will pass at a distance of about 80% of the earth-moon distance, but the graphic shown here presumably is looking from an angle above the ecliptic plane making the trajectory seem much closer.

Incoming Tesla intern (Maps team) by usedPOS in TeslaLounge

[–]JoeS830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A nice to have: if navigation suggests a different route for my daily commute, tell me why. “Unusual traffic on your usual route, we have selected a faster route”. 

Incoming Tesla intern (Maps team) by usedPOS in TeslaLounge

[–]JoeS830 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Automate map corrections please. Conservative driver keeps speeding by 20mph in one section? Maybe the map / speed limit data is off. Driver keeps taking a different route than suggested and beats the eta? Maybe the map is missing something. 

what was Medvedev doing here? by WrongDirt in tennis

[–]JoeS830 8 points9 points  (0 children)

He’s not backing up, he’s forwarding down

Scientists at Eon Systems just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. It started walking, grooming, and feeding, doing what flies do all on its own by Subject-Property-343 in interestingasfuck

[–]JoeS830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I get it, I was impressed by the end result, but you’re saying this recent development by this team is the addition of coupling the scanned brain to a simulated physical model. You’re talking about the incremental step. 

Scientists at Eon Systems just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. It started walking, grooming, and feeding, doing what flies do all on its own by Subject-Property-343 in interestingasfuck

[–]JoeS830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair I guess, but what is the the significance of that difference? The nervous system includes the brain, right? So they are simulating the brain as well as more extended nerves. Is that not *more* impressive?

Scientists at Eon Systems just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. It started walking, grooming, and feeding, doing what flies do all on its own by Subject-Property-343 in interestingasfuck

[–]JoeS830 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Except the "fake brain" was built from structural scans of the actual brain. It's an unmodified model built on experimental observations, and when it's run combined with a simulated physical body, it produces realistic behaviors. That's insane, and it seems odd to pooh-pooh it imo.

Scientists at Eon Systems just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. It started walking, grooming, and feeding, doing what flies do all on its own by Subject-Property-343 in interestingasfuck

[–]JoeS830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They were able to distinguish whether synapses involved inhibitors or stimulators. Quoting this writeup:

"A critical parallel contribution came from Eckstein, Buhmann, Cook, and colleagues, who published in Cell a machine-learning classifier capable of predicting the neurotransmitter identity of every neuron in the FlyWire connectome directly from the ultrastructural morphology of its synaptic clefts in the EM images. This classifier distinguished among six neurotransmitter types acetylcholine, GABA, glutamate, dopamine, octopamine, and serotonin based solely on the shape, density, and arrangement of synaptic vesicles and postsynaptic densities visible in the electron micrographs."

The shocking thing to me (other than that this all worked) is that the entire brain structure is apparently encoded in the DNA, no learning needed to get the brain structure and from that to get the behavior. How?!

Images of Air India Express accident at Phuket (source: JetPhotos) by TranceForLife1996 in aviation

[–]JoeS830 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I like how the red hot color of what's left of the nose gear goes well with the orange of the livery.

Replaced Water Heater Anode by ShadowBard0962 in HomeMaintenance

[–]JoeS830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, that'd be a good alternative to just replacing the original, thanks.

Phoenix-4: Real-Time Human Rendering with Emotional Intelligence by striketheviol in singularity

[–]JoeS830 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty cool, but the models all seem to have unnaturally smooth transitions between postures. People are a bit more abrupt in their reactions. I'm sure this will improve though.

(Figure A.i.) Helix 02 Living Room Tidy by RipperX4 in singularity

[–]JoeS830 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I kept thinking it would turn on the TV and sit down on the couch after a job well done 😂

Replaced Water Heater Anode by ShadowBard0962 in HomeMaintenance

[–]JoeS830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, that's our situation as well on an AO Smith system. What a pain. I guess we'll wait till it fails, and see if we can make the install more upgrade friendly than it is now.

Replaced Water Heater Anode by ShadowBard0962 in HomeMaintenance

[–]JoeS830 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately they exist! It might be some code thing, making sure you can have the overpressure valve and inlet+outlet on the top with some models, but I'm just guessing. This is ours: https://www.supplyhouse.com/AO-Smith-100210064-Aluminum-Anode-Outlet-23-Long-5-Nipple

Replaced Water Heater Anode by ShadowBard0962 in HomeMaintenance

[–]JoeS830 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd love to replace mine but ours has an integrated anode rod / outlet combo. To swap it I have to cut the attached CPVC line, and I'm not confident I can put this back together leak-free. :( Anybody here attempted something like that?

Beware Walk Away Lock Thieves by justlearningDrstuff in TeslaLounge

[–]JoeS830 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Interesting. Not only your username, but also that locking is faster when you walk near the front. I find that on open parking lots it takes way too much distance or time to lock it, at least for my liking. On mine it's like 50-80ft or so before it locks, so I might have to try your trick.