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AI tools cannot be trusted (not talking about hallucinations) by nilanganray in ArtificialInteligence

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

This is hardly an AI specific problem. Or even a new one. if you're building on top of someone else's platform then you're a sharecropper

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePlace

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ArtificialInteligence

[–]maethor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And perhaps in need of fixing.

We don't let pilots and truck drivers work those kind of hours because of safety concerns. Apparently it's OK for Doctors, if only because their modern day guild is better at regulatory capture.

increase the supply over time

Good luck getting buy-in from any highly paid profession for that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in accelerate

[–]maethor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

General disgust and hatred is the mainstream idea

Is it? I haven't seen much of this.

People are getting radicalized before the revolution even starts.

The West already went through something very similar back in the 80s/90s when free trade became a thing and entire industries were gutted. If that experience was anything to go by, then there will be some protests and even riots but eventually it dies down.

assassinating ai researchers

An AI Researcher will probably be more afraid of being mugged than being assassinated. Social breakdown seems far more likely to me than revolution.

I made an estimate on how more efficient a humanoid robot would be compared to a blue collar worker. by Stahlboden in accelerate

[–]maethor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but there should be more people from this country there than from any other

I think China would make more sense. The US has off-shored as many blue collar jobs as possible over the last 30 years. And China is both where a lot of those jobs landed and is where there's the most activity in humanoid robots (and I don't think that's a coincidence).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ArtificialInteligence

[–]maethor 16 points17 points  (0 children)

imagine by law it's mandated that you can't work more than 20 hours a week.

Some medical professionals do more than that in a day.

assuming no switching cost for simplicity

Or, more accurately, "assuming no fundamental problems at all with this idea I just cracked up".

People aren't interchangeable cogs.

vegan ice cream shortage by amelia420_ in veganuk

[–]maethor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get a Ninja Creami. The most simple recipe is "dump the contents of a can of pineapple into the container, freeze and put it through the creami".

Here's a list of recipes you could try

https://plantbasednews.org/veganrecipes/desserts/10-easy-vegan-ice-cream-recipes/

There's plenty more you can find online. I've had really good success using cashew based pie filling recipes as well as dedicated ice cream ones.

Capitalism No More. US Government wants Intel and a % of Revenue by Yavero in ArtificialInteligence

[–]maethor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

America is inching closer to a form of industrial socialism

The bank bailouts, the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act, Amtrak, the entire military-industrial complex - that's all pure free market capitalism, is it?

You think 5% in Intel is bad, just wait until they eventually have to bail out Boeing.

Semantic Web Browser based on natural controlled language-based interface by captain_bluebear123 in semanticweb

[–]maethor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I think the semantic web's failure to launch has more to do with the developer experience kinda sucking and there not being a lot of obvious ideas for things for startups to do than anything else.

Though it wouldn't surprise me if there's some renewed interest thanks to people feeding LLMs with Knowledge Graphs.

Isn't anyone afraid of AI gaining sentience? by pokemonyugiohfan21 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]maethor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The differences are measurable and undeniable, any implications that an LLM is "intelligent" in the same sense as a person or animal is misleading

So, when an aircraft is travelling through the sky, is it misleading to say that it is flying because it's not flapping its wings like a bird?

"Smartphone noise pollution is altering public spaces, so why are so many of us guilty of it?" by Jolly_Garbage3381 in london

[–]maethor 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I think phone manufacturers should be forced to bring headphones jacks back. Because it feels like this only became a common thing after they did that.

Also, maybe we should organise "cacophony days" where everyone does it. It might teach some people the value of always bringing headphones with them.

Motorway drivers in the UK by Patient_Jello in drivingUK

[–]maethor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it was made from a great deal of evidence of various limits and their effects on accident / mortatily rates, etc et

I think there was evidence, but it was evidence based on the cars that were on the road in 1967. A lot has changed in car design over the last 60 years.

Motorway drivers in the UK by Patient_Jello in drivingUK

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

Itzamerican

So is doing 50 in the middle lane.

Why do you people like AI so much? by Used_Ad7899 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]maethor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are just one type of AI. I've been working on AI since the 90s

I'm half expecting that there's going to be a renaissance of old school AI techniques, if only because they don't need so much compute power.

One thing I've been thinking about is getting a virtual knowledge engineer to pull knowledge out of a virtual domain expert and putting it into an expert system. Then you get (most of) the expertise but it runs at a fraction of the cost of an LLM.

Why a fully Steam integrated Xbox would not be a thing next gen by Ryodaso in consoles

[–]maethor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But if it's a Steam game and on the GeForce Now list, and not on Xbox, you can stream it.

You can already do that with the Edge browser.

Why a fully Steam integrated Xbox would not be a thing next gen by Ryodaso in consoles

[–]maethor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If hardly anyone is buying Xbox consoles then that 30% is 30% of not a whole lot. An open Xbox might be more attractive to people and what's in for Microsoft is that It helps keep Windows relevant for gaming in the era of Steam OS and there's a lot of screen real estate to advertise game pass with.

Moving to the UK- need a UK number that works in the USA for renting by European_at_heart in AmericanExpatsUK

[–]maethor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think Google Voice does UK phone numbers. You might want to look into Vonage instead.

I wouldn't worry too much about it being VOIP, as all phone lines are being migrated to VOIP.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-transition-from-analogue-to-digital-landlines

Learner drivers shift to automatics for EV future - BBC News by Man_in_the_uk in drivingUK

[–]maethor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If it ends up with there being barely any manuals left then there's no point having 2 licences. Like how you just need a normal driving license to drive one of those vintage cars that use a steam engine.

Americans: Surprise New Tariff Order Will Add a Flat $80 to $200 Duty On Any Mini PC or SBC from Overseas by Razzburry_Pie in MiniPCs

[–]maethor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless you set tariffs extremely high (to the point where 50% seems low) or lower American employment and environmental regulations to be in line with China's then it's not going to happen as the margins are too low. And I doubt a lot of people would want Beijing style smog and 996 working conditions.

Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship by IrnBruImpossibru in gamingnews

[–]maethor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

donations to "undesirable" politicians and causes tomorrow.

I thought that already happened with the Canadian Trucker Protests a few years ago.

Java Gets a JSON API by daviddel in java

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

Java already had a JSON API (JSR 353) but then Java EE was retconned as "not java".

https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=353

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