aDyslecticCrow

This is the kind of silly engineering that makes me appreciate humans.

I need reminders sometimes that the world is filled with humans doing wierd things to share with one another.

Not everything is about economic value or practicality. Making silly shit can be the goal.

Planting 600 acres of a single genetically identical grass and blasting them with insecticide and herbicide... kinda already does as much damage one could possibly try to do.

A slighly taller variety of grass hardly matters.

Short grains are modern;

- allow modern machines to harvest it more easily

- move slighly more of the plants energy into the seed

- prevent wind damage. (small farms bordered with trees was more typical historically)

On the historical side;

- The long stalks allow the crop to be bundled and dried without the seed touching the ground.

- It makes the stalks themselves useful as a building material in walls, roofs, isolation, bedding.

- It makes for a good grip as the seeds are pulled form the stalks with an historical thresher.

In short, we didn't start breeding grains to be short until modern post industrial farming techniques. Short grain does provide better yield on industrial mono-crop farming. But would have been seen as worse historically.

But Mistral is French.

And they're still a decade away from general road use outside of vetted streets. Tesla is still struggling with pedestrian detection in rain tests.

A lawsuit revealing part of the camera analysis showed them using a classic CNN based object recognition network.

It's... complicated and a bit disputed. The trends match but the attempts at proper comparison study is not quite as conclusive (good social studies are difficult to make). It's certainly true that the trend is negative rather than positive.

What you're talking about are specific local policy changes at specific school and equating random trends to some sort of ... "kids these days" message.

If we're talking about the US; then it's simply the very healthy and functional economic inventive of students taking out lifetime loans to pay school tuition for schools that have not actually risen in quality or format in 40 years. The more students; the more money to the school board! Lower those bar riiight down!

Lazy kids these days amiright!

"optimize the internal combustion engine" that requires good quality combustion simulations and iterative optimization algorithms; and we've had that for longer than the internet; that kind of work was the earliest uses of military comptuers. Why would a text model be better at it?

Maths i a cool benchmark, but has the similar benefit to software; very easy to verify.

Does AI transform the world more than; - CAD software - Office software - Spreadsheet software - Finance software - Digital banking software - Computer graphics software - The entire US national fiber grid

Cause at the current rate and scope of data center investments; they have to transform the world more than... every other software system we've come up with until this points combined; to justify their cost.

And likewise; computers took a few decades to actually become a widespread economic force. Arguably the impact was quite small if we separate it from the internet (which of-course depends on computers).

Disruption in security is still software field though. The topic is "the rest of the economy".

> Some super-intelligent synthetic entity would have realtime data input from all over the environment, which sooner or later roots out any bias.

No, i meant this data. All data has bias based on how it's collected. All models (models as... Einsteins general relativity, not AI model) simplify reality with assumptions. You cannot make actions in our reality without making assumptions, simplifications or straight up guesses. Having decent guesses are the best we can hope.

> Biases lead to wrong actions.

Biases is the only way any action can be taken. Wrong actions can only be evaluated after the result has been observed; and even then the outcome of the alternative would remain unknown.

> that I self corrected later on in life, through reason and observation

That is incredibly naive. You have biases, i have biases. If we were not convinced by irrational arguments or suggestions then the advertisement industry would not exit. We have no reason to believe raising "intelligence" higher would help at all; intelligent people seem if anything more prone to finding false but convincing reasoning for their own established beleifs.

Everything is gray, only maths class have an answer sheet. Nobody agrees and will ever agree on how anything will ever be done; and the best we can do is argue until the majority are at-least pretending to agree.

Superintelligence will not change that.

You say that with quite an certainty but i don't think there is grounds for that at all.

Why would it correct any bias? how would it correct any bias? If data has a bias the analysis has a bias; correcting a bias against the data is itself by definition a bias.

"Super intelligence" (whatever we even define that as) will have whatever goals we give it; intentionally or not.

Sweden have by hour and more recently by 10 minute electricity billing. Companies use it in automatic load balancing, car chargers use it, and IoT pilled dads in their 50s make home assistant schedules based on it.

It's pretty good! The need came from the high variability of wind power. Less dystopian than ... data centers... urgh.

It's of course optional. If you optimise well you can beat the monthly or daily tables and save quite a bit. If you don't care; you pay whatever the grid operator estimates.