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Comment · 9 months ago
They should fight it. But why does he have to suck up to JD Vance and Musk I the same post? I kind of lost empathy at that point.
Comment · 9 months ago
There's some irony in that, sure. But at the heart of the matter is privacy. It's about what you input into the chat, not about the output.
Comment · 10 months ago
Yes! Whoever built the data warehouses and keeps the data pipelines running would seem to be the real heros of this story. I sure hope that group did not get gutted by DOGE.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's still a bubble if it happens that investors' expectations are unreasonably inflated. Most expect return on their invested capital.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is a very naive comment IMHO. There are very few governments in the word, if any, which could be trusted with something like that.
Comment · 1 year ago
A very cool game! I just wish I could look around while standing still. Well done.
Comment · 1 year ago
Only is not AI. It's LLM, diffusion models and what have you. The term AI became so overloaded that it means almost nothing these days. AGI is still hard to reach for, but it doesn't stop all kinds of spin artists from trying.
Comment · 1 year ago
Am I the only one thinking that it's time for something like an R2D2? Presumably it could get into some crammed spaces and thaw things out of needed. I'm sure it's a stupid idea, BTW, but a fun one )
Comment · 1 year ago
To be fair, we don't yet know how capitalism ends.
Comment · 1 year ago
It says "Leveraging the trace amounts of moisture in air, the broken-down PET is converted into monomers—the crucial building blocks for plastics. From there, the researchers envision the monomers could be recycled into new PET products or other, more valuable materials." I don't know if there's some enormous challenge hiding behind the word "envision", but I'm assuming it's a closed system until something useful comes out of the other end. The method just can't be a lot more expensive than to make the same thing/material from scratch or it's never going to gain traction.
Comment · 1 year ago
Just got an audiobook from Kindle. This legal development pushed me over the edge of curiosity. Very interesting.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would not write this.off as hysteria. It's important to consider motivation of potential actors. Every advanced rocket guidance system uses cameras to zero in on its targets during the final approach. You can't rely on GPS at that point. To do a good job you need to know what your target looks like and high resolution drone imagery helps a lot.

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