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NO-AI
4y ago
They do have LIDAR. Any damage to the laser-transparent central part of the cylinder, a scratch or spray paint, renders it inoperative. The cost to replace a LIDAR unit is easily the revenue (not the profit) from 250 taxi trips. You can ima
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NO-AI
4y ago
Prediction: San Francisco's robotaxis (Waymo, Cruise) with their fragile, expensive and unprotected hardware, will be a major target of vandalism.
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Mob attacking Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco
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NO-AI
4y ago
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NO-AI
4y ago
Yes.
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NO-AI
4y ago
Many people here on Hacker News are realizing that a significant part of their hard-earned skills are now available to anyone for a few cents of compute time. Once these systems scale up to attention over long pieces of program text (instea
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NO-AI
4y ago
Why? See this earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31615770 This is the thin edge of the wedge. Just say no.
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NO-AI
4y ago
Quoting from Frank Herbert's Dune: “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”
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NO-AI
4y ago
Today's transformer networks are the first hints of a technology that will replace humans completely for all purposes. It's qualitatively different, like world-destroying atomic bombs versus the minor explosives that came before.
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4y ago
Visual artists have already been replaced. It won't be long before we have transformers over token trees containing millions of tokens. We've reached a point where we understand how to make the machine manipulate concepts. It'
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NO-AI
4y ago
Capitalism is a wonderful system. But when your mind has become a commodity your economic value will approach zero. I hope you're not expecting our capitalist society to coddle you when that day arrives. Perhaps you will do manual labo
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4y ago
I work with these systems all day, every day, and these new systems are qualitatively different. These new transformer systems have crossed a line and its easy to see how they will threaten human dignity. This technology crosses a line. It&
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4y ago
For example, if we as a society refuse to use self-driving cars, we can make the industry unprofitable. Society says, "No, this is not the kind of product we want" and capitalism works to starve the harmful industry.
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4y ago
Thanks. I added your phrase to my question.
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Ask HN: Viability of an anti-AI social movement?
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4y ago
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