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by infoseek12 3y ago
Leaving aside the article to discuss the source for a moment. When did Wired become so antitech? There are good critical viewpoints but most of the articles they are putting out at this point read like bitter diatribes. Which is a shame bec
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by infoseek12 3y ago
Until I saw your comment I thought the article was broken I open the page for a split second, saw the 404, and hit the back button then started skimming the comments
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by infoseek12 3y ago
If we’re being really realistic, I don’t think there are any desert islands in existence today that are both habitable and wouldn’t be visiting is a five years time span.
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by infoseek12 3y ago
It would be a bit like recommending he read Finnegan’s Wake. I don’t think he’d get very much out of it without a lot of context and he is unlikely to find it an enjoyable experience. I think Delany can fairly be described as an acquired ta
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by infoseek12 3y ago
I haven’t given it much thought until just now but it really is surprising how terrible Googles image search is. There are so many images on the Internet yet the image search often fails to retrieve good examples even on straightforward sea
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by infoseek12 3y ago
I think you are taking too pessimistic a stance. For instance the new one-on-one chat feature is great, I’ve had some OnlyFans creators send me messages out the blue to tell me about what they’re up to and I’ve received info that will get m
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by infoseek12 3y ago
Adobe and Figma are two of the leading companies in that space. They seem to be integrating the new tech at a fairly rapid pace: Adobe - https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai.html Figma - https://www.fi
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by infoseek12 3y ago
A lot of diagram generating tools are starting to incorporate generative AI of some form. In some instances the UI probably won’t make it clear that underlying LLM technology is being used. I wonder if their graphics designers will need to
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by infoseek12 3y ago
One day I’d love to build a house with positive pressure and a glass topped courtyard. Designed correctly I think you could achieve very low pollution and CO2 levels even if the air outside is awful. The details get complicated though.
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by infoseek12 3y ago
After reading through the article I’m very impressed that these driverless cars have been able to perform so well in a complex urban environment. As the author says, “Technically, this ride was perfect. But I, along with city representative
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by infoseek12 3y ago
India has 1.4 billion people, of course some of them are black hats for hire. Perhaps India is a hotbed of cybercrime but this article is mostly anecdotes and nothing in it is evidence that the nation’s at all comparable to other hotspots o
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by infoseek12 3y ago
I think the reason is explained by this quote: “Companies should have insurance that covers the maintenance of devices should volunteers need to keep them beyond the end of a clinical trial” I don’t think she was “forced” to have it surgica
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by infoseek12 3y ago
No, I think code like what is used to for Tesla’s Autopilot is written to a much higher quality and highly tested. That is in fact my entire point.
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by infoseek12 3y ago
Software powers more than just your IDE, even cars that don’t drive themselves depend on computer code. So it is in fact exactly equivalent.
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by infoseek12 3y ago
It isn’t as though there isn’t an internal and governmental testing process in place to ensure a reasonable level of safety. I suppose what you’re saying is true, in the same sense that using any modern computer technology which has softwar
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by infoseek12 4y ago
I wonder if the benefits of having physical copies of books will outweigh the expense, difficulty, and risk/exposure of running a miniature version of Amazons logistics network.
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by infoseek12 4y ago
There is lots of machine learning baked in behind the scenes in nearly all their projects but there’s a gaping void when it comes to projects where emerging machine learning techniques take front and center. The kind of capabilities we are
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by infoseek12 4y ago
Definitely ML in products, Google has made very impressive contributions to ML research. Google’s backwardness in terms of product development is very obvious in regards to LLMs but I think it’s pretty much true across the entire ML board.
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by infoseek12 4y ago
Progress on machine learning at Google has been extremely slow relative to their potential capability. I wonder how much of that lethargy can be attributed Google employees who feel the same way as the author.
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by infoseek12 4y ago
I think ChatGPT plugins may be what solves this problems. Does IMDB have an API?
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by infoseek12 4y ago
In terms of product innovation, OpenAI is now like Google and Google is now like Xerox.
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by infoseek12 4y ago
Given how humorous the name’s become, I wonder if they regret calling themselves OpenAI.
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by infoseek12 4y ago
Cost estimates for novel nuclear designs have a track record of being all but worthless. I wish I could dismiss your pessimism but the flip side of the economics, that’s a large part of what makes this so difficult, is that if they do succe
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by infoseek12 4y ago
Solar and wind are great! I’m sure they’ll be a huge part of the future. However, there are places that don’t have good conditions for either and applications that they struggle with like providing large amounts of power for things like ref
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by infoseek12 4y ago
And incidentally some of it is entirely illegal but sense she is already facing extradition for a federal indictment - in for a penny, in for a pound.
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by infoseek12 4y ago
Surprisingly Hydro may actually be the source of power with the most direct deaths [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure ]. The deaths from the Banqiao dam failure alone dwarf the entire history of n
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by infoseek12 4y ago
We need to be very careful about medical big data and the privacy/ethics implications, but the benefits of this kind of medical research seem so compelling and the risks seem so nebulous.
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by infoseek12 4y ago
I'm sure machine learning has already been introduced in one way or another in almost all of Google's services. But the implementations are mostly in the backend and enhancements like better recommendations that don't jump ou
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by infoseek12 4y ago
Google has done incredible work on basic machine learning research that has enabled other individuals and organizations to do amazing things. In terms of actually implementing new machine learning technology, they've pretty much hobble
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by infoseek12 5y ago
I like Kim Stanley Robinson and Ministry for the Future has some interesting ideas but it reads a bit like a white paper disguised as a novel.

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