And so who does AI also sift other keywords and send that data to? It's once again a case of AI hell, the road paved with good intentions. If it can sift for scams, can it also use voice microtremors to detect someone's lying? Or signal law enforcement that a probable crime is about to take place? What are the actual boundaries here?

No one or thing should be listening in on my conversations. It's not paranoia, it's the basis for privacy. This is one of the more Big Brother-ish miss-applications of AI that I've heard of yet.

I don't like the idea, absent of a warrant, of anyone listening in on my calls, human or non-human. The concept is entirely invasive.

Instead, improve the methods of stanching scam call originators, through SIP control, and banning the issuance of US numbers to outside sources, e.g. Google Voice, etc.

Reverse tracerouting of calls would be a glorious invention.

Um, no.

AI presents results to queries based upon training data. There is randomness injected into various models for various reasons.

The guardrails on AI apps aren't uniform in any way, model-to-model, datasets to datasets. Feedback loops exist to correct output errors.

I believe it's possible to create a basic set of guardrail standards, and make them the basis for output expectation. That's largely ignored today. While the cats are away, the mice will play. This lack of discipline is the lubricant down the slippery slope.

You concept of alignment is largely correct, and we agree on your overview of OpenAI and greed instinct, the perfect shitstorm.

Although I disagree with your principle, what can be done is to place guardrails and dead-man switches on AI.

AI does what it's programmed to do, and in this case, it's going to invent good things and bad things. No one's built a morality guide for AI, because many want to use it to dominate, kill, and promote anti-civil results.

How does one build an industry-wide moral compass into AI? A common set of boundaries, the aforementioned guardrails. Treat mistakes as bugs and use feedback loops to training data to null out undesirable results. You can put a lid on AI, and we need to do this, lest the bad guys win.

No, but its signal along its tuned length indeed is. Read about Maxwell. Any piece of wire is an antenna.... until it isn't.

Yes, this is the summary so far, given the evidence. Different areas also have different atmospheric densities. It was quite a burst.

The tractor might've been just a big metal antenna with huge amounts of random goo charging it.

If you look at a pic of a CME, you'll see that it's asymmetrical, a random blob. The shape you see connotes it's irregular shape. It hurls through space not as a perfect ball, but instead, lands and charges the atmosphere at different rates.

The troposphere is a different shape depending on the time of day, and where the CME lands and charges the troposphere, and where the blob plops on earth. The variability rate is wide. The charge/discharge/absorption cycle is therefore variable as well, as though an irregularly shaped balloon of photonic goo smashes the earth.

The angle/velocity/mass of the CME all have bearing on what manifests in terms of problems on mother earth. Satellites largely survived because most we use are in LEO but the footprint of the blob was huge and wide and lots of it. Different parts of the world experienced different problems.

tl;dr is that satellites weren't affected so much as earth receivers in some areas were pretty spanked with wideband photonic goo.

The mass now absorbed/departed, communications are back to somewhat normal. Some grid equipment cooked. But the sats have fared well. This is the peak of the 11yr solar cycle, and so there may be more suntanning before it starts to wane.

Like any CME landing, it's going to be random. I had aurora in the Midwest of the US, but commercial broadcast bands were fine, OTR TV was fine.

My ham radio friends were bummin'.

But I wasn't in a tractor in the middle of a field, either.

You need the delta from three sats to make their receivers work. If one is weak, then exact positioning delta could trigger a software fault.

With all that noise.... acquiring and holding was probably the big problem because the aperiodicity in locking three was likely a problem. That's my guess....

Add noisy CANbus noise, leaky alternators, attachments picking up actual ground bounce from the EMF, and it's a cesspool of signal problems.

Uh, no.

There was broadband noise, pretty much DC-light+.

Tractors apparently have poor shielding.

All VHF+ signals are pretty much line of sight, with small amounts of multipath, which isn't corrected in GPS, unlike say, WiFi.

If someone is shouting in your ear, you can't hear whispers from far away. Shielding does a good job of reducing induced interference. Bad shielding/poor earth reference does not.

Where the ambient random field intensity is high, it deafens reception, the ability to discriminate signal from noise thus thwarted. There are great websites dedicated to electrical space weather, with historical data, if you want to purse the actual research. Ham radio, military, and other heavy communications users live by their forecasts.

The level of noise was fierce. The ham radio guys said that their usual communications bands were totally dead, with only transient levels of low-noise.

Any cheap freaking electronics were likely affected.

It has, therefore, everything to do with the solar flare and the atmospheric noise induced.

The satellites weren't affected, or you'd of heard the stories of thousands of Google Map deaths by leaps from a cliff, because Google Map lemmings will follow their maps hyper-religiously.

My job is not to make US cars more competitive. The fundamental problem with US automotive manufacturing is complex. We led at one time because we were leading the world in innovation.
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Except for Ford, the US didn't make cars for export markets. Quality and materials sourcing went to hell. When the oil companies took control, they couldn't adapt to the changing total cost of ownership.

They had little actual honor, preferring to stand behind the shield of branding. They didn't adapt to robotic manufacturing. They were fat and happy, not running scared, not innovating, while their tailpipes belched fumes that they wouldn't take responsibility for.

Now they need protection and tariffs. There is no shame, but there should be. If the Chinese can use innovation and inexpensive materials to win market share, good for them. They'll also be left with their own Gary Indiana, Pittsburgh Penn, Lordstowns, but the planet might breathe more easily, and Chinese laborers might have an actual middle class.

Protectionism is the last bastion of idiots.

This protects Tesla, and to a smaller extent, Rivian and Polestar. It also protects a whopping amount of dollars going overseas.

For my tastes, self-driving is useless, and won't be viable for a long time. Cut out the R&D for it, reduce the middle 8K display for a regular old speedometer, and the costs could be cut dramatically, even in domestic cars.

EVs are a mindset, but are so over-featured that their expense has become ludicrous. All this while the climate is melting. IMHO, Biden's protectionist play is a terrible idea. We need inexpensive, low-emissions vehicles. We need inexpensive solar.

Did China steal the designs? Who knows? Maybe. International intellectual property robbery is at an all-time high. AI isn't going to cure the problem.

All of your post is pure conjecture and has little basis in research or fact. You didn't read the order, state the background, only foisted your own reaction, which has no basis in fact.

The ISPs and telcos in the US have wide monopolies, and a history of both lying to the FCC, the general public, and their customers about their programs, plans, actual implementations, and user access. Perhaps reading the actual order might help you understand the rationale for why it was a net-neutral internet until it became politically popular to destroy one of the fundamental principles of a free Internet.

AI could..... develop the virus that kills us all, CRISPR us to death, lead us down the rosy path to our graves, learn how to avoid virus immunity, AI could.....

Calculus is wonderful math; what you do with the math defines your humanity. Some will use it for good, others for evil. Every day, calculus is used for pure evil-- death and destruction on large scales.

How humanity applies AI and calculus to humanity's actual benefit remains to be seen. Generally, AI is marketing bullshit, where a handful of useful models bring good to the world. Like calculus, we're all avoiding disciplining AI with direction where the output benefits humanity, and not someone's stock warrants.