It's partly just age. Remember, the boomers had quite a radical streak in the 1960's.

Where do they differ with respect to how he would manage google? (Not disagreeing, I know very little about Indian culture other than the history of the caste system, but then again we have a "history" of slavery, doesn't mean an American boss is a slave driver).

For a lot of people, and a lot of use cases, it's the right tool for the right job.

I value the ability to upload heart rate data to Garmin and the privacy concern is manageable. For the foreseeable future, any brain data they are able to read will be at about that level of precision - I suppose it can do a better of job of quantifying the quality of your sleep. But it's not reading your thoughts.

I can't see most of the article, but I can see in the picture that it's a vtol aircraft (with an airfoil) not a quadcopter. So, that helps.

Compared to a helicopter, with a turbine engine and a long blade, this would have a very different noise profile with 4 electric motors each spinning a propeller. Hopefully not as loud? Or at least not at the low, long-traveling "thud thud thud" frequency of a helo?

Anybody driving four to five hours without taking a half hour break is, in fact, doing it wrong, and actively endangering themselves, and others.

I agree with you, AI inbreeding is one of those fairly clever intuitive insights that somebody has and which subsequently gets way too much attention in the next few years.

I would add that while the first generation LLM's were trained on crowdsourced data from the web, as LLM's have more real-world applications they will learn from the data they observe in their own "first-person" experience. Like how Telsa uploads training data from cars using FSD (misnomer that it is).

I'm really surprised 8GB are still even made, but also that 8GB still costs a whole $20. Not having shopped for a computer for several years, 8GB was the standard low-end configuration back then. It seems progress has ceased.

Yeah it looks like it nearly leveled off about 2010. That's about when I remember 16 GB being a pretty decent / normal configuration.

https://aiimpacts.org/trends-i...

Made me curious if there aren't nations with no military.

enjoy

https://science.howstuffworks....

Interestingly Panama is one of them. After getting rid of Noriega they decided having a military was a bigger risk than not. No US military bases, either.

The federal government of the USA is, as well its role in the world, is of course a bit different.

Cool except it's teleoperated.

Still useful to show what it's physically capable of. And collect training data I presume.

It is interesting to see the gap between autonomous and teleoperated is still so big. (Not surprising I guess since otherwise the streets would be full of self-driving cars).

It is hard but they're working on it:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts...

(Tesla in this case)

The federal government does do a lot of things other than military.

To me it's a cool new robot.

It's interesting that they would start with intentionally inhuman motion for a humanoid robot, but it's a robot, not a nightmare.

Also please nobody bring up the 'uncanny valley.' As an insight it's played out, especially since this isn't a robot that is ever supposed to appear human.

I don't think the next 25 years will bring 120% real increase. The main story of the last 25 years is the world's largest nations played catch-up with what the rich were already doing, but that is petering out. And the global population pyramid is inverting, which while necessary, will start to kick in and cause a serious strain on economies everywhere. And this is before we even get to climate change.

Then again, maybe AI will discover cold fusion and cheap carbon sequestration.

I find it sadly funny that people will say 'human activity can't alter the climate, and besides, we know humans are altering the climate with cloud seeding, chem trails, and the HAARP weather control lasers!'