This whole scheme only works for urbanites already making enough to afford a long range EV. For 50% of the country they don't even make enough to afford a new car of any kind, EV or ICE. 60% can't afford an EV. A large percentage of this group live outside of the dense urban environment that practical for short range EVs. These people also make 3 or 4 trips a year well over 400 miles one way to visit family or vacation spots. The current EV market is out of reach and totally impractical for these people.

So how much of the Voyager craft are actually magnetic metals? I thought they were mostly aluminum and plastic with that gold record. None of that kind of thing would be picked by magnet fishing.

Just curious where you draw the line at Government controlling speech? The misinformation about sugar, cholesterol, GMOs and many many more things are pervasive online. So should Government shut them down? We were prevented, by Government interference, from publicly discussing the "Lab Leak Theory" on Twitter and Facebook. The evidence is pointing to that being the likely source of the pandemic. The Hunter Biden laptop story was actively suppressed by the government yet it was a real event and the contest of the laptop were truly his.

correction 3.19 micrograms not g

I may be misunderstanding but they say

"We assume a temperature of 25 C and a pressure of 1 atm when converting between true concentrations and molar mixing ratios, which yields the conversion 1 ppbv benzene = 3.19 g benzene m–3."

There tested upper bound of 12.5 micro grams would translate to about 0.004 PPMV which is well below the 1 PPM most safety orgs start to take notice and say you should do something.

Additionally there was no ventilation in these test and no real world conditions tested

Who cares if it can detect an AI generated paper. If the paper accurate, does it actually reference real papers that are also accurate? Do that instead.

"It might obey the laws of physics but there's no way they can wire up a billion individual components for a reasonable price."

We can wire up billions of individual transistors to make a computer chip. Computer chips are relatively cheap compared to their value. If this technology makes it into mass production in a competitive environment, then wiring up billions of them for a reasonable price will happen.

Every modern society wants more energy, and clean energy is even better. There is plenty of demand to foster a reasonably priced supply.

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." — M. de Voltaire

Just wait till they start defaulting on their loans. It'll make Silicon Valley Bank look like a profitable bank.

This stuff is moving fast, so it's not surprising you don't know about the Multimodal systems with eyes and output beyond text, mostly visual at this point. I would be surprised if Boston Dynamics has not already tested a LLM as the brains behind one of their bots. As for not being "actual intelligence". GPT-4 has already exhibited the understanding that it's being tested when various types of "intelligence" tests are applied. Whether this is truly an indication of intelligence is part of what they want to slow down the race to try and figure out.

By definition the best AI will dominate the market. Government regulation will do nothing. The systems are already showing that the copyright of ideas was always a fantasy. Don't get me wrong I'm a full on free market capitalist that loves private property but come on. A copyright on a math formula is kind of a crazy concept. If the FTC wants to do something crack down on handing out copyrights that promote monopolies.

Exactly. They didn't appear because some employee hat TikTok on their phone.

You are completely ignorant of how this works. Small Etsy makers are not getting payed because of this failure. Talk about little guys being screwed. https://www.techradar.com/news...

For most elected officials and those in Government service this is a fairly normal thought process. They truly believe they are bound by nothing and can do anything because they are the "Government" and they are here to protect you. This is the exact reason to limit the power of any Government the absolute minimum.

It's the same tactic used by presidents with Executive actions that are clearly unconstitutional. Do the clearly unconstitutional thing then force people to challenge it. In some cases you can't ever challenge it because no one has "standing". The Florida POS law would see a lot of people with "Standing" though.