Correct. What a bunch of conspiracy nuts in a foreign country think about you is less relevant than what genocidal sociopaths in the same country think about you.

As for your point, you still fail to address the issue I'm raising. This is a multi layered, multi factoral problem. Just because you decide to say "but if we ignore all the other factors and focus just on this one, it totally makes it single factoral!" doesn't mean the problem actually becomes single factoral by doing so.

Sam Altman openly disagrees, and he knows more about the issue than both you and I.

Some people have a genuinely good voice to listen to. Some don't. Some people have a good singing voice. Some don't. Etc.

But then, some people were really, really good at being hunters. Best hunters in the tribe. Not so much use for that skill any more now that tools advanced and made that skill far less useful. And when it comes to singing, Hatsune Miku has been a thing for a while.

Doubtful, as full mapping of human genome that enables all these studies isn't all that old.

Arguably the "state of the art" would be something that is reasonably small but also highly capable. Because one of the problems we're seeing with "state of the art" is that it's extremely power hungry due to compute costs involved.

But if the goal is AGI, then it's "as complex as possible at all costs" of course. But if it's more about "AI assistant", then smaller model is likely better.

Video in the story shows a two seater F-16. So there was a pilot.

Its is. There's a video in the story, and it clearly shows a two seater variant of F-16.

F-16 is fully fly by wire. Pilot doesn't actually fly it, instead it tells computer what it wants plane to do, and computer flies it. If you have EW that fries electronics, all F-16 would be vulnerable.

The reason why you heard about those wedding processions getting striked is because it was rare.

When it's normal everyday occurrence, everyone stops caring within a week.

F-16 is fully fly by wire, so it's always controlled by a computer program. Which in turn however is controlled by a human.

In case of this F-16 based test bed however, there's no human giving direct inputs to the computer that is flying the aircraft. Instead another computer is taught the role that is traditionally given to human in F-16, and that computer gives instructions to the flight computers in F-16 that fly the aircraft.

Current dogfights are about missile slinging very far beyond visual range. Not many g forces involved. It's mainly about going very high and very fast so that missile gets as much energy as possible on launch, while radar can see as far away as possible from high up.

This is what we're seeing in Ukraine today. And why Ukrainian air force just doesn't do much air to air fight vs manned Russian planes. Their main air to air job is killing missiles and drones. Anything that involves a fight near the front line, it's usually a quick and dirty strike job against something important and time sensitive. Because Russians run a combat air patrol that is high and fast all the time, slinging long range missiles at them.

You're confusing public facing propaganda efforts with actual intent.

The main idea right now is not that, but a grouping of specialist cheap aircraft around a piloted "mothership" which instructs drones on what to do within the scope of their programming.

So you'll have a payload carrying drone, a radar drone, a jammer drone, an air defense drone and so on. These can operate in a very contested space, because there's no pilot. And pilot/commander is in a very stealthy aircraft behind all of them, data linked to all of them, giving them orders what to do.

So the idea is a networked swarm of cheap specialist aircraft in front of a piloted machine with a commander.

But since these machines are not able to be constantly data linked in that heavily contested environment, they will need some form of AI to make decisions on their own.

Same as the rest of the crypto I suspect. Alternative payment infrastructure. Stablecoins should ensure higher level of trust in the currency, supposedly.

I remain unconvinced it helps it in any meaningful way considering the sheer amount of scams with supposedly "stable" coins ending up anything but.

I'm sure there's a child somewhere that was hurt by your response. What is our duty as a society to ensure that you can never hurt children by posting on slashdot again?