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Comment Re:All this happens openly on THEIR servers (Score 1) 108

ChatGPT is an online service, if we held it to the standard that no person could utilize it to harm themselves or others it wouldn't be allowed to exist. The same as cars wouldn't exist if we decided that a car manufacturer is liable for every accident regardless of the user disregarding the terms of how they are supposed to use the car.

You don't use ChatGPT therefore you see no value in it. The rest of us do use it and want services like it to exist. You'd never ban cars, even though traffic accidents kill 40,000 people in the USA every year. If you care about protecting human life so much, how come you haven't banned vehicles?

Comment Zipline (Score 2) 51

Zipline's drone tech is a lot better and way quieter. The Zipline drone, which is already pretty quiet, stays over 300 feet above the drop site and reels the/ package down with a tether in an aerodynamic pod. No noisy drone landing and highly accurate package placement even when it's windy. Reference: https://www.zipline.com/techno...

Comment AI needs data (Score 1) 73

There isnâ(TM)t enough data to train on for robotics. They are going to have to create it, using humans. They are going to have to show how to do all the things humans can. AI needs millions of hours of driving videos just to figure out how to drive. Meanwhile any human (ok almost) can learn to do it with a few hours of training.

How is a plumbing or electrician or roofing robot going to get the data it needs. It will need thousands of hours of videos of the various permutations and possibilities that it can encounter.

Comment Humans will be needed (Score 1) 47

To give the AI domain knowledge many humans will be needed. Think of every subfield in the world .. from machinist to plumber. A robot will not be able to do any of those things with reliability without human training data, and tons of it. All kinds of scenarios need to be told it.

AI is still pretty stupid. A human can be shown something once and he can apply that in many situations.

Comment False (Score -1) 45

Automation increases number of jobs and also the things you can buy with that money. The thing that has fucked everyone over is real estate prices. And that's because building permits are hard to get. People are afraid that their home value will decline, so they block new building permits for the illusion that it sustains their own home price. That's an evil move (and btw I say that as a homeowner). It's also unnecessary, when more homes are in an area long term it increases the price of real estate in that area.

Anyway, my point is that everything is expensive because of the price of real estate. Robots will increase the number of jobs by increasing the number of products and services we have available. People will have jobs facilitating and managing robots or fleets of robots. The real way to wealth shall be to own robots, the same as owning a restaurant or a company with a bunch of employees. Since that will be taxed or the government may even own a percent of some companies (socialism?), even a $200 welfare or UBI check would buy you a lot of stuff.

Comment The Sun is fucked (Score 1) 30

We only have about 1 billion, maybe 2 billion at max years to figure out how to build a generational starship. That may seem like a long time, but it'll be right up on us in no time. You realize that with present day tech, it's basically impossible. We don't have the faintest idea of how to build a habitat in space. It's not even in the realm of imagination as to how to do it. We need to start funding it at a massive level.

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