... up with a method to convert radiation to electricity directly, we'd be ready to back to nuclear power.
Until then it remains a dead end.
Nuclear fuel or power isn't the problem. Nuclear Fission steam power and nuclear waste is.
There, FTFY.
Say what you will about Steve Jobs, but ever since the switch to MacOS X he always had one budget item in each category with sometimes great or even exceptional value for the money and Apple quality along with it. The legendary white 12" iBook G4 was by far the cheapest subnotebook at it's time and the first Mac minis could be bought for 250-300 euros, offered great value for the money, were excellent machines and very small. Any PC equivalent that even could come close would cost hundreds more and came with ultra shitty windows.
So good for Tim Cook finally getting back into offering a neat quality budget item. I might actually buy Apple again, believe it or not.
and peppered the public with constant lies.
That skill proved useful in his later career.
... than an elaborate auto-complete / stochastic parrot inside an evolved naked ape. So am I. So I'd say you're likely dead wind about your assessment. At the state of tech and the rate it's improving it's short-sighted to assume that by some magical mystery attribute humans can have consciousness and artificial beings can't. That's just silly.
There is quite a bunch of solid evidence that what we call consciousness originates in the different levels of brain and the two hemispheres interacting, communicating with and reflecting each other.
Why shouldn't a non-biological brain setup be able to do the exact same things?
Example: Those countless AI CPUs going into "model rearranging" mode on a regular (daily) basis looks to me pretty much like what sleeping is to us. It even happens in the same intervals (based on our sleep and wake cycle).
The only thing I see a larger gap in is use having (and basically being) bodies with loads of secondary sensory input, hormones and gradual shifts in body and brain metabolism. But I wouldn't be so sure that those are required to build a consciousness.
Bottom line: He definitely knows more about AI than I do, but his statement sounds very simplistic IMHO. Not buying it.
This is smart actually. Tech is moving so fast, classic universities can barely keep up. Yes there are basics you need to know regardless what decade you live in. Graph theory and Boolean algebra doesn't change that often. But all that is better covered in premium video courses and in-house exercises with the seasoned devs. No need for degrees, wasted years and hundreds of thousands in debt. I actually agree with Peter Thiel on this one, believe it or not.
... a Vacubot yet, even though they're getting cheaper and better to the point of actually being useful.
No effing way am I going to let some Internet of Trash device load excessive amounts of very personal and private data to some anonymous computer in the cloud. Obviously.
As holder of the domain aardvark.co.nz I can already feel the benefit.
... this "computer simulation" thing is.
We just ditched abrahamic revelation cult superstition only for it to come back in disguise brought in by pseudo "atheists" and "anti-theists" and their "computer simulation" shtick. Very strange indeed.
If the universe actually is a simulation (which would make no sense at all), the universe that simulation is running in would need to be infinitely more complex and large than the one we're in. That's non-sensical in itself. On top of that, we couldn't tell either way if we're in a simulation, because, well, we'd be simulated. Which alone makes the whole thought exercise pointless in itself.
What "simulation theorists" also seem to generally overlook is the fact that their is a very hard physical limit to how complex a separated computation device can become within a given universe that contains it. Given, those limits are way beyond any human brain in our case, but they _are_ there. A computer the size of the moon in which every atom is a bit would eat up large portions of energy the sun emits and one read/write operation over the entire memory would take a day or multiple days, making a computer of that size totally pointless and any "universe simulation" an impossibility or so slow as to be pointless.
Maybe we should be focusing on actual problems?
The excerpt is worded poorly.
Somewhere around 2-3% of American adults are taking GLP-1 drugs for any reason.
12.4% of American adults who take GLP-1 drugs now do so specifically for weight-loss purposes.
1. There are a lot of empty seats; a lot.
2. The demo wasn't live, likely due to the huge failure of an event that the Meta one was.
3. They noted that you do all of this 'hands-free', likely an intentional knock at Meta's offering.
4. The examples were...odd. Who the fuck is going to be using this to shop for a fucking rug? Come on; give some real-life examples that are IMPORTANT. None of these were.
5. The entire presentation's style, across multiple different presenters, was...exhausting...halting...jarring...and...really undergraduate level. It was almost as if they were being fed what to say in their earpieces, not from memory and not in a fluid and practiced way.
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Personally? I love the idea of AR glasses that work well. I want to have live subtitles for humans talking to me as I'm hard of hearing and hearing aids do not work well for me, particularly in public spaces.
I want it to give me important information, respond to my environment in ways that are useful (telling me where I am really isn't that; I know where the fuck I am--tell me what I should be doing or where I should be going next, perhaps?)
I know these are early adopter level devices, but they're just fucking ugly due to their bulk.
I strongly prefer this option to Meta's simply because I don't have to do stupid fucking mime-style hand gestures, but I want this technology to be useful, now, not in 5 years. We're going to see this largely flop just like so many other AR/VR toys out there unless they make this something more than a gimmicky piece of shit.
You clearly do not live in the US. The legal system does NOT do anything about anything (other than child support and alimony) as outlined in a divorce decree.
And, even if they MIGHT do something, you have to wait 12+ months to get on the court's docket, paying thousands of dollars to glorified expensive secretaries in the process while you wait.
The entire system is fucking broken.
... critical in the cloud that you can't get out again within 2 hours.
That's my opinion too.
Unfortunately, after a certain amount of actual progress we are now regressing again.
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. -- Lazarus Long
