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Comment Re:Fungus vs plant (Score 1) 25

It's kind of a suprising to me that it was a fungus and not a plant that developed this ability. After all, plants already feed on elecromagnetic radiation.

The chlorophyll in plants is finely tuned to absorb specific wavelengths of light. It already has a hard time with green light compared to blue light, and it's simply not going to work at all with radiation that has wavelengths that are orders of magnitude shorter. Chlorophyll acts like a little antenna that gets excited by certain light frequencies, but ionizing radiation would just blow the chlorophyll molecules apart and destroy them.

Taking advantage ionizing radiation is going to require a completely different mechanism than plant photosynthesis, just like you can't use glass lenses or parabolic mirrors to focus X rays or gamma rays. Plants probably have no more chance of having such a mechanism than fungi do.

Comment Re:Also, why can't ChatGPT control a robot? (Score 1) 107

Indeed. Hallucinations cannot be "turned off" in an LLM. At the same time, an LLM is not an intelligence with any reasonable definition of the term. It is also completely unsuitable to be used as an "agent", unless occasional completely wrong actions and a high level of vulnerability to attacks are not a problem. I do not see any practical scenarios where that would be the case, except as support for attackers. Attackers do not care if a high number of attack fail, they only care that some succeed.

Comment Re:Somebody asked what problem (Score 1) 45

No. The "problem" that LLMs are pushed as "being able to solve" is wages.

First, wages are not actually a problem. If you want a market, people need to be able to buy products. Second, LLMs have so far proven incapable and incompetent in anything that would have been a real killer. They will continue to do so.

Hence we will get (if the manage to bring down the cost massively, which is a big if) somewhat better search that occasionally returns total crap, cheap generation of low quality graphics and music and, maybe, some specialist LLMs that solve some actual problems, but nothing earth-shattering.

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