There's legitimacy to that. Taking a potentially dangerous drug under the supervision of a doctor who knows how things are supposed to work, what side effects look like, with drugs of consistent purity and dosage, has a lot of advantages over winging it with stuff made up random chinese chemicals and toilet bowl cleaner.

Unless you're talking about cocaine etc. brought to the penthouse by a personal assistant or something. Plenty of ultra-rich celebs have killed themselves that way.

How can it be that? Survival has never been more assured. I wonder if we'd be less depressed if we had to do physical labor for food and fight the neighboring tribe once in a while to punctuate life with more immediacy and urgency.

I do think what you're describing will be the future for the most part. We aren't going to be digging through layers of gui menus or doing keyword searches to try to find a setting. You'll just tell it what you want in plain speech and it will do it.

As for the demise of apps could there be a platform based on an AI that knows how to generate information displays and retrieve various information, and each 'app' is just set of prompts for the AI? Not sure. But I'm sure it will be tried.

I wonder if this threshold was ever surpassed when "electronic mail" was one of the main internet applications. I remember hearing that a large majority of emails were spam many years ago.

Is $1.68B for a battery a lot? Building a 1 GW natural gas plant costs $1â"1.5B. Then you pay $200M per year for gas, forever. Or $600M per year in Europe.

Of course, the energy to charge the battery isn't free either. But these numbers are getting to be in the same ballpark like never before.

No I think you're mistaken. The capacity is 800 MW, with a capacity factor of 40%-50%, which assuming 1 kW on average per home comes out to about 350,000 or 400,000 homes.

Hmmmm, does that mean my account is now a scarce resource that will skyrocket in value? I'll start the bidding at $50k.

The AI already do math outside the LLM. Ask ChatGPT what's the square root of 12345, it replies immediately with the right answer rather than trying to figure it out.

Some would argue the body-less entity would merely need a few volumes on physics to understand that.

No. Think about how, say, dogs understand physics. Obviously not via Newton's "laws" (or should I say, Newton's very useful mathematical approximations). Dogs navigate the world and 'understand' concepts like threats, prey, and mates well enough to persist in the world.

What LeCun is proposing is largely what self-driving cars already do. Waymo isn't driven by a Large "Language" Model that predicts word sequences based on what people wrote on reddit. It is based on a model of its physical interactions out in the world.

These big corpus of language and images that are scraped from the web are really just bootstrapping. AI's will be based more on their own experience as time passes. For example, call-center bots are presumably refined on all the data they collect interacting directly with people every day.

Bah, I really think this car is more about an aesthetic, 'how useful could we make a solar-powered car.' In that sense it is a sort of 'exotic' to be judged on the success of its somewhat arcane goal. Criticism this for being less practical than a battery car with the panels somewhere else is true, but I'm not going to get worked up about that when the best selling car in America is Ford pickup trucks.

asking chatgpt who to kill next

Color me dubious on that one. But how about using a deep net to recognize what kind of aircraft has a given radar signature? It's not "decision-making" as people think of it, but it really kinda is - and could raise the probability of an aircraft being deemed a target or not and ultimately shot at.

If you want to watch the batteries getting recycled, here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is for the US. But anyways car batteries are not like "e-waste" that just gets burned and picked over by kids in flip-flops far far away.

+1, the story doesn't mean anything without that information. Another realistic possibility that comes to mind is translation.

He certainly has written an article to support a trendy sentiment, to say the least.

I have some respect for Harper's and would expect an article there to have some insight. Is the summary above the whole thing? Is there anything more to it than pandering to anti tech-bros sentiment with selectively chosen anecdotes?

Let's stick with Kennedy's definition of the original moon race: "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."