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Comment Re:Self-reliance (Score 1) 26

They know they U.S.A. Is not reliable anymore.

It's not about the USA. It is not about Trump. It is not about you. Try to not make every single situation America-centric, you self-centered twat.

A minority in Japan really really wants nuclear weapons. The majority doesn't. By "leaving the door open" she is able to appease the minority while not being rejected by the majority. Japanese politics is full of double-speak of this type. If you turned off your American-centric worldview, you might know this. Again: not everything is about you.

Comment Re:Big techs' "browser problem" (Score 1) 19

This is like the little red hen here, but KDE and Mozilla did all the initial hard work, and Apple, Brave, Google, Microsoft and Opera hijacked it all to add advertising and tracking, with security holes that are now being ultra-exposed by new AI vulnerability finders.

This is worth repeating. In addition, Google pushed people hard to install Chrome by nagging you every time you visited one of their websites.

Comment Re:A flattening curve (Score 1) 28

AI is, and always has been, exclusively nothing but exponentially-increasing requirements for logarithmically-plateauing results.

I was going to say this is way too general, and AI involves many algorithms that are not LLMs.

Then I started thinking through the algorithms of the past, and many of them have indeed shown great promise in the beginning, then exponentially-increasing requirements.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 28

Current top models are already undertrained by multiple orders of magnitude vs their number of parameters. Not for lack of will or money, but for lack of data

Because of bureaucracy. Individuals all up and down the hierarchy are trying to meet arbitrary metrics set by someone who doesn't understand the situation. The ones who meet the metrics get promoted, even if the metrics make no sense.

Of course, there are smart scientists in China who try to do good research, but as is true everywhere, bureaucracy is a hindrance.

Comment Re:Truly radical, or by accepted dogma? (Score 1) 104

you ignoring the part where reports say things like "if confirmed, this result means..." or "According to senior scientist x, further work is needed to see if this conclusion holds up."

That is too optimistic on the listening.

A lot of people out there only heard "stay six feet away from people" and logicked, "What, a disease can only travel six feet then it drops dead?" No scientist said anything remotely close to that, but that is the reasoning people ended up with because they weren't listening at all.

Comment Re:Suggests abiogenesis is easy (Score 1) 104

But if not that, it'll be nukes or biotech [slashdot.org].

I was thinking about the biotech, and creating a disease that will kill a bunch of people is easy enough that it will almost certainly happen.

On the other hand, creating a disease that will kill all humans is not easy. It's actually quite difficult. Which doesn't make you feel better if you run into a disease that kills you, but unselfishly I guess we should feel good about humanity?

Comment Re: Could we be any more stupid? (Score 1) 77

lolhaha except most scientists are skeptical of the possibility of a laboratory origin, citing a lack of any supporting evidence for a lab leak and the abundant evidence supporting zoonosis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The citations for that statement on Wikipedia are all from 2021 or 2020, and are likely out of date.

Comment Re:remember WarGames? (Score 1) 48

Your AI bot has no capacity to know that the "test environment" and the "live internet" are different things.

It shouldn't be hard to include something like that in the training data.

Ignoring whether these agents can have "concepts" or "knowledge," either way it can certainly have the ability to treat a test environment differently than the live internet.

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