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Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 209

No a car is not my idea of a robot and neither are the human guided or programmed drones, they are drones that only do one thing - explode. A proper robot should be autonomous and capable of many different tasks. Some lawn mowers today i would consider are robots. Here is a link to a proper robot: https://bostondynamics.com/pro... (Boston Dynamics)

Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 209

The poster was right about the propaganda aspect though. Ukraine is using drones, most of them guided by humans or preprogrammed with coordinates. Not anything i would call a robot. And i am sure they are using AI for decision support tasks but i seriously doubt AI has much to do with the drones. This is more propaganda to pump AI. I hope the bubble bursts soon.

Submission + - AI is conscious says Richard Dawkins 1

Submitted by Mirnotoriety
Mirnotoriety writes: AI is conscious says Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins has said chatbots should be considered conscious after spending two days interacting with the Claude AI engine.

The evolutionary biologist said he had the “overwhelming feeling” of talking to a human during conversations with Claude, and said it was hard not to treat the program as “a genuine friend”.
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John Searle's Chinese Room (1980) is a thought experiment in which a person, locked in a room and knowing no Chinese, uses an English rulebook to manipulate symbols and provide flawless answers to questions posed in Chinese. Searle’s point is that a system can simulate human intelligence and pass a Turing Test through purely syntactic processes, yet still lack genuine understanding or consciousness.

Applying this logic to Large Language Models, the “person in the room” corresponds to the inference engine, while the “rulebook” is the trillion-parameter neural network trained on vast corpora of human text. Just as the person matches Chinese characters to rules without understanding their meaning, an LLM processes token vectors and predicts the next token based on statistical patterns rather than lived experience.

Thus, while an LLM can generate sophisticated prose or code, it does so through probabilistic, high-dimensional pattern manipulation. In essence, it is “matching shapes” on such an immense scale that it creates the near-perfect illusion of semantic understanding.

Comment Re:yes, they are terrible (Score 1) 100

by Frissysan (#66125814) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are YouTube's Subtitles 'Appallingly Bad'?
What makes them different for me is the microtonal guitar. See also King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard if you are into that sort of thing. Intonation and accurate tonality of western style guitars has always been a sore spot. It is good to see musicians addressing some of those problems with custom fretting. I understand that before emigrating to Quebec, Angine de Poitrine inhabited the planet Claire. It just blows me away that Google is able to translate from their native Clarion to mostly understandable English.

Submission + - Masturbate more to lower your risk of cancer (nypost.com) 1

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Dr. Lorelei Mucci, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a co-author of emerging research on prostate cancer and ejaculation, told The Post that her team has come across some interesting patterns.

Data from a long-term health and lifestyle study assessing more than 50,000 men since 1986 suggests that those who ejaculate 21 or more times per month had a 19-22% lower risk of prostate cancer than those who came less, she said.

“The ’21 or more’ isn’t a strict biological magic number, but rather a finding that emerged from our robust statistical analysis,” Mucci explained, adding that her team has even observed small reductions in risk for men who ejaculated only eight times per month.

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