What is this huge sum to vaccinate for a disease that has less than half a dozen even alleged human infections? What is the money for really? Is a gain of function planned to insure the money looks reasonable? The people are not going to go through lockdowns and the rest like in 2020. We know where it leads and that it is completely unscientific. So what is really going on here?
Hilarious claim considering regular fingerprint readers can't dependably read my print for more than a few weeks max. I believe this not at all.
Way back in the 90s a lot of people thought quite a bit about wearable computers and decent easy input to them. This is not that different from decent input to VR systems. Obviously Apple with its VR model and stupid floating keyboard doesn't have it right. Who cares if you finger flexes are mapped? You can do that just monitoring a few muscle twitches. You don't need to map neurons at all. Especially for things like typing what is wrong with the 3 joints per finger times 9 other fingertips per joint for 10x9 inputs letters/numbers? That is an idea fro the 90s.
So if you could read per neuron good luck training people to map intent to individual neurons. Biofeedback is simple in comparison. Why is Meta boring us with science fiction gobbledygook that isn't even as good as stuff that has been brainstormed for 30 years?
What's "so special" abou this is that Getty is one of the largest single copyright holders in the world and they know the licensing status of every piece of media in their collection, so any AI trained on those images is guaranteed liability-free for their clients."
the monetization schema is bullshit - it looks like the tiktok model where there's a giant pool of money split between all the creators every year with the size of that pool determined by "business growth" (ie in a way that prioritized the business and hands the remains to the creators) PLUS bits of the youtube model of constantly shifting goals and targets to keep planning ability for its creators at a minimum - but if you want to know why this AI that rips off artists is "better" than the rest, that's why.
ARS' spin is fucking gross, nothing in the actual article says anything close to what that headline is implying.
If you want the developed world to stay solvent and one the developing world to develop then moves like this are crucial. Also ending anti-nuclear hysteria. Renewables? On the order of $6 trillion for just the renewable energy equipment and installation in the US without additional obvious costs. An estimate 10x that to do renewables worldwide. When the world is still not recovered from the disastrous COVID measures and is being further damaged by the Russia sanctions and ESG gone made when it comes to all important things like farming, energy, fertilizer we simply cannot afford the costs even if you believe it is necessary any time real soon (ti ISN'T). Net Zero 2030 is a very cynical and dangerous to human flourishing push.
There is no energy source that beats it in both density and portability today. This combination is especially important in many applications in the developed world and crucial to many more in the developing world. So for once I approve of something the World Bank did. Human flourishing is directly correlated with per capita energy use.
My first computer was an IBM System 360 model 50, with half a meg of fast core and one full megabyte of slow core, running OS/360 and COMNet/Alpha timesharing, with a Tektronix 4002 storage scope terminal and a 4951 joystick. The year was 1968 and I was 12 years old.
There's a youTube video of it working in a vac chamber:
Climate Castastophe claims are completely overhyped. The earth has survived and the biosphere including humans thrived in much warmer and both much higher and much lower CO2 levels. The notion that a CO2 runaway is imminent is a theory not supported by the geological record. And some of those much much warmer periods had declining rather than rising CO2 levels as well. That we should fret and even dismantle our standard of living over such dark fantasies makes me doubt the sanity of the species or the benevolence of those that would claim to be leaders.
I bet your bookshelf also includes the Ayn Rand Fantasy Series starring the bootstrapping types such as yourself who never bothered to realize they were living in a bubble of good fortune the whole time.
Yeah, when I was at Apple it was challenging even on Mac OS new versions. Often there was not a layered process of getting lower level subsystem new features ironed out before new features of systems that were its clients. And truthfully it is not always possible to do such meaningful layering in a complex software system like and OS and its development tools and build in house fully. But there were days, and even weeks when my team could not really progress on its new deliverable items because one or more layers + new stuff below us was too badly broken. Some things we could get done by reloading a stable version of the OS and building on that. But obviously not things that depended on new features of things below us. So we became de facto additional bug finding and debugging for layers we depended on at times.
Sometimes it felt like a miracle when the entire stack became solid enough to actually test each new feature at every level for itself.
Obviously not. Most likely in 10, 20 years we will not even have the same products. Think how many products were replaced by the smart phone. If in 10, 20 years we have working neural lace then smartphones themselves would likely no longer be relevant. Also think how much cell phones changed from funky bricks to today's smartphone. No way looking at designs up to the funky bricks could anything, no matter how smart make a future proof brick that was relevant.
AI is not magic. There is no magic.
Spends a bunch of time slurping everything it can from your LinkedIn account, then counts how many words from their sacred list show up in your resume, and that you should include more of them (which are pretty tightly focussed on the hell-dimension of lower-level burnout-inducing IT, I might add).
That's the sum total of useful stuff.
WASTE. OF. TIME.
We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem -- how to run a sunbeam through a meter.
