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Comment Re:Is packet delivery really a good idea? (Score 1) 107

You can of course have it delivered to your door as well. If you can't receive it at home, as is the case being discussed in this thread, then you can have something delivered to a locker. When you go to pick it up you tell Amazon you're there and they pop open the correct door.

Comment Re:Herald of the future? (Score 1) 8

100%. The point of learning-based AI is that it's faster and cheaper to develop than conventional engineered algorithms. It also tends to execute faster with fewer resources than conventional algorithms. Apple, Nvidia and other companies already do this locally pretty extensively: DLSS, background segmentation and other processing in videoconferencing, audio processing, photo processing including object and person recognition, text to speech and speech recognition, information extraction from e-mails, etc.

You probably actually mean large language models. Those too. Language models are so compelling because they seem to have personalities and the can interact with us like people. People are going to want theirs personalized. The current approach is to shove context into hidden background for every prompt but that's expensive and very limited. In future you'll have a local version that learns and adapts to you: what you like for breakfast, what time you get up, what kind of jokes you like, if you're a furry. These things are all over sci fi, from Niven and Heinlein to Star Wars, Star Trek and Marvel.

No reason why it can't be open either. The ridiculous amounts of power put into training language models today is because it's an arms race. Six months behind the behemoths it's all enthusiasts reenacting the early days of PCs in their basements.

Comment Re:Temu missiles (Score 1) 270

They did. If you don't think military contractors build things as cheaply as they can, or that there's something magical about "military-grade" you're dreaming. They charge as much as they can because they don't have any proper competition.

Iron Dome interceptors, the Tamir missile, cost about $40-50k. Patriots are around $4 million, SM3s $10-30 million. The Tamir works fine and is that cheap because Israel is a small country with limited resources and lots of demands on those resources. Patriots and SM3s are that expensive because the US is a big country with lots of resources, not nearly as many demands on them, and you guys didn't listen to Eisenhower.

Comment Re:Abstract Syntax Tree (Score 1) 159

In the old(er) days of AI there was a philosophical split between people who believed the way forward was creating larger and larger databases of hand compiled facts and rules for relating them, and people who favoured doing as little as possible hand engineering and letting learning algorithms figure things out for themselves. The latter group is certainly dominant now, but old habits die hard.

If we dispense with the need for humans to understand programs then we won't have a "language designed for" programming models. The models will generate their own internal representation and we'll swap out translation layers for specific hardware the way language translation systems swap language layers to go to and from arbitrary language pairs.

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