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Comment Re:That's not AI Psychosis (Score 1) 153

Yes, but there was an implied "can stick parts of cars together in an order that mostly makes sense" as the third condition here. Once you have that, you have the obvious

1. Stick car parts together
2. Check if it's a car
3. If it's not a car, go to 1.

The better it gets at step 1, the faster the process works, but it works no matter what. In practice, AI is pretty good at step 1 already.

Comment Re:That's not AI Psychosis (Score 1) 153

Because the algorithm for producing flawless code is simple:

1. Write code
2. Check the code for flaws
3. If the code has flaws, go to 1.

It might take a *really* long time if the AI is crap, but in practice, AI these days can write secure code much better than humans in most cases. It doesn't sit there accidentally slipping in memory corruption bugs, or buffer overruns, ... It gets those things right, basically 100% of the time.

Comment That's not AI Psychosis (Score 3, Insightful) 153

AI psychosis is where you talk to an AI about your weird beliefs, and it reinforces them generating paranoid delusions.

This is just him being more bullish on AI than his employees. Frankly, his employees need to figure their shit out, because their concern about security is bullshit. We can't have "AI is able to detect incredibly obscure security vulnerabilities and exploit them as zero days", and "AI is incapable of producing secure code" at the same time. All you need to do is make sure you actually prompt it to find the vulnerabilities and fix them (and actually review the code, which, contrary to most people's weird beliefs, is perfectly readable in general).

Comment Re: Occultations? (Score 3, Informative) 70

While that's true,

1) We're not talking about an asteroid-sized object
2) We're not talking about one object occulting things
3) We're not talking about one object being occulted.

While you're right, that through pure chance, the likelihood of taking a shot of one particular asteroid occulting one particular star if you take a shot once every 3 nights is near zero. However... one shot from vera rubin captures on average 10,000,000 stars, and around 1000 potential occulters. It's estimated that an occultation will occur in roughly 1 in 10 to 1 in 100 exposures from vera rubin.

Comment Re: Occultations? (Score 4, Interesting) 70

Up until very recently weâ(TM)ve not really been looking at large areas of the sky repeatedly every night. There were likely thousands of occultations and we just didnâ(TM)t see them because we werenâ(TM)t looking at that particular bit of the sky when they happened.

Vera Rubin came online a few months ago, and has precisely that job - to take images of a large portion of the sky with a very wide angle very high resolution camera, and compare them every few nights. The result⦠oh look - thereâ(TM)s a dwarf planet, not just occulting things, but reflecting light.

Comment Re:Air Assault (Score 1) 79

The equipment can be carried by other drones. Though certainly there's all kinds of risks here. A wounded soldier who will die if not extracted has a very different risk profile they'll accept than a healthy soldier going into an attack. You don't want to deliver ammo and supplies to your enemies if the supplies make it, but the soldiers don't. etc etc.

That said, Ukraine has already used a variant on this - they've used these heavy lift drones to deliver land drones that then carry out an attack. That was one of the things that made their recent advances near Lyman possible.

Comment Re:2024 called : been there, done that already (Score 3, Insightful) 79

Ah, but you're misunderstanding. His dear orange leader has said Ukraine are bad, and it's definitely their fault that diesel prices are high. Nothing to do with said orange moron attacking Iran. His reality is invested in making sure that Ukraine didn't do anything worthwhile.

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