Exactly the same as the approach to the movie version of The Martian.

There's legitimacy to that. Taking a potentially dangerous drug under the supervision of a doctor who knows how things are supposed to work, what side effects look like, with drugs of consistent purity and dosage, has a lot of advantages over winging it with stuff made up random chinese chemicals and toilet bowl cleaner.

Unless you're talking about cocaine etc. brought to the penthouse by a personal assistant or something. Plenty of ultra-rich celebs have killed themselves that way.

How can it be that? Survival has never been more assured. I wonder if we'd be less depressed if we had to do physical labor for food and fight the neighboring tribe once in a while to punctuate life with more immediacy and urgency.

I do think what you're describing will be the future for the most part. We aren't going to be digging through layers of gui menus or doing keyword searches to try to find a setting. You'll just tell it what you want in plain speech and it will do it.

As for the demise of apps could there be a platform based on an AI that knows how to generate information displays and retrieve various information, and each 'app' is just set of prompts for the AI? Not sure. But I'm sure it will be tried.

I wonder if this threshold was ever surpassed when "electronic mail" was one of the main internet applications. I remember hearing that a large majority of emails were spam many years ago.

Yup, because those people intentionally looking to mislead or defraud others through the use of AI fakes are certainly going to follow this law to the letter...

Im sorry, but a whole load of those justifications are bullshit.

Yes, but 6.9m of those 27.6m don't have a car in the first place, and pretty obviously,

And how many of those 27.6m will have multiple vehicles?

and pretty obviously, those are more likely to be the households without the ability to park a car off-street.

No, thats very far from "obvious" at all. Very very far. So far, that its a reach.

Did you even look at the Google Maps link I sent? I'd say that under the current approach, a good proportion of the city of Norwich would not be able to charge their vehicle at home because they have no chance of off road parking.

- that still leaves at least 70% of cars / households able to charge at home offstreet compared to 0% able to refuel at home offstreet, which is a massive win for tens of millions of people, and obviously reduces pressure on the public charging network

The reason this doesnt matter for ICE is because refuelling ICE vehicles is a 5 minute matter and the infrastructure has been around to do that for what, a hundred years now?

Meanwhile, the infrastructure for charging EV vehicles anywhere other than very very specific locations right now is non-existent, and will consist of a MASSIVE build out which hasnt even started yet.

- tons of solutions for on-street charging are rolling out, from lamp-post to bollards to gullies

The problem is not that solutions theoretically exist, its that they are yet to be implemented on the scale required in order to achieve the switch over from ICE to EV that governments want to see.

Where is the funding for the roll out of those solutions? Wheres the wide scale planning for implementing those solutions?

- there's tons of other places to charge, including workplace charging

Laughable if you consider that most people don't have a parking spot at work and have to park either on-street near their work place or in a commercial car park. So the same issues apply here as well.

In addition to that, if EV charging spots arent excessively available in numbers then you are going to have an issue where someone parks up, hooks up and sits there for 8 hours while they work.

Once again its an issue of available infrastructure - 10 EV charge points for a road of 50 houses simply isnt going to cut it. You are going to have to have 50 charge points otherwise the shit is going to hit the fan at some point. And we both know that no government, local or national, is going to provide enough charging points for those that dont have off-road parking of their own.

- cars only need to be charged once every 10 to 14 days in the UK, given how much the average car is driven per day

Sorry but I want the ability to drive whatever distance I like at the drop of a hat, which means that my car would be plugged in whenever Im not using it to achieve that. My wife is a doctor who is regularly on call, so she *has* to be able to drive whatever distance she wants at the drop of a hat.

My problem is not EVs, my problem is the lack of infrastructure to support EVs and the timeline that governments want to have the general populace to switch over to EVs wholesale - there are deadlines in place, but theres absolutely fuck all funding at the scale required in order to build the corresponding infrastructure out.

People are used to the availability of "drive to the other end of the country and back again" at the drop of a hat in terms of infrastructure which supports that - for EV that does not exist right now, and its not going to exist a decade from now which is 5 years after the ICE ban in the UK - theres no mass roll out even planned yet, its all handwaving about "solutions exist for that". Great, put the solutions in place then!

Right now, successive governments have basically said "after 2030 you cant buy ICE vehicles - good luck!".

We saw more movement and planning around cable TV back in the 1980s and 1990s - this is so much more fundamentally important, and yet we arent seeing roads being dug up, or even being planned to be dug up.

Is $1.68B for a battery a lot? Building a 1 GW natural gas plant costs $1â"1.5B. Then you pay $200M per year for gas, forever. Or $600M per year in Europe.

Of course, the energy to charge the battery isn't free either. But these numbers are getting to be in the same ballpark like never before.

That article is very nuanced - the exact wording is "18 million (65%) of Britain’s 27.6 million households having – or with the potential to have – enough off-street parking to accommodate at least one car or van".

Note the "or with the potential to have" - thats going to be peoples front or back gardens, with corresponding changes to drop curbs etc. Which still means significant investment at a property level to allow for that - who is going to pay for that?

Look at the streets here and tell me how these properties are going to fit into that report...

https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

Theres still a lot more to it than purchase price, unfortunately.

When I was living in the UK, more than half the place I lived in would have had zero ability to charge an EV - the parking options were either on-road (and if you were lucky, within 3 streets of your house), or if you won the council lottery then you rented a garage within the local area. And no, you couldnt add an EV charger to the garage.

Where I live now, I have off street parking and the ability to add an EV charger - I fully expect my next car to be an EV.

But if I wasnt living here, if I was still living in the UK, then the problem of on-street parking and charging would still be a major blocker that I dont see being solved, properly solved, any time soon.

No I think you're mistaken. The capacity is 800 MW, with a capacity factor of 40%-50%, which assuming 1 kW on average per home comes out to about 350,000 or 400,000 homes.

Hmmmm, does that mean my account is now a scarce resource that will skyrocket in value? I'll start the bidding at $50k.

The AI already do math outside the LLM. Ask ChatGPT what's the square root of 12345, it replies immediately with the right answer rather than trying to figure it out.

Some would argue the body-less entity would merely need a few volumes on physics to understand that.

No. Think about how, say, dogs understand physics. Obviously not via Newton's "laws" (or should I say, Newton's very useful mathematical approximations). Dogs navigate the world and 'understand' concepts like threats, prey, and mates well enough to persist in the world.

What LeCun is proposing is largely what self-driving cars already do. Waymo isn't driven by a Large "Language" Model that predicts word sequences based on what people wrote on reddit. It is based on a model of its physical interactions out in the world.

These big corpus of language and images that are scraped from the web are really just bootstrapping. AI's will be based more on their own experience as time passes. For example, call-center bots are presumably refined on all the data they collect interacting directly with people every day.

Bah, I really think this car is more about an aesthetic, 'how useful could we make a solar-powered car.' In that sense it is a sort of 'exotic' to be judged on the success of its somewhat arcane goal. Criticism this for being less practical than a battery car with the panels somewhere else is true, but I'm not going to get worked up about that when the best selling car in America is Ford pickup trucks.