I guess you want to argue about what the term "AI" means.
A) you should have studied it in university, then your term "Cognitive Systems" would be correct
B) you should adapt what it means now
Now, it means (amoung other things) I can write a query in natural language to a data storage of unstructured date.
And "the engine" figures out what I meant and how to use said data, to produce an answer.
It is not rocket science.
No, it is one virus in - and an arbitrary - usually a billion per infected cell, is getting out.
Nope, how can I find "The Hu"?
Is it a band or a singer?
Natural selection does not fix stuff like that.
The birds dying in a wind turbine would need something that gets weeded out.
And the birds not dying would need to not have that, or have something else that helps them.
That was my first thought too. (Assuming the article is correct - all kinds of stuff gets published that doesn't hold up in the longer run.)
That is the point of publishing.
If no one knows about your paper, no one is challenging it our your ideas.
We're unlikely at this point to hit the worst case scenarios for climate change; better modeling has suggested they are less likely than we initially thought
You are mixing something up. The opposite is going on. The worst case scenarios are getting more and more dramatic. Especially while we now realize which regions are impacted the most.
Some of them no one ever thought about, like Pakistan.
None of these are a Great Filter.
Agreed, but a runaway climate catastrophe would be. The simplest imaginable great filter are meteor impacts.
Clearly, Occam's answer would have been the God creating life is the simpler solution, so should be preferred.
Does not sound like a simple solution to me.
Well,
to build a megastructure, you need the technology.
And: the will.
A human has a lifespan of toughly 100 years.
In the saure state our planet, more precisely mankind is: there is no damn way *we* will ever build anything that can bring humans to another star. Because the construction would take several lifespans, and every administration will either gamble to stop it, or switchest to the other extrem and supports it.
On a planet where population soon is stabilizing, is not much incentive to explore and move away.
In principle we could start populating Moon and Mars now. In far sketched theory: even terraform Mars.
So, I simply do not think that any other culture is much better in getting their internal societies streamlined and build observable mega structures, like in "The Culture". Assuming that light speed is a hard limit, there is no real incentive to leave your own solar system.
Mankind has no gene "mankind must survive". A single human has an instinct: "oh, I rather do not like to die right now!" Big difference.
When the sun goes boom, Earth is gone. And everyone who saw it coming - and will watching it - will chill by a beer.
Perhaps mankind will colonize the solar system. Far sketched. And possible but similar far sketched: travel to Alpha/Proxima Centauri. Because what makes mankind probably unique in the universe is: we have a likely habitable extra solar planet, right at our door step, at Proxima Centauri.
But we have no reason, and probably never will have: to sent probes all over our galaxy.
I found them difficult to read.
But mazing story - amazing side stories.
And plenty of hard science in it, like the vacuum filled air ships with ion accelerators as jets.
Youtube is full with people who are building jets like that, absolute amazing.
And some Chinese company invented a metal foam, which is lighter than air.
You basically can make a gigantic floating "brick" from it, and put a cargo compartment on it and let it fly around.
That's how virus' are not considered life even though they [...] and reproduce
No they don't reproduce. And is exactly the point why they are not considered life.
They rely on other life to metabolize. they do not metabolize. They are dead. They do nothing.
A virus is a particle that contains genes, that is it. It has a hull that protects it from some harm, aka: it does not get easy destroyed. If it hits a cell of the right properties - that is the cell membrane - it injects its genetic code into the cell. The cell mistakes as a bunch of codes coming from itself, and executes them. Which leads to the production of the amino acids, and genes, which compose the original virus.
"By magic" those reassemble at the inside of the cell membrane, or outside of the cell when the explodes due to over production of virus particles.
"By magic" means, plenty of viruses are self assembling. For some non imaginational reason, the particles simple stick to each other in the correct way to result in a virus again.
Agreed, was half joking anyway.
There is this idea about "beaming" post stamp sized micro satellites with a laser beam into deep space, actually aiming for Alpha Centauri (Proxima Centauri)
"StarChips". See here: https://breakthroughinitiative...
Similar proposals popped up in recent years several times.
As Proxima Centauri, holds an earth sized rocky planet in the habitable zone, that would be a way to go.
The proposed StarChips would fly in an endless stream of chips, with about 0.2c. That takes about 20 years to each the system(s).
Proxima Centauri orbits Alpha Centauri A and B at roughly 0.2ly distance. So the SpaceChips would pass through the system in a bit more than a year or up to two years.
The continuous stream is supposed to be able to relay data back, no idea how the stamps in the middle are powered and can do that, though.
There is plenty of data the west has no access to.
For example all the not yet scanned (or if scanned not published) Chines texts.
And that is basically true for every esoteric language like the main Thai languages (they have 63), Indian or Indonesian or Filipino or god forbid: everything from Africa.
Or the corporate data of BYD, CATL or GWM etc.
Then again: depending on what you want to train, you can use synthetic data.
I make progressive house, ambient with eerie vocals, using mostly classical Thai or Japanese instruments.
Imagine Shaku Hachi and Phin, with a voice like Bjoerk or a classical Chinese opera singer.
There is a at the moment famous Thai singer on TikTok who chants a Buddhist morning prayer in style of the German band Rammstein.
When I prompted for my "base song" to get a few variations to work on, one of them turned out like him: pretty goosebump feeling. Lets see if I find him
There is copyright on AI output.
However in this case, Suno, the AI: is not the copyright holder.
The music I make, with Suno: is my property, and I have the IP on it, aka: copyright.
The question of the article goes into a different direction anyway. They want to prevent Suno to make a song with Elvis Presleys style, band, sound and voice. In other words, if I prompt it for that, it would/should deny it.
The point is not if Suno was trained on copyrighted material without permission.
The point is if it honours a prompt request, like: I need a new ABBA song about dance and love, with the original voices of the 4 singers!
What at the moment is a hot topic is "look alikes" and "sound alikes" in generative AI.
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