Nuke plants, st tFA points out, are massive generators of paper. A lot of times spent reviewing past documentation for relevance, trends, etc. That is actually an area where Ai can be useful, especially since you are working with a narrow and reasonable well defined data set and requirements. Tailoring the LLM to taht can save a lot of time for an analyst/engineer/operator by identifying and collecting teh information needed for analysis and reporting. It's not like they're giving it access to the reactor control system and telling it to pull rods or increase steam flow, per TFA.

You wrap them in plastic carefully first. The cameras are perfectly safe in the protective concrete packaging.

I remember listening in on a great phone call to a network provider about sending someone to pick up their expensive Cisco router. It ended with "in 30 days, it's going in the dumpster.

I personally 'uninstalled' another router by disconnecting the fiber cables...with side cutters. 2 months later, they actually tried to bill us for bandwidth we supposedly used from the completely disconnected router. We sent them a picture.

And that is the conundrum. If there were real efective data protections to ensure private data was secure from any cop wanting to do a search and searches required teh same effort as those in the real world, people might have fewer issues with it. Collecting massive data bases of people is inherently bad beacuse it will be missued, as events have already shown.

The US culture certainly grew out of violent struggles to expand its territory across the continent, and no doubt shaped its current one to a degree; and has it roots in European culture. Most violent in history? There are plenty of cultures that can easily compete for that title, from European ones to Asian to African and everywhere between. Europeans, for example, routinely massacred or enslaved defeated opponents in their history.

The moral of that story is don't keep fighting a war you can't win, and when it is obvious you are going to lose, surrender.

"Laser light at that wavelength has only recently become possible."

Lolwut? We've been able to run multiple frequency-doubling passes on various laser sources to reach most any range of UV laser for well over a decade. The problem is you get not a whole lot of radiant output - less than half a watt output at gobs of watts input.

Also, 148nm is not deep UV, that is flat-out Vacuum UV.

The study said half did Joanna and half did Micheal, and were asked to rate and pay the bot. Since all participants did not do both, one question is how did you ensure they graded the results equally. In other words, if presented the same results from a gender neutral or unidentified bot, would everyone give the same payout or would it vary by participant. I looking at the results, the men paid teh robot and chatbot more and than he women, which to me indicates a difference in how value is perceived that may carry over into the gender role test; where oddly women paid both bots more than men, flipping the results. Interesting study, but I thnk there is more at play than just gender bias creeps into AI bots as well.

You could have made a graphical powerhouse but nooooo you made a useless fucking waste of AI compute.

Given I almost NEVER see a Surface device in the wild, I'm guessing this is just another shoddy attempt at trying to lock people into AI-only shit.

The difference is that if you pay people to monkey around with things, you get a non-revocable perpetual license to the result. With license rental, you get a perpetual bill. It's the same rent trap as individuals get stuck in but with less excuses.

Yes, and the reason is that they stupidly painted themselves into a corner and never thought about an exit strategy. Had they been thinking about the possibility that they might one day need to migrate from the beginning, it would be much cheaper to do so now.

That's the thing about painting yourself into a corner, a little better planning at the start can always avoid it with little to no additional effort.

"Those of us who worry about our safety are less concerned."

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"

I've said it before, but I'll say it again for those who arrived lete: If you give an AI agency of any kind, imagine everything you ask of it to be appended with "by any means necessary", because that' how it will interpret it. Slander, doxxing, and murder will definitely NOT be off the table even if you explicitly forbid them. That's the problem.

Honestly it should be called string toolbag. It contains some math that might (or might not) one day be useful in constructing a theory but it honestly has never actually been predictive enough to call it a theory.

A little of each. Banks in the U.S. actually maximized inconvenience by being closed any time most people actually had a decent opportunity to go to the bank, but it worked out somehow.

We already have string theory for that:-)

While the line of reasoning is sound, it's more or less a non-theory of exclusion.