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Comment Seems more complex than necessary (Score 1) 51

...reducing speed to 30mph because the camera has picked up a sign in a side street while driving past...

Are you sure it reads road signs? That seems vastly more complicated and much less reliable than simply getting the speed limits using GPS coordinates and a map. Every car I've driven that has a speed limit display seems to use this approach and while it does mean that you have to keep the maps up to date I'd think that would still be much more reliable that reading road signs for reasons similar to what you mention. In fact, you will have to use GPS to know how to interpret the signs: Canadian speed limit signs are almost identical in appearance to US signs but the units are km/h, the same applies between UK vs. EU signs which are identical and neither includes units. So if you have to have a GPS map to know how to read the signs why not just use it to get the limits too?

Comment Re:Fsck their fules. (Score 2) 37

But when you say that "the author of the code wrote the majority of it", I'm guessing you mean the article? The thing is that even if Einstein wrote the article about the theory of relativity, it wouldn't be accepted without reliable secondary sources. Which means not his own website.

And for good reason. For every Einstein out there there are a thousand crazy people out there with their own crackpot theories showing how everything we know about every single field of science is wrong, who will gleefully write a fifty-page Wikipedia article telling how wonderful they are, how they are geniuses, how their theories explain everything from how UFOs achieve time travel to how to cure your cancer with distilled water, and how the god Vishnu or YHWH or Amon-Ra has blessed their effort, and they will fill that article with citations to their own website and their own self-published books.

And for every one of those there are twenty teenagers who only want to write a one-page wikipedia article stating that they are the greatest sk8r in the world, and a god at Mario cart, too.

Comment Re:Reality if Warmer than you Think (Score 1) 36

rather than listing all time heat records.

Did you look at the dates on those heat records - all but three are since 2000 and of those three, two are in the 1990's. They may be the hottest days on record but they are also representative of the new norm for heat waves thanks to global warming. Sorry to have rained on your parade of ignorance with facts: obviously the UK is not one of the hottest places on the planet but it is still much hotter than you clearly knew about. As for declining fortunes, your use of fahrenheit suggests that you don't need to look to other countries to see that happening on a far grander scale.

Comment Good (Score 4, Interesting) 37

A good thing, overall. Large language models (colloquially called "AI") have too many problems. They don't really "understand" anything in a real sense, they just are able to pattern match.

I can see, however, that Wikipedia (like almost everything else on the internet that isn't locked off) is undergoing a tidal wave of spam (likely much of it generated by these same Large Language Models), and it would indeed be useful to find an automated way to deal with it, and save the human time spent to actually writing articles.

Comment Definition [Re:Better yet, don't use buzzwords.] (Score 1) 146

https://www.dictionary.com/bro...
  https://www.merriam-webster.co... :

First definition is:
  1: the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group.
sports jargon

2nd and further definitions however, match the idea of gibberish.

I agree, this is not what I'd call jargon, I'd call it buzzwords: https://www.merriam-webster.co...
  an important-sounding usually technical word or phrase often of little meaning used chiefly to impress laymen

Comment Re:Tree's aren't long term carbon sequestration (Score 1) 58

But treating tree planting as a durable substitute for cutting fossil emissions is wishful thinking.

If your criterion is that whatever you do to capture carbon should be something that cannot be undone then there is no way to capture carbon, even mineralization can be undone if you heat it....which is done to make cement so even that is something that could happen.

Don't get me wrong - the whole carbon offsetting business seems incredibly dodgy and based on very dubious accounting. However, the standard to hold them to has to be that they get to count what they sequester, they cannot be responsible if it gets undone later by someone or something else.

Comment AI replacing Cognition (Score 1) 160

We are talking not about AI taking this job or that job. We are talking about AI making Cognition redundant. So tell us about the jobs that do not rely on Cognition. And donâ(TM)t say anything like agriculture or plumbing, because when you has r humanoid robots, thats just another form of Cognition. So name the jobs people will do that is not based in a form of Cognition.

Comment Causation? (Score 1, Interesting) 111

Sounds to me like a lawyer trying to get their name out there on a first-of-it's-kind suit.

Good luck trying to establish a shred of causation if it's public knowledge that the kid intentionally thwarted safeguards. And then you have to convince a jury or a judge that tricking the AI into talking about suicide is what led to the kid going through with it.

It sounds like hogwash, so it's got about a 50/50 chance of succeeding.

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