It's almost certainly the latter. Manufacturer's engineers almost certainly said, "We need a camera capable of X, Y, and Z", and Purchasing found one in a catalog that checked off the boxes for a reasonable (or cheap) price. I'm fairly sure that most Western military robots are put together that way, after all profit is far more important than security.

Pretty much. Apparently they mostly make sonars. Prior to the drone sales, which don't even show up on their web page, they were crowing about a tremendous $13 million in annual sales.

https://www.krakenrobotics.com...

It also provides a much needed laugh.

Do you know if Tesla or Pascal came first?
Yes I do.
But perhaps only because I studied all three: Math, Physics and Computer Science :P

You have some funny examples, lol.

Well,
my point is simple: I doubt this is happening in the relation between birds and windmills.
And: you can not proof it does.

So we are even.

Natural selection means: there is a filter that prevents/reduces "unfit" members of the population to breed.

There is nothing particular unfit in a bird behaviour to crash into a windmill. And there is nothing particular more fit, to not crash into one. There is no "magic gene" that would favour one and kill the other one.

As I pointed out in previous posts, perhaps not to you: the amount of birds dying to OFFSHORE wind mills is basically zero. I did not check onshore wind mills, though.

There is most likely a "data center bubble".
But not an AI bubble.

As soon as the data center builders realize they can buy optical processors, this "hype" is gone.

Yes, I know about those studies.
And as I gave you some rough numbers: it does not make any sense.

You neither have enough birds nor enough cats for the ca(t)rnage for such numbers

You would need some (some squared or cubed) monster cats that kill a thousand birds a year to compensate for all the cats who are to lazy to even try.

I did not feel attacked.

Well, we do not have MD here.
And if I write "BigDecimal", someone comes up and asks: what are you quoting here.
As plenty of people are not aware about the various usages of "quotes".

I've seen way too much stuff in that movie first.

I had never heard of plated-wire memory, the whole computing system of the Voyagers is interesting. Apparently a bunch of the original staff (those who are still alive) keep NASA updated with their contact information just in case they need to be contacted with any questions.

Ah, haven't lived in Michigan since the early '90s. Guess I'll have to use a different state for example now.

They do especially good in the cold down to -30C.

Well,
I never really got the naming schemes of Apple OSes as well.
Tiger, Panter, Cogar - ok.
The Mogave as desert, okay.

In general I do not know what my machine is running, I have to look into the system, and I prefer the version number.

Regarding LLMs, I would use philosophers or science persons and would pick a figure which personalizes the strength of the LLM. And then add the quarter of the year when it is released. Like Pascal 1/2026 for a math LLM or Einstein 2/2026 for a physics one and a Renaissance 3/2026 for and al purpose one.

Perhaps in the US.

Most certainly not in Europe.

I reiterate over the prompt. I do not hve to edit the result.

And actually: I doubt there ever was a court case about the copyright of the AI output.

The court cases I am aware about, are if the AI / LLM itself has enough personal rights (or corporate rights) to hold any copyright in his name.

So as simple example: ChatGPT itself - the AI - can not have the copyright about the result/output of one of my prompts. Neither can have the owning company. But I have.

And as I do use it from outside of the US, I certainly have the "copyright", regardless what a future or current US court thinks about that.

ChatGPT was just an example, I do not use it and do not know if there is some "fine print" that would be able to steal my copyright from me.