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Comment Re:at least 10 years too early (Score 1) 27

by excelsior_gr (#65730024) Attached to: South Korea Abandons AI Textbooks After Four-Month Trial
LLMs are not suitable for science and engineering. The AI I was using the other day got LeChatelier's principle exactly backwards. The wording is sometimes too subtle and precision matters. I could imagine a 2nd AI layer that is trained to double-check and correct errors like this. If the wording and syntax are stiff, like in a programming language, ot seems to work much better. I had it generate a Powershell script today, it worked right away.

Comment Re:It's been said for a bit now. (Score 1) 93

by excelsior_gr (#65728628) Attached to: Reddit Cofounder Says 'Much of the Internet is Now Dead'
The fact that a newspaper/book/catalogue/whatever is printed does not infer human curation of the content. I think that, in the future, the deciding detail will be the date of publication (2022, the year ChatGPT came out). Since pretty much all printed material includes this information for copyright reasons, media printed before 2022 will become valued vintages.

Comment Re:"Lean NASA" failed in the 90's. (Score 4, Interesting) 60

by excelsior_gr (#65723418) Attached to: NASA Unit JPL To Lay Off About 550 Workers, Citing Restructure
If what you say is true, then it's going to be much worse this time around. Because now, in contrast to the 90ies, there is also SpaceX. NASA is going to be blamed for doing a crappy job, while SpaceX will end up filling the national pride gap. Then it's only a matter of time before NASA is deemed redundant and obsolete.

Comment Re:Couldn't have a backup (Score 1) 82

30 GB of scratch is a lot for normal bureucrats. I assume here that South Korea does not have 28000 workers doing numerical simulations and heavy-duty film editing. This was asking for trouble since nobody would bother cleaning up that space: archive old stuff on backed-up space, delete junk etc. I would think that the Korean government lost about 100 TB worth of actually useful data and the rest was obsolete junk anyway.

Comment Re:Do these links currently exist? (Score 1) 50

by excelsior_gr (#65679874) Attached to: Pope Leo XIV Rejects AI Avatar for Virtual Papal Audiences
And let us also not forget figures such as Gregor Mendel and Georges Lemaitre, both Christian priests, that helped established the concepts of evolution and cosmology as we know them today. Religion and theology was the place to start if you were looking for answers 150 years ago (or earlier!). But inquisitive minds like the above did not stop there.

Comment Re:Not Buying It (Score 1) 77

Another issue is the announcement triggering all the other devices. That's been a basic failure case from day 1 of voice input. They apparently haven't added anything to handle that. It's not too big a deal when the voice assistance is at a home, but smart glasses are meant to be used all the time. If all you have to do is yell a command they're going to have a major PR problem. It's less of an issue with phones as they're often locked and in your pocket, but a nearby glasshole is wide open.

Can't wait to try this in public transportation: "Hey Meta, play "Never Gonna Give You Up"!"

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