I don't mean ISO 26262 specifically, but a formalize standard that actually covers processes is what is needed. Not simply some laws that have painfully obvious loopholes that were fodder for several of Asimov's books. The path you took to get to the result is as important as the result, which is how ISO 9001 and 26262 and others standards work in the real world. And there are a bunch of them because there is no universal set of standards that cuts through every possible industry and situation. One for AI agents and autonomous robots will necessarily be horribly complex compared to my relatively thin examples.

We should fund the police better so they can get more training!

Given the bit I know of real world safety standards like ISO 26262. I would imagine a real world framework to use as a law of robotics is not going to be 3 or 4 rules. It is going to be 100's of them. Organized in a hierarchy, a binary tree of 255 laws perhaps?

There is no right for a "first incident" grace because this is potentially happening to thousands of people and if they all just accept an apology for the "first incident" then Flock keeps getting away with it. Sue immediately.

Probably LRO vs. Danuri

She should not accept an apology. She has to sue, both the department as well as Flock.

The only thing that will end this is consequences for the department and Flock.

Go talk to a lawyer they eat stuff like this up.

The first law of science fiction writing is for it to be an entertaining story. It is not a rigorous essay of a scientific or philosophical subject.

Except instead of pursuing policies that would help open models at the expense of Big AI, anti-AI people pursue just the opposite - policies that can cripple open source AI but have no realistic ability to meaningfully hurt big AI. It's so short sighted.

Actually, no, what they usually do is much more insidious: fingerprinting rather than watermarking. The fingerprint isn't actually included in the audio, it's included in a database. If they want to tell if the track was generated, they just try to match the fingerprint in the database. Can't filter it out of the track like you can with a watermark.

The two mainstream options (both about half a year old now, we're due for something better) are Ace Step-1.5 and Stable Audio 3 Medium.

Ace Step has full vocals with its music. See here for examples. The downside in my opinion (judge for yourself) is that it has Suno's flaw of sounding too "clean", "mainstream" and "uncreative", except even moreso (Udio was always much better than Suno at this, albeit "less well behaved" - but Udio is out of the game now).

Stable Audio 3 doesn't do vocals, though it has other useful features, like inpainting (great for fixing glitches in recorded tracks for example). In my view, it sounds a lot better. It can also be used to create sound effects. License is a bit more restrictive, though, if you actually care about that, but generally won't affect the average user.

Both are trained on fully licensed data and both are open-weights. So even if the devs released a version that included some sort of watermarking in the future (or someone developed a fingerprinting algo for the existing versions), you could just finetune them to break that.

TL/DR, if you want open source and want to just churn out a full track: choose Ace Step 1.5.
If you want open source and want to do instrumental tracks or to supplement manual work (such as your own vocals) or do audio editing: chose Stable Audio 3.

Yeah. This is what Americans voted for. More expensive solar panels.

Well, better deals for domestically manufactured solar panels...

I mean, we needed to do something after China years ago dumped on the US market and ran domestics out of business....something to try to nurture back our own businesses.

We need to bring back as much manufacturing as possible to the US and be more self sufficient....

You don't consider being dependent as we are on China to be a good thing, do you?

Did you not get a taste of how bad it can be during covid?

decline happened in the 1980's if you want to get technical. Peak was in the 1970's. Bottomed out in the 2010's and leveled off by 2018.

The Great Depression is the peak era for suicides in the US (up to 22 in 100k)

I consider my posts to be ephemeral and for the moment alone.

If life appeared and didn't make it to a continental shelf then again beat the odds and fall under conditions for fossilization, then there may be no record of the vast majority of times life came about and disappeared. Over the deep ocean, fossilization is not favorable and much of the ocean crust is subducted within 200 My. (and individual plates more like 20-30 My)

If we could trigger life in a lab, or find more instances of it occurring, we could build a statistical model and estimate how many times it occurred. Possibly with some confidence on the lower and upper bounds.

I received a merino wool t-shirt (Unbound Merino) as a gift. Great shirt, but it takes a certain kind of person to buy $95 t-shirts that are recommended to be hand-washed and dried flat.