Adversarial Noise. Poison AI learning through crafted content.

Yes, this will (has already?) become an arms race as AI developers figure out ways to avoid traps, but it can make operating LLMs and image/audio models less economical and less safe to operate.
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> How many countries have deep decarbonized their electric grids with just solar and wind energy?

China's carbon emissions have dropped 1.5% so far this year, versus last year, despite total energy demand growing by about 10TWh in the same period. Maybe not "deep" or whatever but they are investing heavily in decarbonizing, and succeeding, while still growing quite quickly.

None of that was new nuclear power by the way; All of the plants they said they were gonna built between 2020 and 2035 are either still under construction or planning stages. Assuming they meet their goals and build all of them they will have added 500GW to their production... and another 3000 GW just in solar if they maintain the pace they were putting it online in 2024. A testament to how slow and expensive nuclear power actually is for addressing the problem.
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(And more than 3000 GW of wind at current pace)

What a time to be alive...

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Cookbooks won't hallucinate and instruct the barista to make that latte with lithium grease instead of milk.

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>Where?

Anywhere. Like literally anywhere.

> Whos land?

Yours. have your attic cleaned out by Thursday.

More seriously though; there is no shortage of space. Utilities own or otherwise control tens of thousands of acres for their infrastructure and facilities.

Using Australian's BESS project as a rough guide, we'd need about 75 acres per GWh. That's a conservative estimate. If the UK uses about 710 GWh per day, and assuming we'd need a full day's worth of battery storage - let's just call it 750GWh - that's 56,250 acres or just under 90 square miles.

I've taken a few minutes to prepare this image for you. It's a map of the UK with a red square that's approximately 10 miles on a side, or 100 sq.mi. Now imagine you spread that out into several dozen, or even hundreds, smaller areas and spread them across the country... you'd probably not even be able to find them. The world is a big place...

https://i.imgur.com/Ic0RaWf.pn...

> Perhaps the batteries should be spread out, uner each panel in a field can be a battery

Good call; ground mounted solar already occupies 52,000 acres which is just about the space we'd need.
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> We don't really have any definition for 'intelligence,' nor do we understand how or why neural networks behave the way they do

There are a few key features of what we consider "intelligent" that "AI" distinctly lacks. Chief among them being the capability to work in abstractions and concepts.

LLMs don't work in concepts. This is why the spit out bullshit so often. They are pattern generating through word associations, not dealing with what those words represent at the abstract level. If you ask an LLM to describe a car, and by some quirk of how the question was asked it determines the word "bird" is statistically relevant as it processes the data. Perhaps part of the training data involved a journal of a famous ornithologist touring the world in their Ford Falcon, or some material discussing the history of cars since a lot of them are named after various animals including birds. In any case, the LLM stumbles upon a statistical link between cars and birds and this snowballs into a full-blown hallucination. Now it's explaining with full confidence and authority how cars have distinctive feathers and specialized beaks. How does this happen? Because it doesn't understand what cars or birds are and has no way to separate the words from the abstractions they represent.

> So why should AI be any different from biological neural networks?

You opened your post stating - correctly - that we don't fully understand how 'intelligence' works. Then you incorrectly declare that because we don't fully understand how A works, or how B works, why can't they be the same thing?

Except we know enough about A and B to have good reason to say they are not the same thing. We don't need to know what something is before we can know what it isn't.
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> they're generalist eaters

Humans are also generalist eaters. That doesn't mean there won't be severe problems if you suddenly eliminated, say, all rice crops.

> genetic solutions involve releasing some form of male mosquito that can sterilize eggs ... Most transgenic things can't maintain the foreign gene for about 10-20 generations

Setting aside that your description is a bit wrong but probably just mixed the words up... how exactly can an any mutation - artificially induced or otherwise - that results in sterility be inherited "for about 10-20 generations?" The whole point is the females, who only mate once, will waste that chance mating with a modified male and thus prevent any future generations. The genetic modification used for mosquitos involves a mutation that prevents the larvae from reaching adulthood, meaning there is no second generation of modified genes, let alone 10-20 of them.

> So the solution would involve releasing male mosquitoes to fertilize the eggs that sterilize females in the eggs

This is not at all how the mosquito lifecycle works. Not even close.

Adults mate with adults. Males mate repeatedly, females only once. A single modified male can therefore prevent maybe four or five females from laying viable eggs, 100-200 at a time multiple times in their life, which is about a thousand eggs in total depending on the species. The females are not "sterilized in the eggs" - they're not sterilized at all. Their eggs will hatch but the offspring will never mature into adults.
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I think you're missing the point of the analogy...

We are forced to share the atmosphere. Any reduction in pollution is better than no reduction at all (even if it's still a net increase, because it didn't increase as much as it could have) and it does not matter where those emissions come from. Do you agree or disagree with this? Because if you agree, then the argument "Why should we do anything to reduce our emissions when 'they' are producing emissions too" is complete nonsense.

Sure, there's always going to be emissions just like there's always going to be some urine in the water. But you see, the emissions are high enough to be causing real problems - so imagine that the pool is so polluted that it's visibly discolored if that helps you appreciate the scale of the problem. Still going for a swim?

The analogy falls apart of course, because nobody is forced to share a swimming pool. We don't have any choice when it comes to the planet and its atmosphere though.

As an aside; not terribly worried about the chlorine. I'm more worried about the chloramines - the chemical compounds that give swimming pools that "chlorine smell." Chloramines are the product of the hypochlorite (the form of chlorine used in pools) reacting with the other stuff in the water, like urine. Chloramines cause eye, skin, and respiratory irritation. So yeah in reality peeing in a treated swimming pool actually, literally, creates toxic chemicals that physically harm you and everyone else in the area. I should add that to the analogy.
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Okay so, for the record, you are perfectly okay with pissing in the pool as long as you're not the only one.

Glad we could set that straight, along with verifying that you do not understand how the atmosphere works.
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Hi; it seems like you completely fail to understand how the atmosphere works.

Let me ask you this; Do you feel it's okay for someone to piss in a public swimming pool, just because there is already definitely some amount of piss in it?

Any reduction is a reduction. You're just upset that you might have to be the responsible one and be inconvenienced by getting out of the pool before relieving yourself.
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Their primary business is buying and reselling surplus. Think one of those TV shows where people buy abandoned storage units, except commercial liquidation auctions instead of random people's junk.

I buy stuff from them fairly regularly, and once in a while they have something amazing or a real bargain, but you have to treat it more like a flea market than a store. I got some used 12x48 RGB video wall display panels for example, and deeply regret only buying four of them...
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ICE seems to be arresting more innocent people than criminals, but of course we have no way of actually knowing because they don't get trials before being deported. Fuck you, by the way...

But this guy is Romanian; not brown enough for the goons to bother with. Trump LOVES appointing criminals to cabinet positions though. All this guy needs to do is kiss the ring and he's got at least a pardon.
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Sorry, under this administration the best we can hope for is 3 years as head of National Security Council and retirement in some topical nation without an extradition treaty.

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"When your only tool is a hammer, all your problems start to look like thumbs."

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Meanwhile, writing a bespoke algorithm to handle the task is a collage undergraduate homework assignment, and would probably do a significantly better job.

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