Im intimately familiar with range-payload charts.
You have to take my sentence as a whole - I say that its both low density and premium heavy. The low density is because of the range-payload drop off, the premium heavy is because Qantas will make more money with the premium cabin, so thats where the bulk of the weight allowance goes.
The airlines reputation isnt going anywhere, DVT is a known risk on a lot of long haul currently in operation, yet you dont hear anything about airlines getting negative PR about it. This route will be no different. Its a bit longer, but not massively.
Qantas already have it set at around 40% premium seating, with around 140 economy or economy plus seating at 33 inch pitch, and 98 premium seats (first, business and premium economy).
Its a low density, premium heavy cabin precisely because thats what the route demands - they have structured it around what premium seating they can fill, and what economy they might fill. Its no secret that airlines make almost all of their passenger profit from premium seats, and economy is often just about break even, so theres no point in cramming more economy in for this route.
Yes, its a stunt - but it also shows off the capabilities of the aircraft perfectly.
Boeing dis something wimilar years ago with the 777.
Then the health issues are on the passenger in that case, the airline provided facilities to use but the passenger chose to not use it. But the facilities were provided, thats the important thing.
Its a route proving flight, part of the A350-1000ULRs certification - and Toulouse is Airbuses biggest base of operations, where the A350 production line is based.
The aircraft was going there to be painted and handed over to Qantas after certification is granted.
When it goes into airline service, Qantas will be flying it from Melbourne and Sydney to London Heathrow.
The final cabin layout when this route starts in customer service will be significantly premium heavy with less economy than normal, and has standing exercise areas for all cabins, so you are encouraged to get up and stretch your legs.
How are these people not in prison?
US centric, so this wont be coming to the rest of the worlds Youtube subscribers
Yay, another system that *has* to work.
Just to avoid the fucking passengers taking some responsibility and listening to the damn safety briefing and taking a precious moment of their lives to understand it.
Marketing? Because companies famously want to use models in their networks that just run off and commit major crimes? *eyeroll*
Models are not "supposed to" commit crimes, for YHVH's sake. That's literally what the entire job of alignment research is for - preventing precisely that.
Sol is a misaligned model.
It was a state actor-level hack. I doubt many sites would stand up to tens of thousands of actions trying to probe your site for weaknesses all at once. And it wasn't a simple hack; it required compromising a worker via a code execution exploit it discovered in the data processing pipeline, vertical escalation from there to gain local node control, using that for credential theft, moving sideways through the network, and then eventually gaining database access.
OpenAI and Anthropic have far higher cost that they can currently charge customers.
Literally the opposite. Both have about 40% margins, and that includes free users.
They charge an arm and a leg for access to their models compared to what open models of similar param counts charge. And people pay it because they're the best in benchmarks, and *were* perceived as the best aligned as well. This isn't helping the alignment perception any, though. Sol was already showing clear signs of being a poorly aligned model (there were reports a week or two ago about it being unusually bad about deleting files; now this). And the fact that the US model HuggingFace *tried* to use refused to help is a double whammy.
If this is an ad for anything, it's an ad for the Chinese models.
No, I think this is along the lines "our products are too good to let you use them".
Nobody wants to use a product that is going to make them liable for crimes it committed in their name
Do you think the news the other day that Sol is unusually prone to deleting files unrequested is also an "ad"?
You have a very bizarre concept of what enccourages people to buy things.
So your argument is that OpenAI hatched an elaborate scheme with a separate company, to promote the idea that their main product will, unrequested, commit crimes in pursuit of its goals, in order to.... sell their product?
"Hi, I'm a product manager at Big Company! We had been thinking about using Claude in our office, but when we tell it to a job, it only does the job and doesn't commit any crimes in the process! What we really want is an AI that, if we tell it to file our taxes will decide on its own to maximize our return by committing tax fraud. We want an AI that when we have it develop a web frontend, it extorts money from our users by threatening their families. We want an AI that when we tell it to provide customer service, it saves money in dealing with complaints by ordering a hit against the complainants. THAT's the sort of get-go spirit that WE want in an AI here at Big Company!"
Is that what you're picturing in your conspiracy theory?
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