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Comment Volleyball does this, but it's not AI (Score 1) 53

Volleyball in the Olympics did this, it's a set of cameras that shows where the ball was in and out on the line, worked quite well. The ref reviews it if the coach calls for it. This is all indoors, so outside might have other issues. It's an automated system, i wouldn't call any of this AI really, more image processing in real-time.

Comment Re:historic? (Score 1) 132

I think it's historic in the sense that It's the most non trained people to fly to "space", and the most celebrities. And not in a bad way, in a way that will promote more acceptance of normal people doing this, and not having to be a test pilot. I mean you wouldn't hear men scream like that when things happened, like the parachute gets deployed. So I do congratulate them for it being an all female crew.

Comment Re:the players are nearing finish line: AGI (Score 1) 46

I am all for AI, and have been doing AI research for longer than most people here. But I can tell you that passing a few exams is not AGI. Sure it's one definition of an intelligent system. Chat GPT like systems are incredible and do posses more knowledge than any human and could pass the Turning Test, if you showed it to Alan Turning he would be amazed. But until you get embodied system that can make their own decisions, adjust and update their knowledge, store a life long of memories can use multi-model data, use many different decision making methods and are more autonomous, then you don't have real AGI. The Trillions spent on AI are not a waste and you will need to spend that to figure it all out. This is not a bubble and it's not going to burst, there are so many areas that this can be applied to. There is a real danger to fully autonomous systems, but that is where we are headed and you can't stop technology and progress.

Comment Re:I dont know how US universities work (Score 1) 50

Says right there, " According to [Yale instructor Ozan] Erat, the original [anonymous] donation that made CS50 possible ended in June 2024"
So basically, 'hey our funder is not giving us money, if you want to continue this, give us more money. '
Who cares if it's for the betterment of humanity.

Comment Re:Hopefully they will... (Score 1) 33

Actually we do.
AI is not just for solving the hard problems in life. Like most people on /. here they are out of touch with reality.

What we need in AI is to make your life easier by doing all those things that you don't want to do, but need to do.
It should know who you are and all your preferences and plan a suggest things for you, like:
Plan a trip.
Book a flight
Tell you what you need to by,
Help you fix your phone email connection settings.
tell you what is good to watch.
Take your phone calls and screen them,
Go thru and sort all your emails and summarize.
remind you of important things and even buy stuff for you.
Keep track if your life goals and suggest paths and places to expand your life.
know how you feel and is able to help you through issues.
Find a good book to read.

What good is it to me on a day-to day basis, if it tries to solve a hard engineering problem that, maybe will impact me in the future, but not tomorrow.
That was the dream of AI when this all started in the 60's, and people seemed to forget all that and just try to get rich..

Comment Re:Does it matter? (Score 1) 39

Why is it that everyone keeps not understanding what R1 is. It's not a foundational model. It used all the current models and distills down from that, extracts reasoning with Reinforcement Learning techniques. The cost was smaller because of some shortcuts they made in the CUDA code, as they were doing Crypto mining with the cards they had. Also I'm sure they re not reporting all the costs associated with it.
So if a new bigger better foundational model is made, and you don't open source it, then it can and will outperform Deepseek with doing the same kinds of distillation. In face I'm sure OpenAI, Meta and others are already doing this based on Deepseek methods and will have a new model out within 3 months.
And they did use Nvidia cards, so Nvidia is not loosing out here.

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