With the rate at which things are moving, I feel like making any statement on AI, opinion or fact based, is going to be outdated in a month. Given that this journal is old enough to buy a drink, I think it'll be fun to look back in another 20 years and see what was going on (assuming we don't get destroyed by T-1000s) while my unit tests are running.
Here's a few blanket statements:
Given the reference list, I suspect not ChatGPT, but rather https://magisterium.com/
I've been looking since March 2024. Having no reasonable options in sight, have reopened https://informationr.us/
In this job search, Linked In and Dice- but MOST of my LinkedIn devolves down into one of the above quickly. The number of scammers on Linked In is truly awesome.
Is it just me or are these three platforms the arena of bad decision making in startup businesses? When somebody tries to lure me off of social media into one of these three platforms, alarm bells start ringing in my mind. If you're leading your business with communications on Signal or Whatsapp, just know that I for one will not be taking your business seriously.
I've been getting into tobacco pipes lately. This is the super fun hobby that I need right now. I always need something to chill out with while Trump destroys the world. Back in the first term, it was watches and ultra running. Thankfully, I'm back to running after 3 years of shitty plantar fascia. I've got so many watches now, the only ones I really want anymore are out of my price range. So I needed a more affordable hobby. I'm still a cigar guy, but I feel like they are just a habit at thi
I was actually in college in the 1990s, but yes, a middle schooler today with python on a raspberry pi and a pretty simple GPS module could do this.
I didn't say it wasn't abhorrent or alarming. I'm presenting the scenario that this task of "defend this three dimensional coordinate box" doesn't require AI.
Yes, it did. The beacon signals weren't that good back then, neither were the sensors. I had the same problem in the fake robot battles I was involved in.
The answer turned out to be a solution not from Defense industries, but from Genie Garage Door Openers.
The robot doesn't care. The robot's job isn't foreign policy. The robot's job is "here's a box defined by this coordinate cloud, defend it"
Like I said, I programmed it for a fighting robot back in the 1990s. It ain't that complex, and with today's drone factory ships, the Navy can now output this level of AI in killbots at a rate of 10,000 a day.
Kill decisions are simple in comparison: Stay within your predefined geofence, kill anything that moves that isn't transmitting Friend beacon. We don't need AI for that, I coded a form of it in both Basic and Forth back in the 1990s.
And if they don't, some other startup will.
Or time literacy. Permanent!=3 years
"I've finally learned what `upward compatible' means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes." -- Dennie van Tassel
