I do think what you're describing will be the future for the most part. We aren't going to be digging through layers of gui menus or doing keyword searches to try to find a setting. You'll just tell it what you want in plain speech and it will do it.

As for the demise of apps could there be a platform based on an AI that knows how to generate information displays and retrieve various information, and each 'app' is just set of prompts for the AI? Not sure. But I'm sure it will be tried.

I wonder if this threshold was ever surpassed when "electronic mail" was one of the main internet applications. I remember hearing that a large majority of emails were spam many years ago.

Is $1.68B for a battery a lot? Building a 1 GW natural gas plant costs $1â"1.5B. Then you pay $200M per year for gas, forever. Or $600M per year in Europe.

Of course, the energy to charge the battery isn't free either. But these numbers are getting to be in the same ballpark like never before.

No I think you're mistaken. The capacity is 800 MW, with a capacity factor of 40%-50%, which assuming 1 kW on average per home comes out to about 350,000 or 400,000 homes.

Hmmmm, does that mean my account is now a scarce resource that will skyrocket in value? I'll start the bidding at $50k.

The AI already do math outside the LLM. Ask ChatGPT what's the square root of 12345, it replies immediately with the right answer rather than trying to figure it out.

Some would argue the body-less entity would merely need a few volumes on physics to understand that.

No. Think about how, say, dogs understand physics. Obviously not via Newton's "laws" (or should I say, Newton's very useful mathematical approximations). Dogs navigate the world and 'understand' concepts like threats, prey, and mates well enough to persist in the world.

What LeCun is proposing is largely what self-driving cars already do. Waymo isn't driven by a Large "Language" Model that predicts word sequences based on what people wrote on reddit. It is based on a model of its physical interactions out in the world.

These big corpus of language and images that are scraped from the web are really just bootstrapping. AI's will be based more on their own experience as time passes. For example, call-center bots are presumably refined on all the data they collect interacting directly with people every day.

Bah, I really think this car is more about an aesthetic, 'how useful could we make a solar-powered car.' In that sense it is a sort of 'exotic' to be judged on the success of its somewhat arcane goal. Criticism this for being less practical than a battery car with the panels somewhere else is true, but I'm not going to get worked up about that when the best selling car in America is Ford pickup trucks.

asking chatgpt who to kill next

Color me dubious on that one. But how about using a deep net to recognize what kind of aircraft has a given radar signature? It's not "decision-making" as people think of it, but it really kinda is - and could raise the probability of an aircraft being deemed a target or not and ultimately shot at.

If you want to watch the batteries getting recycled, here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is for the US. But anyways car batteries are not like "e-waste" that just gets burned and picked over by kids in flip-flops far far away.

+1, the story doesn't mean anything without that information. Another realistic possibility that comes to mind is translation.

He certainly has written an article to support a trendy sentiment, to say the least.

I have some respect for Harper's and would expect an article there to have some insight. Is the summary above the whole thing? Is there anything more to it than pandering to anti tech-bros sentiment with selectively chosen anecdotes?

Let's stick with Kennedy's definition of the original moon race: "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."

The web is so heavy now. My phone is 3 or 4 years old and even with ublock origin some pages just bring it to its knees. I don't even blame the browser, the pages are just very long, complex, and content-rich.

Perhaps it's time to zone farmland as farmland and forbid it from being used for anything else without regulatory review.

That's been the process for the last 80 to 100 years. The reason so many of our cities are nevertheless built over farmland is because what can be zoned, can be re-zoned, which is generally what happens when the difference between the value of the land for agriculture vs development becomes too great.

None of which has the least to do with AI in particular. Some people have always chosen not to sell their land for development.

Here's a case in which Disney chased a piece of farmland for around 40 years before getting it:

https://www.sfgate.com/disneyl...