Opps, I got sidetracked and jumped to airline fees...but my point stands. The fuel surcharge isn't going to go away if/when fuel prices come down.

The pessimist in me says this is one of those temporary fees that will get removed...never. It's the airlines' way of boosting ticket prices without boosting ticket prices themselves. Think the fee will get dropped once fuel prices go down? No, neither do I.

There doesn't seem to be much to this story. As far as I can tell, they haven't done any scientific or even casual tests to clone open source or closed source. It's vapor ware.

Then why is the Kim family still in power in North Korea?

The types of neural networks used in these classifiers are not LLMs. The expense and difficulty of collecting an image set is going to far outweigh the compute time used to train them.

Concur to a point...a little fire (drill) and flooding (drill) to get the blood moving periodically is good.

We are questioning whether the AI is creating something new, or whether it's just copying the original.

It's a question because the AI was trained on the original. Clean Room Design is a well-known engineering technique. It's not a problem when cloning closed source if the AI wasn't trained on that closed source code.

It's relatively easy to setup VPN over SSH, that might work if you need it at some time in the future.

OK, so your viewpoint is a little more clear now. You don't have a problem creating and killing animal life.

What about stem cell embryo research? Or sperm research? Does that bother you?

That's what you do every time you eat. Are you monstrous?

Only Jainism opposes it.

The shifting of language is a large part of the design process. The textual portions include instructions (and leave space on the large tablets) to add new languages to the tablets, so they can be a form of "Rosetta Stone" for future generations to understand the messages.

https://wipp.energy.gov/librar...

My thinking too... the fact that current storage media is short-lived doesn't seem to me to be a big provide since the ability to read said media is also short-lived. Data needs to be kept "fresh" by migrating it to current storage means. Otherwise you end up with stories like NASA finding some thought-lost Apollo data tapes but lacking any means to read them.

If the data is important enough that it needs to be kept for centuries, then it's important enough to migrate to current data storage formats as the technology advances.

An exception that comes to mind is the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (https://www.wipp.energy.gov/ )that had the design goal of storing radioactive waste deep underground and marking the site such that the site's warnings would be understandable and readable 10,000 years into the future. Since the message was sent going to be transferred to new formats and had to last so long, it had to be readable with no aid of technology.

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