Good. The possibility has always existed, but the advancements in diffusion models made creating this kind of content trivial and it should be clear that spreading around images without consent have serious consequences. Especially since a lot of times the targets are teenagers.

Understandable

Good points. There have been tests on self driving trucks, but not much more. My opinion is that the tools are not mature enough, and the industry is not willing to risk putting trucks on the road that may get stuck in the middle of the trip, because there is a roadblock and it cannot circumvent it, or that it goes on big detours because it somehow sees non-existing roadblocks.

Also there is still a problem of liability. If a truck fails to give way to an ambulance or a firefighter truck, or if it gets in an accident, who is responsible? The manufacturer in theory, unless they waive responsibility to the owner of the truck, and in that case what company would risk their face and money on a technology that has not proven itself?

All in all, at the moment I see a lot of reasons to doubt the technology, and few reasons to embrace it, unless it becomes trustworthy enough that it is economically viable.

Ps. Putting trucks on a fixed route, in a convoy, feels a lot like re-inventing the train haha

I agree with your opinion that all this companies are illegally abusing the content freely available on the internet to train this models.

What annoyed me in the article, is that they are talking about “what jobs AI will steal” and immediately gave it abilities that it does not currently have (and I’ve seen it a lot of this on fear mongering type of articles). It reminded me on all the articles “truck drivers will be out of job in 3 months”.

It does not find content on the Internet (Gemini, copilot, … Is trying to give it that functionality, with hilarious results). It does not act in any way.

If you want to put it in simple terms, the current AI is a tool that reads a lot of content, and when you ask it something it gives you an answer trying to recall something and forming a coherent answer (hence all the hallucinations). It is extremely good at forming coherent answers, quite bad at giving correct answers and absolutely incapable of haveing other types of functionality (though they are trying hard to create new multi-agent tools that on paper are capable of independently searching for information, or using other tools to get the answer it needs, but it still fails a lot of times).

“Given that ChatGPT and other forms of generative AI create their output by synthesizing what they find on the internet”

Wow that is almost, but not completely, the opposite of what it does. And given its current form, it cannot really replace much (and we don’t really know how it will look in the future, or if it will be much better than how it is now).

Looking at self driving cars, how much money was thrown at the problem, and how far are we still from looking at a fully self driving car, I would say AI replacing jobs is 90% marketing and 10% substance (there are fields where it is becoming very effective, like for example machine translation).

The article is from May 19, 2022. I can find very little information about the vote of this Wednesday. While I don’t doubt its authenticity, I find it unlikely that it would pass. Last time they tried, doing it much more loudly and going as far as spreading disinformation campaigns on TV and in social media, they still completely failed at having the legislation passed. To me it looks like someone is finishing their mandate, so they are scrambling to show that they are doing the work they have been paid to do (by lobbist, obviously not by the people).

I hope I will not be proven wrong.

No worries, I hate it enough for both

And it is with the good old “think of the children”. They keep trying to sneak in legislation at EU level to kill privacy, I dread to see the day when it will pass (especially if at the next elections there will be a shift to the right)…

“says the women who use these groups aren’t doing anything wrong as long as what they’re sharing is their opinion or the truth” what possibly could go wrong with that?

I understand the sentiment, creating a space where women could feel more safe when meeting with complete strangers by asking other woman. But this has so much potential for abuse that I cannot really see how it could have a positive impact. A crazy ex can already ruin the social life of a person by spreading lies to your inner circle (people of all genders are perfectly capable of this), but if this kind of things gain traction, they would be capable to remotely ruin any new attempt of creating a new life far away.

The ship is sailing!! All aboard!

I’m now picturing a future where humans learn and use behaviour from AIs that are just not that good at reproducing human behaviour.

The future sounds confusing

It looks promising, even though it is quite far away from becoming available to the general public.

Still I wish that there was more of a push for something like a contraceptive pill for men. It feels like it has been ignored for years and only now they are starting a bit with development and trials…

Nice article.

I feel though that, as many others, it compares the carbon footprint of production (panels and batteries) vs the footprint of burning only. By looking at the source of the carbon footprint, it seems that they take into account only the CO2 output of the energy factories, but extraction, transportation and storage has a non-negligible carbon footprint.

Ignoring the technology itself, I found it interesting that it has a lot less trouble with verbs compared to nouns (tho the article does not give much information about it).

Would it mean that humans keeps actions very separate (even if similar), while keeping things and concepts more clustered together? Is being precise on what is happening much more important than clearly specifying the subject and object of the action?

That sounds like hell. I already dread having to switch to winter time once per year, making it the standard one all year is miserable. I understand that it is more in line with the solar time, but my life (and that of many others) is definitely now. We simply live more in the evening, and that extra hour of sun lets you do much more stuff.

Also, another unintended consequence: here we call DST “legal time”. Removing it will make lots of dads helpless, since they won’t be anymore able to say once a year the joke “finally there is one legal thing in this country!”… Please European Commission, think of them!

I bet it’s just a facade… It’s probably full of Rust

As an avid bidet user I feel compelled to answer your points

• it is always warm water (unless you are a masochist, no judgement)
• it points directly to where it needs to go so it stays confined within its domain
• you have to wipe both before and after (before to wipe away most of it, after to dry it)
• it is not a replacement of tp, it is complementary. You need both to achieve full cleaning

All in all I would not live without it anymore, after trying it and reaching enlightenment. 5/5 stars.

Sure, let’s not vote for the person that dedicated years on studying history, sociology, economics and political science (or “social studies” if you prefer). Let’s instead vote for the person that stepped on everyone’s heads to make sure he and his company are successful! What could go wrong? Running a country is exactly the same as running a factory, no?

And I’m sorry that so many universities are heavily left-leaning. I’m sure that if the right stops burning books at every corner there would be more right-leaning universities (tho politics should always stay out of classes in my opinion).

+1 for Photopea. I found it extremely friendly coming from Photoshop, has a lot of functionalities and works great on computers where I can’t/won’t install Photoshop. YMMV though, since you want to use it as a full replacement and I used it only for simple retouching/modifications when I’m not on the desktop