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>an official app to report incidents of phone theft I can't be the only person to see the irony here. Do they also have a drive-thru to report car theft?

I think their anger is justified. Yes there's not a lot that individual engineers can do to help, but a big part of the problem is that they don't even understand the people they'r…

>Then you also run into visitors that assume it's a normal car and can hit a floor button when the get in, only to realize they've walked into a car without buttons. I work in a bu…

Respectfully, calling this misinformation is unwarranted. The featured article is about exactly this. >On 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2 >OpenAI d…

Well if you're looking for some kind of statistical analysis of OpenAI's press releases vs their valuation then I don't have anything like that. I also don't have this kind of evid…

I think you are conflating skepticism about AI companies' motives with skepticism about their capabilities. Even if OpenAI is being 100% honest in their reporting on this it's stil…

This is pretty nice, I might use this if I'm looking to learn more on a topic. I'm always cautious when reading nonfiction because it's hard for me to tell if the author knows what…

>2. We've started expecting "must-see" shows and movies. You want to watch The Pitt, and then are mad that you need to get HBO or whatever and can't just watch it on Netflix. Perha…

>problems like "what the back of a smiling face looks like" sound entirely self-inflicted. I think this is the funniest sentence I've ever read on Hackernews. What are we doing wit…

This one seems much more likely to work for its intended purpose. Even if an LLM can be trained to read it, it will probably take much more processing to get the text out of a vide…

There was another article on this recently[1], if I didn't know better I would suspect this narrative is being pushed by some PR firm. Maybe it's coming from AI companies trying to…

Yeah I think there's a lot of science news about how plants are capable of more than the average person thinks, but people tend to conflate that with some kind of conscious experie…

I have a special seething hatred for leafblowers. The noise to utility ratio is so high.

Maybe I'm being dumb, but I don't understand what the innovation is here. I get that they're using liquid coolant at higher than usual temperatures, but why couldn't they do that b…

>Dr Floridi describes the scale of departures from philosophy departments as a “haemorrhaging”. I wonder if anyone who is connected with actual academic philosophy can comment on t…

The comparison with meat consumption seems inapt. 70% of people report reducing meat consumption, but research has shown that these intentions have very little correlation with peo…

I agree LLMs can be harmful and that the companies behind them should be held liable to some extent, for example the recent news with Google being held responsible for their AI's d…

>A bunch of radioactive stuff together is basically the definition of a nuclear reactor though. It really isn't. A pile of radioactive waste isn't a reactor. Marie Curie's notes ar…

>Of course. "tried to" being key words in the comment. Fair enough, I misread your original comment. The broader point stands that the limitation on creating nuclear weapons and re…

For an example of how closely this is monitored see the Oklo fossil reactors[1] The proportion of fissile isotopes being mined was off by a fraction of a percent, which caused the …

He didn't create a nuclear reactor, this is a common misconception. It even says this in the wikipedia article. He basically got a bunch of radioactive stuff and put it together. H…

>it would mean I think bats are people, just non-human ones. That's what being a person is: a subjective experiencer. Okay, I think this is part of what I found confusing about you…

I think he makes it pretty clear he's only talking about the second one of your two definitions >What it is like to be a bat could be rephrased as what it would be like to experien…

I had no idea there were 1500kW fast chargers, this is insanely high power for a car. Maybe this would be useful for long haul trucks or something where they have large battery cap…

I agree with the ruling, but this makes me wonder if it will be possible to have any AI agent at all if it's consistently applied. After all, if I can get ChatGPT or Claude to say …