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They Write the Right Stuff (2021)

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Re: They Write the Right Stuff (2021)

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Post by dh00608000 »

glitchc wrote: post #20

AI is a tool. Software is an ecosystem in which AI is but one of many tools. Comparing one to the other is silly. As it stands, AI isn’t even the tool, it’s a feel-good word. The actual tool is ML. Now if ML were compared to, say SQL, I could understand. Both derive meaningful results from raw data. Even that may hold little value as in both cases good tools will be let down by poor implementation, ergo bad software,…

Absolutely. In fact, I intentionally used the word AI in the article and was hoping I would get this sort of comment. I fundamentally believe that we can only make progress in many areas of what constitutes AI if we have a concrete focus on the underlying technologies. And there we are looking at ML (among other things). Especially when it comes to higher-level topics such as regulatory policies, AI is all too often used as an intellectual wildcard. The consequence of that are low-quality discussions and misguided policies.

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Post by titzer »

As long as whatever crap software people come up with keeps making money, they will keep doing it that way. The sooner something starts generating profit, the better. History of civilization in a nutshell.

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Post by the-dude »

Havoc wrote: post #21
the-dude wrote: post #2

Is this a ... at Tesla? ( I am trying to come up with the right word, not a native speaker, "snag" "jab" ? )

Thankfully Autopilot is not in charge of explosive bolts

Are explosive bolt more dangerous than a vehicle traveling, say, 60mph ?

Re: They Write the Right Stuff (2021)

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Post by dh00608000 »

the-dude wrote: post #24
Havoc wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thankfully Autopilot is not in charge of explosive bolts

Are explosive bolt more dangerous than a vehicle traveling, say, 60mph ?

In X years, we'll all look back and think it's crazy that humans were allowed to drive vehicles traveling at 60mph.

Re: They Write the Right Stuff (2021)

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Post by dh00608000 »

titzer wrote: post #23

As long as whatever crap software people come up with keeps making money, they will keep doing it that way. The sooner something starts generating profit, the better. History of civilization in a nutshell.

We probably also have many reasons to be positive about the future :-)

Re: They Write the Right Stuff (2021)

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Post by debo_ »

I enjoyed this little game you played.

I wonder if it might be easier to read if the mad-libbed article was left in normal styling and the explanatory paragraphs at the end were italicized instead?

Re: They Write the Right Stuff (2021)

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Post by ncmncm »

I had read that the console screens seen by astronauts were always getting dumped pages and pages of log output at every event, to the point of unusability, and that nobody could fix it because the process was so heavy they would have to abandon all their other work for months.

So any kind of polish not fixing a potential loss-of-vehicle problem just could not be attempted.

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