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Re: Nvidia Halos

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What does this even mean? It means over 18,600 engineering hours have been spent working on vehicle safety. This is a pretty common metric.

But they say years, not hours. Either it's a typo or nvidia has a ton of engineer and they all work 24/7.

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Re: Nvidia Halos

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Probably the only way to catch up to Waymo's technical lead is for every other player to collaborate. The world dearly needs another self-driving car option.

Re: Nvidia Halos

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I noticed too much use of the word "safety", like the LLM was told to emphasise it, so I did a little test: randomly scroll and move the mouse without looking, is there "safety" in there? I did it for 4 times and every time I found it. Ctrl+F -> 136 results.

Trillion dollar companies can't afford a team to proofread publications.

Re: Nvidia Halos

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The page had so many LLM-isms that I just can't make sense of. > 18,600+ Engineering years invested in vehicle safety to date What does this even mean? > 7,000,000 Lines of safety-assessed code Are we seriously using LoC as a measure of productivity again? Not to mention the em-dashes

> Are we seriously using LoC as a measure of productivity again?

Yes, sadly. Because its how everyone justifies LLMs. "Look at how much code it writes!" is the only measure they can come up with to sell its usefulness, completely forgetting that it'll be more useful if we started talking about how much code they remove.

Re: Nvidia Halos

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The page had so many LLM-isms that I just can't make sense of. > 18,600+ Engineering years invested in vehicle safety to date What does this even mean? > 7,000,000 Lines of safety-assessed code Are we seriously using LoC as a measure of productivity again? Not to mention the em-dashes

I don't think it's LOC for productivity, it's LOC which have passed safety scrutiny. We're talking about the kind of code which would pass muster on something like NASA's safety assessments, probably. Takeaway: it's a huge codebase which has been audited for safety.

Re: Nvidia Halos

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The page had so many LLM-isms that I just can't make sense of. > 18,600+ Engineering years invested in vehicle safety to date What does this even mean? > 7,000,000 Lines of safety-assessed code Are we seriously using LoC as a measure of productivity again? Not to mention the em-dashes

You missed the "21+ billion safety transistors safety assessed" gem.

I don't even know what that was supposed to mean. Hopefully all the safety transistors in the safety graphics card of my safety-PC were safety-assessed, too /s

Re: Nvidia Halos

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I noticed too much use of the word "safety", like the LLM was told to emphasise it, so I did a little test: randomly scroll and move the mouse without looking, is there "safety" in there? I did it for 4 times and every time I found it. Ctrl+F -> 136 results.

Safetyxploitation seems to be the key selling keyword for "old" business. Management won't approve any proposal without less than 100 safety mentions.

Re: Nvidia Halos

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post #4

I noticed too much use of the word "safety", like the LLM was told to emphasise it, so I did a little test: randomly scroll and move the mouse without looking, is there "safety" in there? I did it for 4 times and every time I found it. Ctrl+F -> 136 results.

Until nvidia takes legal/financial responsibility for any accident caused by their self driving system it is not really safe.
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