... the Azure cloud unit... is closely watched by investors as it is the main beneficiary of Microsoft's AI push
I'd really like to see some substantive evidence that the Azure division's profits have increased as a result of AI. Absent that evidence, I'm happy to call BS on the claim.
... questioned the accuracy of First Street's data, saying he didn't think that areas which haven't flooded in the last 40 to 50 years were likely to flood in the next five.
So good to read a scientific, rational approach to analyzing claims. And so comforting to know that climate and weather patterns aren't changing, and that climate and associated risks over the next five years will be the same as they were during the previous 40 or 50.
/sarc
Sure, when you live in a parallel dimension you may think they are louder than a regular car. Unfortunately not at all on planet earth.
My experience agrees with that of CubicleZombie, especially when the vehicles are travelling at lower speeds. Keep in mind that frequency content is important - the levels recorded on a sound level meter don't necessarily correlate well with human perception, interpretation, and emotional response.
I think that rather than weird synthesized noises, EVs should use actual recordings of IC vehicles. Pitch and volume should be adjusted according to speed, so the EVs mimic the sounds we've already become familiar with and adjusted to over many decades.
The skills that future graduates will most need in an age of automation -- creative thinking, critical analysis, the capacity to learn new things -- are precisely those that a growing body of research suggests may be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process
I've said it before and I'll say it again: in the future envisioned by Thiel, Andreessen, Yarvin, and others, there will be the ruling class and the abject rabble. Thinking, learning, and analysis are not desired in the people whom they plan to rise above, rule, and ultimately dispose of. These psychopaths see the rest of us as a drain on limited resources and as obstacles to remaking the world in their own sick and twisted image. When we're no longer useful to them - and a lot of us already fall into that category - we're to be eliminated.
The parallels between the US today and Nazi Germany - including the funding of a genocide in Palestine - are not a coincidence. The dumbing down of public education and the destruction of social safety nets aren't merely economic measures. They are meant to decrease population and to render the remaining people too focused on survival to mount any serious opposition.
I may be giving the bastards too much credit. And I may sound like a whacked-out conspiracy theorist. I hope it turns out that I'm just that - but I don't think I am.
IANAP and I'm mostly retired, so I'm doubly on the sidelines and don't have a dog in this fight. But I do have a wife who is forced to use Windows - the "hammerfuck" represented by that is about as much as I can handle.
They have given us a bit of a masterclass in engineering here. Identified a rare but important issue, took decisive action to ensure safety, and engineered a fix very quickly to get the aircraft back into service.
Not to mention a bit of a masterclass in integrity, ethics, and corporate responsibility.
Boeing should take a lesson here: as soon as you've identified a serious safety issue, ground your birds and fix the problem. I can't help thinking that at Boeing even their engineering problems stem more from moral, ethical and cultural deficits than from a lack of design competence.
Jesus wept, can you imagine the unholy abomination that a Microsoft/Oracle hybrid would be? It makes my brain hurt to imagine such a hammerfuck of failure and technological despair.
Well said! I know you didn't mean to be humorous, but I'm still laughing anyway. And now I'm wracking my brain trying to figure out how to casually work "hammerfuck of failure and technological despair" into a conversation.
Well, if the restaurateurs live in the same area you live in...
This is supposed to be for NON-emergency calls. Not comparable to 911.
It's right there in TFS: "However, if the system detects keywords suggesting vulnerability or risk or emergency, then it will be able to divert the call to a human being." So if somebody - a child, or an adult confused by panic - calls this number in an emergency, then yes, it IS comparable to 911.
And if that caller is unable to speak clearly enough for the AI to understand, what percentage of the time do you expect the AI to correctly divert the call?
Japan never fell for that multi culti BS propaganda in the first place. Its a very racially homogenous country and all the better for it.
Three notes about your comment:
1) Culture and race are far from synonymous, therefore multiculturalism has no inherent connection to do with racial homogeneity.
2) The fortunes of the United States were founded upon the slave trade. That means that its racial diversity - and at least a small slice of whatever cultural diversity it has - are what Made America Great before a bunch of fucktards tacked on the "Again" and spoiled it for everyone.
3) Food is a component of culture, so if you've ever eaten dishes from Japanese or Chinese or Indian or Mexican restaurants - or any others that don't have hot dogs or American cheese as part of the traditional fare - then guess what! YOU supported multiculturalism!
The year that "art" became devalued to the point where its name is synonymous with any passing fancy or fantasy that pleases you. The squealing of brakes? I'm sure somebody considers that to be art. Similarly, fan-prompted AI-manufactured "music" - in the "style" of someone whose name appears on the list of credits for a "song" - will now be called "art".
For too long now a lot of what passes for an artist's music is in fact the work of a committee. In such a committee, said artist may play a very small part, gaining a writing credit for as little as changing one word in the lyrics. Arguably, even the artist's voice may largely be a hollow construct of auto-tune and other manipulations. These practices have rendered much of today's music the aesthetic equivalent of an inferior copy of crappy pre-packaged ultra-processed junk food.
Now, to add insult to injury, fans will be spinning up their own special derivative of the inferior copy of crappy ultra-processed junk food I mentioned above. It's a steaming pile of crass, soulless crap all the way down to the surface of the cesspool on which it floats.
As for Sam Altman, maybe you can point us to some example when he or OpenAI violated academic integrity by fabricating data like this?
I wasn't thinking about academic integrity specifically. I was thinking of examples of both Sam's and his company's apparently flexible relationship with fact and truth.
There is an always has been an underlying element to the American-psychology where we sort of admire the conman and outlaw. Its really baked in to how we have characterized our conception.
Even going to back Patriots vs Loyalists, while there were plenty of legitimate grievances with colonial governance. They were inflated to a degree that almost beclowns everyone involved, doubly so in the context of what was implemented in the aftermath at least on the representation, regulatory and taxation fronts. Our very founding revolution was sold on if not lies, radical liberties with the truth. Everyone knows we just don't really talk about it.
So to with something like this. Most people will outwardly condem the guy. At least some people will inwardly be impressed by how much he got away with and wounder what he might do for them, if they happened to throw a little gold his way..
If I had seen your comment before I wrote my own, I would have simply modded your comment 'Insightful' instead. Or maybe 'Informative' - for me it's both.
It looks as though you may have been downmodded. Maybe what you wrote hit a little too close to home. Even I was - as you said - "inwardly impressed". And I think there's a good chance that he'll do well in life, at least in the financial sense. After all, the upper echelons of our society are full of smart people with flexible morals and the ability to lie convincingly.
Fabricating data is generally an academic death sentence.
Ironically, it might not be a death sentence when it comes to working for an AI company. The guy is obviously very bright, and he can tap-dance, and he's willing to have a "flexible" relationship with fact and truth. I imagine that if I was Sam Altman I'd be thinking "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!"
AI is famous for hallucinating results, and now an MIT student has hallucinated some benefits of AI and written a research paper about it. It's dishonest and unethical, but in a twisted way it's also rather appropriate.
How come financial advisors never seem to be as wealthy as they claim they'll make you?
