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Here is popular thought on this in Korea: the government spent more than $20 million for her expensive space "Tour" from taxpayers money. Now she got her reputation, PhD and American citizenship which is messed up and makes most of Korean people angry.

Autonomous weapons are an inevitability. The nation that deploys them first and best is going to be the next dominant military force on the planet. I want it to be US. Double entendre intended.

I can speak from experience working as a programmer in the corporate world. One day you sit down and think about all the jobs you yourself personally have ended. My professor told my class long ago "in this field your job is to replace humans". He was ultimately right. My worth in the corporate world is purely based on this quote by him. A healthcare company wanted us to automate paying health i…

Well, you sorta gotta start somewhere. Though I imagine the biggest struggle with self driving cars will essentially be in rural areas - where roads are largely older country lanes or basic gravel/dirt roads.

When I was living in the UK I found it quite hard to save any kind of nest egg at all. Wages were not great and the taxes really fucked you in the ass. Basically you work to survive, no more than that. I left because I saw no chance of ever saving towards a house there.

Walk in, get things, walk out. No register. Your preconfigured account will be automatically billed.

Never mind technology. Going to the store and seeing no flour and one bag of rice on the shelf was strange. Even stranger was someone telling me that someone stole half the rice to sell on the black market and replaced the sack weight with pebbles. Yet the rum was always fully stocked. Plus, the whole CUC vs CUP thing is a pain. The resort food was horrible, but getting out and eating at paladar…

Pretty much nothing. This isn't the first vaccine for coronavirus. The rapid progress here is because of work done for SARS and MERS. There was a SARS vaccine that never went into human trials because government cuts funding just as it got to that stage. Don't worry, when this government funded COVID-19 vaccine is created, some private company will get to profit off of it, instead of having t…

And it passed unanimously iirc There was a bit of back and forth where the opposition pointed out some pretty crappy parts of the bill and the Liberals took their advice and made the changes, and the bill came out better for it. Exactly how it's supposed to work.

The MPs are baffled as to why the plebes can't just buy an EU citizenship like they have.

Used to be that it took 50 men with swords and training to keep a thousand rioters in check. Now it takes 5 men with assault rifles and armored cars to keep ten thousand rioters in check. In the future, how many men can 1 man with a drone army and good AI support keep down?

A lot of people focus on manual labor and blue collar jobs when discussing it, but I'm pretty sure a lot of white collar ones will go first. I spent like 8 years getting business and finance degrees, and after getting my masters and looking at the state of things came to realize that there is software that can do the things I spent the better part of a decade learning to do in seconds with virtua…

AI porn is increasingly more lifelike. Once that genie is out of that bottle, you aren't going to get it back in.

I need an AI to read OP's post, summarize it, and tell me how to feel about it

FT’s title truncates an insight infrequently expressed, emphasis mine:^1,2,3 >“The machines we have now, they’re not conscious,” he says. “When one person teaches another person, that is an interaction between consciousnesses.” >Meanwhile, AI models are trained **by toggling so-called “weights” or the strength of connections between different variables in the model, in order to get a des…

Yeah I think this is the rationale that solves the question. I think there’s no way the military isn’t studying AI as an option for something, but trusting nuclear equipment to even the best AI is just asking for that one time it fucks up in a way you can’t take back. It’s not worth the money or time.

> the unskilled can get reasonable facsimiles with little effort. This is the scariest part, though, the accessibility. Anyone can get their hands on this tech and cause harm in their local communities.

Definitely a great business for AI, and I foresee VTuber like OnlyFans occurring too where all the photos and everything are AI generated but the person talking to you is a guy. No one knows how to sound more appealing to men over a text or call more than another man; they know what they want to hear.

>it's the person who is having the birthday who brings in food What?... That makes me feel sad for you and your coworkers I need to go in and thank my supervisor (again) for baking my birthday cake

As a class nerd who always did his homework on time and DIDN'T do such blasphemy, this kind of people are the worst