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That is the name of the new geologic era that we have been in since the dropping of the atomic bomb (still some disagreement about when we left the holocene and began the anthropocene)

Technology in Cuba is such a weird experience. Going through customs I watched someone get taken aside because they had a small Bluetooth speaker in their bag.

Just going by the title, but it seems written as a "sustainably developed" country, not a sustainable "developed country".

It's not going to be either of those. It's lawyers, doctors etc. People who need to comb through lots of data.

I don't know the cost for this particular kit but in China the test for convid19 is between 40(public hospitals) to 150 yuan (private lab) rmb if you don't have national insurance ... That's between 8 to 23usd. A chest CT scan is around 400-500 Rmb (80 bucks USD). I suppose it (testing for the virus) is around the same cost for routine blood test there. Edit it's 6 - 21.43usd (currently the ex…

Can we stop calling it a "green new deal?" AOC's green new deal is different and much less successful

Bingo. Laws need to be passed that not only ban facial recognition technology, but also ban government entities from buying that information from private companies. Private companies should not be allowed to sell that information either. (I have similar thoughts about ALPR information as well. That shit is insidious.)

It’s useful for the all the Cold War LARPers as they try desperately to grasp what little is left of American hegemony before its all gone. American exceptionalism doesn’t need credibility it needs a necromancer.

Very likely we will see massive uptake in both residential and utility scale projects. Two companies control roughly 80% of the inverter market share in the residential solar industry in US (SolarEdge and Enphase) and these companies do not sell cheap inverters. They abide by NEC and operate at standard 60Hz. Sure there are moderate fluctuations in frequencies but that is normal, it doesn’t mak…

An AI company would have detect this if the same set of instructions are suddenly requested for millions of times.

Watermark removal isn't really a new thing, and this seems like a rather inefficient way to go about it. > Removing a watermark without the original owner’s consent is considered illegal under U.S. copyright law (according to law firms like this one) outside of rare exceptions. Did the reporter read the stack exchange page they link to? Its not illegal if it falls under any of the myriad of …

It really doesn't. Their particular contractor model is actually easily significantly reduced (not eliminated) with the AI tech that exists today. This is not surprising in any way.

I am an actual lawyer. Andrew is full of crap. I've never been able to use AI for anything better than medical timelines and deposition summaries. That's not even first year work product. We have our college intern do that for us.

OpenAI says it will add new parental controls to ChatGPT amid growing concerns about the impact of the service on young people and those experiencing mental and emotional distress. It comes a week after Californian parents Matthew and Maria Raine alleged ChatGPT provided their 16-year-old son with detailed suicide instructions and encouraged him to put his plans into action. OpenAI says it will…

So when presented with violence, the LLMs all responded with violence. Sounds like they did their best to give what was expected of them. LLMs do not think. They attempt to respond with appropriate word salad to the word salad they were handed. Violence would typically result in violence, as it would understand the parameters as such. Not a particularly surprising outcome. Not like you said "coun…

Everyone's own in-house models usually do well or excel in one or two types of requests but will perform less favorably in others. My work provides us both Gemini Pro and ChatGPT Business plans and I can definitely say that whenever I wanted to vibe-code a quick and rudimentary tool to help get a tedious job done faster that ChatGPT's coding ability is far and above Gemini's, but if you want to a…

You know it's sad when this AI speaks and sounds more human than the customer service people you talk to online or on the phone

The job market's rough, but ShortlistIQ helps HR teams adapt. Automating first interviews saves so much time!

Automation and AI cut costs for companies but robots do not pay taxes or buy groceries. That makes it a self-eating snake. If too many people lose jobs the consumer base disappears and the whole system collapses. The fix is simple. Fine, use AI, but make them pay. Put a payroll-style tax on companies that replace workers so they still contribute as if those jobs existed. Tax the massive resources…

What's fascinating is that in just a few decades this is gonna be a reality with how fast artificial intelligence and all adjacent fields are evolving. Just search for Sophia the humanoid robot. Then u won't need advanced cgi to do these shots. Amazing stuff!