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They over consume water, electricity; reducing water supply for growing food, reducing land for growing food, raising electric cost, all to support AI that will cause job loss for millions.

it will be interesting to see how America handles the 70%+ unemployment these AI companies are openly aiming for, given their loathing for anything resembling socialism

The Mass Effect games had term Virtual Intelligence, or VI. That's how I prefer to refer to what we have now. It's not true AI like how we've envisioned it.

This. The idea that we're actually close to AGI as a lot of researchers like to put it seems ridiculous to me. However, the point about automated AI research is pretty concerning. As you say, it's not possible to change up the weights in a neural network easily...but what if they create a system that can?

Hi, Mr. Hawking. It's great to have a conversation with you. I am a student from INDIA. You were the one who brought me into the space & science realm. And I wanted to make a note here that the creator of LINUX (the OS that powers the world), Mr Linus Torvalds expressed his views on AI that the 'fears about AI are idiotic' and he also says, >"So I’d expect just more of (and much fancier…

A citizen of Russia can get one hectare per person, so if they have a big family the area can be quite big enough. But there are huge problems. The first one is the location. All patches of land must be 10 kilometers away from towns with population more than 50 thousands and 20km away from biggest cities. There are nine districts where they can get their land: * [Khankaysky](https://en.wikipedi…

Trump and his ilk will just spin it as them finding a way to save taxpayers from having their money used for stuff like this, because, you know, he's such a smart guy and has all the best ideas.

You can literally take any point in history, and say the last few years have been a parade of fucked up shit. That's kind of how humans work.

I don't understand how. I'm 22 only been driving for little over 4 years and I fucking hate it. As soon as self driving cars hit the market at a affordable price, or however they'll be available and practical, for my broke college ass I'm fully on board. Hell, I called off work tomorrow because I work morning shift and no way in hell am I driving when all the drunk *human* drivers are heading h…

This one actually angers me. Not because they properly found election fraud and the Republican campaign did wrong here... but because there's a do-over. So what's the lesson here, cheat in an election and you get to go again? No, this is the wrong outcome. The correct outcome should be this: If there is provable evidence that you or your campaign cheated by even 1 vote, you lose. Period. T…

If you do it that way human biases interfere and the 5,000 innocent people are mistreated and distrusted without cause because the "all-knowing" algorithm said there was something fishy about them. It's human nature. It is far more ethical to do your initial culling of the crop by conventional policing means and only subject people who provoke reasonable suspicion to the risk of a false positive.

New presidents are always congratulated when they win an election. It’s diplomacy, even when you don’t like who got elected.

Whitehorse is the capital of the Yukon territory and the largest city in northern Canada.

But she has focused on condemning developed nations for not doing enough. I am sure Putin is making that argument because he cares about African countries and not because Russia itself is a terrible polluter because we know Putin is such a goodhearted person.

Privacy determines the control over society's as well as your own way of life and future. Knowing anything about an individual or a group allows you to predict, manipulate, or force their decisions. That applies both to private as well as state entities. To a democracy this can have horrendous consequences and if people don't resist, they eventually normalize and accept the new status quo. For…

I’m an expatriate Texan living in the belly of the beast, in Silicon Valley. In general, I think that Abbott, Paxton, Patrick, and their ilk are dangerous lunatics, so I can’t believe I’m about to say this… but good for you, Ken Paxton! A stopped clock is right twice a day.

Considering autonomous vehicles, modular vehicles and robots, and space exploration: "[There's a Transformers movie on the rise.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQiUFZ5RDw)"

Im a traditional artist but its fucking disgusting how some artists are turning vile like this, just openly shitting their pants and losing any shred of dignity over ai. let people do their thing. there is no stopping this. you love to draw? great keep doing it and let others create with ai.

I'm pretty sure Japan is working on care giver robots that will be easier for older patients to interact with. Plus even if a human caregiver has to be present, it would make the whole experience easier for everyone to have a robot that can do it.

This is such an enormous, and ironically oft parroted, minimization of the scope of human cognition, I’m amazed that anybody can take it seriously. If you think ChatGPT approached even a fraction of what a human brain is capable of, you need to read some neuroscience, and then listen to what *leaders in the field of machine learning themselves have to say about it*. Spoiler, they’re unimpressed …